Search and assistant
Question the whole device. Verify every answer.
Keyword search finds the words you thought of. Meaning-based search finds the ones you did not. VERA runs both together, and the assistant that sits on top of them cites the record behind every statement it makes.
- Keyword and meaning, merged
- Automatic query expansion
- Every statement linked to its source row
Search
Coded language is the daily reality, not the exception.
In narcotics and trafficking work the vocabulary is deliberately oblique, it changes between groups, and it changes over time. A keyword list built for one case is often useless in the next one.
VERA combines keyword search with meaning-based search and merges the results, expanding the query automatically to related vocabulary. The examiner controls the balance between exact matching and semantic reach, and can narrow the scope to a case, a seal, a single mapping or one conversation.
- 0.94saturday, same as last timeMessaging · thread 41
- 0.81plan for 14th, aloneNotes · entry 12
- 0.77meet at the usual placeMessaging · thread 9
312 results · 0.38 s
The assistant
An answer is only useful if it can be checked.
The examiner asks a question in plain language about a case, a seal or a single thread. The assistant works through the structured evidence and answers, and every element of that answer links back to the exact file, table and row it came from.
One click puts the examiner on the original record. Verification takes a second rather than an afternoon, which is what makes exercising judgement practical at the volume a modern extraction arrives in.
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Mandatory citation
Statements carry their source. An answer without a traceable origin is not something the examiner has to argue with.
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Read-only evidence access
The assistant reads. It has no path to modify the evidence store.
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Full action logging
Every action taken and every result received is written to an audit log.
Summarise the exchanges about a meeting
Three exchanges arrange a meeting between 11 and 13 March. The sender asks to come alone.
Admissibility
The assistant proposes. The examiner decides.
Admissibility rests on the examiner's verification of source data rather than on the tool that surfaced it. Independent forensic experts are consistent on this point, and buyers know it. VERA is built so that verifying is one click instead of an afternoon.
No output enters a report without a human checking the source against the original data. That is the position we take publicly, in a demonstration, and in front of a procurement committee, because it is the only one that survives contact with a courtroom.
It does not replace the examiner's judgement. It makes exercising that judgement practical at scale.
Media
Volume sits in the media, and so does the cost of review.
Media is where the volume sits and where manual review costs the most, particularly in child protection work. VERA indexes media so it can be searched by what it contains, and the assistant can be asked to look for specific elements.
We make no claim about detection accuracy that we cannot evidence in front of you, and we would rather say so here than be asked in a demonstration.
What is working today, and what is not
Working today
- Hybrid keyword and meaning-based retrieval with query expansion and a reranking stage.
- Scoping to a case, a seal, a mapping or a single conversation.
- An assistant with mandatory source citation and full action logging.
- Conversation summarisation and classification.
- Multimodal indexing of media alongside textual records.
In development
- Automatic timeline reconstruction across sources.
- Knowledge graphs and automatic relationship mapping.
- The full breadth of export and report generation.
See it running on a real extraction
Thirty minutes, on fictitious data, with time for your questions. If VERA does not fit what your service needs, that is a useful answer too.
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