Ask the Matter a Question. Get the Page That Answers It.
Every question a file raises is answerable somewhere in it, and finding the answer is what the day goes to. Ask in plain English — what did the treating physician say about work restrictions, which providers saw him before the injury, when did the gap in treatment start — and the answer comes back quoting the record, with every quote opening the page it came from. Ask one document or the entire matter; it reads the whole file either way, not the one report you happened to open. And when an answer is worth keeping, it saves into the matter’s Outputs with its citations intact, so the next person does not ask it again.
Ask this matter
What work restrictions were in force when he went back to the yard job?
A 40-lb lifting restriction was in place, set at the IME and unchanged at discharge.
“40-lb restriction, no repetitive bending”
IME — Dr. Olson · p.2“restrictions unchanged at discharge”
Allina PT discharge · p.11Two sources, one answer — read across the whole file, not one document.
- Ask one document or the whole matter, in plain English
- Every answer quotes the record, and every quote opens its page
- Keep the answer in the matter, citations and all
The whole file, not the document you happened to open
Q&A against a single transcript is table stakes now — several summary vendors ship it. Asking the WHOLE matter is a different question: the depositions, the records, the bills, the IME, the surveillance, read together, so the answer accounts for the report you had not got to yet. That is the difference between a chatbot attached to a document and something that has read the file.
It answers from the record, or it does not answer
Answers come only from the matter’s own sources, quoting the operative language — the ruling, the restriction, the dated act — rather than an adjacent recital. When a point cannot be quoted from a source, it is made without a citation rather than dressed in a loose one. You are never left deciding whether a confident paragraph is grounded, because the grounding is on the screen.
It stays inside the matter
The question and the answer live in the matter they belong to. Sources are limited to what you can already open, and a matter you are screened off from stays invisible to the question — the conflict wall holds inside the chat, not just in the file list. This is the alternative to pasting a claimant’s records into a general-purpose assistant, which is what a firm without this ends up doing.
An answer worth keeping becomes part of the file
Save an answer and it lands in the matter’s Outputs with its citations intact, readable by anyone staffed on the matter. The work of chasing something down through a thousand pages is done once, by whoever asked first, and stays done.
Frequently asked questions
- What can I ask about a matter?
- Anything the record can answer: what a provider concluded, when treatment lapsed, which restrictions were in force on a date, what the claimant said about a prior injury. Answers quote the source and link to the page, so the check is one click rather than a re-read.
- How is this different from the Q&A that comes with a deposition summary?
- Scope. That reads one transcript. This reads the matter — every deposition, the medical records, the bills, the IME, the surveillance — so an answer can draw on the document you have not opened yet.
- Can it answer from something I am not allowed to see?
- No. Sources are restricted to the matters and documents you can already open, and a matter you are conflict-screened from is invisible to the question as well as to the file list.
- What happens when the record does not support an answer?
- The point is made without a citation rather than given a loose one, so a sentence carrying a quote is a sentence the record backs. Nothing is invented to fill a gap.
- Can I keep an answer?
- Yes. Saving puts it in the matter’s Outputs with its citations, so it is readable by anyone staffed on the matter instead of living in one person’s chat history.
- Is this the same as Cross Matter Search?
- No, and they answer different questions. This asks one matter. Cross Matter Search asks every matter your firm has handled — a provider’s opinion history, how an argument has landed before.