Raw discovery intake.
Police reports, bodycam, 911 calls, transcripts — one system.
Criminal Defense Case Reconstruction
Send discovery.
Receive court-defensible reconstruction.
Merlin processes your raw discovery materials — police reports, bodycam footage, 911 calls, transcripts, filings — and delivers sourced timelines, resolved character maps, and conflict flags. Every inference traced to the document it came from.
Request Merlin ServicesBuilt For
Built for local defense practices carrying real discovery burdens.
Merlin Discovery Services was built with small and solo criminal defense firms in Harrisonburg, Rockingham County, Augusta County, Staunton, Waynesboro, and nearby Virginia markets in mind. These practices do not need another bloated legal-tech platform. They need the discovery record organized quickly: what happened, who was involved, where sources conflict, and which documents support each point.
Local and regional defense workflows
Solo and small-firm discovery pressure
Founder-operated case reconstruction
Reports delivered back to the firm
Workflow
Three steps. No software to learn.
You do not receive a software license or public file portal. After a service request, discovery transfer is coordinated directly and Merlin is run internally for the firm.
1
Coordinate transfer
After direct follow-up, discovery transfer is coordinated manually with the firm. The public request form is not a case intake form and does not accept files.
2
Pipeline reconstructs
Nine discrete, auditable transits — from file classification through extraction, anonymization, consolidation, and conflict detection. Every stage independently logged.
3
Receive deliverables
Sourced PDF reports ready for defense preparation — plus a tamper-evident attestation bundle proving every inference the system made.
Nine deterministic transits.
Nine auditable transits — classification, extraction, anonymization, consolidation, verification, and delivery — with every decision logged.
What You Receive
Four artifacts per case engagement.
Each deliverable is structured for defense preparation — not drafting, not strategizing — reconstruction grounded in the source record.
Core Artifact
Sourced Event Timeline
Chronological reconstruction with document source, page, and timestamp cited for every entry. Nothing inferred without attribution.
Core Artifact
Resolved Character Map
All named individuals, roles, and relationships resolved across documents and across aliases. One person, one profile, all sources linked.
Analysis Layer
Conflict & Inconsistency Flags
Contradictions between sources identified and cited on both sides. No resolution — that judgment belongs to you.
Provenance
Attestation Bundle
Full chain of every AI decision: input hashes, model identifiers, rule versions, suppression reasons. Self-contained. Offline-verifiable.
Traceable outputs.
Timeline and character map with source citations.
Conflict flagging with both sources attached.
Merlin surfaces contradictions without deciding them, preserving citations to each side for attorney review.
Privacy & Security
Enterprise-grade data protection at every layer.
Case data is treated as what it is: the most sensitive information your clients entrust to you. The architecture enforces protection — it does not rely on policy alone.
Pre-inference anonymization
Before any AI model sees case content, a local NER gate strips names, addresses, and identifying details. Semantic tokens replace real identities. De-anonymization happens only after processing is complete.
Zero-retention providers
Extraction models run through EU-based zero-retention infrastructure. No case data is stored by any model provider. No training on your data. No retention window.
Tenant isolation
Each case runs in full isolation. No cross-case data leakage, no shared context between engagements. One case, one pipeline instance, one set of outputs.
Anonymization as hard gate
If a single document fails anonymization, the entire case run halts. This is not a skip-and-continue system. A failure in the privacy layer is a pipeline-stopping event.
No client-facing AI
Merlin processes the discovery record. It never communicates with your clients, never touches privileged strategy, and never operates outside the scope of the submitted materials.
Transparent architecture
The attestation bundle documents which models processed which data, under which rules, at which stage. You can show a judge exactly how the system handled every document.
Anonymization hard gate.
Identifying details are replaced with semantic tokens before model processing; a failed anonymization check stops the run.
Attestation Infrastructure
Mo'oni: proof of every inference.
Every AI decision Merlin makes is wrapped in a tamper-evident, hash-chained attestation record. This is not logging. This is provenance.
Each transit in the pipeline — from file classification through extraction, consolidation, and conflict detection — produces a signed attestation record. Records are SHA-256 hash-chained: each record includes the hash of the previous, forming a tamper-evident sequence.
The attestation bundle delivered with every case contains the full chain, the anonymization map, telemetry data, and a standalone verification script. No internet connection required. No proprietary software. Open it, run it, verify it.
If opposing counsel questions how a timeline entry was derived — you hand them the bundle. Every inference, every suppression, every model call is accounted for.
Attestation chain — sample
transit_0 transfer_coord ✓
prev: 7f3a…c8d1
transit_1 file_classify ✓
prev: a2e9…41bf
transit_2 transcription ✓
prev: d91c…f7a3
transit_3 event_extract ✓
prev: 0b84…e2d6
transit_4 anonymize_gate ✓
prev: c3f7…9a12
transit_5 profile_extract ✓
prev: 8e2d…b4c0
transit_6 consolidation ✓
prev: 12aa…9f0e
transit_7 conflict_detect ✓
prev: 4bc2…77e1
transit_8 verify_deliver ✓
prev: 91d0…2ab5
RSA-SHA256 · chain_length: 9 · status: VERIFIED
Mo'oni attestation.
Hash-chained, cryptographically signed, offline-verifiable.
Processing
Discovery to deliverables, fast.
The pipeline processes documents in parallel across transits. What takes days of manual review to organize is reconstructed in hours.
Hours
Not weeks
Standard case reconstructions return finished deliverables within hours of submission. Federal cases with terabyte-scale discovery use streaming infrastructure that scales automatically.
96.8%
Transcription accuracy
Audio and video transcription validated against case-realistic recordings. Bodycam, 911 calls, interview recordings — processed with production-grade speech models.
Parallel document processing.
Multiple discovery streams move through classification, transcription, extraction, and verification lanes at the same time.
Service Request
Request Merlin Discovery Services.
Submit a request and I’ll follow up directly to coordinate next steps. Share scheduling context only; do not submit discovery, client names, or confidential case facts.