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STUDYCASE

Studycase · the live-hearing argument coach

How a session works

You join a virtual hearing. In the seconds a judge gives you, the coach turns the live record into a speakable argument, its authority verified word-for-word before you ever see it, or it says nothing at all. Here is every stage, animated, in order.

A walkthrough of how a live session runs, not a sign-up
The whole flow plays through in under a minute, then loops.
studycase · session LIVE

Stage 1

You join a virtual hearing

Courtroom audio enters through your browser tab, or a booked private Mac mini where the audio never leaves the room. Transcription runs on-device; no rental, no cloud round-trip.

Audio Capture On-device ASR
faster than real time on a dev MacASR-18
3concurrent students per base miniMINI-8
0audio leaves a private sessionMACMINI-SCHEDULING

Stage 2

The transcript settles, and never walks backward

Partial words arrive fast and ghosted; once a prefix is stable it locks to full ink. A confirmed word keeps its spelling. The stream is only ever allowed to grow, never retract.

The Court Counsel, he was pulling his arm away at the eighteen-second mark …wasn't that resistance
0retractions across 1,364 words / 678 churned partialsASR-6
0.213real-time factor, one streamMINI-8

Stage 3

The coach notices the moment

Pure detectors watch the stream for the crux: a judge's pointed question, an objection, a hostile hypothetical, the pressure of the closing minutes. This one is a judge probing on resistance.

"…wasn't that resistance that justified the takedown?" Judge question detected
1.000live phase / cue detection, measuredHEAR
3cards fired on real objection triggers, whole loop closedPHASE2-1

Stage 4

An instant case card, from real law

A skeleton card lands almost at once: a real case, a real citation, and why it matters now, retrieved from a corpus of 979,961 real court opinions. The card is safe by construction because no language model is in this first paint.

Binding authority · retrieved
Graham v. Connor
490 U.S. 386 (1989)

Why now: reasonableness is judged from the on-scene perspective, and the judge's "resistance" framing invites exactly this holding.

54msskeleton card, measured end-to-endGW-32b
979,961opinions in the corpus (CourtListener-sourced)JOURNAL / CORP-2

Stage 5

The argument streams in, verified or silent

The speakable line refines into the same card without moving it. Every citation must be found in the verified index and every quote matched word-for-word. A line that fails the gate is discarded, not shown.

Genius line · gate-passed
Graham v. Connor · 490 U.S. 386

"Your Honor, Graham makes reasonableness a fact-bound inquiry, and the record here is a prone, handcuffed man and a single ambiguous reflex."

Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386: in the verified indexCitation resolves against the retrieved corpus. The line is allowed to speak.
"Under Hope v. Pelzer, no identical precedent is required…"Cited an authority not in the verified index → discarded and regenerated. A line may be authority-free; it may never be authority-false.
791msrefinement streamed into the standing cardGW-32b
0unverified citations may escape the gateGENIUS-LINES §2.3
1.36coach-axis score, private mini brain (72B scored 1.32)MINI-7

Stage 6

Your notes stay yours

What you type is full ink and provably unpolluted. The AI's work sits behind it as a muted substrate you fold in or ignore. Two inks, never blurred.

Lead with Graham's fact-bound test. Hammer: prone + cuffed + one ambiguous reflex ≠ resistance. Have the 40-second reply ready.

Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386: objective-reasonableness, three factors (severity, threat, resistance). Risk noted: opponent may distinguish on duration.

Your words: full ink, yours alone AI substrate: muted, behind your work

Stage 7

Three promises the whole system keeps

Everything above rests on three commitments that hold at every instant of a session.

Citations verified, or silence

The gate is deterministic set-membership. An unverifiable line is discarded, and every discard is logged so the escape rate is reported, not asserted.

Your practice audio stays private

On a booked mini the audio never leaves the room; a post-session wipe audit quarantines any machine that fails it before it is ever re-booked.

Credits are transparent

A live balance you can watch. A warning before it runs low, and a clean stop at zero that preserves your transcript and notes. Nothing is ever lost.

balance 5:00 · graceful stop preserves your workMETER-5

Every number on this page is measured, and traceable

Honesty is the brand. Each figure below points to the committed artifact it came from. No marketing rounding, no invented stats.

979,961
real court opinions in the corpus
docs/JOURNAL.md · CORP-2
54 ms
skeleton card, real end-to-end timing
TICKETS.md · GW-32b
0.213
real-time factor, one live stream
eval · MINI-8
3
ASR students per base 16GB mini
eval · MINI-8
1.36 / 1.32
coach axis: private mini brain vs 72B
MINI-7 · brain-bakeoff
1.000
live hearing-phase detection
docs · HEAR
0
transcript retractions in a 5-min replay
TICKETS.md · ASR-6
0
unverified citations that may escape the gate
GENIUS-LINES.md §2.3