A colleague is co-counseling with me. They need to get up to speed.

You've spent weeks working through the discovery. Your co-counsel is starting from zero, and the next court date isn't far off.

Handing them the raw footage and documents means they have to sit through everything you already navigated, and they wouldn't quickly know what mattered and what was a dead end.

Re-explaining it out loud takes time neither of you has, and details get lost in translation. The mental map you've built of the case doesn't transfer just by handing over a file. Here's how to bring a colleague up to speed using Reduct.

Share project access: same file, not a stale copy

Instead of exporting footage to send a separate copy, your colleague can work in the same project you do. There's no version drifting out of sync, no wondering if they're looking at another file than the one you're using in court prep.

Any updates you make, such as a new clip or a corrected label, stay live for both of you.

Custom summaries: a written brief without writing one

Your colleague doesn't need to read the full transcript of every recording to get oriented on the case. They can generate a custom summary by asking specific questions, like what a witness said about the timeline, or what officers knew before making an arrest, and get back a short written brief pulled directly from that recording or document.

Each point in the summary links back to the exact moment it came from. If a line says the witness described the suspect as "wearing all black," your colleague can click straight to that timestamp and hear it for themselves.

Instead of skimming an hour of footage or waiting on you to type up notes, they get a summary they can trust and verify in seconds, then decide where to dig deeper.

Highlights and labels: your map of the case

Once your colleague has access to the project, they can view your existing highlights and labels. With the categories you’ve created and moments you’ve flagged, they can better understand your mental map of the case.

If you've labeled a section "inconsistent statement" or "key timeline moment," that context is right there. They can directly step in and see the exact moments you’ve highlighted and labeled.

Ask a recording or document: let them find their own answers

Your colleague can ask a recording or document a direct question, such as what time the officer arrived or what the witness said about the vehicle, and get an answer linked to the moment or the exact paragraph in the document.

They can prepare their own line of questioning without needing you to sit beside them and narrate.

Reel: a fast walkthrough of what matters

To get your co-counsel oriented quickly, build a reel of the key moments across recordings. You can bring multiple clips into a quick reel and share it with them.

Instead of just raw footage, they get a curated sequence showing exactly what the most important evidence is, in order, without sitting through hours of dead time to find it.

Prepared, not caught up

Your colleague doesn’t have to start from zero or rely only on what you can explain out loud. They step into the same project, see your labels and flagged moments, and can search the footage themselves. With Reduct, they can get up to speed without having sat through every hour you did.