Evidence-controlled case workspace · disputes & arbitration
datum organises the whole matter and assists your team to a claim where every factual sentence carries a verified citation from the record - for any dispute that lives in its documents, proven first on construction claims. Your experts stay in command.
The Contractor is instructed to place an order with Firman Glass Ltd for the Light Wall installation.
07_tender_report_2005-11-24.pdf · p.1“Firman require a period of 23 weeks from the letting of the subcontract”
Your reviewer’s view: the workspace catches an overclaim and locks the export.
Every document read, classified, dated and indexed into one case workspace - reopenable years later, searchable in seconds.
Referenced enclosures that are not in the record, poor scans, uncertain dates, and evidence that contradicts a drafted sentence - flagged, never papered over.
Notices sit on the timeline with their dates and evidence; time-bar alerts sharpen with your contract data during a pilot.
A cited chronology built from confirmed events - every entry carrying a verbatim, page-linked quote. The matter's memory, kept.
In Van Oord v Allseas, a ten-million-pound claim died of poor substantiation: global assertions, evidence that did not say what the pleadings said, witnesses the record contradicted. The record was there all along. Nobody could prove what it proved.
[2015] EWHC 3074 (TCC) - one of the eleven judgments datum is benchmarked against
Every event carries its date and a verbatim quote from the page it came from, verified in code. The chronology renders from events your team confirmed - never free-written prose.
Evidence & timelineUnreadable files, poor scans and uncertain dating are flagged, never papered over. “All documents read” is an earned claim here.
Flagged documents are excluded from confidence claims until resolved.
The evidence viewer opens the actual page image with the cited words highlighted. Reviewers check evidence in seconds.
The cited words, highlighted on the actual page image - not a reference, the document.
Where the dispute has a programme - construction, shipbuilding, energy - the schedule is reparsed and the critical path recomputed deterministically. Anomalies are reported, not silently trusted.
Delay analysisCritical path in accent. Float, lags and calendars computed by code - never by a model.
Events link to the activities they hit; impact days come from the network. Where linkage cannot be established, the claim says so.
If a linkage cannot be established, the claim says so - it never bridges the gap with prose.
The drafter cannot emit a factual sentence without evidence - the schema rejects it. A separate verifier checks every citation against its source.
Claim draftingOn 2 February 2006, the Architect instructed the Contractor to place the order for the Light Wall.1 The tender report had identified a 23-week lead time.2
Contradicted or uncited sentences block export - in code, not in a prompt. Weak support goes to your QA queue for a named reviewer; contradictions can never be approved away.
“The instruction was issued in good time.” contradicted
The gate is enforced in code. It cannot be talked out of refusing.
A .docx with real Word footnotes, each resolving to a document and page in the record.
Real Word footnotes, every one resolving to a document and page in the record.
Every factual sentence in an answer carries a verbatim quote, verified in code before it renders as cited. What the record does not say, datum says it does not say.
Ask the recordWhat the record does not say, datum says it does not say.
The archive keeps every matter searchable, traceable and reopenable - institutional memory that does not leave with staff.
For claims consultancies, contractors and smaller teams: your organisation's own isolated workspace on datum's regional cloud. Row-level isolation, encryption and audit built in; running in days.
For law firms and privileged matters: a dedicated environment - single-tenant, or deployed in your own cloud, in your jurisdiction. Your firm controls storage, retention and access policy.
Both start the same way: a pilot on a real matter, your reviewers in command. Request a pilot.
If a sentence cannot be proven,
it cannot be exported.