Building a case chronology is one of the most expensive and error-prone tasks in litigation. Associates spend days — sometimes weeks — reading thousands of pages, dragging events into spreadsheets, and constantly second-guessing dates and actors. Every fact has to be sourced by hand. Every revision means re-reading the underlying documents. The Chronology Viewer attacks this directly.
From Documents to Timeline
The pain today. Building a chronology by hand means an associate reads each production document, extracts the date, the actor, and the event, then types it into a spreadsheet. For a 50,000-document case, that is hundreds of billable hours before strategy work even begins — and the spreadsheet is obsolete the moment a new production lands.
How DecoverAI solves it. The Findings engine ingests the entire corpus and automatically extracts structured events — subject, object, timestamp, and the event itself — with every finding cited to the document chunks that support it. What used to take weeks happens in hours, and re-running the chronology after a rolling production is a single click.
Evidence-Based Findings
The pain today. AI summary tools that produce facts without sources are useless in litigation. An attorney can't certify an interrogatory response, brief a fact, or use a finding in a deposition unless they can point to the underlying document. Manually re-sourcing AI output back to documents takes longer than building the chronology in the first place.
How DecoverAI solves it. Every finding carries the subjects (who), objects (who was affected), event description, timestamp, and citation IDs that link back to the exact source passage. There are no unsourced facts and no external information injected by the model — only what the documents actually say, ready for the record.
Chronological Timeline Generation
The pain today. Off-the-shelf timeline software still expects you to enter every event by hand. By the time the timeline is ready for deposition prep, the deposition is two days away and the timeline is already missing facts from the latest production. Trial teams routinely walk into rooms with timelines they don't fully trust.
How DecoverAI solves it. Ask a question about your case — “the dispute over the August 2022 contract amendment,” for example — and DecoverAI assembles a chronological timeline from the findings, organized into thematic sections. Ideal for case strategy, discovery planning, deposition outlines, and demonstratives at trial.
Trust but Verify
The pain today. Generative AI hallucinates. Without one-click traceability from any output back to source text, every AI-generated fact becomes another thing the trial team has to double-check by hand — and the “productivity gain” evaporates. Worse, an attorney who certifies a hallucinated fact has a Rule 11 problem.
How DecoverAI solves it. Every entry on the timeline traces back to specific source documents. Click any finding to see the exact text that supports it. AI surfaces insights, attorneys verify them, and the platform documents both. Combined with Evidence Analysis, the Chronology Viewer gives your team a complete and defensible picture of the case narrative.