Merlin Search Technologies

01/20/2026

Your partner needs comprehensive testimony analysis from over 1 million documents. The closing argument is tomorrow.
Traditional approach: Days of keyword searching, weeks of document review, guaranteed all-nighters.
Alchemy's approach: About 90 seconds. Total.
I just filmed a demonstration using actual trial documents from the BP Deepwater Horizon case. No concept video. No staged demo. Real documents, real complexity, real results.
The dataset: Over 1 million documents, with only 9,300 actually relevant to the trial. The rest is pure noise.
Here's what happened:

Found the 100 most relevant documents in 4 seconds
Analyzed and summarized all 100 documents in 25 seconds
Generated an 8-page comprehensive report in about 60 seconds

Cost: $4.71
Time: About 90 seconds
Your evening: Free
This isn't about replacing lawyers. It's about giving you back your time for strategic work that actually requires your expertise.
Watch the full demonstration: [LINK]
What discovery tasks are consuming your team's time that could be handled in seconds instead of days?

Watch:

Watch as Merlin Alchemy transforms an impossible discovery task into a one-minute miracle. Here is a link to the unedited report we created in this video. The…

01/15/2026

𝗧𝗲𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀: 𝗔 𝗙𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲'𝘀 𝗔𝗜 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁
Last week, the Wall Street Journal wrote about how Judge Xavier Rodriguez was using AI in the courtroom. This week, Judge Rodriguez published the full story in Judicature, the journal of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law.

The article, "𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗜: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲," describes how he used AI to manage a seven-week voting rights trial with 80 witnesses, nearly 1,000 exhibits, and over 5,000 pages of transcripts. Read the article: https://tinyurl.com/4x4v4dry

Judge Rodriguez details his experience using Merlin Alchemy throughout the article, from document search to transcript summarization to testing AI-drafted findings of fact.

He ran a head-to-head test: his law clerks summarized testimony manually while Alchemy did the same work. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀. 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘆 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝘃𝗲, 𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀 - 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀.

He also tested whether AI could draft findings of fact. After the trial, it took his chambers ten months to produce a 140-page opinion. 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗔𝗹𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘆, 𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗮 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀.

His conclusion: AI isn't ready to replace judges, but it can dramatically reduce the tedious legwork of locating, collecting, and describing facts in the record.

I had the privilege of working directly with Judge Rodriguez on this project, helping refine prompts and test Alchemy's capabilities against the demands of a complex federal case. He's the pioneer here. We were proud to assist.

We're now working with Magistrate Judge Allison Goddard to show how this technology can be just as powerful for appellate courts. If you're in the judiciary and interested in exploring what AI can do, we'd be happy to help.