I haven't even looked at what I have yet.

You just picked up a new case and the discovery is already sitting in your inbox. Here's roughly what's in there:

• bodycam footage from two responding officers

• a dash-cam recording

• the arrest report

• a probable cause statement

• maybe a few jail calls

You haven't opened a single file yet, so you don't know what the state says happened, how much of this you're actually dealing with, or how many hours it's going to eat out of your week.

At this point, you just need enough of an overview to know where to start.

Here's what that first pass looks like when you build it in Reduct:

Dump everything into one project

You can drag the bodycam, jail calls, police report, and whatever the DA's office sent over, all into a project from your desktop, or pull it straight in from Google Drive or Dropbox if that's where the file dump landed.

Get a short read on every file before you open any of them

Select everything you just uploaded and batch summarize it. For a first pass on a mixed batch like this with bodycam, jail calls, report, and more, thematic or chronological summary works well here. You get a quick read on each recording before opening a single one.

Ask specific questions once you know what you're looking for

Once that first pass tells you what kind of file you're dealing with, you can use Reduct’s built-in templates for different recording types (911 call, bodycam, interrogation, forensic interview, and more). Pick the one that matches your case and it runs a relevant set of questions for you.

You can write your own questions instead if none of the templates quite fit, or start from a template and add or remove questions to match your case.

Flag anything that jumps out, without stopping to deal with it yet

At this point, you're only getting oriented, but if something catches your eye on this first pass, you can always highlight and label it, then keep moving. It's saved and labeled for the full review later.

See the whole case laid out on one timeline

If bodycam makes up most of what you got, timeline view lines up every clip by the time it was recorded and shows you where the gaps sit. That's often the fastest way to answer "how much of this incident do I actually have on video," before you decide whether you need to request anything else.

Loop someone in before you're even done reading

If a paralegal or investigator is picking this case up alongside you, comment directly on the file so they see it in context instead of a separate email thread. @-mention them, and they get an email pointed straight at the moment you're talking about.

By the time you sit down for the real review, you already know roughly what you have, what the state's version is, and where to look first.