⚖️ Legal & Compliance

Find structurally similar cases with zero keyword overlap

Precedent networks across jurisdictions. Argument structure analysis. Full audit trails.

Analogical retrieval is Pensiv's most differentiable capability. Legal precedent matching is its most compelling application. The system finds cases that share deep structure even when surface facts diverge.

What you're ingesting

Ambient sources for legal teams

Case law

Judicial opinions
Appellate decisions
Trial court orders
Administrative rulings

Filings & pleadings

Complaints
Motions
Briefs
Settlement agreements

Discovery materials

Deposition transcripts
Document productions
Interrogatory responses
Expert reports

Regulatory filings

SEC filings
DOJ submissions
Agency determinations
Comment letters

Internal knowledge

Strategy memos
Research notes
Case summaries
Practice group insights

Contracts & agreements

Contract archives
Clause libraries
Negotiation history
Amendment records

What the vault builds

Precedent networks and argument structures

Precedent networks linking legal principles to outcomes across jurisdictions

The vault maps how principles travel across circuits, which arguments succeed in which courts, and how fact patterns relate to holdings.

Entity extraction maps judges, firms, and arguments to win rates

Track which judges favor which argument structures. Which opposing counsel's strategies have succeeded or failed. Which precedents carry weight in which contexts.

Schema induction discovers which argument structures succeed in which courts

After 50+ cases, patterns emerge: "In 9th Circuit, this argument structure wins when X but loses when Y." Institutional knowledge that doesn't walk out the door.

Analogical retrieval finds structurally similar cases with zero keyword overlap

Surface facts differ. Deep structure matches. Contract dispute → employment law → securities case — all sharing the same relational pattern between parties, obligations, and breaches.

What you ask it

Example queries for legal teams

"What argument patterns have succeeded in this circuit for cases with similar fact patterns?"

What Pensiv returns 4 structurally similar cases (2019-2024, 2nd Circuit). Winning pattern: establish duty → breach → proximate cause → damages, with emphasis on foreseeability. Judge Katzmann authored 3/4 opinions. Opposing counsel (firm X) used procedural delay in 2/4; failed both times.

"Where has opposing counsel's firm been weakest in cases like ours?"

What Pensiv returns Firm Y track record in similar disputes: 3-7 (W-L). Weakness: summary judgment motions (1-5 record). Strength: settlement negotiations (avg. 87% of demand). Pattern: they drag discovery, then settle before trial. Recommendation: force early dispositive motion.

"Find cases where [principle A] applied in [context B] led to [outcome C]"

What Pensiv returns 7 cases across 3 circuits (2016-2025). Relational structure: fiduciary duty (A) + corporate transaction (B) → breach finding (C). Contradiction detected: 5th Circuit 2023 opinion limited this in closely-held contexts. Schema: duty-context-outcome pattern appears 23 times in vault.

"What's the precedent path from [landmark case] to our current matter?"

What Pensiv returns Direct citations: Landmark → Case A (2018) → Case B (2021) → Current district. Structural evolution: initial holding (strict liability) → Case A (added reasonableness standard) → Case B (narrowed to commercial contexts). Your matter: commercial context, so Case B controls.

Platform integration

Complement, not compete with e-discovery platforms

Relativity integration

Pensiv ingests from Relativity workspace, builds precedent network, surfaces structurally similar cases. Relativity remains system of record for production sets.

Everlaw connector

Bi-directional sync: Pensiv pulls deposition transcripts and key documents; pushes back analogical matches and schema patterns for review.

DISCO federation

Query across DISCO matter and Pensiv vault simultaneously. Pensiv adds precedent layer; DISCO handles document review workflow.

Document management

NetDocuments, iManage, SharePoint connectors. Pensiv becomes the memory layer for institutional knowledge across all matters.

Proof & metrics

Validated approach, production-ready architecture

Gentner's Structure-Mapping Engine (1983)

Gold standard for analogical reasoning, validated across decades. Pensiv is the only production system applying SME to legal precedent matching.

YARN validation (2024)

LLMs drop below 50% on far analogies. Structural mapping maintains 46-52%. Legal precedent is the canonical far-analogy use case.

Full audit trails

Every retrieved case includes: retrieval path, structural similarity score, precedent chain, jurisdiction map. Discovery-ready provenance.

ACV: $50K-$300K

Am Law 200: $50K-$150K. Am Law 50: $150K-$300K. Legal-tech platform channel partnerships available.

Ready to find the precedent no keyword search can?

Analogical retrieval for legal precedent. Precedent networks across jurisdictions. Full audit trails. Integration with your existing e-discovery stack.