How it works
Four passes, one record.
Matterfile reads the whole pile and works it the way a careful associate would — only faster, and without ever asserting a fact it can't source. Triage, then a map of the corpus, then a sourced chronology, then the first pleadings.
Triage
It reads everything first — a document-heavy matter can run to 70,000 files — and tells you what's actually in there before anyone bills an hour against it.
- The documents that matter, surfaced from the noise — duplicates, drafts, and dead weight set aside.
- The people, resolved across emails, texts, and filings even when the names don't match cleanly.
- The threads worth pulling — the handful of factual lines a case usually turns on.
Output A read on the corpus you can act on in an afternoon, not a month.
Corpus map
The shoebox becomes a map: how the documents relate, where the gaps are, and which threads carry the weight of the matter.
- Entities and relationships — parties, counsel, accounts, and the documents that connect them.
- Coverage and gaps — what's well-documented and what's conspicuously missing.
- Threads you can open like chapters, each one a line of fact with its own sources.
Output An index of the case's structure — the spine the chronology hangs on.
Sourced chronology
The heart of the workup: who did what, when — built as a timeline where every entry shows its work.
- A verbatim quote on every fact, in the words of the document it came from.
- A path back to the source — file, folder, page — so any assertion can be opened and read.
- Flags in the margin where the record contradicts itself or a later account, drawn so they don't depend on color alone.
Output A chronology you can hand to a judge's clerk — and one you'd be comfortable standing behind.
Draft pleadings
From the record the client built, Matterfile drafts the opening filings — grounded in the chronology, not invented around it.
- A first petition you redline, not a blank page you start from.
- Allegations tied to sourced facts, each one traceable to the document beneath it.
- A reading order for counsel — the case in the order you'd want to learn it.
Output A draft on your desk, ready for the judgment only a lawyer can bring.
The rule the product runs on
Nothing is asserted without a source. If Matterfile can't show you the document behind a fact, it doesn't claim the fact.
See it on a real matter
Bring us a case you'd have passed on.
The fastest way to understand the pipeline is to watch it run on a document-heavy matter of your own.