Lantern doesn't just parse warrants, discovery, social media productions, transcripts, and digital evidence — it tells your team what to do next: who to interview, what subpoena to write, which lead to chase first, and which evidence still needs to be pulled.
Built for investigations, intelligence, and legal operations teams
Modern investigations move at the speed of search — not the speed of stapled discovery binders.
Thousands of pages reviewed by hand — pulling deadlines forward and burning analyst hours.
Data scattered across reports, warrants, transcripts, productions, and case exports.
Relationships and patterns hidden across documents and data sources never surface.
PDFs, search warrants, discovery files, social media returns, call records, reports.
OCR, entity extraction, relationship identification, and timeline reconstruction.
Natural language search — "Show all references to fentanyl shipments."
Timelines, summaries, intelligence reports, and relationship maps — on demand.
Built for the way analysts, detectives, and prosecutors actually work.
Goes beyond parsing — Lantern reads the case and tells you the next move: who to interview, what to subpoena, leads to pursue, and gaps to close.
Ask questions in plain English across millions of pages with cited sources.
Automatically reconstruct events across communications and documents.
Identify people, emails, phones, addresses, businesses, and vehicles across sources.
Interactive intelligence graph that surfaces hidden connections instantly.
Centralized, fully searchable, with versioning and source traceability.
Full chain-of-custody logging, RBAC, SSO, and tamper-evident audit trails.
Plot cell-site hits, IP geos, rideshare pickups, ALPR reads, and travel records on one synchronized map.
Surface suspects, accounts, devices, and wallets that appear across multiple cases, units, and agencies.
Get notified the moment new evidence touches a person, number, wallet, or selector you're tracking.
Slice millions of records by entity, date, source, custodian, or warrant return — in milliseconds.
Draft, track, and reconcile legal process with returns as they come back from each provider.
Generate exhibit packets, declarations, discovery indexes, and Bates-stamped productions in one click.
Spot burner devices, structuring, dead-drop wallets, and coordinated activity the team would otherwise miss.
Reconcile the same person, phone, or transaction across telecom, banks, social, and crypto returns automatically.
Cited, source-linked answers from the entire case corpus.
Chronological reconstruction across calls, messages, and documents.
Interactive network map of people, accounts, and assets.
Lantern unifies every structured and unstructured return — communications, financials, biometrics, devices, and public records — into one searchable corpus with chain of custody intact.
Don't see a source? Lantern's ingestion engine handles any file format — if it can come back from a search warrant, Lantern can index it.
Right now Lantern fully ingests Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads warrant/subpoena returns end-to-end. The platforms below are on our roadmap — we add the next source based on customer demand and Partner Program submissions. If you can provide sample exports, we can move yours to the top of the queue.
Carriers, banks, fintech, airlines, retailers, and identity providers are all on Lantern's roadmap. Today the platform fully supports the Meta suite; provider-return parsers are added one at a time, prioritized by paying-customer demand and Partner Program sample submissions. Tell us which one you need first.
The roadmap grows with our customers. Tell us which provider or platform unblocks your next case — that's how new sources get prioritized.
Lantern ingests native warrant/subpoena returns from Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and normalizes them into one searchable timeline. New platforms are added based on customer demand — see our Partner Program if you can provide sample exports for a new source.
Pick the unit that runs your investigations — every tab is a workflow Lantern is already used for in production.
Patrol intel, detective bureaus, crime analysts, and command staff work the same evidence in one place — with a defensible audit trail from intake to indictment.
Lantern is in production with public-safety, legal, and corporate investigators — from local detective bureaus to federal task forces.
How agencies use Lantern to close cases, win at trial, and bring clarity to the hardest investigations.
A federal counterterrorism team used Lantern to fuse Meta returns, encrypted messenger productions, hawala remittance records, and trade-based money laundering exhibits into one case workspace — surfacing facilitators, money movers, and front companies tied to a designated foreign terrorist organization.
"What used to take a team of analysts months — pulling threads across financial returns, social media, and intercepts — Lantern surfaces in days, with every claim cited back to the source exhibit."
