Why local tools

The tools keep a case the way programmers keep a software project: as a folder of plain files on your own computer, with a record of every change. Programmers work this way because it lets several people, and now AI agents, work on the same thing without losing track of who changed what. A legal case needs the same.

Here is what each choice is for.

01

A case is a folder on your computerClient documents stay with you, not on someone else's server. Nothing disappears when a chat ends or a subscription lapses: you can open the case tomorrow, back it up, or hand it over.

Yours, and still there tomorrow.

02

A quote points back to its sourceEach quotation records which document it came from and where. The words are copied from that document, not retyped by you or recalled by an AI, so a quote cannot drift from what the source says.

Anyone can check it.

03

Every change is recordedGit, the tool programmers use to track changes, saves what was added, what an agent changed, and which draft replaced which. You can see how a document got where it is, and go back to any earlier version.

Nothing is lost.

04

Earlier work stays in the folderSummaries, timelines and other passes over the material are saved next to the documents. The next session, yours or an agent's, starts from them instead of from scratch.

Work builds up.

05

Your own templatesYour memo layout, fact sheet and citation style live in the folder too, so an agent writes in your format, not a generic one.

Your house style.

The files are ordinary text files and PDFs. You can read them without these tools.