Ronnie Sandlin · founder · former J6 defendant · former tort-marketing operator · not a lawyer · according to him, extremely handsome (verification pending)
"I'm not your lawyer. I'm not your priest. I'm the guy who came back from federal time with a calculator and a grudge against paperwork goblins."
Ronnie Sandlin is a former January 6 defendant, a returning citizen, a serial founder, and — by his own evaluation, pending independent verification — extremely handsome. Take that last part however you like.
He did federal time. The kind where the system crawls through your life with a flashlight and bad intentions, and where the paperwork that runs the rest of your life starts piling up in places you can't reach. He came home with scars, jokes, and a very specific understanding of how the paperwork machine treats people.
Before prison, Ronnie built businesses. He worked the inside of the tort-marketing world: lead generation, case acquisition, claimant intake, settlement operations — the whole legal-marketing pipeline that turns regular people's worst days into spreadsheets and percentage fees. He saw what the assembly line looks like from the operator's seat. He knows the difference between a lawyer doing real legal work and a firm collecting 20% for stapling PDFs with confidence.
When the Anti-Weaponization Fund was announced — $1.776 billion from the federal Judgment Fund, scheduled to wind down by roughly December 2028 — Ronnie watched the same percentage-fee playbook fire up again. Same firms. Same pitch. Same percentage. Aimed, this time, at people who already paid in years of their lives.
So he built 1776 Claims.
It's a self-prep portal: AI does the boring 80% — intake, document sorting, damages worksheet, timeline assembly, attorney-facing summary — and a real human lawyer reviews what matters. Claimants keep more of their settlement. Lawyers get paid for the work that actually needs a lawyer.
Ronnie is not a lawyer. He's not pretending to be a lawyer. He's not playing one on the internet. The platform exists to put the prep layer in the claimant's hands so the only legal work the lawyer charges for is the legal work they actually do.
The platform is free for claimants. Ronnie is paying for the build, the servers, the AI calls, and the lawyer reviewing the platform itself out of his own pocket. If you want to chip in, the tip jar is at /donate. If not, it's still free. The republic is supposed to be like that.
Founder values
What 1776 Claims is built on.
No paperwork tithes.
If the work is just paperwork, the fee should match.
Lawyers, hourly.
Pay for the judgment, not the staple.
Plain English everywhere.
If it can't be said simply, the customer can't consent to it.
No outcome promises.
Anyone promising a payout is selling something else.
Audit everything.
Document views, downloads, AI runs, status changes. Trust is built in writing.
Free for claimants.
Donations support the build. They do not change anyone's claim.
We are not a law firm. We do not give legal advice.
1776 Claims helps you organize your story, papers, damages, and timeline. The AI is a helper, not a lawyer. Before you send your file anywhere, a real lawyer needs to look at it. We are not the government. No payouts promised.