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What is coming, and where each thing stops.

Every item below states its boundary, because a capability without a stated edge is an advertisement. Citation checking has shipped, and it still sounds like Westlaw until someone tells you plainly that it will never say whether a case is still good law.

No dates. A platform this small that publishes quarters publishes broken promises — the next client emergency reorders everything, and a missed date is remembered far longer than a shipped feature. What is worth telling you is whether something exists yet, and where its edges will be when it arrives.

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With the same limits they carry on the platform page — including, where it applies, that a thing runs without a screen to watch it run.

Ethical walls

Screen a matter to a named list of people, everywhere at once — including from the AI, which cannot be asked about a matter the person asking is not on the list for.

  • A wall is per matter, not per document. A document in a walled matter is walled; there is no way to screen one document inside an open matter.
  • Releasing a wall restores access for everyone; there is no partial release. The wall row and its history are never deleted — that record is the screening proof.

Quote verification

Every fact the platform records is checked, mechanically, against the page it claims to quote.

  • Unsupported facts are excluded from drafting and flagged on the matter and document pages; superseding the document's reading clears them.
  • A quote shorter than a dozen characters is reported absent rather than passed: a two-word match proves nothing, and blessing one would empty the check of meaning.
  • It proves the words are on the page. It does not judge whether the fact drawn from them is a fair reading — that is what an attorney is for.

Auto-filing at ingest

Every document is filed into a section of the litigation file the moment it is read — pleadings, discovery, correspondence, medical, expert, financial, orders, internal.

  • The eight-section vocabulary is a starting point pending the firm's own filing conventions; it is edited live, per platform, not per firm yet.
  • Documents ingested before this shipped stay Unfiled until re-read or hand-filed.

Monthly fact spot-check

Every month, a sample of extracted facts — weighted toward the ones most likely to be wrong — is put in front of an attorney.

  • The sample size is per firm per month (default 12) and set in firm settings (0 – 50); 0 disables the check and the measurement with it.
  • The rate is incorrect verdicts divided by facts judged. An "unclear" counts in the denominator and not as an error, so it can only pull the rate down — which is why the unclear count is always shown beside it rather than folded into it.
  • It measures the sample, not the file. Twelve facts a month is a number a firm will actually get through, not an audit of everything extracted, and a small sample moves a lot on one error.
  • A month nobody has reviewed reads "not measured" rather than zero — an unjudged sample is not a clean one.
  • Verdicts are three buttons and an optional note. There is no structured taxonomy of what went wrong, so the notes are still free text.
  • Sampled facts that were later deleted cannot be judged and are left out of the arithmetic rather than counted either way.

Chambers

A strategy conversation over the matter's own record — and it writes nothing into the record.

  • Chambers writes NOTHING into the record — no fact, no deadline, no filing, no draft, no time entry. It recommends; the attorney acts through the product's own review paths.
  • Threads persist as firm records — there is no delete, by design. The application database role holds no DELETE on either table.
  • Never client-visible and excluded from the export bundle by rule.
  • Turn content is not covered by the per-document crypto-shred story; it lives in the database and its encrypted backups.
  • Staff can read a thread; posting a turn is attorney-only.

Citation checking

Every case citation the platform produces is resolved against a public database of opinions, or marked unciteable.

  • Verified against CourtListener's free opinion database — not Westlaw, no treatment, no Shepard's. Existence and citation accuracy only.
  • A resolved citation can still be bad law. That judgment stays with the lawyer.
  • When CourtListener is unreachable or unconfigured, citations are marked not-checked — never silently passed.
  • Federal and Florida reporters are recognized; a citation in an unlisted reporter is not extracted at all rather than given a wrong verdict.

Being built now

In progress

Nothing is mid-build at this moment. The band is left empty rather than padded from the list below: what was in it has shipped and appears above, and this fills again when the next item starts.

Planned

Decided, not yet started

These are decided in shape — each has a design and a stated boundary — and none has a date.

Planned

The client portal, visible

The screens a client logs into: the status of their own matter, the documents you have chosen to share, and a way to send you things without email attachments.

Where it stops. The access model and the per-matter permissions are already built and tested; what is missing is the client-facing screens themselves. A client will see exactly what you grant on that matter and nothing else — never the fact ledger, never your work product.

Planned

Live deposition support

A deposition transcript arriving live, colliding with the fact ledger as it goes: a flag when testimony contradicts something already in the record, with the document and page, and a note when something genuinely new is said.

Where it stops. Earliest and least certain thing on this list. Anything heard live would be held as provisional and kept out of the record until the certified transcript confirms it — a deposition is not a source of facts until it is transcribed and signed. Consent rules also differ by state and are the firm's call, not ours.

Planned

Who got which copy

A line in the stamp, beside the Bates number, naming the recipient of that particular copy. A page that later surfaces somewhere it should not would identify the set it came from.

Where it stops. The Bates number is identical for every recipient; only the line beside it changes. Varying the number itself would break the promise the registry exists to keep — that a number cited in a deposition three years from now resolves to a page — so attribution is never carried by the number. The mark is printed and visible: nothing is hidden in the file that a recipient cannot read, and nothing in a produced document ever reports back to us or to you. It tells you which set a page came from. It does not tell you who put it there.

Planned

Tracking beacons in what you receive

Every document that arrives is checked for content that would call out to a server the moment someone opens it — a tracking pixel buried in a production, a remote image in a demand letter. You are told which document, and what it would have contacted, before a copy of it leaves the platform.

Where it stops. It reports; it does not alter. A received document is evidence, so the beacon stays in the file exactly as it was produced to you. It cannot tell you who placed it, whether it has already fired somewhere else, or the difference between a deliberate beacon and an ordinary remote image — it tells you a document reaches outward and leaves the inference to you. Nothing embedded in a document fetches anything while it is inside this platform; the exposure it warns you about is the copy opened in Outlook.

Planned

A written continuity commitment

What happens to your files if this platform stops — in writing, with the steps, the credentials you already hold, and the export you can take at any time without asking.

Where it stops. This is a document and a public page, not a feature. A one-person platform holding a firm's files has to answer that question in writing rather than in a conversation, and the answer is worth publishing before anyone asks for it.

What is deliberately not on this list

The office backup appliance. It is real work with a real design, and it has no owner, no price and no date. Publishing it here would be advertising an intention; when it acquires those three things it appears on this page with its boundary, and not before. The list used to be longer — what has come off it came off by shipping, and each of those now sits on the platform page with its limits stated.

There are 5 items above, and they are what we publish. Nothing is on this page because it looks impressive, and every one of them carries the boundary it will still have when it arrives.