Getting Started with Kurzly: From Scattered Evidence to a Lawyer-Ready Brief

You probably have the pieces of your case already: screenshots, emails, PDFs, a voice memo, maybe a pay stub. They are just spread across your phone, your inbox and a few folders. Kurzly puts them in one place, reads them, and turns them into a timeline and a structured brief you can hand to a lawyer.

This guide walks through the first session. Most people get from an empty account to a first brief in well under an hour.

Kurzly is a preparation tool. It is not a law firm and it does not give legal advice. For advice about your situation, talk to a licensed attorney. Kurzly helps you walk into that conversation organized.

1) Look at the sample case first

Before you add anything of your own, open the sample case on your dashboard. It is a made-up California wage case with 15 documents. Every tab is filled in, so you can see what Kurzly produces: the summary, the timeline, the evidence list, and the finished lawyer brief. The sample is read-only, so you can click around without breaking anything.

2) Create your case

Click Add New Case and tell Kurzly what happened in your own words. It asks a few follow-up questions, like who is involved, when things happened, and what outcome you want, and sets up the case from your answers. You can change the name and details later.

A plain description is enough. You do not need legal terms.

3) Upload your evidence

Drag files onto the case or use Upload Files. Kurzly reads:

• PDFs and Word documents, including scanned pages
• Screenshots and photos of texts, emails, letters or notices
• Audio and video recordings, which are transcribed with timestamps
• Web pages, when you paste a link

Each item gets analyzed on its own: a short title, a summary, the key points, and a category such as "Financial Record" or "Digital Message". You can watch the progress on the Evidence tab. Upload the originals when you can. A screenshot of a screenshot loses the date and time the original carried.

4) Check the timeline

The Timeline tab puts events from all of your evidence in date order and marks the turning points. Read it once from top to bottom. If a date is wrong or an event is missing, fix it there. The timeline is what a lawyer usually asks for first.

5) Ask questions in the chat

The case chat has read all of your evidence. Ask it the way you would ask a paralegal:

• "What does the evidence show about the hours I worked after clocking out?"
• "Where do my manager's texts contradict the final warning?"
• "What is still missing that a lawyer will want to see?"

Answers point back to the specific documents they come from, so you can check them. The chat can also look up the law and current information on the web when a question needs it.

6) Build the lawyer brief

Open the Brief tab and generate the brief. It organizes the case the way an attorney reviews one:

• a one-line summary and the key facts
• the legal questions, with the evidence for each part of each question
• contradictions between documents
• defenses the other side is likely to raise
• an evidence index, open items, and next steps

Read it and correct anything that is wrong. You know your case better than any tool.

7) Share it with your lawyer

From the Brief tab you can share a link. Your lawyer can read the brief without creating an account and leave comments or ask for more documents right on the page. You can also export the case as a PDF.

Your data

Your case data is encrypted and is not used to train AI models. Only you and the people you invite can see your case.

If you get stuck

Use Support in the menu to send us a message. We usually reply within one to two business days.