Not a legal engine.
I am deliberately not building a product that tells a parent what the law means or predicts what a court will do.
About Raposa
I built Raposa because separated families need one calm record of what actually happened.
Not another place to argue. Not a legal engine. Not a scorecard for who is the better parent. Just a shared care record that can hold the daily facts without turning every small thing into a new fight.
Pre-launch. A small group of testing families, and a founder who reads every reply.
Small on purpose
Raposa is one person, Chris Belfield, with collaborators across the US and Europe.
I am a co-parent. I am building the product I needed so two homes could work from the same clear picture.
I kept coming back to the same problem: when parents separate, the ordinary logistics of care do not become ordinary just because the relationship ended. School letters still arrive. Handovers still happen. Expenses still need receipts. Messages still need context. A child still has a week, a home, a bag, a medicine dose, a missed pickup, a change of plan.
But the record of those things is usually scattered across texts, email, screenshots, memory, WhatsApp, paper, and whoever had the energy to write it down that day. When things are calm, that is annoying. When things are tense, it becomes expensive, unfair, and sometimes impossible to reconstruct.
Raposa is my attempt to make the record boring in the best possible way: one place for messages, schedules, handovers, expenses, documents, and exports. A place that is calm enough to use before there is a crisis, and structured enough to be useful if a solicitor, mediator, attorney, or court later needs to understand the history.
Not a scorecard.
No scoring of behaviour, no verdict on who is right. That is not the job of software, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.
Not a replacement.
It cannot replace a lawyer, mediator, family court, benefits adviser, safeguarding service or emergency response.
Raposa holds what was true at the time. It does not make legal, custody or benefit determinations.
The product can help you keep a clearer record. It can help you export that record. It can help the adults around a child work from the same facts instead of fragments.
I do not want Raposa to feel like a courtroom in your pocket. Most separated families are not in court most of the time. They are trying to get through school mornings, dentist appointments, childcare, holidays, payments, and the thousand small pieces of life that still need coordination.
So the tone matters. Raposa should be plain, specific, and calm. It should make it easier to write down what happened without escalating the moment. It should help a parent show the record later without having to perform pain, anger, or perfection.
If Raposa works, the product disappears a little. The care record becomes easier to keep. The facts are less scattered. The next conversation starts from something firmer than memory.
Apply to be an early tester
Use it for a real week with your co-parent, and tell me what broke.
Security
Read where Raposa stores data and what integrity protections exist.
Contact
Use the public support routes if you need to reach us.
Accepting testers
Use it for a real week, and tell me what broke.
Prefer to test it first? Both parents share one household record — you can start on your own and invite your co-parent when you're ready.