The judgment your firm applies to AI, kept as a pattern.
Good AI output is rarely the first output. An attorney corrects it, several times, before it is usable, and that correction is professional judgment. Pattern Capture records the shape of that work, so it does not vanish when the session closes.
Getting a usable draft out of an AI tool takes rounds. The first few are often unusable. What turns them into something a firm can send is an attorney rewriting the instructions, feeding in documents, correcting the output, and applying judgment, over and over. That effort is not waste. It is expertise, applied in real time.
And today it disappears the moment the window closes. The next person at the firm starts again at round one, relearning what a senior attorney already worked out.
It keeps the pattern, not the text
When an attorney signs off on an AI research or drafting entry, Candor asks two quick questions: how many rounds of correction it took, and what kinds of correction they were. That is all it stores.
The task type. The number of rounds. The categories of correction. The time it took, and who did it. Never a prompt, never a response, never the draft itself.
A record of the shape of the work, carrying nothing that could identify a client or a matter.
Where your AI work reliably needs a second pass.
Across a few months the pattern becomes visible. "Demand letters here consistently take three rounds, mostly citation format and tone." That tells a firm which task types are close to ready and which are not, and where a review step or a training session actually pays off, without anyone reading a single client document.
It records more than the fact of an action, so it is opt-in and bounded.
Every other part of Candor stores that something happened, not its substance. Pattern Capture necessarily keeps more, so it is a separate product a firm chooses on purpose, with the posture in the open.
- Metadata only.No prompt, no response, no draft. Nothing that resembles client content is stored, because none of it is collected.
- Off until a firm turns it on.The firm's own administrator enables it, after a screen that states exactly what is stored and for how long. Never on by default, never switched on by us.
- Firm controlled and purgeable.A firm sets its own retention limit, enforced automatically. An administrator can delete the entire record with one click, a real delete, not a hidden copy.
- Encrypted and firm scoped.Encrypted at rest and isolated to the firm, on the same append-only, tamper-evident record as everything else in Candor.
The first of two.
A fuller version takes the worked corrections themselves, screened through the confidentiality check first, and turns them into an onboarding tool that shows a new associate the corrections senior attorneys make. It is a separate product with its own explicit opt-in. Pattern Capture comes first because it delivers the insight while storing nothing that looks like client work.
Candor records correction patterns. It does not capture a person's expertise or stand in for it, and nothing it produces is legal advice.