Built for high-stakes decisions where context determines outcomes
Explore the Texas Trial Strategist™ Demo
Initial jurisdiction: Texas · Built to scale nationally
Click either demo below to explore how the Texas Trial Strategist™ presents legal research and strategic context in a structured, decision-ready format
(These demonstration environments are designed to comply with unauthorized practice of law (UPL) regulations and use real statutes and public case law with synthetic scenarios, placeholder judges, and illustrative analytics. Percentages shown are simulated for demonstrative purposes only.)
Demonstration content is illustrative and non-exhaustive.
The Texas Trial Strategist™ demonstrates how complex legal information can be translated into decision-ready context for criminal defense work.
The prototype illustrates analytical outcomes and strategic framing — not internal methods — within the constraints of real-world defense practice.
This system is designed to support professional judgment under pressure, not replace it.
Certain elements of this platform are proprietary. This overview demonstrates outcomes, not internal methods.
The Texas Trial Strategist™ is a research-first analytical system designed to help criminal defense attorneys organize complex legal information into structured, decision-ready context.
Rather than generating legal advice or automating decisions, the system organizes complex legal information into structured analytical views that surface relevant procedural and strategic considerations.
The platform functions as an analytical support engine — not an advisor — reinforcing professional judgment under extreme time pressure without replacing it.
The Texas Trial Strategist™ is grounded in legal research, not automated advice.
Built on real statutes and public case law sources
Designed to surface cited legal material, not conclusions
Outputs are reviewable, traceable, and attorney-interpreted
The demo environment illustrates methodology and workflow using synthetic scenarios. Live deployment will incorporate jurisdiction-specific datasets selected and controlled by licensed attorneys.
Attorneys remain in full control throughout the research process.
The system does not act independently
No legal advice is generated
No decisions are made on behalf of the user
The Texas Trial Strategist™ assists with organizing and visualizing research so attorneys can make informed decisions using their own professional judgment.
Attorney judgment remains central at every stage of analysis.
The platform is designed from the ground up to avoid the unauthorized practice of law.
Provides attorney-facing research and analytical context; legal judgment and advice remain solely with licensed counsel
No autonomous decisions; attorneys retain full control and judgment
The Texas Trial Strategist™ supports research and strategic analysis while preserving the attorney's exclusive role in legal interpretation and advocacy.
Criminal defense attorneys operate under extreme time pressure, fragmented information systems, and increasing procedural complexity.
Traditional legal research tools were not designed to surface strategic context or visualize analytical pathways. The Texas Trial Strategist™ demonstrates a new category of legal technology – one focused on research clarity, workflow structure, and decision support without replacing professional judgment.
There are approximately 252,159 criminal defense attorneys in the United States, practicing in one of the highest-volume and most procedurally complex areas of law. Millions of criminal cases move through state and local courts each year, creating sustained pressure on defense counsel to analyze statutes, case law, and procedural rules quickly and accurately.
In high-volume criminal jurisdictions, attorneys often have as little as 12 minutes per case to make decisions that can shape years — or decades — of a person's life. Yet most legal research tools remain document-centric, requiring attorneys to manually synthesize information under extreme time constraints.
This gap creates demand for tools that improve research clarity and analytical efficiency without automating legal judgment, by structuring legal information and surfacing relevant context in environments where time is the scarcest resource. Defense Decision Intelligence™ is designed to support attorneys operating under these conditions by structuring research and analytical context in a practice environment where time is the scarcest resource.
From Inmate to Innovator
Rewriting the Rules of Criminal Defense
Crimson Blaze Legaltech was built in response to a structural failure inside the criminal justice system.
I didn't learn criminal law in a classroom. I learned it inside the Texas criminal justice system — from both sides of the line.
As a paralegal, I worked cases, studied procedure, and fought within the rules. As a former TDCJ inmate, I lived the consequences of how those rules fail in practice. That dual exposure revealed something most systems miss: outcomes are rarely decided by law alone. They are decided by timing, leverage, local practice, and access to the right information before it's too late.
After my release, I began building what I couldn't find — a structured way to understand how real cases actually move through real Texas courts. That work started without capital, without institutional backing, and without margin for error. It started because people who had run out of options found me anyway.
Crimson Blaze is not a generic AI platform. It is a system shaped by lived exposure, professional experience, and repeated observation of where justice breaks down under pressure.
The advantage here is not theoretical. It cannot be replicated by funding alone or by abstract engineering. It comes from years spent inside the system — working it. surviving it, and mapping its failure points with precision.
Crimson Blaze exists to turn that hard-earned understanding into decision-ready context for criminal defense, in a system where mistakes compound quickly and the cost of delay is measured in years.
Tori Patrick
Founder & CEO