StrataLegal
Analysis & drafting · for criminal defense

Your discovery already contains the trial. Strata assembles it.

Strata reads your entire discovery — documents, bodycam, jail calls, phone dumps — and returns work grounded in what is actually in the record. Encrypted end to end. Never trained on. Erased the moment you download.

Built by a practicing criminal defense attorney · hardened in felony trials
For the lawyers who go to trial
1.28M
Documents parsed
330K+
Evidence detections
38K+
Utterances transcribed
0
Bytes retained
Why Strata

Not a case management system. The analysis and drafting your case manager can't do.

Case management software holds your files, tracks your deadlines, and runs your practice. Strata does the one thing it can't — reads the record and drafts the work. We don't keep client files: we run them through the analysis engine and hand you back cited work product, then erase every byte. Strata runs alongside your case management system, not instead of it.

Case management
Holds your files
Strata
Analyzes & drafts
Bodycam
Out of scope
Bodycam
Indexed & analyzed
Jail calls · phone
Out of scope
Jail calls · phone
Diarized & cited
Retention
Holds the file
Retention
Zero by design
The platform

Analysis and drafting, from first read to final writ.

The same record-grounded engine, from a fast first read of your discovery to a complete trial plan — plus the motion and post-conviction drafting around it. Built as separate, attorney-controlled engines. Not a chatbot, and not a case management system.

L1Initial Discovery ReviewA structured first-pass workup: charges and elements, numbered summary, top defense issues with leverage, sourced chronology, contested facts, the Fourth and Fifth Amendment chains, suppression hooks, and a case-strength scorecard — every fact tagged to its source. The Playbook.Live
L2In-Depth Discovery ReviewThe 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. The Strategizer.Beta
L3Trial PlanThe working theory and theme, witness-by-witness cross-examination drafts, evidence positioning, opening and closing frameworks — drafted in order, grounded in the record. Often over a thousand pages, in trial cart, desk, and podium copies.Live
L4Bodycam & Video ReviewRaw bodycam indexed at the pixel level — ask what happened and get the exact timestamped clip back, with a cited narrative. The capability no civil tool can match.Beta
L5Motion & Opposition DraftingPretrial motions, oppositions and replies, motions in limine, new-trial motions, subpoenas, and discovery demands — in your house style, every authority tagged unverified with a citation manifest.Live
L6Habeas & Post-ConvictionHabeas petitions, writs, and post-trial motions, with the record built to support them. High-control, attorney-supervised.Roadmap
In the courtroom

Built where the work happens.

Strata was built inside criminal practice, not above it — reading the same discovery, watching the same footage, and drafting the same motions a defense attorney drafts, only faster and cited to the record.

CAM 04 · OFFICER A. REYES
00:14:32
Illustrative · sample analysis
Officer's right hand moves toward holster. Suspect stationary, hands visible. No verbal identification preceding the movement.
Evidence Unit CAM-04 · 00:14:28–00:14:36
Bodycam review

Video that tells you what happened.

Bodycam is the one evidence type a transcript cannot capture — the positioning, the timing, the demeanor, the sequence. Strata indexes the pixels and reasons over the full clip, so you ask a question and get back the exact eight seconds to watch, with a narrative cited to that moment. Not a summary to trust. The clip itself.

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How it works

Upload. Run. Defend.

01

Upload discovery

Drop in the full packet — PDFs, bodycam, jail calls, phone dumps. The engine inventories, deduplicates, OCRs, transcribes, and indexes every byte locally.

02

Engine builds the record

Discovery becomes a searchable, source-cited record. Every page, utterance, and detection anchored to its Evidence Unit — ready to be analyzed, not summarized.

03

You get cited work

A review, a trial plan, or a drafted motion — every claim traces to the record. Review it in your browser, then it is erased. You keep the judgment. We keep nothing.

Zero retention

We 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. Your case management system is where the file lives. Strata isn't a repository — it's an engine that runs and forgets.

Erased on download

Deleted the moment you download.

Review in your browser first. The instant you download, every copy — discovery, output, record — is permanently erased from our storage and the processor.

Encrypted

Encrypted end to end, never trained on.

Files are encrypted in transit and at rest. Under commercial API terms, your case data is never used to train any model.

The rules the system will not break

Built like a lawyer thinks.

Principle 01

The attorney drives the case. Full stop.

Strata analyzes what you put in. It does not investigate, supply facts, or exercise judgment. A force-multiplier for a competent lawyer — not a substitute for one.

Principle 02

Every citation presumed wrong until a human clears it.

Authorities ship tagged unverified. A citation manifest travels with every draft. You confirm before anything is filed.

Principle 03

A structured-analysis engine — not a chatbot.

It restructures and analyzes what you already have. It does not generate new facts, and anything the record does not support is marked plainly.

Principle 04

Built by a trial lawyer.

Built by a practicing criminal defense attorney on a methodology refined in real felony trials. Built to win cases, then hardened in the courtroom.

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Put your discovery to work.

Submit a case and get a grounded discovery review or full trial plan — reviewed by you, then erased.