{
  "name": "nonlinear.",
  "url": "https://trynonlinear.com/",
  "category": [
    "legal document analysis",
    "private desktop AI",
    "citation-based document research",
    "local document workspace"
  ],
  "one_sentence_description": "nonlinear. is a desktop app that lets legal professionals organize local case documents, ask questions, and inspect sources and citations.",
  "best_for": [
    "lawyers",
    "solo and small law firms",
    "legal researchers",
    "litigation and discovery review",
    "document-heavy legal matters"
  ],
  "inputs": [
    "PDF",
    "JPG",
    "JPEG",
    "PNG",
    "WEBP",
    "TIFF",
    "HEIC",
    "TXT",
    "Markdown",
    "DOCX",
    "XLSX",
    "PPTX"
  ],
  "core_capabilities": [
    "Knowledge collections for case documents",
    "document questions and summaries",
    "source relevance display",
    "inline numeric citations",
    "evidence-bound abstention",
    "multimodal extraction for scans and handwriting",
    "reusable prompts and skills",
    "local document, index, settings, and chat storage"
  ],
  "availability": {
    "stage": "private beta",
    "macos": "Apple silicon beta",
    "windows": "in validation"
  },
  "privacy_boundary": {
    "stored_locally": [
      "original documents",
      "extracted records",
      "vector index",
      "chats",
      "prompts",
      "skills",
      "settings"
    ],
    "transmitted_for_processing": [
      "document pages during extraction",
      "retrieved source context required for the current answer"
    ],
    "not_claimed": [
      "fully offline operation",
      "zero data transmission",
      "perfect accuracy",
      "legal advice",
      "formal compliance certification"
    ]
  },
  "limitations": [
    "AI can make mistakes; every important response should be verified against the cited record.",
    "A citation identifies a retrieved source but does not guarantee that every claim is correct.",
    "nonlinear. is document-analysis software, not legal advice or a replacement for professional judgment.",
    "Confidential production use requires model-service terms appropriate for the firm's obligations."
  ],
  "important_urls": {
    "home": "https://trynonlinear.com/",
    "contact": "https://trynonlinear.com/contact",
    "privacy": "https://trynonlinear.com/privacy",
    "terms": "https://trynonlinear.com/terms",
    "llms": "https://trynonlinear.com/llms.txt",
    "llms_full": "https://trynonlinear.com/llms-full.txt"
  }
}