Legal · Litigation · Internal Investigations
From scattered disclosure to counsel-ready evidence.
Emails, messages, logs, documents, and open-source context arrive in fragments. Setara organises them into verified timelines, evidence maps, and structured briefs that hold up under scrutiny.
The challenge
The real cost of scattered evidence.
Investigators and litigators do not fail on legal strategy. They fail on information. When a new matter opens, the first weeks disappear into reconstruction. Chasing email threads across folders, correlating Slack exports with audit logs, reconciling conflicting document versions. By the time the picture clears, deadlines have moved and counsel time has been spent on assembly, not analysis.
- Evidence arrives across email, messages, CSVs, screenshots, and cloud storage with no shared structure
- Timeline reconstruction is manual, error-prone, and difficult to defend in disclosure
- Relationship pathways between parties, entities, and events are invisible until someone draws them by hand
- Briefing counsel requires re-processing the same materials multiple times for different audiences
- Each handoff between investigator, legal, and external counsel resets context and introduces risk
Challenge layer
The asymmetric environment
12+
Source systems
per matter
8.4K
Documents
to review
~3.7K
Email threads
across parties
~140K
Audit events
logs · access
27
Parties
in scope
High-volume disclosureMixed formatsConflicting versionsHidden relationshipsMultiple audiences
Flow
Raw evidence in. Clear understanding out.
Setara·Core processes your matter inputs through a single ingestion layer. Emails, logs, documents, OSINT context, Slack exports, audit records, and screenshots are normalised, cross-referenced, and resolved into four structured outputs your team can work with and your counsel can trust.
- Timeline: every event placed in verified chronological order, each entry linked to its source document
- Evidence Map: the full corpus organised by relevance, type, and relationship to key facts
- Relationship Graph: parties, entities, and communications visualised as a navigable network
- Structured Brief: a counsel-ready document covering the matter scope, key findings, and evidentiary basis
Matter inputsSetara · CoreCounsel-ready outputs
Email · PST / EML
Slack · Teams
Documents · PDF
Audit logs · CSV
Screenshots · OCR
OSINT context
SetaraCore
Timeline
Evidence Map
Relationship Graph
Structured Brief
Feature · Timeline
Timelines that hold under cross-examination.
A timeline is only as good as its sourcing. Setara builds chronologies from the actual documents, not from memory or summaries. Every event entry carries a provenance link back to the original record. When opposing counsel challenges the sequence, your team points to the source, not a spreadsheet someone compiled last Tuesday.
- Chronological ordering derived from document metadata, message timestamps, and audit log entries
- Conflicting timestamps flagged and surfaced for investigator review rather than silently resolved
- Searchable and filterable by party, document type, date window, or keyword
- Exportable in formats suitable for court preparation and disclosure packages
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Feature · Relationship Graph
See who knew what, and when.
Complex matters turn on relationships. Who communicated with whom, which entities share ownership, which accounts accessed which systems. The Relationship Graph in Setara maps these pathways from your evidence, not from assumptions. Patterns that take weeks to trace manually become visible in the first review session.
- Party and entity connections extracted across email headers, document metadata, and log entries
- Communication frequency and directionality visualised across the matter timeline
- Key nodes identified: individuals or entities that appear across multiple evidence threads
- Graph navigable by date range to show how relationships evolved during the relevant period
Email
Document
Audit log
Message
Screenshot
Public filing
External signal
Internal evidenceOpen-source context
Feature · Briefing
Brief counsel without starting from scratch.
Every matter eventually needs a written record. For external counsel, for regulators, for the board, or for settlement. Setara produces structured briefings from the same evidence corpus that generated your timeline and maps. The brief is grounded in the verified record, not in whoever had time to write it up.
- Matter scope, key facts, and evidentiary basis organised in a structured output format
- Source citations preserved so every claim in the brief traces to a specific document
- Suitable for handoff to external counsel, regulator response, or internal governance records
- Consistent across team members regardless of who leads the matter on any given day
matter-2419 · counsel briefresolved
Step 1 of 5·Show raw evidence
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Signal legend
Evidence signalPotential anomalySystem eventSupporting sourceNeeds reviewRelationship path
Reconstructed sequence
pending
Reveal signals and draw pathways to reconstruct the sequence.
Explain this connection
Tap any signal or pathway to see why it matters to the wider sequence.
Ingest
Every format your matter generates.
Matters do not arrive in clean formats. Setara ingests what you actually have, across the full range of formats a litigation or investigation team encounters.
- Email archives (PST, EML, MSG) including headers, attachments, and metadata
- Instant messages and collaboration platform exports (Slack, Teams, and similar formats)
- Documents: PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets, and scanned records
- System and application audit logs, access logs, and CSV transaction records
- Screenshots and image-embedded text processed through optical character recognition
- Open-source context gathered through OSINT methodologies to corroborate or contradict the document record
Azure activity
Gmail · M365
Phone calls
Transcriptions
Screenshots
Documents · PDF
Slack · Teams
Audit logs
CSV · datasets
Public context
Setara
core
Structured timelineEvidence mapConnected pathwayCounsel-ready brief
Personas
Built for every seat at the table.
Legal investigations involve multiple roles with different information needs. Setara serves each of them from the same matter record, without requiring each party to rebuild context from raw files.
- Litigators: access the full chronology and relationship map ahead of depositions and hearings
- Internal investigators: document findings in a structured record that satisfies governance and audit requirements
- Dispute resolution teams: compare evidence threads across parties quickly and present a clear factual foundation
- General Counsel: oversee the matter status across all active investigations from a single view
- External counsel: receive a structured brief and source-linked evidence set rather than an unorganised file dump
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Scattered evidence
email · 09:14
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audit log · gws
doc · NDA-v3
chat · slack
OSINT · domain
Structured sequence
Day 1 · Tue
09:14Inbound email, vendor NDA
10:02Drive download · 38 files
11:47External upload · personal acct
14:21Public filing match · OSINT
16:08Audit log · privileged access
Briefing
Counsel-ready in 41h
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