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What Intactus is, who it's for, and why now.
What Is Intactus?
Intactus is an AI-native operating system for trial attorneys at small and mid-size law firms. It automates the capture, preservation, search, analysis, and court-ready packaging of digital evidence, with tamper-evident chain of custody built in at the point of capture.
The name is Latin for "untouched, unaltered, intact." The evidence enters the system and remains exactly as captured (hashed, timestamped, and manifested) while the platform makes it searchable, analyzable, and ready for court.
The Problem
For Attorneys
Attorneys handling cases with digital evidence (text messages, emails, social media posts, blog content, audio, video) face a fragmented, manual, and error-prone process:
- Capture is manual. Attorneys and clients take screenshots one at a time. Content gets deleted before it can be preserved. There is no systematic, ongoing monitoring.
- Chain of custody is an afterthought. Screenshots saved to a desktop folder have no forensic integrity. Authenticity can be challenged in court.
- Search and organization is painful. Hundreds of pieces of evidence across texts, emails, screenshots, and documents. Attorneys dig through folders manually.
- Analysis is slow and expensive. Identifying patterns, timelines, and contradictions across a large evidence corpus requires hours of attorney time or expensive expert witnesses.
- Court preparation is tedious. Assembling exhibit packages, building timelines, and generating reports for motions and hearings is manual labor.
- AI tools risk privilege. After the Heppner ruling, consumer AI tools waive attorney-client privilege. There is no privilege-safe AI evidence tool built for small firms.
- Evidence work is practice overhead. Every hour spent on evidence administration (intake, organization, search, timeline building, exhibit preparation) is an hour not spent on legal reasoning, advocacy, or taking on more cases.
For Clients
The people who need legal help face an equally broken process, and it's the reason many never take action:
- The documentation burden is overwhelming. 400 text messages, 50 emails, months of social media posts. The legal system asks people to read, screenshot, organize, and present all of it, on top of an already stressful situation.
- Documentation is retraumatizing. Every screenshot means re-reading content that is threatening, manipulative, or emotionally damaging. People stop documenting, or stop pursuing legal action entirely, because the process itself is an ordeal.
- Evidence is fragmented across platforms. Texts on the phone, emails in Gmail, posts on Instagram, blogs on Substack, voicemails in the phone app. No single tool captures across all of them.
- Clients are in the dark about their own cases. Every question costs $300/hour. Clients hold back, feel anxious, and make uninformed decisions because staying informed feels too expensive.
- Consumer AI tools create liability. After Heppner, any case research a client does through ChatGPT or Claude is non-privileged and potentially discoverable.
This problem exists across practice areas: family law, protective orders, harassment, defamation, and any case where digital evidence matters.



