For litigators
The date changed between the affidavit and the bar. Hey George caught it.
You argue. The file keeps itself.
It reads every page of the papers before you walk in, so the moment what is said from the bar stops matching what was pleaded, you are the one who knows.
Whether the debt prescribed before summons was served
Two hours after court, the record is whatever you remember.
The attendance note gets written at nine that night, if it gets written. The concession your opponent made at 10:44 is in your memory, not your file. The date that changed between the affidavit and the bar goes unnoticed until the other side notices it first.
Transcription does not fix this. A transcript is another 90 pages to read.
Hey George keeps the structure instead — the issues, the facts, who asserted what and when, and the paragraph each one sits on. The transcript is disposable. The structured record is the asset.
Not a listening tool
Court is the loudest hour of a matter, and the smallest
It reads the papers, sits with you in court and in the consultation room, argues the other side the night before, and drafts what comes after — keeping the matter current to the paragraph the whole way through.
The papers
Pleadings, affidavits, bundles and discovery, read into paragraphs, exhibits and annexures — every one of them addressable and quotable with its page.
The file →The hearing
Who has the floor, what is being argued now, and anything that contradicts the papers. Quiet mode strips it to alerts only.
How it works →The consultation
Quiet by default. New facts, instructions, undertakings — and the moment your client contradicts your own pleaded case.
Client meetings →The first meeting
No file yet: the matter skeleton, probable causes of action, prescription risk flagged in the room, and the documents to ask for.
Intake mode →The night before
Moot mode takes the other side’s pleaded case and runs it properly, then tells you which answers would not have survived.
Moot mode →Afterwards
The hearing note, the heads, the attendance note, the letter, the client update and the dates you are now bound to.
After court →In practice
What changes on the day
Contradictions, while they still matter
The same fact, asserted one way in the papers and another way from the bar, is a query over the record. You hear about it before the moment passes, not when you read the transcript next week.
A fact knows where it came from
A fact knows who asserted it, who disputes it, and the page it sits on.
The judgment is open before the sentence ends
Counsel names a case from the bar and the judgment is already open at the paragraph relied on, with an extract formatted to read out.
When they lean on your own authority
Where opposing counsel leans on an authority you are relying on too, for a different proposition, you are told.
The hearing note, already written
The difference between the file before court and the file after it is the hearing note, and nobody types it. Your pinned notes sit in it, at the minute you made them.
Heads of argument that stand on the file
Heads of argument and the hearing note draft from the file, each line showing what it rests on.
Someone to argue against at eleven at night
Argue aloud against the other side’s actual pleaded case, at any hour.
Nothing written behind your back
Every inference arrives as a card to accept, edit or dismiss, and that card is the only way anything reaches the file.
The authorities table keeps itself
Every case cited by anyone, and what it was cited for, with a treatment signal when one you are relying on has been overruled, distinguished or appealed since.
Every date you are bound to, in one place
Obligations carry their dates — what the bench gave you, what was undertaken in a consultation, what the rules impose — and each one arrives as a card before it binds you.
How it works
Three steps, and no forms in any of them
Drop the papers in
Pleadings, affidavits and bundles come out as individually addressable paragraphs, each quotable with its page and paragraph reference. Scans go through OCR, and nothing needs naming, tagging or filing.
Three versions of the same affidavit arrive as one document with a history, not as three documents.
Argue
One screen shows what is being argued now, and anything that contradicts the papers. Quiet mode is alerts only: three targets, no scrolling text, on a ground dark enough not to be conspicuous in a courtroom.
Leave with it done
The hearing note is drafted and the obligations are in the register with their dates. Nothing is written to the file without you accepting it.
What is underneath
You never open the file. It is simply right.
A matter is a set of contested issues, each carrying a state: pleaded, argued, conceded, decided or abandoned. That state moves as the matter moves, which is what makes it possible to ask where a matter stands rather than reading four hundred pages to find out.
Six registers — issues, chronology, parties, authorities, obligations and documents — and you fill in none of them.
Chronology, authorities, obligations and parties build themselves from the papers rather than from a form.
Full-text search and structured search, so where a matter actually stands is a question with an answer.
No forms. No tagging. No setup ritual.
