No. ChronoTracer works alongside your existing e-discovery tools and supercharges your ability to understand the facts of your case. E-discovery platforms manage documents as documents, while ChronoTracer manages the contents of documents. For example, in an e-discovery system, a phone bill is a single record, while in ChronoTracer, the same phone bill can generate hundreds of thousands of individual phone calls and text message events.
Nearly any type of evidence. ChronoTracer imports data from e-discovery productions, forensic device images, cloud accounts, native email files and other computer logs. It supports various data types, including:
Customers provide their evidence to the ChronoTracer team, who load it and run our deterministic processing pipeline. The pipeline processes documents using purpose-built code to identify and extract events, including event type, dates and times, participant identifiers, content, and source citations. The result is a normalized database of structured events hosted in a secure, single-tenant environment. Given the same input, the pipeline produces the same output every time.
Users can get back to the original source document from the chronology interface with a single click. Documents are also identified with Bates numbers, where available, to make it easy to cross-reference documents in your e-discovery system or to discuss the documents with third parties.
ChronoTracer is a secure platform that consolidates diverse datasets from different sources and in different formats into a secure, unified database. ChronoTracer is hosted on enterprise-grade infrastructure and has successfully completed a SOC 2 Type II examination conducted by an independent third-party auditor, with no exceptions noted. Each case runs in its own logically isolated environment. All data is encrypted at rest and in transit. The platform uses robust security controls to keep your data secure, private, and fully under your control.
ChronoTracer does not need to integrate or connect to e-discovery platforms. It ingests and leverages the data from any e-discovery platform or other source via encrypted file share to create searchable, filterable case chronologies.
ChronoTracer is built for teams handling complex, evidence-heavy matters, from litigation boutiques to large global law firms to forensic investigations consultancies and government agencies.
Depending on the case, ChronoTracer can save teams hundreds to thousands of hours in attorney and paralegal time building manual case chronologies and answering factual questions about their evidence. ChronoTracer turns chronology projects that used to take hours, days or weeks into simple queries that return results in seconds. Most importantly, ChronoTracer’s incredible efficiency enables firms to take on matters they otherwise could not, enhancing client outcomes.
Yes. ChronoTracer has processed cases with tens of millions of pages of discovery that have included more than 25 million text messages, emails, phone calls and more. We are constantly optimizing and tuning the system to scale for the largest, most complex matters.
ChronoTracer’s AI assistant lets users ask questions about their evidence in plain language. The AI queries the structured event database produced by the deterministic pipeline and returns actual events with source citations. It can break complex questions into multiple steps and use internal tools to filter, search, cross-reference, and sequence events. The AI also forms keyword searches, Boolean queries, and complex filter combinations on behalf of the user, translating a plain-language question into the right combination behind the scenes.
Most AI-powered legal technology tools use retrieval-augmented generation to let users “chat with their documents.” ChronoTracer takes a different approach: a deterministic pipeline first restructures your evidence into a structured event database, and then the AI queries that database. This means the AI returns actual events with real metadata and source citations, not generated text. The deterministic foundation is verifiable and repeatable. The AI layer sits on top, adding flexibility and natural language interaction without introducing hallucination risk into the evidence itself.
The AI and manual filters are complementary, not competing. Users can start an inquiry with the AI, use manual filters to refine further by event type, participant, date range, and other criteria, and then go back to the AI with follow-up questions on the filtered set. For teams with established filter workflows, the AI extends those workflows rather than replacing them.
Yes. In addition to ChronoTracer’s interface and built-in AI assistant, ChronoTracer is available through ChronoTracer MCP, our connector built on the Model Context Protocol, an open standard that allows AI assistants and agents to connect to external data and tools. ChronoTracer MCP is designed to work with MCP-compatible AI tools, including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Harvey, and Legora. A connected AI queries your case’s structured event record directly: deduplicated, time-ordered, identity-mapped events linked back to source records. Working from that structured factual record instead of raw files keeps answers grounded in the actual record and traceable to source evidence, without pushing large volumes of unnecessary text through the model. Contact us to discuss connecting ChronoTracer to your AI workflows.
ChronoTracer’s simple control panel makes it possible to filter and search events as easily as searching Airbnb or Zillow and requires less than one hour of training.
While it depends on the quantity and variety of evidence in your case, for most common evidence types, we can turn-around a fully functional ChronoTracer environment within a business week.