Investigations

Get to the truth faster when the stakes are highest.

An investigation lands on your desk. Maybe it’s a whistleblower complaint, a regulatory inquiry, or a board-level concern about potential fraud. You have tens of thousands of documents — emails, chat messages, financial records, contracts — and a tight timeline to figure out what happened.

Under traditional methods, your team spends weeks building keyword searches, reviewing thousands of hits, and manually piecing together a narrative. By the time you have a preliminary assessment, the board is already asking why it’s taking so long. Regulators are getting impatient. And you’re still not sure you’ve found everything.

With Alchemy, you ask the questions an investigator actually asks: Who knew what, and when? What communications occurred between these individuals during this period? Where are the inconsistencies between what was reported and what the documents show?

You get sourced answers in minutes — not search hits to sort through, but actual analysis with citations linked to the underlying documents. Build a timeline of key events. Identify the documents that matter. Generate an investigation summary your team can act on immediately.

• Ask investigative questions in plain language across the full collection
• Generate sourced timelines and investigation summaries in minutes
• Identify patterns and connections across custodians and document types
• Work in any file type and any language

Early Case Assessment

Know what you’re dealing with before you commit resources.

A new matter arrives. Could be a demand letter, a government subpoena, or an internal report that’s going to become litigation. Before you staff a team, engage outside counsel, or commit to a discovery strategy, you need to understand the landscape. What’s in the documents? How strong is your position? What’s the exposure?

Traditionally, early case assessment means a team of lawyers spending weeks sampling documents, building preliminary searches, and writing memos that are already stale by the time they’re finished. You’re making million-dollar staffing and strategy decisions based on incomplete information.

Alchemy changes that equation. Load the collection, ask the questions that matter — What are the key facts? Who are the central players? What documents support or undermine our position? — and get a comprehensive, sourced assessment in hours, not weeks.

One deputy general counsel at a Fortune 500 company described it this way: with minimal training, he was immediately productive analyzing thousands of documents, creating actionable reports for early case assessment and external counsel. It just worked.

• Assess the strengths and risks of a matter before committing resources
• Identify key custodians, date ranges, and document types that matter
• Generate preliminary case reports with citations to source documents
• Make staffing and strategy decisions based on the full picture, not a sample

Fact Development

Build your case from the evidence, not from memory.

You’ve moved past the initial assessment. Now you need to understand what actually happened — the sequence of events, the key decisions, who said what to whom and when. This is the foundation of every case, and it’s traditionally one of the most labor-intensive phases of litigation.

In most firms, fact development means associates spending weeks reading documents, building chronologies by hand, and writing memos that capture what they found. The problem isn’t just the time it takes. It’s what gets missed. No associate reads every document. No chronology captures every relevant event.

The facts you build your case on are only as complete as the documents someone happened to review.

Alchemy’s AI search engines find the most relevant documents across your entire collection. Its generative AI then reads and analyzes what it finds. Ask it to build a timeline of key events around a specific issue. Ask who communicated with whom about a particular topic during a particular period. Ask what the documents reveal about a specific decision or action. You get a sourced narrative with citations to every document that supports it.

The difference isn’t just speed. It’s reach. Alchemy’s search engines scan the full collection so the AI analysis draws from everything relevant, not just the subset someone had time to review. And when new documents arrive or the theory shifts, you update the analysis in minutes rather than starting over.

• Build sourced timelines and chronologies from the full document set
• Trace communications and decision chains across custodians
• Develop witness-ready summaries with linked source documents
• Update your fact base in minutes when new documents or theories emerge

Review

Review smarter, produce faster, miss nothing.

Discovery is where most matters consume the most time and money. Millions of documents to process, review for responsiveness and privilege, and produce — all under deadline pressure and the constant risk that something critical gets missed.

Traditional review means staffing dozens or hundreds of contract reviewers, training them on the issues, and hoping for consistency across the team. Even with technology-assisted review, you’re still managing a labor-intensive process where quality depends on the weakest reviewer on your worst day.

