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Matter Triage is a litigation matter intelligence, deadline extraction, and document reasoning platform I built to help lawyers turn large volumes of case documents into structured, usable matter data. Lawyers can upload PDFs, Word documents, text files, or entire folders, and the system automatically ingests, stores, OCR-processes where necessary, chunks, embeds, and analyzes the file set in the background, including at bulk scale with parallel upload and processing, retry handling, status tracking, and support for very large document volumes. Once uploaded, documents can be organized into individual matters so that each lawsuit or file becomes a unified working record rather than a loose collection of documents. From there, the platform uses LLM-powered extraction to classify document type, identify jurisdictional signals, extract parties and roles, capture document dates, key events, and neutral summaries, and, most importantly, detect deadlines with structured fields including deadline type, date expression, triggering event, responsible party, consequence if missed, confidence level, and citations. It also includes a citation-grounded RAG chat layer that allows a lawyer to ask practical questions such as who the parties are, what deadlines exist, what happened on a particular date, or what the major issues are, with strict file and page citations, source quotes, coverage tracking, and a documented fallback when an answer is not found in the record. On the review side, the platform gives the user a Matter Index view, a Deadlines table, a Timeline view, matter-level filtering, source inspection, reviewed-deadline tracking, and CSV or JSON export so that extracted legal information can be reviewed, verified, and used downstream. Technically, it is built with React 19, Tailwind CSS 4, tRPC, Express.js, vector embeddings, MySQL, S3 storage, and a modern batch-processing architecture designed for real litigation workflow rather than simple document summarization. What makes the product valuable is that it is not just a chat interface over files - it is a litigation triage and matter intelligence engine built around traceability, structure, and legal usefulness. The broader vision is to build on this foundation into full document automation driven by extracted key facts, workflow generation based on what the system learns from matter patterns, contradiction detection across records, stronger citation verification, and privacy-preserving local LLM deployment so a lawyer can run an intelligent chat and workflow layer locally on any file or matter without sacrificing confidentiality. In that sense, Matter Triage is the beginning of a much larger legal operating system: one that starts with document triage and deadline intelligence, but can expand into drafting, automation, private matter analysis, and end-to-end legal workflow creation.