Missing Items

Every tool reads what you have.
This finds what you're missing.

An inventory tells you what's in the file. The case turns on what isn't. Ordernize maps statement coverage for every account in the case — personal, entity, and trust — and hands you the gap list before opposing counsel realizes there is one.

24
mo default lookback
19
request templates
3
export cuts
Statement coverage · Mitchell vs Crawford
Chase ··1827 Triage
Amex ··3005 Requested
Fidelity ··9440 Resolved
JM Group LLC entity Triage
agent gap detected · Chase ··1827 · Jun–Aug 2024 4 open items
The coverage math

Coverage is computed, not eyeballed.

For every account in the case, Ordernize plots the statement periods you hold against a coverage window — 24 months by default, configurable per case — with the end date anchored to today or the filing date. Your call, and it matters: a valuation dispute cares about the filing date; an ongoing support fight cares about now.

Every flagged gap carries the institution, the account, and the exact date range. Not "some Chase statements appear to be missing" — Chase ··1827, June 1 through August 31, 2024, three statement periods.

  • Per-account coverage strip — the holdings-vs-gaps picture at a glance
  • Configurable lookback, 24 months by default
  • End date anchored to today or the filing date — switch anytime

Coverage is computed from the same pipeline that builds the inventory — classified documents, extracted statement periods, deduplicated accounts. See how it works.

Open gaps · window: last 24 months
Chase ··1827 9/12
JM Group LLC op ··4410 7/12
Flagged gaps
Chase ··1827 Jun 1 – Aug 31, 2024 3 periods
Amex ··3005 Nov 1 – Dec 31, 2024 2 periods
JM Group LLC op ··4410 Feb 1 – Jun 30, 2024 5 periods
every gap institution · account · exact date range
The lifecycle workbench

A gap is a task, not a footnote.

Missing Items isn't a report that goes stale the day it's generated. It's a working queue — every gap moves through a lifecycle, and the paper trail rides along.

Triage

New gaps land here.

Skim the detected gaps, keep what matters, dismiss what doesn't — the closed gym-membership card doesn't need a subpoena. Per-item notes keep your reasoning attached to each gap, so the file explains itself six months later.

Requested

Asked for, on the record.

Group outstanding items into named discovery request waves and mark them requested. The record of who was asked for what, and when, keeps itself — no side spreadsheet, no memory test at the status conference.

Resolved

Closed by the documents themselves.

When the missing statements arrive in a later production, the matching items resolve automatically. Nothing to check off — the coverage math notices the new documents and updates the list.

Request waves

From gap list to request language, without the Word template.

Group outstanding items into named discovery request waves. For each item, Ordernize generates the request language from 19 forensic-accounting templates — statements with canceled checks, tax returns with all schedules, W-2s, 1099s and K-1s, real-estate acquisition packets, trust asset listings, entity catch-alls, and more.

Account numbers and date ranges are filled in from the case record, because they're already there. No re-typing them into a Word template at 6 p.m. And when the response comes back thin, the next wave lists exactly what remains outstanding — which reads as diligence, not noise.

Building the discovery strategy? See Ordernize for family law attorneys.

Request No. 2 · Financial institutions follow-up WAVE · 3 items
Chase Bank · checking ··1827 template · statements + canceled checks

All monthly account statements and canceled checks for JPMorgan Chase account ending 1827, for the period June 1, 2024 through August 31, 2024.

American Express ··3005 template · account statements

All monthly account statements for American Express account ending 3005, for the period November 1, 2024 through December 31, 2024.

JM Group LLC template · entity catch-all

All bank, brokerage, and loan statements, general ledgers, and financial statements of JM Group LLC, for the period February 1, 2024 through June 30, 2024.

drafted from 19 forensic-accounting templates export wave → .xlsx
Beyond statements

Gaps aren't only missing months.

Statement-period math is the core, but a production can be incomplete in quieter ways. Missing Items checks for those too.

Empty-category detection

A category with nothing behind it is a finding. When the real-estate or insurance category comes back empty in a case that plainly should have one, it's flagged — the silence is the evidence.

Insurance · 0 documents · flagged

Missing standard documents

Some documents should exist in every case — the financial affidavit, the tax returns. When a standard document never shows up, it's flagged even though no account points to it.

Tax return · TY 2024 · not produced

Entity & trust coverage

Business and trust accounts get their own coverage sections, held to the same statement-by-statement standard as the personal checking. Nothing hides behind an LLC.

JM Group LLC · 2 accounts · 5 gaps

Manual items

Add the thing only you know about — the safe-deposit box, the exchange account mentioned in a deposition — and attach it to a real account, entity, or trust already in the inventory. Manual items ride the same lifecycle.

manual · attached to Fidelity ··9440
Exports

One list, cut three ways.

Excel exports come full, per-party, or per-request-wave. Send opposing counsel exactly the wave you're asking about — not your entire work product — and hand your forensic accountant the full picture.

Working the analysis side? See Ordernize for forensic accountants.

Missing-items exports
EXCEL
Missing-Items_Full.xlsx
Every item, every status — the complete record
74 KB
EXCEL
Missing-Items_Respondent.xlsx
Per-party cut — one side's outstanding items
41 KB
EXCEL
Missing-Items_Request-2.xlsx
One request wave — ready to send with the request
18 KB

The inventory proves what you collected. The gap analysis proves you looked.

More questions? The FAQ covers coverage windows, lifecycles, and exports.

See it on a real case

Bring a production with holes in it.

Schedule a demo and watch Missing Items map the coverage, flag the gaps, and draft the first request wave. Our team contacts you within one business day.

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