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The Layoff Was Decided by a Model. Get the Paperwork Before You Sign

Employers use performance models, productivity scoring, and workforce-planning tools to select layoffs. Severance agreements, unemployment claims, and any later challenge all turn on the record you keep now.

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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.

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Why the document matters more than the suspicion

You may never learn the model's role. What you can do is preserve the facts: your reviews, your metrics, the selection pool, and the separation terms, before access is cut off.

Employers are usually not required to disclose algorithmic selection, and severance agreements often waive claims — which is exactly why signatures deserve care.

The protocol

  1. Download your own reviews, goals, and metrics while you still have access.
  2. Write the timeline: announcement date, meeting, effective date, and what you were told about the reason.
  3. Note the selection pool — who else was affected and whether the criteria were stated.
  4. Ask for severance terms in writing, including what you would be giving up, before signing anything.
  5. File for unemployment on time, and record every submission and reference number.

What the tool does

Build an AI-attributed layoff record It runs locally in this browser and sends nothing.

Limit first: This is a planning aid, not legal, career or financial advice. It cannot guarantee an outcome, and it does not evaluate whether a specific employer acted lawfully.

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Cost and free path

Cost: Free: one complete run in this browser, no account. Optional $4 one-time unlock allows unlimited runs of this tool on this browser. The free path and safety guidance never require payment.

Free path, in order (no cost):

  1. LawHelp.org for free legal aid on a severance agreement
  2. Your state unemployment insurance office (file on time, every time)
  3. A bar association lawyer-referral service for a low-cost consultation

What this cannot do: It cannot guarantee an outcome, and it does not evaluate whether a specific employer acted lawfully.

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One human next step

Have a lawyer read a severance agreement before you sign if anything is unclear — free legal aid and bar referral services exist for exactly this — and file the unemployment claim on time regardless.

Research log and safety checks

AI-assist path: not used for a verdict. This builder organises the reader's own documents and names an independent source; it does not infer authenticity, eligibility, or legal rights. §6.9/§6.10/§6.11 disclosed in the batch report; §6.12 status line carried in metadata as `status_line`.

§0.5 protection result: category is job-skill-disruption; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.

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