Governed AI assistance without handing over legal judgment.
Star Ridge Intake is a working demonstration of how an unstructured legal inquiry can become structured, reviewable work while preserving uncertainty and human control.
What the demonstration proves
- Structured extraction from unstructured inquiries
- Evidence first handling of reported facts
- Unknown information remains unknown
- Missing information is surfaced for follow up
- Controlled follow up generation
- Human review before consequential downstream action
- Persistent audit history
- Automated regression and live model evaluation
Evidence & explainability
From workflow discovery to an automation recommendation ready for a decision.
Mountain View Family Law is a synthetic firm with 12 people created to exercise the Star Ridge assessment process. It demonstrates methodology and software capability; it is not represented as a customer or production deployment.
Opportunity
Automate prospective client intake data capture and case system entry to reduce duplicate entry, incomplete information and administrative handling.
Human control boundary
Conflict review, case acceptance, legal conclusions, legal advice and other professional decisions remain with attorneys and authorized staff.
Not an opaque chatbot.
The engineering goal is controlled workflow automation: structured outputs, validation, auditability, explicit human boundaries and measurable behavior.