Trial presentation, for criminal court

The right evidence, at the right moment.

Type the exhibit number. Press Enter. The exhibit is on the courtroom display — and nothing else is.

Windows and macOS · Works with the network cable unplugged · Built for prosecutors and defense attorneys, not litigation-support departments

Try it

This is the whole interaction

Type an exhibit number below, or click one in the list. Watch what happens when you ask for one the court has not admitted.

Evidence · your screen only

    Private messages appear here. The jury never sees them.
    Jury seesBlank
    Courtroom display · blank

    Press Esc to blank the display, exactly as you would in court. Images shown are synthetic sample evidence.

    How it works

    Two screens, and a hard line between them

    Kairos runs two windows. One is yours. One is the jury's. They are separate programs, so a fault in the first cannot put anything on the second.

    Your screen

    The full evidence list, admitted or not. Search, notes, witness outlines, exhibit numbering, and every technical message Kairos produces. You work here freely.

    The courtroom screen

    One exhibit at a time and nothing else. No desktop, no taskbar, no notifications, no filenames, no error dialogs, no software branding. If the program faults, it goes black.

    The part that matters

    What Kairos refuses to do

    Any presentation tool can show a photograph. The reason to choose one for criminal trial is what it will not show. These are guarantees, and each is enforced by an automated test that runs on every build.

    Unadmitted evidence Cannot reach the courtroom display. Kairos tells you privately and the screen does not change.
    Typos and misses An exhibit number that does not exist changes nothing. What you type is never visible to the jury.
    Withdrawn admission An exhibit the court excludes comes off the screen immediately, even mid-testimony.
    Technical failures A file that will not open, a decoder that fails, a crash: the display keeps its last safe frame or goes black. Errors are never shown publicly.
    Your original evidence Never modified. Kairos works from its own copies, and annotations are stored separately from the exhibit.
    The internet Not required. Not for opening a case, not for playing media, not for licensing. A courtroom is not a place to discover the Wi-Fi is down.
    Features

    Everything a criminal trial needs. Deliberately nothing more.

    Kairos is not a discounted litigation-support platform. It is a courtroom tool for lawyers who run their own trials.

    Instant recall Available

    Type the number, press Enter. Alphanumeric exhibits like 12A, P-12 and Defense A work, and are never confused with one another.

    Admission control Available

    Mark exhibits admitted as the court rules. Only admitted evidence can be published, and status changes take effect instantly.

    Evidence import Available

    Drag in a discovery folder. Kairos copies everything locally, fingerprints it, and flags probable duplicates without deleting anything.

    Video and audio Available

    Body-camera, surveillance and interview-room exports, played through a VLC-class engine rather than whatever codecs the machine happens to have.

    Playback control Available

    Pause, precise seek, frame stepping, variable speed and mute — the controls you actually use while a witness is describing what happened.

    Blank, hide, restore Available

    One key blacks out the courtroom. Hide keeps the exhibit loaded so bringing it back is instant, and stops the audio at the same time.

    Documents and PDFs In build

    Office documents converted on import, pages presented with the same controls as photographs. No copy of Word required.

    Zoom and annotation In build

    True high-resolution zoom that stays sharp, plus highlights, arrows, callouts and freehand marks composited over the exhibit, never burned into it.

    Saved views In build

    Pin a page, a crop and a set of annotations as a reusable view, ready to recall in closing without rebuilding it.

    Side by side In build

    Two exhibits on the courtroom display at once, for the comparison that makes the point better than any argument.

    Witness playlists In build

    Sequence the exhibits for each witness, with your examination outline beside them on your screen only. Step out to another exhibit and return without losing your place.

    Opening and closing In build

    A slide builder scoped to argument: text, exhibits, clips and callouts, with presenter notes. Jump to an exhibit and come back to the same slide.

    Available means shipping in the current preview build. In build means specified and under development for version 1. We would rather label the difference than blur it.

    Built for the room

    Designed around the cost of failing

    Local first

    Evidence is copied into the case on import. Unplug the drive, lose the network, and the exhibit still appears.

    Survives the laptop

    Work is saved continuously and the case is written transactionally, so a forced shutdown costs you the last few seconds, not the trial.

    Licensing never blocks court

    Offline entitlement with generous grace. A licence check will never be the reason an exhibit does not appear.

    Windows security model

    Runs under your existing sign-in, BitLocker, endpoint policy and device management rather than a parallel identity system.

    Optional case encryption

    Encrypt a case at rest for sealed or sensitive matters, with the key held by your organisation.

    No telemetry by default

    No evidence, filenames or case metadata leave the machine. A prosecutor should never have to explain why the software phoned home.

    Who it is for

    Priced so every attorney can have it

    Presentation software is usually licensed per seat at a price that forces an office to share a handful of copies. That is backwards. The lawyer who needs it is whoever is in trial that week.

    Individual

    Solo practitioners and independent trial consultants.

    Small office

    Small criminal-defense firms and rural prosecutor offices.

    Agency

    District attorney and public defender offices, allocated by seat count.

    Enterprise

    Statewide systems and large agencies, with volume activation and managed deployment.

    Pricing is being set now and will be published before general release. If you want to influence it, tell us the size of your office when you request access.

    Questions

    Straight answers

    Is Kairos a discovery or case-management system?

    No, and it will not become one. Kairos starts once you already have the evidence. It does not manage discovery, chain of custody, deadlines or your practice. Those products exist and are not what a lawyer needs while standing in front of a jury.

    Does it work without internet?

    Entirely. Opening a case, playing media, recalling exhibits and licensing all work with the machine offline. Courtroom Wi-Fi is not a dependency we are willing to accept.

    What formats does it handle?

    Photographs and common images, video and audio including the awkward exports from surveillance DVRs, body cameras and interview rooms, and documents. Media plays through a VLC-class engine so you are not dependent on what codecs the machine happens to have.

    Can I move a case to the courtroom laptop?

    A case is a self-contained folder, so it copies. Packaged export and import with integrity checking is on the version 1 list.

    Do I need a technician to run it?

    No. That is close to the whole point. If you can type an exhibit number you can run Kairos, and the essential workflow takes about ten minutes to learn.

    Mac or Windows?

    Both. Windows is the primary target because that is what most offices deploy, and the macOS build runs from the same codebase.

    What stage is it at?

    Preview. The courtroom loop — import, number, admit, recall, present, blank — works today and is what early testers are using. The features marked "in build" above are specified and under development. We will keep that distinction honest on this page.

    Early access

    Try it on a real case file

    We are looking for prosecutors and defense attorneys willing to put a preview build in front of an actual courtroom display and tell us where it falls short. No cost, and no obligation.

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