Your discovery already contains the trial. Strata assembles it.
Strata reads your entire discovery corpus and returns work grounded in what is in the record — from an initial discovery review to complete trial planning. Encrypted end to end, never used to train a model, and erased the moment you download. We keep nothing.
Two ways to put the record to work.
Start with a fast, grounded read of your discovery, or commission full trial planning. Same engine, same fidelity to the record, same zero-retention privacy.
Initial Discovery Review
Reads your full discovery and returns a structured first-pass workup: the charges and elements, a numbered case summary, the top defense issues each paired with its leverage and the practical reality against it, a sourced chronology, document-by-document reliability, contested facts and conflicts, the Fourth and Fifth Amendment chains, suppression hooks, missing and untested evidence, and a case-strength scorecard. Every fact is tagged to its source in the record. Delivered as a clean, color-coded PDF.
Submit discovery →Trial Planning
Builds trial plans from the record: a working theory of the case and theme, witness-by-witness cross-examination drafts, evidence positioning, and opening and closing frameworks. It lays out the planning groundwork for the attorney to weigh, adopt, or discard. The strategy and the decisions are the attorney's; this does the planning, grounded in what is in the record.
Submit a case →Coming soon · In-Depth Discovery Review (Phase 2) — exhaustive second-pass analysis
Ten sections. Every fact tagged to the record.
You upload the discovery packet. The engine returns a color-coded PDF containing a complete ten-section analytical workup. Every fact in it carries a numbered Evidence Unit citation back to its source document, so any claim can be traced to the page it came from.
Case Summary
Case ID, client, charges with statutes and penalties, incident date, time, and location, and the victim. A full inventory of the uploaded discovery. The top defense issues, each paired with its leverage and the practical reality cutting against it.
Document Reliability
A document-by-document audit of every source in the file: what it is, who authored it, what it proves, and what it lacks — missing context, timestamps, or corroboration.
Timeline
A time-stamped chronology of the incident and the post-incident sequence, with exact times and intervals. Every entry cited to its Evidence Unit.
Contested Facts
The core factual disputes broken out — weapon possession, wound location, motive, witness vantage point, physical-evidence placement — preserving the conflicting accounts side by side with attribution.
Fourth Amendment Chain
The search-and-seizure sequence analyzed link by link: detention onset, probable cause, search incident to arrest, consent, warrant execution, each seizure, DNA swabs, ballistics, and electronic evidence.
Seizure & Reasonable Suspicion
Detention-versus-arrest classification, the reasonable-suspicion ladder, scope and duration, and a suppression analysis for statements taken during the stop.
Fifth Amendment Chain
Custody onset, Miranda warnings and invocation, each interrogation session, and a suppression-feasibility assessment for every statement.
Search & Warrant
Warrant-affidavit review, probable-cause and scope analysis, execution audit, chain-of-custody verification, and flags on potential exculpatory evidence.
Actionability
The motions to draft, the discovery to request, and the investigation tasks — ranked, with the fastest high-impact next steps first.
Coverage Assessment
Document-coverage analysis, evidence-unit placement status, the key remaining uncertainties, and the top defense needs to win.
Includes a numeric case-strength scorecard (0–100) · color-coded callout boxes · full record citations on every fact
One run, four phases, drafted in order.
Strata works the way a trial lawyer works. It builds the theory first, then extracts the witnesses and the evidence from the record and works them against that theory, then assembles the presentation. Each phase is grounded in the phase before it, and every fact comes from what you put in.
Theory development
The defense theory and theme, drawn from the elements the State has to prove and the places the file shows it cannot.
Witness analysis and cross
A map of every witness, the attack targets on each, and a cross examination built to hold them on a short leash.
Evidence planning
How each exhibit gets positioned, where the chain breaks, and which pieces of the corpus carry the theory.
Trial presentation
Opening, closing, and direct examination, written in your voice and tied back to the record at every turn.
Twelve sections. Often over a thousand pages.
From the record you supply, one run builds a full trial-planning workup, section by section — not an outline, not a summary, the actual drafted work. A complex case can run past 1,000 pages: every prosecution witness gets its own cross-examination chapter, the theory is built backward from the State's own evidence, and each count is taken apart element by element. It is delivered in three formats for the courtroom — the full trial cart, a condensed desk copy, and a tight podium copy for examination at the stand.
Plus, where the record supports it: a full cross-examination chapter for every prosecution witness · drafted subpoenas (duces tecum & witness) · evidence-find analyses surfacing the forensic and chain-of-custody problems in the file.
The entire suite of defense work-product automation.
Strata's trial plan and discovery review are live today. Behind them sits a complete defense platform, in active development — every category of law-firm work product, built as separate record-grounded, attorney-driven engines. The full apparatus: forensic validation, suppression research, drafting, and post-conviction work. Not yet available — in development.
