Codira ESQThe Intelligence Layer for Law.

One AI-native platform built to understand the matter, connect the record, orchestrate specialized legal intelligence, and keep attorneys in control.

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  • Litigation
  • Corporate
  • Transactions
  • Contracts
  • Regulatory
  • Employment
  • IP
  • Real Estate
  • Family Law
  • Criminal Defense
  • Bankruptcy
  • Estate & Probate

Different practices.

Different workflows.

Different legal problems.

One connected intelligence platform.

Purpose-Built Intelligence.Connected Across the Practice.

Codira ESQ provides the intelligence layer for legal work. Depose brings specialized AI intelligence into live depositions.

Codira ESQ

The Intelligence Layer for Law.

Connect the matter. Understand the evidence. Orchestrate specialized AI intelligence across legal workflows.

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Legal Work Has an Information Problem.The Answer Is Not Another Chatbot.

Legal professionals don’t suffer from a lack of information.

They suffer from information that is fragmented, disconnected, difficult to verify, and buried across thousands of documents and systems.

The
Matter
ContractsOne place
EvidenceSomewhere else
ResearchSomewhere else
Corporate recordsFolders
DeadlinesCalendars
Client knowledgeEmail
Critical contextAttorneys’ heads

Generative AI made it easier to ask questions.

Codira ESQ is designed to make the entire matter intelligent.

From Files to Legal Intelligence.Codira ESQ Understands the Relationships Behind the Work.

Every legal matter is ultimately a network of connected information.

  • PeopleWho is involved?
  • EntitiesWhat organizations matter?
  • DocumentsWhat does the record contain?
  • EventsWhat happened?
  • AgreementsWhat was promised?
  • ObligationsWhat must happen?
  • EvidenceWhat proves it?
  • IssuesWhy does it matter?
  • AuthoritiesWhat law governs it?
  • DeadlinesWhat happens next?
  • Work ProductWhat do we do with what we know?

Codira ESQ brings those relationships together into a structured intelligence layer surrounding the matter.

Stop searching for documents.Start understanding what they mean.

One Platform. Every Matter.Legal Intelligence Across the Practice.

Codira ESQ is being built around the reality that different areas of law require different intelligence, workflows, documents, relationships, and controls.

Choose the practice.
Codira ESQ brings the architecture.

Know the Case. Find What Matters. Build the Argument.

Connect pleadings, discovery, evidence, witnesses, events, claims, defenses, authorities, damages, and strategy.

  • Build timelines.
  • Map evidence.
  • Find contradictions.
  • Connect facts to sources.
  • Prepare depositions.
  • Research issues.
  • Build work product from the record.
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LitigationPleadingsDiscoveryEvidenceWitnessesEventsClaimsDefensesAuthoritiesDamagesStrategy

Different Practice Areas.One Intelligence Architecture.

The workflows change. The documents change. The legal questions change.

But the underlying challenge remains the same:

Codira ESQ
  • Litigation
  • Corporate
  • Transactions & M&A
  • Commercial Contracts
  • Regulatory & Compliance
  • Intellectual Property
  • Employment & Labor
  • Real Estate
  • Estate & Probate
  • Family Law
  • Criminal Defense
  • Bankruptcy
One Intelligence Architecture

Legal professionals must understand enormous amounts of interconnected information and make consequential decisions from it.

That’s what Codira ESQ was engineered to address.

AI Is Easy to Generate.Reliable Legal Work Is Harder.

A language model can produce an answer in seconds.

Professional legal work requires more.

A model’s answerSeconds
  • Facts need sources.
  • Authorities need verification.
  • Dates need to match.
  • Documents need provenance.
  • Contradictions matter.
  • Permissions matter.
  • Confidentiality matters.

And ultimately:An attorney—not an AI model—must remain responsible for the work.

That’s why Codira ESQ is built differently.

Not One AI.An Orchestrated Legal Intelligence System.

Codira ESQ is powered by technology developed by Codira, an AI research and development company with nine provisional patent applications around its orchestration architecture.

Instead of relying on one general-purpose AI conversation, Codira ESQ can coordinate specialized intelligence around the legal work.

Specialized Agents

Different legal tasks require different forms of analysis. Codira ESQ can route work through specialized agents designed around specific responsibilities and practice workflows.

Structured Matter Context

Agents don’t have to approach every request as an isolated prompt. They can work within the context of the matter.

Deterministic Guards

Some requirements should not depend exclusively on what an AI model thinks is probable. Defined rules and constraints provide another layer of control.

Source Grounding

Important findings can remain connected to the documents, evidence, authorities, and records behind them.

Verification

Outputs can move through review and verification before attorneys rely on them.

Attorney Approval

AI assists. Attorneys decide.

Generate → Check → Verify → ApproveA Different Architecture for Legal AI.

Traditional Generative AI

  1. Prompt
  2. Model
  3. Answer

Codira ESQ

  1. 1Matter Context
  2. 2Specialized Agent
  3. Source Check
  4. Deterministic Guard
  5. 5Review
  6. 6Verification
  7. Attorney Approval

The objective isn’t to generate the most words.

It’s to produce intelligence attorneys can inspect, challenge, refine, and use.

Your AI Legal Team.Specialized Intelligence for Specialized Work.

Depending on the practice and workflow, Codira ESQ can employ specialized agents to assist with functions such as:

  • Matter Intelligence

    Understand the people, entities, documents, events, and relationships surrounding the matter.

