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Cosmos Nexus™

Construction Defect Defense

Not a better pile of documents. A defense position.

Matter intelligence for construction-defect defense.

Anchored to the docket, taught the governing rules by counsel rather than having them hard-coded, and returned with the authority cited on every finding for an attorney to approve.

0.6 – 2.5 TB

The record on one matter

5 – 9

Defendants, each with separate counsel

2 – 3 yrs

From filing to resolution

$200K – $1.2M

Defense fees per matter

Where the Category Sits

Three layers. Most tools stop at the second.

Finding documents and arranging them are solved problems. Both hand a lawyer a better pile, and at that point the analysis has not started. That is where the two to three years and the several hundred thousand dollars of defense fees are actually spent.

Retrieve

Find what's responsive

Organize

Arrange it into a record

Reason

Where the analysis begins

Position

A defense a partner can sign
  • Discovery platforms stop at Retrieve — a responsive set.
  • Case workspaces stop at Organize — an organized record.
  • Cosmos Nexus™ carries the matter through Reason to a Position a partner can sign.

What Comes Out

Depth is decided by what a system is built to produce.

Not by how much it can read. A discovery platform and a matter intelligence platform can ingest the identical terabyte and deliver two entirely different things.

A discovery platform delivers

  • A responsive set
  • A privilege log
  • Redacted and numbered documents
  • A production volume
  • A chronology of extracted events
  • Key facts surfaced

An organized record. The analysis has not started.

Cosmos Nexus™ delivers

  • The exposure quantified
  • The contractual liability cap located and applied
  • The role split at the heart of the defense
  • The apportionment position
  • Every deadline the court actually ordered, derived from the docket
  • The point at which the opposing expert’s theory stops holding

A defense position, verified and ready for a partner to sign.

How it Works

Three engines, and a gate no output passes without a lawyer.

A defect matter turns on documents and on photographs in equal measure. Cortex reads the record, Polaris reads the images, and Argus™ adversarially re-checks both before anything reaches an attorney.

Plans, reports & the docket

Specs, expert reports, depositions

Site photographs

The visual record

Cortex

Reads the record

Polaris

Reads the photographs
Rules taught by counsel — repose, notice, apportionment — feed both engines

Argus™

Adversarially re-checks both

Attorney approves

Every finding cited to its governing rule — a defensible record
Nothing leaves the system without an attorney approving it, and every finding arrives carrying the rule, statute or opinion it rests on. The human in the loop is not a checkbox. It is a receipt.

Who it Serves

Built for the side of the caption that has to answer.

Construction-defect defense firms

Primary. Priced on the active defect matters a firm carries, not per seat and not per gigabyte. The partner reaches a defensible position sooner, and the associate hours that used to be spent assembling it move to arguing it.

Carriers and claims organizations

Economic buyer. The defense fees on these matters are carrier money. A cited, consistent work product across every panel firm means fewer surprises at reserve setting and a record that holds up when the file is audited.

Builders, developers and general contractors

Defendant side. In-house counsel and risk managers carrying the first layer themselves, who need the apportionment position early rather than on the eve of mediation.

Subcontractor counsel

The long tail. Five to nine defendants on a single matter, each retaining separate counsel, each working the same record from a different seat. This is why the filing count understates the market by more than an order of magnitude.

The Market

A practice line the horizontal tools were never built for.

Legal AI is being built two ways: as per-seat assistants that go a mile wide, or as document review priced per gigabyte, which collapses on a matter measured in terabytes. The defense bar does not have a purpose-built platform. The plaintiff bar already does.

~20,000

Construction-defect cases filed each year nationally

~50,000

Active at any moment, on a two-to-three-year matter life

250,000+

Separate defense engagements, at five to nine defendants each

570 – 710

Construction-defect defense firms nationally
Figures are Trinity AI Boston estimates. No authoritative published source exists for the size of this practice line, which is itself part of why it has been overlooked.

Built to be Relied On

The compliance story is the architecture, not a policy document.

Attorney in the loop

ABA Formal Opinion 512 and Florida Bar Opinion 24-1 are embedded in the workflow rather than appended to it. An attorney approves before anything leaves the system.

Cited on every finding

Each output carries the governing rule, statute or ethics opinion it rests on, so the clearance record is defensible after the fact and not only at the time.

Ten provisional filings

Filed with the USPTO across human-in-the-loop gated pipelines, citation grounding, multi-modal extraction and workflow orchestration.

SOC 2 Type 1 attested

Independently attested and approved, with Type 2 observation following on the standard window. Single-tenant by design.

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