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How to prepare your case.

Strata analyzes exactly what you give it — nothing more. The work you put into assembling a clean, complete record is the work that comes back to you. Follow these steps. Garbage in, garbage out.

This is attorney-driven. Strata does not investigate or supply facts. It works the record you stage and the strategy you direct. The strength of the output is the strength of the input. It is a tool for licensed counsel, not a substitute for judgment.

The four steps

1

Assemble your case file

Gather your discovery and case record into one set of PDFs (or a single zip). Make sure the required items below are included — the engine needs them to build anything reliable.

2

Write your Attorney Directives

A short plain-text or PDF file that tells the engine how to think about this case: the case number, your theory, the posture to assume (e.g. a hostile bench), what's already been ruled, and any constraints. This is how you steer. Without it, the engine has no direction.

3

Choose your service and upload

Pick Initial Discovery Review or Trial Planning, drop your files, and the engine measures the corpus and quotes a flat price before anything runs. Nothing happens until you accept.

4

Review, then download — and it's erased

You review the finished document in your browser first. The moment you download it, every copy is permanently deleted from our systems. We keep nothing.

What to include

Items marked Required must be present or the engine cannot reliably build the analysis. The rest sharpen it.

Attorney Directives Case number, defense theory, judicial posture, constraints — how you want the case approached
Required
Charging document Information, indictment, or complaint — the elements the State must prove
Required
Witness lists State and defense witness notices
Required
Hearing transcripts Preliminary hearing at minimum; any other transcripts strengthen it
Required
Discovery corpus The full discovery set — OCR'd reports, photo/video, jail calls, phone extractions, lab work
Required
Defense & State motions Suppression, oppositions, replies, and the litigation record
Recommended
Court orders & minutes The engine treats court ORDERS as binding and canonical. It treats MINUTES as a true account of what happened — as if official — even though minutes are not part of the official record. If you don't want minutes treated that way, don't include them. You are responsible for what you upload.
Recommended
Investigator reports Any defense investigation already done
Recommended
A note on the discovery database. The deepest runs draw on a structured discovery database built from your corpus. For now, provide your discovery as PDFs and the engine reads them directly. Expanded database-backed analysis is on the roadmap.
Prepare and submit a case