Every investigation begins with a theory, a suspicion, or a tip. But even the most experienced investigators can fall victim to cognitive bias. Confirmation bias, anchoring, tunnel vision, and the urge to validate early assumptions all lead to wasted time, missed evidence, and misdirected efforts. In high-stakes legal work, those missteps can cost more than just hours, they can cost outcomes.
Matey AI is designed to bring clarity to complexity. By giving defense teams the ability to instantly surface facts from mountains of evidence, it helps eliminate bias and bring truth to light, even in the noisiest cases.
Bias doesn’t mean incompetence. It means you're human. But in legal investigations, even subtle bias can distort how data is searched, which leads are followed, and which facts are ignored.
Consider a typical criminal defense case, with gigabytes of AV files, PDFs, phone dumps, or subpoenaed corporate data. Traditional review platforms require investigators to ask the right questions before they even know what’s in the data. The result is a massive, inefficient cycle of keyword guessing and second-guessing.
And when discovery is disorganized or lacks clear context, the risk of jumping to conclusions skyrockets. Investigators latch onto early names or theories, chasing threads that fit what they believe, instead of what the evidence actually says.
Matey AI is built to break through bias. Its core features allow legal professionals to explore evidence from a fresh, objective perspective, grounded in the data itself.
Ask AI Anything, Instead of filtering files based on assumptions, attorneys and investigators use plain language prompts to interrogate the data. Ask, "Who is involved in the kickback scheme" or "What conversations mention loss of inventory between January and April," and Matey responds with direct, evidence-cited answers.
Entity Extraction and Relationship Mapping, Every person, place, and organization mentioned in a case becomes an interactive object that can be explored with a simple question. Instead of guessing who matters, Matey shows you, with context, relevance, and connections between entities clearly explained.
Timeline Builder, Rather than building a chronology based on assumed key events, Matey constructs a timeline using every piece of uploaded evidence. This allows the facts to tell their own story, not the one someone wants to see.
Media and Document Search, With all content transcribed, OCR’d, and indexed, Matey lets users search across audio, video, PDFs, scanned documents, and more using full-text and natural language queries. This means less time spent trying to find the right keyword and more time spent understanding the case.
In a recent internal corporate investigation, an investigator spent over a week researching acronyms, mapping relationships, and reviewing clusters of employee emails to make sense of one individual's actions. After uploading the same data to Matey, they were able to confirm connections, uncover additional participants, and surface relevant events in a fraction of the time.
Matey replaced hours of speculative review with minutes of precise answers.
When bias is eliminated and investigations are grounded in facts, defense teams are better equipped to find inconsistencies, expose prosecutorial overreach, and advocate more effectively for their clients.
Matey AI doesn’t just make teams faster, it makes them smarter. It prevents rabbit holes, reduces reliance on gut instinct, and centers every step of the case in what the data actually reveals.
Legal cases will always be complex. But with Matey AI, attorneys and investigators no longer have to waste time chasing noise. They can focus on what really matters, the truth. And in criminal defense, there’s nothing more powerful than that.
Matey AI brings attorneys from evidence to answers in minutes, not months.
