Built by a PI attorney who got tired of writing settlement checks by hand.
Checkpilot exists because the settlement disbursement workflow inside a personal injury firm looks nothing like what generic accounting software was built for.
Manually disbursing a settlement is slow, tedious, and easy to get wrong.
Every settlement ends the same way: a signed statement, a stack of payees, medical liens, attorney fees, costs advanced, and a client net that has to balance to the penny.
Someone at the firm — usually a settlement manager, office manager, or the attorney themselves — sits down with the statement and manually keys every payee into their accounting system, writes each check, cross-references liens, and reconciles the trust account by hand.
It takes hours per settlement. One transposed digit or a missed lien can turn a routine disbursement into a compliance headache. And the work has to happen again on the next case, and the next.
Existing accounting software wasn't built for settlement disbursements.
Case management tools handle case files. General accounting tools handle books. Neither one is designed for the specific workflow of turning a settlement statement into a fully reconciled batch of checks.
We built Checkpilot originally inside an active personal injury firm — for our own team — because we couldn't find software we trusted enough to use on our own client trust funds.
Every workflow, screen, and automation started as a real problem in a real practice. Nothing was designed in the abstract.
Meet M. Christopher Schehr
Chris is a practicing personal injury attorney and the owner of Schehr Law PLLC. He built Checkpilot after years of manually preparing settlement disbursements inside his own firm.
Today, Schehr Law still uses Checkpilot to run its settlement disbursement workflow every week. When something is confusing, slow, or easy to get wrong, Chris feels it first — before any customer ever does.
Checkpilot isn't a product built for a demo. It's the tool a working PI firm relies on to send accurate checks out the door.