Stay Ahead of the ERE
Get case status updates every two hours. See hearing dates, win rates, CEs, and decisions in one dashboard. Your team stays on top of cases without chasing the ERE.
Grow Without the HireThat Growth Usually Means
Chronicle checks the ERE every two hours across every case and tells your team what SSA did — so you act before the mail arrives, clients hear from you instead of calling to ask, and the team you already have carries a bigger book.
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How the same team carries a bigger book
Growing a disability firm normally requires hiring, because the SSA admin work grows with caseload. Chronicle breaks that link. Every step below is how our customers describe it in their own words.
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Chronicle sees SSA activity before the mail does.
Before Chronicle: “We would reach out to clients and they’d say, yeah, I got this two days ago. What value is the Garza Law Firm adding?”
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So your team acts instead of reacts.
“We can now be proactive instead of reactive. We can talk to the clients and say, ‘Hey, we see this is coming out, let’s get this started now,’ so we’re not scrambling to get everything done when Social Security asks for it.”
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So clients hear from you instead of calling to ask.
“Chronicle lets me preemptively notify clients, reduce their anxiety, and reduce the volume of calls. That’s huge when you’re running a generally larger volume firm.”
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So the same staff carry more cases.
“What Chronicle is allowing us to do is use our staff more effectively. It’s allowing our staff to spend more time reviewing cases, calling clients, getting medical records. It’s allowing us to take on more cases.”
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So you grow without the hire.
“I have not hired a third paralegal and we’re at 600 cases now. They’re handling it perfectly.”
3 Reasons Why Firms Choose Chronicle
Hearing Prep Made Simple
Walk into hearings fully prepared. From exhibit packets and searchable case summaries to complete medical chronologies and instant transcripts, Chronicle makes prep faster and more reliable.
Secure & Flexible by Design
Chronicle protects your cases with SOC 2-certified infrastructure and encryption, while giving you the flexibility to connect workflows through our API and Zapier integrations.
Everything Chronicle does
Chronicle is built only for Social Security disability firms. Every workflow here exists because SSD practitioners asked for it, which is why there is no configuration overhead and no case management system to replace.
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ERE monitoring
Every case checked every two hours, with a summary of what changed, plus daily AARPS notifications when a fee payment comes through. -
ERE document upload
Upload to the SSA straight from a client's page, with a tracking number and an emailed receipt. -
Virtual mailroom
Every notice, exhibit and form in one place, before the mail arrives. -
Roles and permissions
Give staff, contractors and assistants exactly the cases they need and nothing else. -
Medical chronologies
Thousands of pages turned into a citation-linked timeline. -
Hearing prep
Bates-stamped exhibit packets, searchable summaries, hearing audio and transcripts. -
AI briefs
Draft a prehearing brief from a chronology, or an Appeals Council brief from an ALJ decision. -
Dashboard and reporting
Custom columns, status filters and CSV export across the whole caseload. -
Integrations and API
Native Clio, Filevine, MyCase and Litify connectors, plus Zapier and a REST API.
Trusted by Disability Firms Nationwide
See how SSD attorneys and reps are saving time and scaling with Chronicle.
“Chronicle gives you your best chance to present a good case for a borderline client. A claim that is very much a 50-50 bet is tilted your way with Chronicle.”
Tony Ficek, Founder, Ficek Law
67%
YoY revenue growth
“Chronicle has been the biggest positive impact in our firm’s operations and workflow since we started more than 10 years ago.”
Will Viner, Founder & Owner, Viner Disability Law
10-20
staff hours saved weekly
"With the affordability and ease of Chronicle, if you're not using it or something like it, you're in the stone ages."
Al Frevola, CEO & Lead Attorney, The Disability Champions
3X
active case growth without new headcount
4.9
150+ Satisfied Firms
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Social Security Disability Software: Frequently Asked Questions
Chronicle takes over the tedious task of logging into the ERE by checking for updates every two hours, and it uploads documents back to the SSA from the client page, so your team stops opening the portal in either direction. Most staff lose over 15 hours a week just refreshing the portal to see if a document dropped. Those hours are the mechanism rather than the point: they are what lets the same team carry a larger caseload. Desert Disability moved from 120 to 200 cases per case manager.
Chronicle's dashboard cuts administrative workloads by 40%, recovering roughly 15 hours per week for every staff member. By pulling all SSA mail and ERE updates into one dashboard, you stop the constant cycle of status calls and manual folder sorting. This efficiency lets firms take on more cases without the need to hire more people. Garza Law Firm grew its caseload 2.5x in twelve months, and the Law Office of Nancy L. Cavey reached 600 cases without hiring a third paralegal.
Yes, Chronicle identifies and organizes new ERE exhibits, hearing notices, and ALJ assignments the moment they hit the portal. You get a bates-stamped summary of the latest file changes immediately. This means your hearing prep is always based on the actual digital record the judge is looking at, not an outdated paper file.
We protect SSA portal credentials with SOC 2 certified infrastructure and AES-256 encryption. Chronicle acts as a secure, automated bridge to the SSA record, removing the risk of manual data entry errors. The system is built for federal PII standards, keeping claimant data locked down and your firm audit-ready at all times.
Real-time ERE alerts give your attorneys or disability representatives a 3 to 7-day head start on hearing prep. Since Chronicle flags ERE updates immediately, you aren't waiting on a letter to arrive in the mail. This extra week allows for deeper briefing and time to track down missing evidence, which directly improves your win rates.
You can connect your firm and start receiving real-time SSA mail alerts in less than 15 minutes. There is no "rip and replace" migration or complex software installation required. Once you link your ERE credentials, Chronicle immediately begins polling the portal every two hours. Most firms see their first meaningful hours of saved time within the first week of use.
Yes, Chronicle tracks case movement through the initial and reconsideration phases, not just hearings. While many tools focus only on the ERE, Chronicle monitors the full lifecycle of SSA mail. You get real-time alerts when a case moves from one stage to the next, allowing your team to update clients immediately and keep the file moving without manual status checks.
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