Alchemy’s AI review applies the same analytical rigor to document one million that it applies to document one. No fatigue, no inconsistency, no Friday afternoon quality drop. For responsive review, the AI analyzes documents with the sophistication of a senior attorney and links them to specific production requests. For privilege review, it provides documented reasoning for every determination — with 98% accuracy on complex privilege calls.

One experienced review manager working with Alchemy replaces what used to require a team of hundreds. The review is faster, more consistent, and fully documented. Every determination comes with reasoning you can defend.

• AI-powered responsive, privilege, and specialized review
• Document-Driven Review builds protocols from your actual documents, not assumptions
• CAL-prioritized review completes after examining as little as 20% of the collection
• Complete documentation: protocol history, AI reasoning, and validation metrics

Focus Groups

Argue both sides without doubling your team.

Preparing for a mock trial or focus group means someone has to argue the other side — and argue it well. That’s one of the hardest parts of trial preparation. Finding a colleague who has time to master the opposition’s case is difficult and expensive.

Alchemy solves this. Because the AI has read the entire record, it can draft opening and closing arguments from either perspective. Need a compelling plaintiff’s argument for your defense focus group? Alchemy builds it from the same evidence the other side will use — in minutes, not days.

Your mock trial preparation goes from weeks of coordination to an afternoon of focused work. And because the AI draws from the actual evidence, the arguments it builds are grounded in what the other side will likely say — not what you imagine they might.

• Draft opening and closing arguments from either perspective
• Build opposition arguments from the actual evidence in the record
• Identify the weakest points in your case for focus group stress-testing
• Prepare for mock trials in an afternoon, not weeks

Motions

Draft from the evidence, not from scratch..

Motions, responses, and briefs that depend on the evidentiary record are some of the most time-intensive work in litigation. Load your pleadings, briefs, transcripts, and exhibits into Alchemy. Ask it to draft an argument grounded in the evidence. The AI produces a first draft with citations to the record that rivals what your best associate would create — in minutes instead of days.

This isn’t boilerplate. The AI reads the actual documents, identifies the strongest support for each point, and builds the argument from the evidence up. You edit, refine, and add your judgment. The heavy lifting is done.

• Generate first drafts of motions and briefs grounded in the evidentiary record
• AI identifies the strongest supporting evidence for each argument
• Citations linked directly to source documents and transcript pages
• Edit, refine, and add judgment to a comprehensive first draft

Trials

Your advantage when it matters most.

You’re in trial. Opposing counsel raises an issue you didn’t anticipate — a document, a timeline discrepancy, a witness statement that contradicts your theory. Under traditional methods, your associate spends the evening pulling boxes and searching databases. You’re unprepared the next morning.

With Alchemy, you ask the question during a lunch break. Sixty seconds later you have a sourced analysis with every relevant document identified, key passages highlighted, and the context you need to respond. By the afternoon session, you’re ready.

This isn’t a hypothetical. It’s how Alchemy clients are working today. No more all-nighters chasing a needle in a haystack. No more hoping your team finds the right document before court resumes.

• Ask questions about the trial record and get sourced answers in seconds
• Run down new issues during a lunch break, not an all-night session
• Every relevant document identified with key passages highlighted
• AI reads the full record — not just what someone remembered to flag

Appeals

Master the record without reading every page.

Appellate work lives and dies in the record. Building an appellate brief means combing through thousands of transcript pages to find the testimony, the rulings, and the evidence that support each point on appeal. Traditionally, that’s days or weeks of careful, tedious work.

Alchemy changes the math entirely. Ask for every instance where a specific witness discussed a specific topic. Ask which exhibits were admitted over objection. Ask what the trial court said about a particular legal standard. Get sourced answers in seconds — with citations linked directly to the transcript pages.

What used to take a team days now takes one lawyer minutes. And the analysis is more thorough, because the AI reads every page — not just the ones someone remembered to flag during trial.

• Find every instance of specific testimony across thousands of transcript pages
• Identify rulings, objections, and evidentiary decisions instantly
• Citations linked directly to transcript pages for brief preparation
• More thorough than manual review because the AI reads the full record