Stay ahead of every lien deadline.

49 of the 56 US lien jurisdictions: 46 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands. LienShield does not prepare filings in American Samoa, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, New Hampshire, the Northern Mariana Islands or Puerto Rico. Most of those create a lien through a court proceeding, or have no recordable lien at all, so there is nothing for a document service to prepare; Louisiana is excluded because some of its rules cannot yet be calculated reliably. Each of the seven still has a guide that explains what the process involves.

All state guides

You do. LienShield prepares the document from your project and checks it for missing information; you (or your office manager) sign it, notarize it where the state requires, and record or serve it. Each state guide shows which office records it, the fee range, whether it must be notarized or sworn, and how it must be served. When you mark a document as sent or filed in LienShield, the reminders for that step stop and the next step takes over.

Example: the Tennessee guide

Your company is one organization and everyone joins it free, with a role that controls what they can do. Everyone sees every project, deadline and document in the app. What one account cannot do is put LienShield in everyone's inbox: A plan covers one person. Deadline reminder emails and scheduled reports go to the person whose own plan includes them, so if your office manager is on Premium, that does not put the crew on Premium. Anyone who wants LienShield emailing them about a deadline needs their own paid plan. Reminder emails start at Pro. Where someone does receive them, admins and managers are reminded about every project by default and field staff about the projects they created; view-only members are never emailed. Each person changes their own reminder settings.

Deadlines are calculated by rules taken from each statute, not by AI. Two features use Anthropic's Claude: contract auto-fill, which runs only when you upload a contract, and an automatic review of each document you generate. Every request is processed on Anthropic's US infrastructure, and your contracts, projects and filings are never used to train AI models. An admin can turn both features off for your whole organization in Settings, under “AI & your data”; nothing from it is sent to Anthropic while they are off.

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Usually the lien for that work is gone: the statutes make the deadlines conditions of the lien. In Tennessee, for example, a remote contractor who does not serve the monthly Notice of Nonpayment "shall have no right to claim a lien" for that month's work (Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-11-145). You may still have a contract claim or a payment-bond claim, and a few states give partial credit for a late notice: California's still covers work furnished in the 20 days before it was given (Cal. Civ. Code § 8204(a)), and Nevada's covers the 31 days before it was sent (NRS 108.245(6)). Ask counsel before you assume a missed date is fatal, and act the same day.

Tenn. Code Ann. § 66-11-145Cal. Civ. Code § 8204NRS 108.245

Texas counts in months. The lien affidavit is due by the 15th day of the 4th month on commercial work and the 15th day of the 3rd month on residential work (Tex. Prop. Code § 53.052). For an original contractor the months count from the month its own work under the original contract was completed, terminated or abandoned; for everyone else, from the month they last provided labor or materials. A claim for retainage follows § 53.052(d): the 15th day of the 3rd month after the month the original contract ended. Subcontractors and suppliers must also send a notice for each month of unpaid work, due by the 15th day of the 3rd month (commercial) or 2nd month (residential) after that month (§ 53.056).

Texas lien guideTex. Prop. Code § 53.052§ 53.056