The Problem We Kept Seeing
Litigation teams were burying themselves in documents.
The Work Was Real. The Risk Was Worse.
Litigation teams were working nights and weekends. Associates were clicking through files one by one. Partners were personally verifying every citation before filing because they had no other choice. And when AI arrived, everyone said the problem was solved. It was not. ChatGPT sounds confident. It drafts. It summarises. It writes. And then it invents a case citation that does not exist and a lawyer gets sanctioned for submitting it. Courts have already ordered lawyers to pay wasted costs and referred them to professional bodies for filing AI-generated fake cases. A tool that sounds right is not the same as a tool you can rely on.
An associate finds the fact
They find the right line, but the proof does not stay attached.
A partner checks it again
Before filing, the partner opens the file and checks the page again.
The team searches again
Later, someone repeats the search from the start.
What goes wrong
The team cannot see the proof trail clearly, so people check the same source again and again.
What Was Missing
Every tool in the market was built for one of two things. Store your documents. Or write for you. Nobody had built a tool that actually reads your documents, goes into the files you uploaded, finds the facts that matter, and shows you the exact page they came from. That gap is where Grella lives.
Most tools do one job.
They store files or write text. Grella does the missing job in the middle.
Document Systems
Store
Store files
Keep folders organized
Show documents, not answers
Grella
Read, Find, Prove
Reads the files you upload
Finds the fact you need
Shows the exact page
Generic AI
Write
Generates text
Summarizes quickly
Writes without source proof
What We Built
Grella is an AI analyst for litigation teams.
You upload your case files. You ask a question in plain language. Grella searches every document simultaneously and comes back with an answer, plus a clickable citation that opens the exact page and highlights the exact text.
No guessing. No hallucinations. No "I believe this is accurate."
Just the fact. And the page it came from.
One firm cut their document review time by 70 percent. What took a week now takes six hours. What cost thousands in external legal review now happens in-house, on the same day.
I found 3 critical conflicts across the provided employment materials:
1. Severance Discrepancy
David Chen gets 12-months severance while standard staff receive none .
2. Classification Conflict
Listed as "Consultant" in 2019 despite holding an "Executive" agreement concurrently .
3. Notice Periods
Notice periods vary from 2 weeks for engineers to 30 days for executives .
Who We Built It For
Small and mid-size litigation boutiques carrying serious document loads without big-firm infrastructure.
The firms we had in mind
Grella is built for firms with 2 to 25 lawyers handling document-heavy matters in commercial disputes, employment law, and insurance defence.
The pressure we built for
The ones where an associate and a paralegal are carrying a 40,000-page production with a hearing in four weeks, competing against Big Law opponents with a fraction of the staff.
Those teams do not need more software. They need a tool that compresses the grind so they can spend their time on what actually requires a lawyer's judgment.
What We Believe
These are not values we wrote for a website. They are product decisions.
Every answer needs a source
If you cannot click it and verify it, it is not good enough for litigation.
Speed without accuracy is useless
Finding the wrong fact fast is worse than not finding it.
Your files are yours
We never train our AI on your client documents. Not now. Not ever.
Missing one sentence can blow a case
We built Grella for people who cannot afford that risk.
The tool should fit your firm
No IT setup. No six-month onboarding. No replacing what already works. You are up and running in ten minutes.
The Tools We Are Not
Grella is not a generic writer and it is not a heavyweight enterprise eDiscovery stack.
Capability
Reads your actual files
ChatGPT / Generic AI
Generates from memory
Enterprise eDiscovery
Yes
Grella
Yes
Capability
Verifiable citations
ChatGPT / Generic AI
Often hallucinated
Enterprise eDiscovery
Yes
Grella
Yes
Capability
Built for boutique firms
ChatGPT / Generic AI
No
Enterprise eDiscovery
Requires IT teams and $50k/yr
Grella
Yes
Capability
Setup time
ChatGPT / Generic AI
Minutes, but no legal context
Enterprise eDiscovery
Months
Grella
10 minutes
Capability
Risk
ChatGPT / Generic AI
Sanctions. Courts have ordered it.
Enterprise eDiscovery
Low
Grella
Low
What This Means in Practice
Three paths you can take when the record is heavy and the deadline is close.
Fast to open. Easy to prompt. But it was not built to be the thing a litigator relies on before filing.
Powerful systems, but usually priced and implemented for firms with dedicated IT, long onboarding, and far larger budgets.
Built for boutique litigation teams that need answers tied to the page, with setup measured in minutes instead of months.
Grella is the middle path: litigation-ready answers without enterprise overhead.
A Note on Security
Law firms ask us about security before they ask us about anything else. That is the right instinct.
Your files are encrypted. Your organisation is isolated from every other firm on the platform. We never use your documents to train our AI models. If you cancel, we delete everything.
The full details are on our security page, written in plain language, not legal disclaimers.