Henderson v. Calloway — Appellate Brief
Fictional sampleBrief · March 2019
Appellant argued that the maintenance logs were kept in the ordinary course of business and should have been considered with the three earlier incident reports.
R&D preview · provisional name
Tygart Nexus GroundFile
Find it in your firm’s documents—with the source in view.
A law-firm document-intelligence product direction designed around private deployment boundaries. Search information already in your firm’s selected documents and keep each retrieved passage linked to its supporting source.
Product direction under review. No customer deployment, legal outcome, or production-readiness claim is made on this preview.
Illustrative retrieval demo
Fictional sample workspace
These documents, names, and passages are invented for this page. This is not a live firm corpus, legal analysis, or production output.
Retrieved source passages
2 matchesHenderson v. Calloway — Appellate Brief
Fictional sampleBrief · March 2019
The constructive-notice argument relied on three incident reports filed more than thirty days before the accident described in the record.
The product direction is to keep retrieved passages connected to their source so a professional can inspect the underlying document before relying on the result.
The retrieval workflow
From selected files to inspectable source passages.
The intended workflow separates finding material from deciding what it means. Retrieval can narrow the search; the firm remains responsible for review, analysis, and action.
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Ingest
Bring selected scans, folders, and approved system exports into a controlled workspace. OCR output and document boundaries can be reviewed before indexing.
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Find
Ask a plain-language question against the content the firm has elected to include. Retrieval is scoped to that configured corpus.
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Verify
Inspect the retrieved passage and its source document. Professional review remains part of the workflow before anyone relies on a result.
The truth boundary
Retrieval support, not legal judgment.
A retrieved passage can be incomplete, stale, misclassified, or taken out of context. GroundFile is being explored as a way to locate and inspect firm-selected material—not as authority, advice, a legal conclusion, or a replacement for qualified review.
Price the search problem
Use your own numbers.
Estimate the annual time value associated with locating documents. The calculator makes no assumption about how much, if any, a future deployment would change it.
Estimated annual time value tied up in document search
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This is your browser-local arithmetic: entered hourly value × combined search hours × working weeks. It is not a savings forecast, ROI estimate, or promise of product performance. Nothing entered here is submitted to Tygart Nexus.
Deployment boundaries
Choose a boundary that can be documented and verified.
Two architecture directions are under consideration. Any security, residency, access, egress, backup, retention, and model-use commitment must be specified and tested for the actual deployment.
Option 01
Fully offline
A deployment may be scoped to firm-controlled hardware without external AI service calls. Network behavior, updates, backups, access, and support paths would still require written controls and verification.
Option 02
Firm-owned cloud
A deployment may be configured inside a firm-owned cloud account. Tenant design, model providers, data paths, logs, encryption, identity, and administrative access would be confirmed for that environment—not assumed from a label.
Illustrative architecture
- Firm files
- OCR + review
- Private index
- Search
- Retrieved source
This diagram describes a proposed pattern, not a completed customer installation or a security attestation.
Designed for
Help the team find and verify.
- Locating prior briefs, clauses, notes, and matter history
- Bringing selected paper and digital records into one retrieval workflow
- Helping staff hand off institutional knowledge with the source attached
- Supporting professional review without replacing it
Not positioned as
A machine that decides.
- An AI lawyer or a substitute for professional judgment
- A guarantee that a passage is complete, current, or controlling law
- Automatic privilege, ethics, retention, or compliance clearance
- A promise of accuracy, savings, case outcomes, or deployment readiness
Start with boundaries
Start with the documents and constraints that matter.
A discovery conversation can map document types, access boundaries, retrieval needs, and evidence required before a pilot decision. Do not send client files through the website; no files should be shared before appropriate confidentiality, contract, and data-handling terms are in place.