Smokeball API
Smokeball publishes a public REST API at docs.smokeball.com with OAuth 2.0 and a developer console. Endpoints cover matters, contacts, documents, billing, and trust accounting, but not user or role management. The client SDK is still listed as coming soon.
Frequently asked questions
Smokeball scores C on the API Report Card. Smokeball publishes a public REST API at docs.smokeball.com with OAuth 2.0 and a developer console. Endpoints cover matters, contacts, documents, billing, and trust accounting, but not user or role management. The client SDK is still listed as coming soon.
Smokeball has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
Smokeball is an AI-powered legal practice management platform offering automatic time tracking, document automation (20,000+ legal forms across 250+ matter types), billing and trust accounting, client intake/e-signature, case management, and firm analytics.
Legal Practice Management, Typically for small and midsize law firms (solos to mid-size practices) across family law, real estate, PI, criminal, estate planning, and business law. Firms manage matters, contacts, and documents; auto-capture time from Word/Outlook; generate and assemble documents; run billing and trust accounting; intake clients; and report on firm performance.
Serves 20,000+ lawyers worldwide across US/UK/Australia; strong G2/Capterra/Lawyerist footprint among SMB legal software.
Yes, Matters, contacts, documents, time entries, billing, and trust-accounting records are a firm's system-of-record operating data.
Founded ~2010. Actively modernized (Smokeball AI, Archie assistant); ships a developer platform and marketplace.
Integrating with other legal software can be challenging, requires technical expertise. Integration issues during updates with no update notifications. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Filevine, CARET Legal. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.
Yes. Supergood maintains an unofficial Smokeball API and MCP server so AI agents and internal tools can read and write Smokeball data. See the Smokeball integration docs at supergood.ai/docs/smokeball-api-2.