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The concept
Professional genealogists charge $75–$150/hour to document family histories with meticulous citations — yet they manage their own clients, research logs, and invoices using Word documents, spreadsheets, and email chains. Lineal is the first purpose-built business platform for professional genealogists: client management, structured research logging, time tracking, and formatted report generation in one place. The absurd irony is that people whose entire professional value is documentation have the worst documentation for their own businesses — Lineal fixes that.
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Where it stands
The archived incubator verdict was TESTIT. That is an internal research signal, not a current market claim.