Employment disputes, under Ctrl
Ctrl AI helps ensure every defence is delivered inside the deadline and to a consistent standard. Ctrl AI runs the analytical backbone of an employment defence – reading the evidence, building the chronology, drafting the ET3 and witness statements to the relevant regulation and your playbook – so your lawyers spend more of their time on strategy, judgement and the client.
Why defendant-side employment teams choose Ctrl AI
Ctrl AI helps your team turn round more tribunal defences, to a consistent standard and in a shorter amount of time. Every assessment is built to the relevant regulation and your firm’s playbook, gaps and contradictions are flagged and a named lawyer signs off every output. Our AI does the groundwork. Your lawyers make the all-important final decision.
Every defence submitted in time, avoid the last-minute rush
When a claim lands, you have 28 days to respond. Most of that time tends to disappear into work that doesn’t actually need a partner: pulling documents together and piecing the story back into order. Ctrl AI takes this portion of the work on. It can read the evidence, cross-references it and build a clean chronology in minutes – before drafting the ET3 from the record for you to work from.
Time saved on these parts of the process can instead be spent on the strategy and client communication – where the real value is.
AI does the groundwork. Your lawyer signs off every output
Ctrl AI reads the evidence, applies the relevant regulations and your playbook and produces a structured assessment – which your team then accepts, edits, or rejects. Nothing leaves the platform until a lawyer has reviewed and signed it off.
Your best lawyer's standard, on every matter
Quality can vary from one associate to the next. Ctrl AI applies the same framework – your playbook, the relevant regulations and law – to every matter, so the same evidence produces the same structured assessment, whoever runs it and whenever.
Turn defence into insight.
And strengthen client relationships
Because every matter runs through Ctrl AI, it can see across your whole caseload – not just at the individual claim level, but the pattern behind a run of them. It surfaces root-cause analysis – for example a spike in a type of claim tracing back to a policy, a site, a manager, or a change in the law.
This is valuable insight you can take back to your client – moving the relationship from reactive defence towards prevention.
Frequently asked questions
Where does our data go and how is it stored?
Your data stays in your instance of Ctrl AI on UK-hosted infrastructure, encrypted at rest and in transit, with AI processing inside an isolated, encrypted environment in the EU. You control retention and deletion. Employment files carry special-category data – health, disability, race, religion – and are handled accordingly. A full security pack is available on request.
Does the AI train on our data?
No. The platform is grounded in the relevant regulations and your firm’s playbook at the point of assessment. It is not retrained on your cases and your data is never used to improve external models.
Will Ctrl AI replace our lawyers or hollow out the team?
No. Ctrl AI is assistive, not autonomous. By compressing the manual time on evidence, chronologies, ET3 first drafts and witness statements, it frees your lawyers for the strategy, judgement and client work only they can do. It is a tool for handling rising volume and deepening client relationships, not for cutting headcount.
Why not just use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot - or Harvey or Legora?
Generic AI gives a different answer every time, is prone to hallucination, and has no consideration of relevant regulation, no witness-statement drafting and no portfolio view. Firm-wide tools like Harvey and Legora work case-by-case and are complementary, not competing. Ctrl AI does not simply generate text or summaries – it applies a structured, employment-specific framework consistently across your whole caseload, returns the same assessment on the same evidence and logs every step.
How does Ctrl AI work with our existing case management system?
Ctrl AI is a system of action that sits on top of your system of record. It works alongside HighQ, iManage, Proclaim or a bespoke build – via API where supported, or as a side-of-desk deployment with no CMS changes.
How is Ctrl AI priced and what does implementation look like?
Ctrl AI is priced per case. Implementation is fast: we configure the platform to your playbook in one to two weeks, usually starting with a proof of concept on a small number of your real matters so you can see how it reasons before you commit.