Open source // practitioner-led // in development
Open Source
Discovery
Processor
We want OSDP to become the open discovery workbench criminal-defense teams deserve: local-first, source-grounded, understandable, and built around the people doing the work.
Sources // read-only What we want OSDP to be
From a drive full of files to a case team that can see the whole record.
Discovery tools should help a defense team understand what arrived, find what matters, and show its source. They should not require the team to surrender sensitive material, trust an unexplained result, or buy into a closed system just to do careful work.
OSDP is our attempt to build that alternative: an open workbench that can receive messy productions, make them reviewable, support the work of a case, and keep the evidence visible all the way through.
The north star
One dependable place to understand, review, and work with discovery.
- 01
Make discovery understandable
Turn mixed folders, rolling productions, load files, documents, email, and media into one coherent picture of what the case team actually received.
- 02
Make case work traceable
Let people search, review, organize, cite, and build on the record while keeping every useful result connected to its source.
- 03
Make powerful tools accessible
Give resource-constrained defense teams an open, local-first workbench that remains useful without AI and uses it only on their terms.
Where development is, roughly
The foundation exists. The full vision does not—yet.
OSDP is an active, early-stage project rather than a supported public release. This is the broad shape of the work today; the repository is the source of truth for what has actually landed.
- 01 Working
Foundation
Local case workspaces, read-only source handling, inventory, and core processing.
- 02 Taking shape
Review
Search, source-aware viewing, notes, organization, and portable work product.
- 03 In development
Assistance
Optional, grounded model-assisted workflows with visible sources and boundaries.
- 04 Not yet
Public release
Packaging, real-world validation, security review, documentation, and support remain.
Curious now? Read the code, inspect the roadmap, or download what is available on GitHub. You—or your agents—can check the current state directly.
See OSDP on GitHubBuilt for the people doing the work
Defense teams deserve tools that respect the record.
OSDP is being shaped with criminal-defense attorneys, investigators, mitigation specialists, paralegals, and litigation-support staff in mind—and with the belief that careful, source-grounded tooling should be available to everyone.