In-Depth Discovery Review
The exhaustive second pass: chain of custody, timeline reconstruction, Cellebrite and phone-database review, witness indexing, alibi and alternate-theory development, and a full risks-and-holes report.
Forensic Methods & Suppression Research
DNA methodology, lab practices, and forensic-procedure validation against the record; Fourth and Fifth Amendment suppression research; Brady/Giglio hunts; Franks analysis — the constitutional and forensic attack, researched and sourced.
Forensic Media Analysis
Frame-by-frame video narration, image and document forensic extraction — turning bodycam, surveillance, and photo evidence into searchable, record-cited fact.
Filing & Motion Drafting
Pretrial motions, oppositions and replies, subpoenas, and discovery demands — in your house style, every authority tagged unverified with a citation manifest for the Westlaw pass.
Habeas & Post-Conviction
Habeas petitions, writs, and post-trial motions, with the record built to support them.
Bulk Evidence Processing
Large evidence sets ingested and structured at scale, so every engine runs against clean, organized data — not a raw pile.
in development · arriving in phases
The rules the system will not break.
A structured-analysis engine — not a chatbot.
Strata is a hybrid system, software and AI working together through a proprietary engine. It takes your unstructured discovery and returns structured, source-cited analysis. It does not generate new facts, supplement the record, or pull in outside information — every statement traces to a source in your file, and anything the record does not support is marked plainly. It restructures and analyzes what you already have. Nothing more. Your data is never used to train a model; it is encrypted in transit, kept zero by default, and every copy is permanently deleted the moment you download.
The attorney drives the case. Full stop.
Strata analyzes exactly what you put in — your discovery corpus and the record you stage. It does not investigate, it does not supply facts, and it does not exercise judgment. Garbage in, garbage out: the quality of the output is the quality of the input the attorney curates. This is a force-multiplier for a competent lawyer, not a substitute for one, and it is not built to be driven by a non-attorney. You steer the case; the engine works the record you give it.
Attorney-driven by designEvery citation is presumed wrong until a human clears it.
Authorities ship tagged as unverified. A citation manifest travels with every draft, listing each case, its reporter cite, the pin, and the proposition it supports. You confirm before anything is filed.
Unverified by defaultBuilt by a trial lawyer.
Strata was built by a practicing criminal defense attorney carrying a live appointed caseload, on a trial methodology developed and refined in real felony trials. It was built to win cases, then hardened in the courtroom.
Cross, planned line by line.
Give the module a witness and the record. It returns a controlled examination, with the impeachment targets, the order of attack, and the questions that hold a witness on a short leash. The plan is built from what the witness has already said under oath, so there is no open question you did not see coming.
The lawyers carrying the load.
Solo and small firms
Trial level work without a war room of associates behind you. Strata gives you the preparation depth of a large firm, on demand.
Public defenders and appointed counsel
Heavy dockets and no time to spare. Strata turns a finished discovery set into a working strategy in the time it takes to read the file.
Appellate and post conviction teams
A second set of eyes on the record that surfaces the element failures and the chain problems the trial may have missed.
An analysis tool. The lawyer does the rest.
Strata does the legwork — gathering, organizing, analyzing, and assembling the record into a working draft. That work requires no license. Approving it, exercising judgment over it, and filing it does — and that is the attorney's alone. It is the same as handing the heavy lifting to a research assistant: the lawyer supplies the judgment and the sign-off.
It removes everything except attorney analysis.
It offloads the labor so the lawyer's time goes where it belongs — analyzing the case, analyzing the record, preparing for court. The attorney reads, judges, and decides. Nothing in the output is final, authoritative, or filed until the attorney makes it so.
Privileged work product. The most protected thing in the case.
A trial plan is never filed. It is core attorney work product and strategic mental impressions — privileged, not discoverable, not subject to search or seizure, and shielded from the prosecution and the court. Strata's output lives entirely inside that protection: a private working draft for the supervising attorney's eyes. Not for clients, not for distribution, not legal advice. It makes no representation about any bar or ethics rule. What the attorney does with it, and their professional obligations, are theirs alone.
Attorney-only · privileged · attorney-responsibleWe keep nothing. That is the product.
Privileged discovery deserves more than a promise. Strata is built so that, by design, there is nothing to subpoena.
Deleted the moment you download.
You review your finished document in your browser first. The instant you download it, every copy — your uploaded discovery, the finished output, and your record — is permanently erased from our storage and from the AI processor. We do not keep it. If you ever need it again, you run it again.
Encrypted end to end, never used to train a model.
Your files are encrypted in transit and at rest. Under commercial API terms your case data is never used to train any model. The pipeline runs on hardened infrastructure following platform security best practices.
Zero-retention by designPut your discovery to work.
Submit a case and get a grounded discovery review or full trial planning — reviewed by you, then erased.
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