Bexar County Criminal Defense
Run a matter through the Issue Spotter
Take one Bexar County matter from the read record to a draft you can sign: the Issue Spotter reads what the evidence holds, proposes pathways for counsel to weigh, and drafts the motion on your own template, with the demo motion the only thing it returns today.
Before you start
The Issue Spotter does not begin at a blank page. It begins at a matter that already lives on the Case Board, with the record the Evidence Orchestrator returned attached to it: the indexed clips, the transcript, the silences, the cause number, and the court. If that matter is open and the evidence has been read, you have everything the Issue Spotter needs.
One honest note before the first click. The drafting boundary is still in development, and the draft endpoint returns a demo motion today. Finished automatic drafting depends on your approved pathway templates being seeded and Anthropic’s Claude being in place. You are walking the real workflow on a demo draft, and we say so plainly rather than market a parked lane as live.
1. Open the matter in the Issue Spotter
From the matter on the Case Board, open it in the Issue Spotter. The Issue Spotter reaches back into the matter for the facts it already holds, so the client name, the cause number, the court and the judge, the hours, and the evidence findings come with it. You do not retype any of that. The case the board built is the case the Issue Spotter reads.
This is the same matter, looked at a third way. The Case Board kept it, the Evidence Orchestrator read it, and the Issue Spotter now asks what the law lets you do with what was read.
2. Read the pathways the Issue Spotter proposes
The Issue Spotter reads the record and proposes legal pathways for counsel to consider: a motion to suppress, an Article 39.14 discovery demand, a motion in limine on a photo array, a continuance. Each proposed pathway shows its work, the finding in the evidence it rests on and the rule it leans on, so you are looking at an argument and not a guess.
These are proposals, not conclusions. The Issue Spotter is the associate who read the whole file overnight and left you a memo. The lawyer who knows the judge, the client, and the case is the one who decides which pathway is worth the court’s time.
3. Weigh each pathway and accept, edit, or reject it
Go down the list and decide. Accept the pathway worth pursuing, edit one that is close but needs your read of the case, reject the one that reaches too far for this judge. Nothing advances on its own; the Issue Spotter surfaces the argument and waits for you to weigh it.
This is the line the whole Issue Spotter runs on. It proposes. You decide. The pathway you accept is the one the Issue Spotter drafts next, and the ones you reject simply stop there.
4. Approve a pathway and the Issue Spotter drafts on your template
Approve a pathway and the Issue Spotter drafts the motion from your own template library, the attorney-approved Texas criminal-defense templates you seeded into the system, not a generic form off a shelf. The canonical Bexar caption fills in, the certificate of service is built, the signature block carries the bar number and address, and the body is grounded in the matter: client name, cause number, court, the hours, the evidence findings.
Remember the honest note. Today this step returns a demo motion so you can see the shape of the workflow. Production drafting writes from the templates you control, so when it is live the work reads like your office wrote it, because it did.
5. Send the draft through the three-AI read
Court-facing documents do not leave on a single model’s say-so. Send the draft through the consensus read and it passes through OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google’s Gemini, and the Issue Spotter reports where the three agree and where they diverge on the law, the citations, and the framing. A citation one model questioned, a sentence two would tighten, an argument the third thought reached too far come back flagged.
This is a defensibility posture, not a flourish. The draft has been stress-tested three ways before a defender’s name goes anywhere near it, which is exactly the kind of preparation the work product should show.
6. Hand the draft to your own review
The Issue Spotter stops here, on purpose. The draft and its three-way read sit and wait for you. This is where the workflow leaves the machine and reaches the one hand that matters, because software does not sign a motion and software does not file one.
The next tutorial walks the review itself: reading the two proposed motions, reading the quorum’s agreement, editing, and recording your approval. The Issue Spotter read, proposed, and drafted. Now you weigh it.
What you have now
You have a real matter walked through the Issue Spotter: a record read into proposed pathways, a pathway you weighed and approved, a motion drafted on your firm’s template and grounded in the case, and a three-AI read flagging the weak joints before you ever pick up a pen. What you do not have is anything that left the building, because nothing does without your hand on it.
That is the whole order, and it does not change. The Issue Spotter reads, proposes, drafts on your templates, and stress-tests three ways. The attorney weighs the pathway, signs the motion, and files it. Gideon promised a real lawyer with real tools, and the last hand on the document is always that lawyer’s.
The whole machine
Ten logins down to two
One subscription stands in for the stack a defense firm usually stitches together, so the practice runs on two things it already trusts: Google Workspace, where the files and matters live, and The IMC Machine, where the matter runs. LawPay and QuickBooks, the money rail, stay where they are, fed by the Machine. Casework, evidence, motions, vouchers, marketing, and events, in one place.
San Antonio and Bexar County. The Machine is built for here first. For another city, county, or region, the build-out is custom and carries its own setup fee.