1 · Prescription — argued · contradicted from the bar, 10:41
2 · Authority to sign — argued · their authority not yet met
3 · Quantum — pleaded · not reached
5 · Locus standi — abandoned by the applicant, 14 Aug
The reconciliation was signed after the date on which knowledge is pleaded.
Attaches to — issue 1 · whether the debt prescribed before summons was served
Where it came from — founding affidavit ¶ 44, p 17 · annexure “C”, p 61
Moot mode
Sparring has always needed a willing colleague with a free evening.
Sparring needs a willing, competent colleague with free time — precisely the scarce resource in any practice.
Opposing counsel, the bench, an appellate panel or a cross-examination drill, at a pressure you set.
A debrief that ranks the questions you could not answer.
“On what basis did she sign a reconciliation for a debt she says she had no knowledge of?”
Goes to the heart of issue 1. The subject changed to capacity; the bench will not let that stand.
Client meeting mode
The most expensive sentence of the week is said in a consultation room
Your client says something in passing, months after the affidavit was settled, that does not sit with what was pleaded. The papers do not change to match it.
Nothing scrolls and nothing pings — you are talking to a person. Five things are noticed and none are displayed. New facts, contradictions with the pleaded case, instructions given, undertakings made, and an open issue you have not raised.
After a client meeting, an explicit list of what the client said today against what is on the papers.
A first consultation with no file at all builds the matter skeleton, names the probable causes of action, and surfaces prescription risk while the client is still in the room.
“I only saw the reconciliation after we were served.”
Pleaded — answering affidavit ¶ 31: signed on receipt, 2 August 2020
Bears on — issue 1 · prescription
Also relied on in — draft heads ¶ 12
Privilege & security
Lawyers do not trust what they cannot trace
Everything traces
Every link in the file carries the utterance it came from and the page it sits on. Tap any claim, land on the exact moment or page.
Nothing trains a model
Nothing from a firm is used to train or improve any model. This cannot be switched on.
A trail, not a promise
What was proposed, what you did with it and when is in the audit trail, which is a professional protection before it is a feature.
Being a partner is not access
A matter is shut to the firm unless you are on it. Being a partner is not access.
Privileged, and held here
The firm holds the keys. The vendor cannot decrypt this firm’s matters, and could not produce them under compulsion.
Built for the room it is used in
A South African courtroom, on a bad connection, on an iPad
It follows the language in the room
English, isiZulu, Afrikaans and seSotho, including counsel switching mid-sentence.
Most of it works with no signal
Contradictions work with no signal. Detection is a query, not a model call.
iPad first, dark on purpose
The app is ink-dark because a bright screen is conspicuous from the bar. One screen: the timeline down the middle, the matter in a rail, one thing at a time.
Nothing needs reading
An alert that has to be read to be understood is wrong for use in court. Quiet mode goes further: alerts only, no scrolling text at all.
Questions counsel actually ask
- Is it a citator?
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No. We parse citations out of judgment text and derive treatment from the graph that produces. Where you need a publisher’s editorial citator, you still need one.
- Where does my data sit?
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Where the firm says it sits. Residency and retention are the firm’s settings, and the keys are the firm’s.
- May I record in court?
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That is between you and the presiding officer. Asking is counsel’s job, and nothing here asks on your behalf.
- Who at my firm can open a matter?
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A firm sets its own residency and retention, who may open a matter, and where the ethical walls run.
- Does it make things up?
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A citation it cannot open, it does not give you, and no paraphrase is ever presented as a quotation.
- What if I disagree with it?
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Then it is wrong and nothing happens. Nothing is written to the file without you accepting it.
The limits
What it does not do
These are the four things worth stating before a demonstration rather than after one.
It is not a citator. Treatment signals come from our own citation index over the free layer; it does not tell you whether a case is still good law.
It does not grant you leave to record. Asking the presiding officer remains counsel’s job.
It does not predict judges. Research is counts from published judgments, with the sources attached.
It does not replace junior counsel. It argues and it keeps the record. It does not appear.
Bring one matter. See what it catches.
Half an hour, your own papers, and one hearing you have already had. If it does not find something you missed, we have not earned the next conversation.
There is no trial to begin. No self-serve account, and no demonstration on invented papers — a conversation starts with counsel’s own pleadings, under an undertaking.
A contact address is published with this site on its own domain, which has not happened yet. Until then the route is the person who told you about it — which is, in practice, how counsel hear about anything.