Frequently asked questions

Discover Docket is an all-in-one litigation platform that brings case management, AI-assisted drafting, deposition analysis, procedural compliance, and the operational features of running a litigation practice into a single platform. It is built specifically for civil litigation practice in U.S. federal and state courts. The platform launches publicly in late 2026.

JILL stands for Judicial Insights & Legal Logic. JILL is the AI built into the platform — responsible for drafting, research, analysis, and the substantive work the platform supports. JILL is not a chatbot bolted onto an existing product; she operates inside a litigation-specific data model and is constrained by the DDEAS framework. See the JILL page.

DDEAS stands for Discover Docket Ethical and Accountability Standards. It is the four-layer framework that governs every AI output JILL produces: structural source validation, confidence scoring, cryptographic audit logging, and tamper-evident chain. See the DDEAS framework page.

Practice management platforms were built around the operational needs of running a law firm. Discover Docket is built around the substantive needs of litigating cases. The deadline engine, document organization, AI tooling, and judge intelligence features are first-class to the platform, not add-ons. See the practice management AI failure article for the deeper analysis.

Consumer AI tools are general-purpose and cannot validate their own outputs against authoritative legal sources. JILL operates inside a litigation-specific data model with structural citation validation, paragraph-level confidence scoring, and cryptographic audit logging. The architectural differences make JILL appropriate for substantive litigation work in a way consumer AI tools are not. See JILL vs. the generic chatbot.

Public launch is targeted for late 2026, with California and Federal procedural support as the day-one tier. The remaining 50 jurisdictions open in waves through year one.

Join the waitlist. Early access invitations go to waitlist members first, with priority given to California and Federal civil litigation practices for the launch tier.

Pricing has not been finalized. We will announce pricing to the waitlist before public availability. Discover Docket is designed to be priced competitively with the cost of running an equivalent stack of separate tools; see the stack calculator for your current stack cost as a baseline.

All 52 U.S. jurisdictions are supported architecturally — the fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the federal system. California and Federal procedural rules are the deepest at launch; remaining jurisdictions roll out through year one.

Yes. Discover Docket is SOC 2 Type II compliant via enterprise-grade infrastructure. Customer data is stored, processed, and transmitted through environments under continuous independent SOC 2 Type II audit. See the security page.

Yes. The platform is architecturally designed to handle protected health information consistent with the HIPAA Security Rule, which matters for medical malpractice, personal injury, workers' compensation, employment, and family law matters involving health records.

No. Customer matters, documents, communications, and AI sessions are never used to train third-party models. This is contractually enforced and architecturally enforced. The work JILL does on your matters stays on your matters.

No. The Discover Docket marketing site (discoverdocket.ai) does not use cookies, tracking pixels, third-party analytics that profile users, advertising trackers, or any other software that monitors visitor behavior. We do not sell, share, or otherwise distribute email addresses or contact information.

JILL is designed to support a lawyer's compliance with each of the six duties identified in ABA Formal Opinion 512 (competence, confidentiality, communication, candor toward the tribunal, supervision, reasonable fees). The infrastructure operationalizes the duties at the architecture layer rather than depending on individual lawyer discipline. Compliance with the duties remains the lawyer's professional responsibility; the platform supports that compliance. See the ABA Opinion 512 article.

Discover Docket is designed around the strictest reading of state bar AI guidance in any U.S. jurisdiction. A firm using the platform in any state is operating at or above that state's requirements. See the 50-state survey.

The DDEAS audit log is designed to be authenticable as evidence — cryptographically signed, chained into a tamper-evident sequence, exportable as a verification record. Whether any specific evidentiary use is sufficient for a particular legal proceeding depends on the facts of that proceeding and is subject to the court's evidentiary rulings. See the DDEAS framework page and the DDEAS prevention article.

Chris Waters, a California civil litigator with 25 years of practice experience. The founder's writing on legal AI, professional responsibility, and modern litigation practice is in The Docket.

No. Discover Docket is a legal technology company. The platform supports lawyers in their practice; it does not provide legal services to end-clients. Information on this site is informational only and is NOT to be construed as legal advice.

See the investor page.