A major-city police department used Lantern across its gang and counterterrorism units to fuse years of Meta returns, CDRs, ShotSpotter alerts, and confidential informant debriefs — tying retaliatory shootings to specific crews, identifying shooters, and surfacing terror-adjacent threats to public events in the city.
"We can finally see the whole conflict on one screen — who's beefing with who, who's pulling triggers, and where the next retaliation is most likely. That changes how we deploy."
ADAs used Lantern to summarize, search, and generate exhibits across a massive multi-defendant discovery set — with citations to source page on every claim, fully defensible in court.
"Every summary Lantern produces is cited back to the page. That's non-negotiable for us — and it's why we trust it for trial prep."
Case studies are composites drawn from real deployments. Agency names withheld for operational security.
Lantern runs where your evidence already lives — inside your network, your VPC, or a fully air-gapped environment. Your data never leaves your control.
Install Lantern entirely inside your infrastructure. Ideal for classified, air-gapped, or jurisdictionally restricted environments.
We stand up a dedicated, single-tenant environment with your data isolated and your team in full control of access.
Every plan spells out who it's for, how many seats it covers, the case-load it's sized for, and what your team actually gets — not just a feature list.
You're paying for a seat — one named investigator — not per credit and not per case. Add seats as your team grows.
Each seat ships with a monthly credit pool for OCR, transcription, and AI runs. 1 credit ≈ 1 minute of processing — top up anytime.
Storage, search, tagging, sharing, and court-ready discovery exports are unlimited on every plan. Credits only burn when AI/ingest runs.
Lock in annual to save 20% per seat. Billed yearly, invoice or card.
Sign up in 30 seconds. Process your first piece of evidence on us — no card required.
Designed for investigators, analysts, attorneys, and case review teams.
Built for agencies, prosecutors, intelligence units, and enterprise investigations.
For organizations requiring maximum security and complete data control. Includes one-time $50,000+ implementation.
First line is credits — your runtime budget for ingestion and AI reports. Every row below is a feature you either get, or don't, at that tier. No fine print, no "call us" features.
| Feature | Free | Professional | Enterprise | Enterprise On-Prem |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan basics | ||||
Monthly credits (runtime for AI + ingest) | 5 credits one-time on signup | 100 / user / mo · rolls 90 days | 300 / user / mo · pooled team-wide | Unlimited · runs on your hardware |
Best for | Trying Lantern on a single file or case | Solo investigators, small legal teams, pilots | Agencies, DA offices, fusion centers | Federal, defense, IC, air-gapped programs |
Named seats | 1 user | 1–10 users | 10–250 users (volume disc. >50) | Unlimited |
Case / page volume | 1 workspace · ~5 credits of total processing | ~25 cases · ~5M pages / mo | ~250 cases · ~50M pages / mo | Unlimited — scales with hardware |
Deployment | Instant cloud workspace | Same-day cloud workspace | Dedicated tenant in 5 business days | On-prem / air-gapped in 30–60 days |
Support SLA | Community docs + help center | Email · next business day | Priority · 4-hr response · named CS | 24/7 · 1-hr critical · on-site option |
Training | Self-serve onboarding library | Self-serve + 1 live kickoff | Quarterly live + role certifications | Annual on-site + admin certification |
Contract | No contract, no card | Monthly or annual, cancel anytime | Annual, monthly invoicing available | Annual + one-time deployment fee |
| Investigation capabilities | ||||
AI Investigation Assistant (ask, summarize, recommend next steps) | — | |||
Natural-language search across all ingested evidence | — | |||
OCR & document processing — PDFs, scans, faxes, handwriting | — | |||
Audio & video transcription with speaker separation | — | |||
Entity extraction — people, places, phones, accounts, vehicles | — | |||
Relationship mapping & link analysis | — | |||
Auto-generated case timelines | — | |||
AI case summaries & next-step recommendations | — | |||
Warrant return parsing & normalization | — | |||
Social-media & provider data ingestion | — | |||
