For Public Defenders

Months of discovery,
analyzed in minutes.

The state hands you a mountain of evidence and a fraction of the time to review it. Longeye works through every file (bodycam footage, phone extractions, social media, jail calls in any language) and surfaces the evidence that matters most for your client.

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What the state sends
100+ hrs body camera
Multi-terabyte phone extraction
1,000s of pages of records
Months of attorney work
What you have
Not enough attorneys
Dozens of open cases
Days before the court date
No way to review it all
Longeye closes that gap.
Read all of it

Ask the file a question.
Get a cited answer.

Load every format the state turned over and ask in plain language. Longeye reads the body camera and other video, the jail and phone calls and other audio, the photos, the messages, and the records, then points you to the exact moment that answers you.

  • ✓ One place for video, audio, photos, messages, and records
  • ✓ Every finding ranked and linked to the source
  • ✓ Nothing surfaced that isn't tied to the evidence
Trust, and verify

Check every claim against the record.

Every answer links straight to the underlying evidence, the second of the video, the line of the transcript. So when the report says one thing and the footage shows another, you can see it, cite it, and stand on it in front of the judge.

  • ✓ One click from any finding to the exact moment
  • ✓ Put the report, the footage, and the audio side by side
  • ✓ A cited timeline of what the evidence actually shows

A full year of attorney work, in two months.

Marc Caudel, a criminal defense investigator with 25 years at the Northern California Innocence Project, used Longeye to find exculpatory evidence across a year's worth of discovery.

77,000documents
50 hrsaudio
15 hrsvideo
1,700images
“AI can really help cut through a lot of the mundane parts of having to go through discovery and find the little nuggets.”
Marc Caudel · Criminal Defense Investigator, Northern California Innocence Project
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Security & privilege

Built for privileged case materials.

Your clients' files are privileged. Longeye is built from the ground up to keep them that way, and audited to prove it.

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Where are the case files that a defender uploads to Longeye stored?

All case materials uploaded to Longeye are stored on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure that meets the FBI's CJIS 6.0.0 Security Policy. CJIS is the FBI's security standard governing how criminal justice information must be stored, transmitted, and accessed. It's the same framework that law enforcement agencies themselves are held to. All information is encrypted at rest and in transit using federally approved (FIPS 140-3) ciphers, and the software operates on a zero-trust system: not even Longeye's own employees can access your case materials.

Will Longeye use my organization's data or my client's information to train its model?

No. Longeye runs its artificial intelligence model through a private, fully closed system on Amazon Bedrock. Public defenders' case materials are never used to train any artificial intelligence model and can never surface in someone else's search. Longeye builds and tests its software using entirely synthetic data that mimics a real case without containing any protected information. This is fundamentally different from tools like ChatGPT, where your inputs can influence the model for other users.

How well do Longeye's findings hold up in court?

Longeye does not make decisions in the courtroom. The tool only surfaces evidence during the discovery and case-building processes. Every time you ask Longeye a question, its response directly cites back to a specific line in an original piece of evidence, so you know exactly where it came from. Defenders retain full control over what is presented in the courtroom.

How can I verify Longeye's security commitments?

Full details about Longeye's software, security, and compliance protocols can be found on our security page. From there you can also request our SOC 2 Type II report or a completed security questionnaire for your evaluation.

Public Defense Grant Program

$50,000 grants for public defender offices and nonprofits.

Through the Longeye Public Defense Grant, eligible public defender offices and legal-defense nonprofits can receive a $50,000 grant covering a full year of Longeye. We built it because the technology that helps close cases should help the people defending the accused, too.

Who qualifies.

County, state, and federal public defender offices, plus indigent-defense and exoneration nonprofits like the Innocence Project, and the investigators who work for them.

A limited number of grants.

Awarded first come, first served. Priority deadline July 31, 2026.

Apply for the grant →

Any questions? Email public-defense@longeye.com.