Voltaire By Voltaire Legal

What It Does

Voltaire is a jury research tool for lawyers and litigation consultants. It examines public, social, and behavioral records on prospective jurors and witnesses, then applies AI and behavioral analysis to produce profiles, predicted leanings, and risk assessments to support jury selection. The product starts from basic data such as address, age, education, and employment, then layers in legal history and social media activity from platforms including Twitter and Facebook.

What We Found

Voltaire was founded in 2014 (the product debuted publicly around October 2015) by Basit Mustafa, its former CEO, and is based in Telluride, Colorado. Coverage in Artificial Lawyer (2017) and the ABA Journal reported that the software draws on IBM Watson for psycholinguistic and behavioral analysis to estimate juror biases and likely voting. The company has reported availability across 100+ jurisdictions in states including California, Colorado, Illinois, Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, New York, and the District of Columbia.

Voltaire competes directly with Vijilent in the social-media-driven jury research space — practitioners evaluating one should look at both.

What We Haven’t Verified

• The IBM Watson integration and the accuracy of predicted juror leanings — vendor-described, not independently tested.
• Pricing — not publicly published.
• Current ownership and operating status; the founder is described as “former CEO” in available sources.