How We Work
Technology and senior expertise. One service.
We agree the work, process the material, apply professional review and return a usable result.
Four stages, one engagement
- 01Define the workAgree the question, the relevant material and the deliverable.
- 02Work through the materialProcess, search, extract and cross-reference the supplied records.
- 03Apply professional reviewReview the findings and identify the issues that need further attention.
- 04Deliver usable workReturn the agreed output with findings connected to their sources.
Two layers, working together.
01 / Technology
Technology does the work at scale.
Technology processes, searches, extracts and cross-references the material within the agreed scope.
02 / Senior Expertise
Senior expertise gives the work direction.
Experienced professionals define the question, review the findings and apply judgment to the issues that matter.
Two operating principles
Keep the finding connected to the source.
Material findings retain a path back to the underlying record, so your team can inspect the supporting material.
Make the status of each finding clear.
Source material, analysis and unresolved questions are kept distinct in the deliverable.
Questions & answers
Questions about the way we work
- How does CRUNCH work?
CRUNCH follows four stages: define the question, relevant material and deliverable; process, search, extract and cross-reference the records; apply senior professional review and judgment; then return usable work with source, analysis and open questions distinguishable.
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- What does the client provide to CRUNCH?
The client provides the material relevant to the question — for example a transaction data room, case documents and correspondence, or corporate contracts and reports — plus the questions the review must answer.
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- Who defines the review scope?
Scope is agreed with the client around the decision or question the work must support. Senior CRUNCH professionals translate that into operational review scope: sources, issues, comparisons and deliverable.
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- What does CRUNCH deliver?
CRUNCH delivers reviewed work rather than raw model output: findings, exceptions, inconsistencies, gaps or chronologies depending on the engagement. Material findings retain a path back to supporting records.
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- Does CRUNCH replace lawyers?
No. CRUNCH performs material-intensive work such as processing, organization, search, extraction, comparison and source linking. Legal interpretation, advice, strategy and professional decisions remain with lawyers.
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- Is CRUNCH fully automated?
No. Technology performs scale-intensive processing, search, extraction, comparison and cross-referencing, but people define the question and scope, review findings and decide what is released.
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- Who reviews CRUNCH output?
Senior professionals review findings within the agreed scope. Their role is to assess context, significance, contradictions and unresolved questions and determine what is appropriate to release.
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- Why is professional judgment still needed when AI is used?
Relevance and materiality depend on the question, context and purpose. NIST has noted that characteristics of AI trustworthiness involve human judgment and cannot be reduced to a single metric.
“including the benefits and risks associated with relevant technology”
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- What is a source-linked finding?
A source-linked finding is a finding that retains a path back to the underlying record supporting it — for example a document, clause, message or row. The point is to let the user inspect the source of truth.
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- How can a user verify a CRUNCH finding?
Open the record linked to the finding, check what the source actually supports, and distinguish source material from analysis and unresolved questions. That is the practical purpose of traceability.
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