About Yerty
A system that happens in public
— and is invisible
Every year, twelve million UK workers face something that goes wrong at work. Many never do anything about it. Not because they don't care. Because legal advice costs £200+ an hour, tribunal deadlines are unforgiving, and the process was built for lawyers — not for someone who just got sacked and doesn't know what happens next.
But the workers are only half the picture. The other half is the system itself. UK employment tribunals decide tens of thousands of cases every year. The decisions are published, on a government register that anyone can read. And almost nobody does. The system happens in the open and is, in practice, invisible.
12.4m
Workers affected by employer non-compliance annually
Resolution Foundation
~70%
Tribunal claims brought without legal representation
MoJ Tribunal Statistics
100,000+
Published UK tribunal decisions in the dataset
yerty data
£200+/hr
Typical cost of an employment solicitor in England & Wales
Law Society / SRA
The way to improve a system
is to make it understood
A system that's nominally public but practically invisible can't be improved.
Employers can't benchmark against patterns they can't see. Researchers can't study outcomes that aren't structured. Journalists can't report on trends nobody's mapped. Workers can't understand what cases like theirs look like. Even the solicitors who advise on these cases work largely from anecdote and individual experience rather than the full record. Everyone is operating with less information than the public record technically provides.
We think the way to improve access to justice in employment law is to make it understood — by the workers inside it, by the institutions adjacent to it, by the researchers studying it, by the public holding it accountable. Understanding is the precondition for improvement: for fairness, for accountability, for genuine access. You can't improve what you can't see.
Yerty is a platform built on that thesis. One foundation — every published UK employment tribunal decision, structured and queryable. Two surfaces, for the two sides of the same system.
Two products, one foundation
Yerty Navigator
For people inside a workplace dispute.
A guided 13-question assessment that returns a personalised report covering your situation, rights, possible claims, and key deadlines. An 8-stage process — from grievance through ACAS, tribunal claim, case preparation, hearing, settlement, and appeals — with tasks, context, and tools at every step. A toolkit that turns "what happened to me" into "here's where I stand and what to do next." Case Hub to manage everything in one secure place.
Navigator is the system from the worker's perspective. Visible. Navigable. Honest about what's hard.
Learn more →Yerty Insights — Tribunal Data Explorer
For everyone studying the system from the outside.
Every published UK employment tribunal decision, structured into searchable fields: parties, claims, awards, regions, sectors, representation, outcomes. Three ways to use it — browse the corpus directly, ask in plain English (Ask Yerty), or read the patterns at a glance through pre-built dashboards.
For employers benchmarking sector exposure. For researchers studying access to justice and labour outcomes. For journalists holding institutions accountable. For lawyers valuing claims against the actual record. For anyone who wants to understand how the system works rather than how it's described.
Learn more →Both products run on the same dataset. Both are reviewed for accuracy by practising employment solicitors. Both are honest about what the public record contains — and what it doesn't.
What we believe
Open justice is a principle, not just a practice.
The UK courts have published tribunal decisions for decades. That isn't bureaucratic accident — it's a democratic commitment to the idea that justice should happen in public. A platform that makes the published record actually usable honours that commitment. A platform that buries the record behind opacity, complexity, or paywalls doesn't.
Understanding is asymmetric, and we say so.
Institutions get less protection than individuals when it comes to public surface area. Companies that have been to tribunal, judges who have ruled, sectors with patterns — these belong in the public conversation. The claimants who walked through the system to get there don't. We surface the former; we protect the latter; we publish exactly how we draw the line.
Honesty about the limits is the work.
Most disputes settle and don't appear in the data. Most workers never reach tribunal at all. Most published decisions describe systems failing rather than working. We don't paper over any of this. The data shows what it shows; the rest of the picture — settlements, withdrawals, unfiled complaints, deterred claims — is larger than what's measured. Acknowledging that is the foundation everything else sits on.
The goal isn't to replace solicitors. It's to make the layer below them work.
Most workers don't need a solicitor on day one — they need to understand their situation, their deadlines, and their options. When they do need a solicitor later, the work they've done on Yerty makes the solicitor's job faster and the worker's costs lower. Solicitors are essential. They're also expensive, and most disputes never get to the stage that justifies the cost.
Founder note
I kept seeing the same thing: people with real workplace problems who didn't act. Not because they were wrong — because they couldn't see a path through the system. The law was there to protect them but the process to use it was invisible, expensive, and intimidating.
Then I looked at the other side — the researchers, the employers, the journalists trying to understand the system in aggregate — and they faced the same opacity from a different angle. Different audiences, same root problem.
So we set out to build the layer that should already exist: structure and visibility on top of a system that's been working in public all along.
Holly Rooney
Founder, RightsTech Ltd
What Yerty is — and isn't
Being clear about boundaries matters. Employment disputes are high-stakes; tribunal data is sensitive. People deserve honesty about what they're getting.
What we are
An information and case-building platform
Structured tools and guidance to help you understand your situation, follow the process, and organise your case. Every tool produces a specific, usable output.
A data platform
Every published UK employment tribunal decision, structured and queryable, with a documented methodology and an honest coverage statement.
Built with qualified employment solicitors
A practising SRA-regulated solicitor reviews Navigator content. The data side is built with methodological rigour and a published coverage statement.
Complementary to legal advice
Navigator doesn't replace a solicitor for cases that need one. If you work with one later, the work you've already done makes their job faster and your costs lower.
What we are not
Not a law firm
Yerty does not provide legal advice, legal opinions, or representation. Navigator gives you information and tools to decide for yourself; Insights gives you data to inform your view.
Not a replacement for a solicitor in every case
Some disputes — complex multi-claim, serious discrimination, whistleblowing with ongoing risk — benefit from professional legal advice early. We say so when it's true.
Not infinite about the data
Insights is built on published decisions. Settled cases, withdrawn claims, unpublished proceedings, decisions before the published register began (pre-Feb 2017) aren't observable. We say so loudly because it matters for every figure we publish.
Not impartial
We're built for the people the system is hardest on. We're transparent about who we serve.
Recognised by
Ministry of Justice LawTech Sandbox
Accepted into the MoJ programme supporting innovation in access to justice
Justice Technology Association
Member committed to ethical, responsible legal technology
Thomson Reuters Institute
Co-authored research on technology and the employment tribunal access crisis
ACAS
Working together to explore how tribunal outcome data can support earlier and better case resolution
Company
Yerty is a product of RightsTech Ltd (Company No. 16602847), registered in England & Wales. Founded 2025, with a single focus: making the UK employment justice system understood — by everyone who's in it, studying it, or trying to improve it.
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