| Workspace & collaboration | ||||
Unlimited case workspaces | — | |||
Tagging, bookmarks & shared case notes | ||||
Court-ready exports (PDF / CSV / discovery packets) | ||||
Team administration & workspace federation | — | — | ||
Advanced analytics & workload dashboards | — | — | ||
Cross-case search & multi-team pooling | — | — | ||
| Security, identity & governance | ||||
Encrypted at rest & in transit (AES-256, TLS 1.3) | ||||
Standard cloud hosting in US data centers | — | |||
SSO — Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace | — | Add-on | ||
Role-Based Access Control + custom permission sets | — | — | ||
Full audit logs (every search, export, access) | — | — | ||
Customer-managed encryption keys (BYOK) | — | — | ||
CJIS-aligned controls, FedRAMP-style hardening | — | — | ||
Legal hold, retention & chain-of-custody enforcement | — | — | ||
Dedicated single-tenant environment | — | — | ||
On-prem / air-gapped deployment (no internet egress) | — | — | — | |
Active Directory / LDAP / PIV-CAC integration | — | — | — | |
STIG alignment & hardware sizing assistance | — | — | — | |
| Integration & success | ||||
REST & GraphQL API access for systems of record | — | — | ||
Pre-built connectors (RMS, CMS, eDiscovery) | — | — | ||
Customer Success contact | Self-serve | Shared queue | Named CS contact | Dedicated CSM |
Field-engineer-led deployment | — | — | — | |
You're not renting an idle server. You're paying for the heavy lifting — ingesting evidence, running OCR, transcribing audio, extracting entities, building timelines, and generating AI reports. When you're not processing, you're not burning credits.
One credit is a unit of compute time used to ingest a file, run OCR, transcribe audio, extract entities, or generate an AI report. No processing = no credits spent.
Heavy work is metered against the actual page count, audio minutes, or record count — so a 50-page case costs ~50× less to process than a 2,500-page case.
Searching, viewing, reviewing, tagging, sharing, and exporting court-ready packets never consume credits. Only the AI/ingestion runtime does.
Real per-unit cost of the work Lantern does for you.
| Task | Credit cost | What that means |
|---|---|---|
| OCR a scanned document page | ~1 credit / 200 pages | fully indexed, searchable, with entity tags |
| Transcribe recorded audio or video | ~1 credit / minute of media | with speaker separation and timestamps |
| Extract entities from a document | ~1 credit / 500 entities | people, accounts, phones, vehicles, locations |
| Build a timeline from a record set | ~3 credits / 1,000 records | cached for the case, instant re-runs |
| Generate an AI case summary | ~1 credit / long-form report | narrative, key findings & recommended next steps |
| Ask the Investigation Assistant a question | Included — sub-credit metering | grounded in your case evidence, with citations |
| Reconcile a warrant / provider return | ~8 credits / return | normalized & merged into the entity graph |
| Export a court-ready discovery packet | Free | exports never consume credits |
Common case workloads translated into paralegal/analyst hours versus Lantern processing.
Every plan includes a monthly pool of processing credits. 1 credit = 1 minute of GPU/AI processing — used only when Lantern is actively ingesting evidence or running AI.
One credit covers roughly one minute of GPU/AI processing across OCR, transcription, embeddings, entity extraction, and LLM synthesis.
Pooled across the workspace. Admins can view burn-down, set per-team caps, and alert thresholds.
Big production drop? Trial coming up? Buy additional credit packs anytime from the workspace billing console. Volume tiers earn lower per-credit pricing and never expire while your subscription is active.
Cover a single rush job or trial-week burst.
Buy packThe standard pack for an active investigation.
Buy packSustain a multi-case unit through a quarter.
Buy packDeploy across an entire bureau or task force.
Buy packCustom enterprise top-ups (10k+ credits) and committed annual pools available — contact sales.
We work directly with your team to scope a focused pilot, ingest a real evidence set, train your investigators, and demonstrate measurable impact within a single case cycle.
Search, analyze, summarize, and connect evidence with AI-powered investigative workflows — deployed where your data already lives.