Owned product · independent publication
The studio behind Court Daemon.
I created and operate Court Daemon, an independent publisher of searchable trial archives built from courtroom recordings, official transcripts, filings, and public court information.
Court Daemon is the public publisher. Trice Digital is the studio that built it and keeps it running.
The problem
Public is not the same as usable.
A major trial can leave behind hundreds of hours of video, thousands of transcript pages, scattered filings, and no practical way to search across them.
Court Daemon organizes that material around the people, proceedings, evidence, locations, and exact words in the record. The source remains the authority. The archive makes it easier to use.
Text, source, and context stay together.
A line-level deep link opens the exact place in the certified transcript with its speaker, source time, proceeding, synchronized courtroom video, and related context intact.
Open this Murdaugh transcriptThe publication
One network. Seven distinct records.
Product depth
The interface follows the question.
Search is only the beginning. Different records call for different ways to see sequence, compare testimony, and move between a claim and its source.
Six years of proceedings, seen at once.
The Dan Markel appearance map connects 89 people to 36 trial days across four prosecutions, with every mark leading back to an exact proceeding.
Explore the Markel appearance map
Conflicting accounts remain visible.
The Karen Read timeline places materially different accounts beside one another and gives readers a direct path back to the testimony behind each statement.
Review the sourced timeline event
An archive can have a point of view about design, not the verdict.
The O.J. Simpson civil deposition is a self-contained reading and viewing experience inside The Simpson Matter. Its period-specific interface is unmistakable, while the source, transcript, and exact-moment links remain the foundation.
Open the O.J. Simpson depositionThe relationship
One project, two kinds of work.
Court Daemon is an owned publication I created and operate through Trice Digital. I am responsible for both sides of it: building the product and deciding how the record is sourced, reviewed, corrected, and presented.
Product engineering
- Information architecture for difficult records
- Search, exact deep links, and synchronized media
- Data systems that hold up across multiple archives
- Distinct, responsive public interfaces
Publishing stewardship
- Source selection and visible provenance
- Neutral summaries, labels, and case context
- Human review of material corrections
- Limitations, feedback, and correction routes
The trust model
The record stays in charge.
These are research archives, not official court records. When accuracy matters, readers should verify the text against the linked recording or the official record.
- 01Preserve the source
Keep recordings, official transcripts, filings, and provenance visible.
- 02Show the connection
Let readers move from a summary or line directly back to its evidence.
- 03Correct in public
Treat transcript text as fallible and give readers a clear way to flag it.
“Building Court Daemon requires the same kind of work I bring to complex client projects: understanding a difficult body of content, finding the right structure, building the system around it, and staying responsible for what reaches the public.”
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