Strata Legal
Defense work-product automation · for criminal defense

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 a complete trial strategy. Encrypted end to end, never used to train a model, and erased the moment you download. We keep nothing.

What we do

Two ways to put the record to work.

Start with a fast, grounded read of your discovery, or commission the full trial strategy. Same engine, same fidelity to the record, same zero-retention privacy.

Service 01

Initial Discovery Review

A complete first-pass analysis of your discovery corpus: chronology, contested facts, Fourth and Fifth Amendment chains, suppression hooks, missing evidence, and an objective case-strength scorecard. The fast, grounded read that tells you where the case actually stands. Delivered as a polished, color-coded PDF.

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Service 02

Trial Strategy Playbook

The complete trial plan: theory of the case, theme, witness-by-witness cross-examination, evidence positioning, and opening and closing strategy — the roadmap for trying the case, grounded in what is in the record.

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Coming soon · In-Depth Discovery Review (Phase 2) — exhaustive second-pass analysis

The method

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.

01

Theory development

The defense theory and theme, drawn from the elements the State has to prove and the places the file shows it cannot.

02

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.

03

Evidence planning

How each exhibit gets positioned, where the chain breaks, and which pieces of the corpus carry the theory.

04

Trial presentation

Opening, closing, and direct examination, written in your voice and tied back to the record at every turn.

The deliverable

Twelve sections out of one case file.

A single run produces a complete strategy document. Not an outline and not a summary. The full work, section by section.

Strategy document · 12 sections
01Headline
02Theory of the case
03Theme
04Element failure
05Witness map
06Attack targets
07Cross plans
08Evidence positioning
09Opening statement
10Closing argument
11Direct examination
12Trial logistics
The platform · on the roadmap

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

Why it is built this way

The rules the system will not break.

Principle 01

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.

Principle 02

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 design
Principle 03

Every 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 default
Principle 04

Built 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 examination module

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.

Every answer accounted for before you stand up.
Who it is for

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.

Privacy · 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.

Erased on download

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 · never trained on

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 design
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Put your discovery to work.

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

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