CasEngine by CodEngines
AI case workspace

Drop in the case bundle. Get a cited chronology back.

One workspace over a case's documents, with three ways into it: a dated chronology, a map of every party, and answers cited to the page they came from.

The problem

A new case arrives as four hundred pages, and the first real question is simply: what happened, and when?

Building that timeline is a junior's week — reading everything, noting every date, and discovering on the Thursday that two documents give different dates for the same event. Then the file is passed on, and whoever inherits it starts by asking the same question again.

How it works

Four hundred pages, one timeline.

  1. 01

    Put the documents in one place

    Contracts, notices, filings, judgments, correspondence — the case bundle as it actually arrives. CasEngine indexes them once, and everything below reads from that same set: the timeline, the map of parties and the answers are three views of one body of documents, not three tools you feed separately.

  2. 02

    The timeline builds itself, with citations

    Every date the documents contain becomes an event carrying its file and page number. Where the same fact appears in five documents it is one event listing all five sources, not five entries. Each event gets a plain sentence explaining its significance, so a lawyer can read the timeline without opening the file behind it.

  3. 03

    Contradictions are surfaced, not smoothed over

    When two documents disagree about the date of the same event, the timeline says so and groups the conflicting entries together. That disagreement is usually the most interesting thing in the bundle, and it is exactly what a summary would have hidden.

  4. 04

    The lawyer corrects the machine, and the correction survives

    OCR misreads a judgment date; you fix it in place. The citation stays attached, the original value is kept so the record shows what it was corrected from, and the next rebuild will not overwrite you. Events you consider irrelevant are hidden rather than deleted, and facts no document carries can be added by hand.

  5. 05

    Then ask it questions

    Answers are drawn only from the case's own documents, with every sentence carrying a citation — and any sentence that cannot be cited is removed before you see it. Where the bundle does not contain the answer, it says so rather than reaching for something plausible.

See it

The same thing, on screen.

A case bundle becoming a dated timeline, each event cited to its source page.

Outcomes

What changes for the firm.

In detail

Everything included, in one place.

Cited to file and page

Each event names the documents it came from and the page within them, so the timeline is a route back into the bundle rather than a summary you have to take on trust.

Conflict detection

Events whose sources disagree on the date of the same fact are grouped and flagged. Contradictions in the record are surfaced deliberately, because the whole value of reading the bundle is finding them.

Key events, separated from noise

Legally significant dates are distinguished from incidental ones — a date of birth or a passport expiry is not a case event — so the default view is the case rather than every date in the paperwork.

Corrections that survive a rebuild

An event edited by a lawyer is marked as such and retains the original extracted value, so re-running the analysis over newly added documents never quietly reverses a human decision.

Grounded answers only

Every sentence in an answer carries a citation, and uncited text is stripped before it is returned. Where the documents do not support an answer, none is given — the empty result is the honest one.

The parties, mapped

An entity graph rolls up every party the documents mention — companies, individuals and authorities — merging the same company written five ways and telling you when the roster is incomplete rather than presenting a partial list as the whole.

FAQ

Common questions about this feature.

Yes, and the correction is permanent. Edit a date, title or description in place and the event keeps its citation, records what it was corrected from, and is protected from being overwritten when the analysis is re-run over new documents. Events you consider irrelevant are hidden rather than deleted, so nothing disappears from the record.

Related

Works with the rest of the platform.

See it on your own matters

A short walkthrough with our team, using the kind of work your team handles day to day.