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    Deposition Preparation

    Turn a transcript and its exhibits into a cited testimony matrix, a deposition outline, and an exhibit list.

    Walk into the deposition ready to lead

    Every page of testimony holds potential leverage. The skill finds it before the deposition, so your team walks in with the credibility map already built.

    Find the signal, faster

    Every material statement is extracted with a transcript citation and a verbatim quote. No more rereading the transcript to find the line you need.

    See where the story breaks

    Every contradiction between testimony and documents is logged with both citations. The credibility map is built before you walk in.

    Bring the binder, not the binder list

    The proposed exhibit list comes with purpose, foundation, and key page for each. The exhibit binder is built before the deposition, not the night before.

    What the skill does for you

    Four stages, one run. From transcript to outline.

    1. 1

      Scope the witness record

      The record, inventoried

      • Every transcript and document is inventoried: witness, date, page count, kind
      • Unreadable files go to an Exceptions sheet
      • The record date range is established

      The outcome: A clean, defensible scope for the deposition prep.

    2. 2

      Extract testimony and document facts

      Every statement cited

      • Every material statement, with transcript citation and verbatim quote
      • Every document fact the witness may be asked about, with source citation
      • Each gets a stable id and a working helpful, harmful, or neutral flag

      The outcome: A testimony and document log where every row can be traced to a page or a file.

    3. 3

      Map themes and contradictions

      The credibility map

      • Testimony is clustered into themes, each with its supporting testimony and documents
      • Every contradiction between testimony and documents is logged with both citations
      • Contradictions are reported, never resolved

      The outcome: The themes and the conflicts, on one page, before the deposition.

    4. 4

      Build the outline and exhibit list

      The binder, ready

      • A question outline organized by theme, with citations
      • A proposed exhibit list with purpose, foundation, and key page for each
      • Generated from the same fact base as the matrix, so they never disagree

      The outcome: A draft for attorney review that is the deposition in miniature.

    A sample deposition, run end to end

    Meridian Health Systems v. Brightline Analytics (fictional). Deposition of Priya Raman, VP of Delivery, taken January 15, 2026. Eleven documents in; the output below is real.

    testimony entries, each cited to a page
    28testimony entries, each cited to a page
    document facts, each cited to a file
    10document facts, each cited to a file
    themes with supporting testimony and documents
    6themes with supporting testimony and documents
    contradictions, both sides cited
    3contradictions, both sides cited

    The central contradiction (real output)

    Raman deposition, Jan 15, 2026 · theme: engineer idleness

    SideStatementCitation
    TestimonyRaman acknowledges the May 12, 2025 email stating two engineers “have been idle since May 5, 2025”Raman dep. p. 4; Ex. 14
    TestimonyThen testifies they “were blocked on the Meridian workstream” and “were doing other work in the meantime”Raman dep. p. 9
    DocumentTimesheet summary shows Park at 38 hours and Patel at 32 hours on Brightline internal workstreams the week of May 5; “blocked” entries only from May 26Ex. 27

    The skill does not weigh the tension. It puts both sides on the table, cited, with the proposed exhibit already numbered and its foundation noted.

    Built to be defensible

    Runs on your infrastructure

    The skill operates on your own Pokee deployment, including fully offline or air gapped environments. Matter data does not leave your control.

    Every statement is cited

    Every testimony entry and every document fact points to a transcript page or a source document. If a statement cannot be cited, it is not in the output.

    No legal conclusions

    Outputs are labeled draft for attorney review. The skill does not predict how the witness will answer, and it does not draft questions that assume an answer.

    See the credibility map before the deposition

    Run the skill on one real deposition of your choosing, with your own transcript and documents, on your own infrastructure.

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    Pairs with

    Early Case Assessment

    The chronology feeds the deposition outline.

    Suite

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