Ask the matter. Cite the exhibit.
Pleadings, correspondence, scanned exhibits, contracts and notes become one private evidence layer on your own machine. Reconstruct the chronology, find the version that introduced the clause, surface the contradiction between a declaration and the contemporaneous record, and map every factual assertion to an exact page, without first uploading the matter to anyone's cloud.
The indexed record holds two earlier communications. An April 29 email to the declarant's address states that the shipment would miss the original date; its attached revised schedule gives May 12 as the new target. A May 3 reply from that address acknowledges the revised schedule. Paragraph 18's statement that the declarant "first learned" of the delay on May 18 therefore conflicts with both records. docenta cannot establish who personally read the April 29 email without further evidence.
An illustration of the shape of an answer over a private matter: the parties and documents are made up; the behavior, the refusal to leap from "sent" to "knew" included, is docenta's. The live door below runs the same engine over public material you can try now.
For a work created on or after January 1, 1978, a work made for hire is protected for 95 years from first publication or 120 years from creation, whichever expires first (17 U.S.C. 302(c)). A work already under copyright on that date runs a renewal term to 95 years from when copyright was originally secured (17 U.S.C. 304), and the termination right over old transfers does not reach works made for hire (304(c)).
A real answer from the live door, paths shortened: all 54 titles of the federal code, the recent public laws, and two open contract collections (CUAD and ContractNLI, CC BY 4.0), sealed on 2026-09-13.
You remember the meaning, the date, the argument. Ask that.
Chronology
Build the chronology of notice, promise, performance and alleged breach from the matter file, with a source for every event.
What is the earliest contemporaneous evidence of this fact?
Which later-created summaries disagree with the contemporaneous record?
Acknowledgement
Where does opposing counsel first acknowledge this? Show the exact message and what was attached.
Is there evidence the required notice, approval or consent was actually given, and when?
Versions
Which version of the agreement contains this clause, when was it introduced, and who sent that version?
What changed between the counterparty's redline and the version we approved?
Which executed version differs from the last circulated draft?
Contradiction
Does this declaration conflict with an earlier email or document?
Where do our own internal notes conflict with the formal record?
Evidence and gaps
Which exhibit supports each paragraph in this fact section?
Find every factual assertion in this draft that lacks a source in the matter file.
Which scanned exhibits have uncertain OCR around names, amounts or dates and need visual review?
The matter.
Pleadings, discovery, transcripts, contracts and their drafts, scanned exhibits with OCR and the scan itself, correspondence with attachments, your notes. All of it on your machine.
Mail as evidence.
Threads stay threads and attachments stay attached, so "the message where they agreed" and "what was attached to it" are one answer, in order, with both sides.
The public material, live.
All 54 titles of the United States Code, the recent public laws, and two open contract collections, sealed and served as a door your assistant can ask today.
The same four-part contract, every time.
Exact source.
The file, the page, the message, the span. Not "sources": the line you can open and read.
Order and version.
When it was said, which version it was, what replaced what. A three-event timeline beats another paragraph.
Conflicts.
Two sources that disagree are shown side by side, never smoothed into one confident sentence.
Gaps.
"Not established by this collection" is an answer, printed as one. It is how you know the rest is solid.
The evidence path.
What was searched, which lanes answered, what was dropped and why, how many tokens the agent was handed. Inspectable, every time.
Boundedness is the feature.
Most AI marketing hides uncertainty. docenta prints it. The lines below are not disclaimers; they are what a trustworthy answer looks like.
Retrieval is not legal advice. docenta finds, cites and orders the record; the judgment about what it means is yours, and the original authorities are the ones you rely on.
Sent is not read. Receipt at an address is a fact the record can show; personal knowledge is not, unless a document says so. The answer keeps that line.
OCR is disclosed. A scanned exhibit whose text reads in visual order is marked as such: find it, do not quote it; render the page.
What the matter cannot establish is listed. "Not established by the file as indexed" is printed as an answer, with the searches that were run, so the missing exhibit has a name.
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Ask the sensitive question without first uploading the sensitive file.
The matter, the privileged notes and the client's mail stay on your machine: ingest, index, embeddings and answers all run there. Originals are never copied; only searchable derivatives are stored. Your agent gets a small evidence pack, a few kilobytes with the receipts, not your archive. Zero uploads, zero telemetry, and the token budget is printed on every answer.
It gets it over MCP, the connector standard Claude, ChatGPT and most coding assistants speak, from a server that runs on your own machine: the agent talks to a local process, not to a URL in someone's cloud. The only remote MCP addresses on this site are the public doors, sealed collections hosted on purpose; your own collection never has one. Deterministic layers, no learned model in the retrieval loop, bit-stable re-runs.
The federal code and public contracts: one address, one sign-in, every question cited to the section.
The public collection shown above is served as an MCP server at https://lawyers.docenta.ai/mcp: the one kind of remote address on this site, a sealed public collection we host on purpose. Your matter file never has one; this door is where you try the engine before it runs on your own machine.
Register once
Use the form at the bottom of this page and say "lawyers". You confirm your address with one click, and that registration is what opens the collection for you. There is no key to copy, ever: the address below is not a secret, and signing in is what makes it yours.
Add the address to your assistant
https://lawyers.docenta.ai/mcp
Claude Code: one line, then type /mcp and press Enter on docenta-legal.
claude mcp add --transport http docenta-legal https://lawyers.docenta.ai/mcp
Claude (web and desktop): Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector, paste the address, Connect. ChatGPT: Settings, Connectors, Create, paste the address, choose OAuth.
Allow it, once
Your assistant opens a docenta page by itself. It asks who you are (your address and six digits from your mail; nothing at all if you come from your start page) and shows one sentence: which assistant, which collection. Press Allow. You can disconnect any assistant later on your start page.
Ask, and read the citation
Every answer names the document and the page it came from. The first question after a quiet spell can take half a minute while the collection wakes up; your assistant is told so and asks again by itself.
The door never sees your files, and cannot be changed by anyone, us included, without a new seal and a new date on this page. It knows that a registered person asked, so each person gets a fair share of it. It keeps nothing you ask unless you choose to, with two boxes that start unticked when you connect: "tell me when a question can be answered later", which keeps only the questions the collection could not answer, and "keep my questions, without my name", which keeps the words for 180 days with no name, address or time of day beside them. You can change both on your start page.
What is one question your files should be able to answer today?
docenta is a commercial product of SKY, LLC, now in private preview. Tell us the question; we will tell you when the door opens, and the questions we hear shape what we build.
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