Brief Tech Overview

What BriefTech is, how it works, and where to start.

BriefTech is an AI production infrastructure for dispute lawyers. It processes raw evidentiary files: PDFs, emails, spreadsheets — into court-ready work product: indexes, court bundles.

The four-step pipeline

Every matter in BriefTech follows the same pipeline:

Step	Tab	What happens
1 — Upload	Files	Documents are converted to PDF, OCR'd where needed, and added to the search index automatically.
2 — Review	Review	You correct document metadata: dates and descriptions.
3 — Index	Index	You build the Document Index — ordered, structured, numbered.
4 — Export	Index → Export	You generate a paginated PDF court bundle, or export the Document Index as DOCX/Excel.

BriefTech runs two workstreams in parallel throughout your matter:

AI analysis — For the agents you switch on in a matter, BriefTech extracts key facts and classifies documents automatically. The output is a structured, reviewable layer of work your team didn't have to do manually.

Human review — Your team works directly on the AI output: accepting, correcting, and refining until the work product is court-ready. Share a matter with colleagues who have a BriefTech account, assign permissions, and collaborate in real time.

The AI handles the extraction and classification. The lawyers own the judgment calls.

Key concepts

Concept	What it is
Matter	A single case. All documents and exports for that case live here.
Document Index	The structured, ordered index that becomes the spine of your court bundle.
Credits	The unit BriefTech uses for billing, based on a document's page count. A document is charged once per matter, at 1 credit per 50 pages (minimum 1), the first time it is committed — for example by exporting it or adding it to a court bundle. Uploading, processing, and running AI agents are free. For exactly which actions charge, see Credit costs and pricing.
Collection	A named subset of documents within a matter, used to segment the document set.
Preset	A built-in Document Index configuration (columns, serial numbers, bundle settings) applied in one click.

How this help centre is organised

The help centre is split into four sections — pick the one that matches what you need right now:

• Get Started — guided, end-to-end walkthroughs you follow once to learn the shape of the product.
• How-To Guides — short, goal-oriented steps for getting a specific job done. Grouped into eight sections that follow the flow of a matter: Upload Files, Process Files, Organise Documents, Review Documents, Index Documents, Build Bundles, Export Files, Manage Account.
• Reference — exact fields, limits, settings, and formats, as a single flat list.
• Concepts — background reading about how and why BriefTech works the way it does.

New to BriefTech? Start with the tutorial — about ten minutes, using sample files, no real case data needed.

The structure follows the Diátaxis framework: each page is written as exactly one kind of content (tutorial, how-to, reference, or concept), so you always know what you're getting.

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Need more help?

Contact the BriefTech support team at [e-mail].

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Where to go next

Your first matter

A guided, end-to-end first run — take a practice matter from sample files to a downloaded court bundle.

How a matter moves through BriefTech

The staged pipeline and the two workstreams that run alongside it.

How AI analysis works

What the agents extract, classify, and organise — and where your judgment comes in.