Formal reasoning instruments
Infrastructure for auditable professional judgment.
Each workflow guides you through a structured, auditable sequence and produces a reconstructable record of how the conclusion was reached.
Auditable reasoning. Human determination.
Steamshovel structures evidence, authority, findings and proposed determinations into a reconstructable reasoning record. The professional remains responsible for independently reviewing, modifying or adopting the determination.
Machine-supported structure
- Evidence
- Authority
- Reasoning
- Proposed determination
- Integrity closure
Human Intellectual Responsibility
- Practitioner Intellectual Adoption
- Adopted Professional Determination
- Audit record
- Legal Work Unit
Governing principle · Human Intellectual Responsibility
No machine output is a professional determination. A determination exists only when a named practitioner has independently reviewed the proposed determination and its reasoning record, and has adopted, modified or rejected it as their own professional judgment.
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Testamentary Capacity
Assess a will-maker’s capacity against Banks v Goodfellow, with temporal analysis, contrary-evidence testing, and a full audit and decision-memory trail.
Determination Protocol
A domain-agnostic protocol for reaching and recording any formal legal determination — elements, evidence, sufficiency, authority, and audit.
Legal Work Units · Practitioner pilot
Professional judgment, recorded as a unit of work
Each adopted professional determination, with its audit record, becomes a Legal Work Unit: a discrete, evidenced item of professional work the firm can identify, value and bill — rather than time spent. We are running a small pilot with practitioners to test the workflows and the LWU model on real matters.
- Steamshovel
- How was this conclusion reached?
- Integrity
- Can the reasoning record be trusted and reconstructed?
- HIR · PIA
- Who exercised and accepted professional judgment?
- LWU
- What professional work did the firm create, and how is it valued?