How it works
A reconstruction is assembled from the documents, not written about them.
Every public investigation leaves a paper trail of filings, memoranda, transcripts, correspondence, and more. We connect the evidence across the records to reconstruct what happened, when, and according to whom. From that reconstruction, investigators can build deeper analysis that remains connected to its underlying evidence, so conclusions can be revisited, challenged, and traced back to the source.
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What happened
CONTENT: the event in plain language.
Supporting evidence
CONTENT: the passage this rests on.
CONTENT: document reference · page
Open source document
CONTENT: DOCKET
Page
What happened next
CONTENT: the event in plain language.
Supporting evidence
CONTENT: the passage this rests on.
CONTENT: document reference · page
Open source document
CONTENT: DOCKET
Page
What was contested
CONTENT: the event in plain language.
Supporting evidence
CONTENT: the passage this rests on.
CONTENT: document reference · page
Open source document
CONTENT: DOCKET
Page
How a sequence of events is assembled
CONTENT: static prose account, plus two stills: the three events in order, and the source pages with their cited passages marked.
What we're trying to do
The same five steps, every time, from the raw record to a reconstruction you can open.
Sources
Every public investigation leaves a paper trail: FDA dockets, NTSB dockets. We start from the primary record, not a summary of it.
Intake
Pull the filings in. Drag a docket into the workspace and the whole corpus loads: every memo, transcript, and exhibit.
Read & extract
The system reads each document and records what it establishes, with its citation, retrieval date, and content hash kept attached.
Reconstruct
Connect the extracted facts into one structure: a single sequence of events where every claim traces back to a source.
Explore
Open a finished reconstruction. Pick a case and step into the workspace.
Where the analysis begins
A sequence is the start of the argument, not the end of it.
No single filing is taken at its word. A memo asserts one thing, a transcript complicates it, an exhibit dates them both. The account only holds where independent documents corroborate each other, and triangulating across the corpus is what separates what the record establishes from what one party simply claimed.
What survives that test is synthesized: not a summary of the documents, but one structure assembled out of them. This is where a reconstruction begins to say something the filings never say individually — the pattern across the record, the gap between what was known and when it was acted on, the point at which a decision turned.
That interpretation is original work, and it is never a dead end. Because every extracted fact keeps its citation, retrieval date, and content hash, any conclusion can be walked back to the document that carries it — and disagreed with on the evidence rather than on authority. An argument you can audit.
Investigation domains
The same method, across every public record.
FDA drug approval
Drugs@FDA · BLA 761178
NTSB autopilot investigation
NTSB · HWY18FH011
FAA aircraft investigation
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