Court-Ready AI is The Waldrep Company's consulting and training practice for forensic units, litigation teams, and investigators. We set up AI workflows that save real hours on case administration, research, and report preparation, then build the documentation discipline so every AI touchpoint can be explained on the stand.
It starts with a 20-minute fit call, no charge. If the AI Exposure Review fits, it is $1,500: a 90-minute structured session plus a written AI Exposure Snapshot within 3 business days. The full fee credits toward the Assessment within 90 days.
Across US workplaces, 78% of surveyed employees admit to using AI tools their employer has not approved, and 49% have hidden that use. In legal work, 79% of professionals now use AI while 53% say their firm has no AI policy or they are unaware of one. Law enforcement is heading the same direction: 51% of agencies plan AI integration within two years, and 60% are worried about the regulatory constraints.
If you run a digital evidence team, three worries probably sound familiar:
The courtroom record says those worries are earned. By mid-2026, a public tracker had logged roughly 1,500 court decisions worldwide involving AI-fabricated citations, with sanctions reaching five figures and, in one case, a license suspension.
None of those experts planned to end up in a written opinion. They just never documented what the AI did, who checked it, or why it was reliable.
In Ferlito v. Harbor Freight (E.D.N.Y. 2025), expert testimony was admitted where the expert wrote his report first and used AI only to check it afterward. That case is the design spine of everything we build:
There is no digital-forensics AI standard to hide behind yet. SWGDE has published no best-practice standard on AI-assisted digital forensic examination; its only AI-titled document is a 2021 informational overview on video analysis. That vacuum cuts both ways: nothing certifies you, and nothing protects you.
What stands in for a standard right now is documentation discipline, anchored to the governance frameworks buyers and courts already recognize, principally the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and, where certification matters, ISO/IEC 42001.
That discipline is what Court-Ready AI installs.
Ninety structured minutes with us, then a written AI Exposure Snapshot in your hands within 3 business days: where AI is already touching your work (approved or not) and what to fix first. Prepaid for private organizations; government agencies can use a purchase order. If you go deeper, the review costs you nothing extra. It starts with a 20-minute fit call at no charge.
Start with the Free Fit CallOne day, up to 20 seats, for agencies, prosecutors, and accredited labs. Where AI fails in court and why, and what your unit's documentation should look like before anyone touches a chatbot. This is training, and it buys like training: purchase orders and net-30 accepted for government, grant-compatible.
Bring the workshop to your unit →An AI exposure map covering shadow AI and the AI embedded in your forensic and eDiscovery tools, a green/yellow/red data-use matrix, a vendor-neutral platform recommendation, a draft acceptable-use policy and AI-use disclosure standard marked for your counsel's sign-off, three pilot workflow specifications, a 90-day roadmap, and a leadership briefing. No case data required, ever.
Start with the free fit call →Up to 3 workflows and 15 users. Week 1 architecture, week 2 build, week 3 validation, week 4 training and handoff, then 30 days of support. Your team runs the validation on real data inside your own environment; we score outputs only.
Start with the free fit call →Ongoing governance for up to 25 users. Event-triggered revalidation when a model version changes, a prompt or template is edited, or a new integration lands. Quarterly counsel-ready governance status report, monthly office hours, an annual refresher, and a first incident consult included.
Start with the free fit call →Most AI consultants will tell you what they can do. In this field, what we refuse to do is the better credential.
Every one of these lines exists because someone will eventually ask you, under oath, how your AI program works. Each answer should be documented and boring. We hold our own casework to a stricter line than any of this, and we publish it: read our AI policy.
Eric L. Waldrep, MCFE (Magnet Certified Forensics Examiner), certified UAS/Drone forensics examiner, U.S. State Department ATA Cyber Mentor. 27 years in law enforcement, including 11 as a detective. Digital forensics since 2007 (19 years). Digital evidence expert witness. Proficient with Cellebrite extraction and analysis tooling.
Eric directs every Court-Ready AI engagement. Where supervised associate work is used, it is disclosed in writing and independently verified.
Want to know if this fits your unit? The fit call is 20 minutes and free →
The examiners already using unapproved AI are not going to raise their hands. A 90-minute review will tell you where you actually stand, in writing, before opposing counsel asks the question for you. Agency looking at the workshop instead? Same call, same calendar.
Grab a 20-minute fit call directly on Eric's calendar. No charge, no obligation, no slide deck. On the call: where AI is already showing up in your operation, which engagement fits (if any), and what you would get in writing. You will know by the end whether the Exposure Review is worth your $1,500.
Book the Fit CallYour inquiry is in. Eric replies personally, usually within one business day, with fit-call times or the answers you asked for. If it is urgent, call (251) 216-1164.
The 12 questions opposing counsel will ask about AI in your casework, what a strong answer sounds like, and a scoring rubric to find your gaps before someone else does.