About
The adaptive semantic runtime for legal work.
Legal work composes evidence and governing material across adjudication, transactions, corporate governance, regulation, compliance, taxation, and intellectual property. Adela interprets legal sources the way a runtime interprets programs: each artifact is read under the grammar of its kind, unfamiliar kinds and forums have their grammars learned once and reused everywhere, and every resulting proposition stays anchored to the source witness that established it.
Executable grammars and forum authority
Rather than forcing documents into a fixed schema or practice area, Adela separates grammar declaration, source reading, interpretation, and presentation. Published rulebooks, local rules, standing orders, and filing portal specifications are compiled into executable requirements for structure, mandatory statements, and formatting. When an unfamiliar document format arrives, the runtime induces a grammar from unconsumed page remainder and admits it only after deterministic type and coverage checks.
Witnessed propositions and context preservation
Reading under an admitted grammar produces typed propositions backed by page-level witnesses. The runtime preserves the context of production—who spoke, when, and under what attestation—so an exhibit attached to a filing retains its own speaker and scope rather than becoming the filer's assertion. Blank or unreadable values remain explicitly open until evidence or review supplies them.
Scope-indexed resolution and durable execution
References resolve across four scopes—from page mention, to document entity, to matter entity, to a canonical person, organization, court, or authority—while preserving the original surface and witness at every step. Timelines, document views, briefs, and filing packages project from that same proposition store, and durable workflows resume dependent work automatically whenever new evidence or authority arrives.