  • Evidence Intelligence

    Connect factual propositions to supporting materials.

  • Timeline Intelligence

    Reconstruct events across documents and sources.

  • Contradiction Intelligence

    Surface potentially inconsistent statements, dates, documents, and assertions.

  • Contract Intelligence

    Identify and connect rights, obligations, provisions, amendments, and risks.

  • Research Intelligence

    Connect relevant legal authorities to the issues being analyzed.

  • Drafting Intelligence

    Transform approved matter intelligence into structured work product.

  • Review Intelligence

    Examine work for unsupported propositions, missing context, and potential issues.

  • Verification Intelligence

    Check important outputs against available source materials and matter context.

  • Workflow Intelligence

    Help organize what has happened, what remains unresolved, and what comes next.

Not one AI trying to practice law.A coordinated intelligence system built to help lawyers practice it.

Ask the Matter.Not the Internet. Not an Empty AI Model.

Imagine asking:

  • People
  • Entities
  • Documents
  • Events
  • Agreements
  • Obligations
  • Evidence
  • Issues
  • Authorities
  • Deadlines
  • Work Product
Linked to evidenceLinked to issuesLinked to documents

Codira ESQ helps search the intelligence surrounding the matter and connect answers back to the underlying record.

Ask questions in the language of law.Get answers in the context of the matter.

The Source Matters.Intelligence You Can Trace Back to the Record.

Legal AI shouldn’t force attorneys to choose between speed and scrutiny.

Important Codira ESQ analysis can remain connected to its underlying materials.

An answerFact
  • FactWhat supports it?
  • DocumentWhere did it come from?
  • EvidenceWhat does it establish?
  • AuthorityWhat law supports the proposition?
  • ContradictionWhat doesn’t line up?
  • ObligationWhat creates it?
  • DeadlineWhat requires it?
  • Open QuestionWhat don’t we know?

Know the answer. Know the source. Know why it matters.

From Intelligence to Work Product.Draft With the Matter Behind You.

Codira ESQ doesn’t have to treat drafting as an isolated prompt.

  • Your matterthe context
  • Your documentsthe record
  • Your evidencethe factual foundation
  • Your researchthe legal foundation
  • Your firm’s standardsdirection
  • Your attorneysjudgment

Motion

Drafted from the matter

Codira ESQ can assist with work product including:

  • Motions
  • Briefs
  • Pleadings
  • Research Memoranda
  • Contracts
  • Corporate Resolutions
  • Due Diligence Reports
  • Investigation Reports
  • Chronologies
  • Issue Analyses
  • Discovery
  • Client Reports
  • Regulatory Responses
  • Transaction Documents
  • Internal Legal Memoranda

Draft from the intelligence—not from an empty chat window.

Intelligence That Moves Across the Practice.Because Legal Problems Don’t Stay in Their Lane.

  • A corporate matterbecomes an acquisition.
  • An acquisitionuncovers an employment problem.
  • A contractcreates a regulatory obligation.
  • A regulatory investigationbecomes litigation.
  • An employeeleaves with intellectual property.
  • A bankruptcycreates an asset sale.
  • A real estate transactionuncovers an environmental issue.
  • A shareholder disputebecomes a lawsuit.

Traditional software separates those matters into different silos.

Codira ESQ is designed around a different idea:

The intelligence should move with the matter.

  • Corporate intelligenceM&A intelligence
  • Contract intelligenceLitigation intelligence
  • Employment intelligenceInvestigation intelligence
  • Regulatory intelligenceEvidence

One legal intelligence layer across the lifecycle of the work.

Build Institutional Intelligence.Stop Losing What Your Firm Already Knows.

The most valuable knowledge inside a law firm isn’t always contained in a document.

It’s understanding:

  • Why was this decision made?
  • Which argument worked?
  • What did this client agree to?
  • What issue was discovered during diligence?
  • Why was this clause negotiated?
  • How was this regulatory question resolved?
  • What did this witness say two years ago?
  • What happened in the previous matter?

Codira ESQ creates the opportunity to transform isolated matter knowledge into structured, permissioned institutional intelligence.

The matter ends.The intelligence doesn’t have to.

Built forHigh-Stakes Work.

Traceable

Important analysis can remain connected to underlying source materials.

Reviewable

AI-assisted work is designed to be inspected and challenged.

Controlled

Legal professionals determine what gets approved, shared, exported, or acted upon.

Auditable

Maintain visibility into important actions and AI-assisted workflows.

Matter-Aware

Intelligence operates within the context of the work.

Deterministic

Defined rules can govern requirements that should not depend solely on probability.

Verified

Important outputs can move through additional review and verification.

Human-Governed

AI accelerates the work. Legal professionals retain judgment and responsibility.

AI Should Make Lawyers More Capable.Not Less Careful.

The future of legal AI isn’t autonomous software replacing attorneys.

It’s legal professionals equipped with intelligent systems capable of reading more, connecting more, checking more, remembering more, and helping them understand increasingly complex matters.

Human judgment
Agentic intelligence
Deterministic controls
Verification
Working together.

One Platform.Every Matter.Intelligence for the Entire Practice.

From the first document to the final work product, Codira ESQ is being built to bring the people, entities, documents, facts, evidence, agreements, obligations, authorities, deadlines, and decisions surrounding legal work into one connected intelligence environment.

Different matters.

Different attorneys.

Different questions.

One intelligence layer for law.

Codira ESQ

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