How the desk actually works.

Ask LIA

Type the question. Ask LIA runs a governed review: reconstruction, counter-reading, and what the file will actually support. Evidence, inference, and gap stay classified. If the preferred theory needs a fact that is not on the file, the desk says so.

Stop

A run can be stopped. Escape, or the Stop control. You keep the room. Failed or unfinished runs are not billed against the credit tank. Ask uses one pass; Deep Review uses two workings and therefore more credits.

Show working

The one-line conclusion is not the whole instrument. Show working opens the reconstruction, the competing readings, and what the conclusion depends on. Hide it when you want the short form back.

Conversations and matters

Two ways onto the desk. A conversation is for testing an idea — a clause, an invoice, a question you want to pressure. A matter is for building a file: evidence, notes, timeline, the record as it grows. Same engine. Different posture.

Split a large search

On a Matter, Review can split a large file instead of reading it in one clipped pass. Tick Split a large search once. Three or more documents, or a long extract, is searched one file at a time. The desk lists each file as found or not found, with a short quote, and those quotes go to the working. A small file is not split. Ask is not split.

A connected Drive or Dropbox folder is searched by filename while Review runs. Those names land on the list. They are not read into the working already started. Mail is not connected, and the list says so. Approve the split when the brief is large: a single Review can miss a later page, and the split shows what was read. It spends more credits because it covers more of the file. LIA asks again only if the next search would take the seat below 500 credits.

Evidence

Drop documents onto the ledger. Or pull them from Google Drive or Dropbox, once you are signed in. What lands is classified — primary, inference, gap — and stays on that matter. Files on a matter stay on that matter.

Talk

Live voice on the same file. Dictate if you would rather speak the question. The ledger does not become a different product when you take your hands off the keyboard.

The record

What you get is exportable reasoning, not a chat log. The classification, the working, the caution. You can take it to counsel. You still decide.