Master Brief
The Master Brief continuously synthesises your entire matter into one cited, severity-ranked, evolving document.
It tells you what the case is, where you stand, what threatens you, and what to do next — grounded in evidence, never in assumption.
How It Works
Why It's Different
It's a surface that writes itself from your evidence — and respects your authority over it.
A file someone wrote
A surface that writes itself
The Brief assembles from your extracted intelligence — cited, structured, continuously updating as new evidence arrives.
Static after creation
Living — versioned on every change
Every graph update triggers recomputation. Staleness flags mark sections affected by new material. Version history tracks every evolution.
One author's opinion
Machine-grounded, counsel-authoritative
System sections cite their sources. User sections preserve your voice. The Brief's authority rule: your edits are never machine-overwritten.
Confidence is implicit
Every finding explains its certainty
Confidence calibrated from evidence quality — citation validation, cross-source corroboration, contradiction exposure. 100% reserved for verbatim quotes.
Severity is subjective
Severity is computed from impact
Ranked by case impact — contradictions, linked issues, evidence gaps. The top 5 are critical. Counsel can adjust with recorded reasons.
Three Cognitive Interfaces
Narrative
"What happened?"
The story — synthesised, cited, severity-ranked. The document that reads your documents.
Time
"When did it happen?"
Every event and deadline on one timeline — extracted from evidence, not typed from memory.
Structure
"How is everything connected?"
Relationships, contradictions, dependencies — the invisible structure made navigable.
What You See
A three-paragraph synopsis composed from your graph: what happened, what's claimed, what's contested. Cited. Regenerated on every version change.
Party resolution merges duplicates, strips role descriptors, classifies principals vs mentioned. 126 raw entities → 3 named parties.
Five criticals, not 237. Ranked by impact: contradictions, evidence gaps, adverse findings. Each with a one-sentence basis and a path to resolve.
No wall of 100%. Calibrated: docked for missing citations, boosted for cross-source corroboration. Every adjustment explained on the card.
The one paragraph of how this is won. Only counsel writes here. The system maintains everything around it but never touches it.
Obligations, deadlines and next steps extracted from your documents — not typed, not forgotten. Tracked, cited, anchored to their source findings.
The Document
What this is → where we stand → what changed → my theory → strengths → exposures → direction → what to do next.
Authority
System sections update from the graph. Every change versioned and traceable.
Your sections are yours alone. The system maintains everything around them but never overwrites.
System proposes, you approve. Changes require your review before appearing in the Brief.
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Universal, Adapted
Legal
Matters · Clients · Findings
Healthcare
Cases · Patients · Observations
Finance
Engagements · Clients · Positions
Construction
Projects · Clients · Issues
Insurance
Claims · Members · Assessments
General
Matters · Clients · Findings
The Master Brief is the document that opens like counsel's brief — cited, severity-ranked, continuously current. The first thing it does is tell you what the case is and who stands where.