Preparation changes everything.
You may be months from a decision or days from a filing. Either way, it rarely starts in a courtroom. It starts quietly, in your own head, with questions you haven't said out loud yet.
Alette gives those questions somewhere to go: a structured, private platform for preparing for separation and divorce, built for the moment you're actually in.
The process expects a complete picture of your finances, a position on every decision about your children and your property, the right documents in the right order, and the composure to discuss it all under pressure. It hands you almost nothing to get there.
If your spouse filed, you are likely the more exposed: 42 percent of filing parties have representation; 23 percent of respondents do.2 People who have stood here describe it as taking a trip without a map.1
And the numbers only count what reaches a courtroom, not the months of quiet deliberation before anyone else knows.
of U.S. divorce and separation cases involve at least one person with no lawyer at all1
of contested cases are lost by self-represented people. Researchers trace it to preparation, not merit.3
The help you've gathered is real: the podcasts, the saved posts, the threads, a friend's hard-won advice. But it speaks to a generic divorce in a generic state, and it leaves the assembly to you.4
Information is not preparation. Between the thought and the table sits the real work: understanding your decisions, gathering your documents, knowing where you stand. Taxes have had a layer for that work for decades. Family transitions never have.
Alette is that layer.
Every decision area laid out clearly: property, parenting, support, finances, insurance, taxes. You'll know what needs resolving and where you stand on each one.
Map each decision to its documents and numbers. Upload what you have, track what's missing. Start with what you know and come back to the rest.
Your case file in hand: decisions mapped, documents collected, priorities clear. It changes how every professional hour goes.
Property, income, accounts, debts, custody and parenting schedules, support, insurance, taxes. Each organized into the specific fields your state requires, nearly two hundred of them. Not a blank form, a guided framework.
When you are ready, invite your partner into the case file. Each of you records where you stand, and Alette shows you both where you agree, where the gaps are, and where a professional could be most valuable in closing them.
Alette surfaces which documents matter for your situation: pay stubs, tax returns, appraisals, policies, statements. Then it tracks what is collected, what is pending, and what is still missing.
Monthly budgets built from your own financial data. Property division summaries with the calculations your decisions depend on, updated as your information changes.
Alette recommends the right experts from your own data: financial analysts, appraisers, tax professionals, therapists, and more, each with context about why they matter for your situation.
Everything becomes one substantive case file. Not a legal document. The organized foundation you walk in with, and the one your mediator, attorney, or advisor can work from in the first minute.
Every decision you make is one you're ready to make. Every agreement reflects what actually matters to you.
Alette surfaces and organizes.
Professionals advise and finalize.
Whether you refinance, sell, or keep the house changes spousal and child support. Support changes both households' taxes. Taxes change what each parenting budget can actually carry. Move one piece, and the others move with it. That interdependence is why the process draws on a variety of subject matter experts, each holding one part of the whole.
Alette is the foundation beneath them.
Your decisions, documents, and finances, organized. Every professional you hire starts from your case file, not from a blank page.
You begin with your own account. No shared logins. Nothing visible to anyone until you decide otherwise. Notifications arrive by email only, so nothing surfaces on a shared screen. It works on your phone and your desktop, so the case file is wherever the thinking happens.
When your partner joins, they join with their own private access: two accounts, two perspectives, one shared case file, each side's working notes their own.
Through all of it, you own the subscription, the documents, and the decisions.
The decisions are large: where children sleep, how two households stand on what one household earned, what happens to the home. But the manner of deciding matters as much as the decisions themselves. A family that moves through it prepared, informed, and deliberate builds a different structure, a different culture, and a different future than one pushed through cornered and reactive.
Alette exists to make the prepared version possible for any family that chooses it.
Amy Tourte built Alette from the inside of the problem. Her own divorce asked everything of her that the process asks of anyone. The financial complexity, the legal sequence, and the weight of deciding a family's next form while living inside it. She moved through it the way a systems thinker moves through anything, studying the process as it unfolded and refusing to accept that work this consequential could remain this unstructured.
She then earned her certification in divorce mediation, a deliberate decision to understand the discipline from within. How agreements actually form, where they break, and what the professionals across the table need from the people in front of them.
She brings fifteen years of tech sales and partnership experience at LinkedIn, Dropbox, and AWS, building the deals that carried category-defining products into new markets, and a working co-parenting family on the other side of her own transition.
Alette is her answer to a problem far larger than any one divorce. Families deserve real infrastructure for the hardest transition most will ever face.
Amy Tourte · Founder, Alette
MBA · Certified in Divorce Mediation