Strata Legal
Trial strategy engine · for criminal defense

Your discovery already contains the trial. Strata assembles it.

Strata reads your entire discovery corpus, then the charging document, the motions, the orders, and the rest of the case file, and returns a complete trial strategy grounded in what is in the record. It runs through a secured connection, and your case data is never used to train a model. Run it fully local if your hardware can carry it.

The method

One run, four phases, drafted in order.

Strata works the way a trial lawyer works. It builds the theory first, then the witnesses, then the evidence, then the presentation. Each phase is grounded in the phase before it.

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
Beyond the strategy

It drafts the filings, not just the plan.

Strata does not stop at analysis. It writes the documents you file, in your firm's house style, with every authority tagged unverified and a citation manifest attached for the Westlaw pass.

Pretrial motions

Suppression, Franks, motions in limine, and the rest of the motion practice.

Oppositions and replies

Responses to the State, answered point for point off the record.

Writs and petitions

Habeas, mandamus, and the constitutional writ petitions that follow a conviction.

Post trial motions

New trial and the record built to support it.

Subpoenas

Duces tecum and witness, drawn up and ready to serve.

Discovery demands

Targeted to the gaps the engine finds in the file.

and the rest of your routine filing work

Why it is built this way

The rules the system will not break.

Principle 01

Your case data is never used to train a model.

Strata runs on Anthropic's API under commercial terms, which prohibit training on your inputs or outputs. Traffic is encrypted in transit, retention is limited by default, and zero data retention is available for qualifying accounts. For a firm with the hardware to carry it, Strata can run fully local instead, with nothing leaving the building at all.

Principle 02

It reads your whole discovery corpus.

Retrieval runs against the entire corpus, the OCR'd documents, the photo and video detections, the jail call transcripts, and the phone extractions, alongside the charging document, the motions, and the orders you stage. Every claim points back to a specific asset in the record.

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, using the methodology taught at the NACDL trial college. It was built to win cases, then hardened in real felony trials.

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.

Early access

Strata is opening to a small group of defense attorneys.

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