How Scrivly works
Explained for attorneys, not engineers. From document upload to court-ready output, every step is designed for citation traceability and data security.
Four steps. Cited answers.
Every response Scrivly generates follows the same auditable pipeline. No shortcuts. No black boxes.
Document Ingestion
Upload contracts, briefs, memos, discovery documents, and case files. Scrivly parses, chunks, and indexes every document by matter. Metadata is preserved. Formatting is retained. Nothing is sent to a third-party API.
Scrivly processes PDFs, Word documents, and plain text with a proprietary parser optimized for legal formatting. Tables, footnotes, exhibit references, and Bates numbering are all handled natively.
Intelligent Retrieval
When you ask a question, Scrivly searches your indexed documents using a proprietary retrieval system that goes beyond keyword matching. The system identifies semantically relevant passages across thousands of pages in seconds.
Unlike generic RAG implementations, Scrivly uses a legal-domain retrieval engine trained to understand the structure of legal documents. It distinguishes between holdings, dicta, procedural history, and contractual provisions.
Cited Response Generation
A dual-model inference engine generates responses grounded in the retrieved passages. Every claim is traced to a specific source document, page, and paragraph. If the system cannot find a verifiable source, it will not fabricate the citation.
The first model identifies relevant passages and assesses confidence. The second model composes the response and verifies citation accuracy. This two-step process dramatically reduces hallucination compared to single-model approaches.
Court-Ready Output
Scrivly produces drafts formatted for real-world legal use. Memoranda, discovery responses, contract summaries, and case analyses are generated with inline citations that link directly to your source documents.
Every output includes a citation map showing exactly which source documents informed each statement. Attorneys can click any citation to view the original passage in context.
What makes Scrivly different
These are not incremental improvements to existing tools. They are architectural decisions that define the platform.
Proprietary Inference
Scrivly does not wrap a third-party API. The entire inference pipeline is built from the ground up for legal document analysis, with multiple patent filings covering the core architecture.
Dual-Model System
Two specialized models work in sequence: one for retrieval and confidence scoring, one for composition and citation verification. This separation of concerns is what makes traceable citations possible.
Matter Isolation
Every case gets its own isolated workspace. Documents from Matter A are never accessible when working on Matter B. This is not a permission layer. It is architectural separation.
Zero-Egress Option
With Scrivly Local, the entire system runs on hardware inside your office. No data leaves the device. No internet connection is required for document processing. This is not a marketing claim. It is a hardware constraint.
Architecture principles
Every design decision at Scrivly is evaluated against these four non-negotiable principles.
Citation Traceability
Every statement in every output links to the exact source document, page, and passage that supports it. This is not optional. It is the default behavior.
Source Verification
Before any citation is included in the output, a verification step confirms that the cited passage actually supports the claim. Unsupported claims are flagged or omitted.
Data Isolation
Client data is isolated at the matter level, the firm level, and the deployment level. There is no shared context between matters, firms, or deployments.
Deployment Flexibility
The same inference engine runs on local hardware, in a secure cloud environment, or in an air-gapped facility. Firms choose the deployment model that matches their risk posture.
Why this matters for your firm
When an AI tool hallucinates a citation and an associate does not catch it, the consequences are not theoretical. Courts have sanctioned attorneys for submitting AI-generated filings with fabricated case references. Scrivly exists because the architecture of the tool determines whether that risk is acceptable.
Every cited answer is auditable. Every source is verifiable. Every document stays where it belongs. That is not a feature list. It is the architecture.
Your clients' confidentiality is not negotiable. Your AI shouldn't be either.
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