AI-powered criminal defense platform that analyzes case evidence — audio, video, body cam footage, witness statements, emails, texts — and automates document categorization, entity recognition, timeline building, and trial preparation. Founded by Jared White (CEO). $7.5M seed round led by Timespan Ventures with TIAA Ventures participating. Purpose-built for criminal defense, not adapted from civil eDiscovery — the key differentiator in a market where most tools assume civil litigation workflows. Exclusive AI partner of South Carolina Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (SCACDL). Only named customer: Manley & Manley (condensed 34,000 pages to 10 pages of relevant content). Claims $40K+ cost savings per case by eliminating per-GB hosting fees (vendor-claimed, not independently verified). UC Berkeley Law lists it as a recommended criminal defense AI tool. Reddit practitioners praise affordability and workflow fit for both attorneys and paralegals. FAQ claims ISO 27001 and end-to-end encryption but no SOC 2 Type II or CJIS compliance documented. Expanding to PI and corporate investigations but evidence is limited. Criminal defense is genuinely underserved by legal tech — Matey appears to be the only dedicated platform in this niche.
Company Info
- Founded: 2022
- Team size: 1-10 employees
- Funding: $8M
- HQ: Canada
- Sector: Litigation
What We Haven’t Verified
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Workflows
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What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Matey addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Criminal defense attorney gets 34,000 pages of discovery from the prosecution — body cam footage, phone records, texts, witness statements, police reports — and has 60 days to find the needle in the haystack that proves their client's innocence. Manual review would take weeks they don't have, and the critical exculpatory detail is buried on page 28,347
Defense team is preparing for trial in 3 weeks and needs to build a coherent timeline from fragmented evidence — witness statements contradict each other, body cam timestamps don't align, and critical connections between defendants are buried across thousands of documents
Evidence in criminal cases comes in formats that eDiscovery tools weren't built for — body cam video, jail phone calls, surveillance footage, text message exports — and the attorney needs to search and cross-reference across all of it like they would with documents
Public defender with 150 active cases doesn't have time to thoroughly review discovery in each one — the office is so under-resourced that attorneys get 15 minutes to review a case file before arraignment, and evidence that could support a dismissal or better plea deal sits unread because there simply aren't enough hours
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