Just as eDiscovery created chain of custody for digital evidence, Anchor BlackBox™ creates Chain of Legal Custody™ for AI-assisted work product. Six chains. One unbroken record. Court-producible on demand.
Every AI-assisted matter in your firm generates six independent chains of evidence. AIDR™ and AICR™ record each chain automatically. At session close, the six chains are bound into a single tamper-evident ledger, the Chain of Legal Custody™ record.
Which model, which version, which API endpoint, which inference parameters were used on each request. No ambiguity about what answered your question.
Which attorney made which request, applied which correction, and provided which approval at each step. The attorney of record is always identified.
Every version of every document the AI touched: input, intermediate, and final, with diff-level provenance. You can account for every word.
How and when each AI-assisted work product was delivered to the client, with delivery confirmation and receipt log. Closed loop.
Every governance checkpoint: competence acknowledgment, supervision sign-off, client authorization event, final release. The audit trail courts demand.
RFC3161 timestamps on every event. Merkle root computed at session close. The chronology is tamper-evident and court-producible from the moment the session ends.
When eDiscovery emerged in the early 2000s, firms that had no process for preserving and producing digital evidence faced sanctions, adverse inference instructions, and malpractice exposure. The firms that built the infrastructure first were protected. Chain of Legal Custody™ is that moment, for AI.
Courts and clients no longer ask whether you used AI. They ask for the record. Chain of Legal Custody™ is that record.
An AI governance policy tells you what your firm intends. Chain of Legal Custody™ proves what your firm actually did, matter by matter, session by session.
A work product with no Chain of Legal Custody™ is an Orphan Work Product. In a Heppner-style challenge, its absence is itself evidence of negligence.
Every matter. Every session. Automatic. Request a demo and see all six chains built on a live AI session.
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