Credibility you can check, not claim.
We sign for the most sensitive mail your business will ever get — summonses, state notices, deadlines with teeth. You shouldn't have to take our word that we're careful. This page shows how the operation actually runs, and where to verify it.
Inside the office
How a letter moves through our office
One address, one team, four steps — all on the day the letter arrives.
Step 01
Signed for in person
A process server or postal carrier hands your letter to a member of our team at 518 Tranquility Road, Highland Lakes, NJ. Not a P.O. box, not a partner network — someone is at our desk during business hours, every business day.
Step 02
Scanned the same day, by us
Our own people scan every page the day it arrives — scanning is never outsourced, and nothing waits in a weekend pile. The moment it lands in your portal, you get an email alert.
Step 03
Summarized by Ari, our AI analyst
Ari reads the scan and writes a short briefing in plain English: what the letter is, who sent it, and which date matters. A person from our office follows up on anything urgent.
Honest fine print: Ari is AI and can make mistakes. The original scan is always attached, and nothing in a briefing is legal advice.
Step 04
Vaulted — and forwarded when you ask
The paper original is filed in the vault under your company's name. Want it in your hands? One click in the portal and it goes out in the mail to you.
Guarantees
Promises with teeth
Anything a company writes about itself is easy. These six are commitments you can hold us to — and check on your receipt, in your portal, and on the phone.
Same-day scan, every letter
Signed for in person and scanned before the day ends — on The Agent plan too. A summons has a clock on it, so we never sit on one.
A person answers the phone
Call (862) 866-4415 and a human in Highland Lakes picks up — no phone tree, no callback queue. Ask them anything you'd ask this page.
30 days, full refund
If a paid plan isn't right in your first 30 days, we refund 100% of it. No pro-rating, no store credit, no forms.
Cancel in the portal, not on a call
Leaving is one click in your portal. No retention script, no 'may I ask why', no waiting on hold to quit.
State fees at cost
New Jersey's fees appear on your receipt exactly as the state bills them — never rounded, never marked up, never folded into ours.
The renewal price is on the buy button
Every buy button shows next year's price as well as this year's. If it says $190/yr, it renews at $190 — no intro pricing, no year-two surprise.
Security & privacy
Your mail is nobody else's business
Legal mail is sensitive by definition. Here's how it's protected — from the public record, from strangers, and from us.
An encrypted vault
Every scan and briefing lives in an encrypted vault, not in an inbox or a shared drive. Your documents are stored to be read by you — and only you.
Your home address stays off the public record
New Jersey publishes every registered agent's address. We put 518 Tranquility Road on that record so your kitchen table never appears on it — and process servers knock on our door, not yours.
We never sell your data
Not the scans, not the metadata, not your email address. There's no advertising side business here and no 'partners' clause — the sentence has no asterisk.
Access is need-to-know
Only the teammates who handle your mail can open your mail. Nobody at Garden State Agency reads documents they don't need to touch, and every AI-agent access is logged.
Radical transparency
We publish what most companies wouldn't
Trust grows faster when you can check the numbers yourself. So we put them where you can.
A live status board
Documents scanned today, the forward queue, API health — real production numbers, recomputed every time the page loads. Nothing curated, nothing cached.
See today's numbersPlans that renew at sticker
Every plan renews at exactly the price printed on the page, and New Jersey's own fees are listed next to ours, at cost.
Read the full price listAI that admits it's AI
Every briefing Ari writes says plainly that AI can make mistakes, carries the original scan, and never poses as legal advice. When a letter needs a lawyer, Ari says so.
Who's behind it
A second company, run on first-company habits
Garden State Agency was built by Al Akkerman, a New Jersey–licensed insurance producer and the founder of Acre Man Insurance Services, a New Jersey insurance agency. This is his second company, and it runs on the habits of the first: a real office, a phone a person answers, and promises made in writing.
Years of walking business owners through floods, fires, and lawsuits taught him what actually calms people down — not adjectives, but someone who signs for the scary envelope and tells you plainly what's inside. Garden State Agency is built and staffed in Highland Lakes, NJ.
Checkable facts
- Al Akkerman, founder
- New Jersey–licensed insurance producer
- Founder of Acre Man Insurance Services
- Garden State Agency is his second company
- Built in Highland Lakes, NJ
Coverage
New Jersey only, on purpose
Same-day is a promise you can only keep in person. Our team can sign for a letter, scan it, and vault it within hours because it all happens in one office we run ourselves. The day we can't do that in a state, we don't belong in it yet.
We'll open more states when we can staff them to the same standard. If you need one sooner, join the waitlist through the contact form on our company page — a person reads every message, and we'll write to you the day your state opens.
See the whole operation.
Watch a simulated summons go from the knock on the door to Ari's briefing, or read today's production numbers straight from the office. The agent is $24.98/yr — billed $49.99 once, covers 2 full years, renews at the same $49.99.