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Getting Started

Welcome to Second Seat, a Legal Intelligence platform built for criminal defense attorneys and prosecutors.

What is Second Seat?

Second Seat is your second chair — a knowledgeable, jurisdiction-aware research partner that remembers your practice, your cases, and your preferences.

  • Unified chat interface — ask questions, manage cases, run deep research, and analyze documents all in one conversation. No mode switching.
  • Multi-jurisdiction support — New York and California at full depth, Rhode Island and South Carolina at basic coverage, all 50 states at foundational level.
  • Persistent memory — Second Seat learns your jurisdiction, court preferences, and case types over time. Case knowledge (facts, charges, timeline, legal theories) accumulates across conversations.
  • Deep research — comprehensive case law research with multi-source search, analysis, and memo synthesis, triggered automatically when needed.
  • Case management — create, organize, and track cases. Link conversations to cases to build structured intelligence.
  • Document analysis — upload and query legal documents with semantic search.

Quick Start

  1. Sign in to your account at app.secondseat.ai
  2. Start a conversation — just type your question. No setup, no mode selection.
  3. Link to a case — select a recent case from the chips on the new chat screen, or ask Second Seat to create one.
  4. Upload documents to query across your case files.

Need Help?

Contact our support team at support@secondseat.ai.