# Legal · Cost Drafting ## Hoursofdrafting.Minutes of work. End-to-end automation for Court of Protection cost drafting — from case file extraction to formatted bill of costs, with a full audit trail and every figure traceable to source. ## Capabilities ### Everything your costs lawyers do. Automated. ### Automated cost extraction Curvestone reads the case file and extracts all relevant time records, disbursements, and costs — no manual data entry. ### Court of Protection schedule Applies the correct SCCO cost schedule for the case type — welfare, property, or combined — automatically. ### Bill of costs generation Produces a formatted bill of costs ready for submission in minutes. Every figure referenced to source. ### Points of dispute handling Structured responses to points of dispute generated directly from the underlying case data — consistent and defensible. ### Full audit trail Every figure traceable to source — solicitor time records, disbursement receipts, and case notes. Ready for SCCO assessment. ### Firm-level reporting Track cost recovery rates, average bill values, and processing time across your entire CoP caseload. ## Impact > “A bill of costs used to be a day's work. It's now a coffee's worth — and every figure traces back to source.” 90% Time saved per CoP file 100% Figures traceable to source 0 Calculation errors ## How it works ### From case file to submitted bill in minutes. 01 ### Case file submitted Upload the CoP case file — time records, disbursements, correspondence, case notes. Any format. No manual data entry or reformatting. 02 ### Cost schedule applied Curvestone reads the case type and applies the correct SCCO cost schedule automatically — welfare, property, or combined. No manual selection. 03 ### Bill of costs produced Formatted, auditable bill of costs ready for submission in minutes. Every figure referenced to source. Points of dispute handled with structured responses. ## 90% less time per CoP file. See Curvestone's cost drafting automation applied to your caseload.