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OnTrial
Proud Sponsor of ABTL

Intelligence built for the business trial bar.

OnTrial is the enterprise intelligence platform trusted by litigators to deliver background, asset, social, and geolocation intelligence with the speed, rigor, and discretion their practice demands.

A note to ABTL members

ABTL has spent five decades doing something rare: holding the business trial bar to a standard. Competence. Ethics. Professionalism. Civility. The same dialogue between bench and bar that ABTL has cultivated since 1973 is what makes business litigation in California work — and what makes the work worth doing.

OnTrial was built for the practitioners who carry that standard into every matter. Plaintiff or defense. AmLaw or solo. The intelligence behind a strong case — who the parties really are, where the assets really sit, what the witnesses and jurors have really said and done, and what really happened — should be fast, accurate, and verifiable. It rarely is.

We built OnTrial to fix that, and we built it with people who have done this work at the level it deserves. Every internal role at OnTrial is filled by a veteran of the military, the intelligence community, or law enforcement. The standards we operate under come from where we trained.

We sponsor ABTL because we believe in what the organization stands for, and because the litigators it serves are the practitioners we built OnTrial for. Every member of ABTL has a standing invitation to use the platform, speak directly with our case managers, and put us to work on the matters that matter most.

Exclusive to litigation & trial firms

Trial 360.

A comprehensive workup package built for the moments that decide cases. Used for plaintiff or defendant workups, key-witness vetting, juror research, and more.

Includes

  • Background Plus Report

    Multi-database intelligence with analyst-verified county-level research across counties of interest.

  • DeepMedia Social Media Report

    Public posts, network mapping, behavioral signals, and archive capture across platforms.

  • Geolocation · Pattern of Life

    Device-level movement, dwell-time, and location history when an associated device is positively identified.

Use cases

  • Comprehensive workups
  • Key-witness vetting
  • Juror vetting

Per subject · Fixed cost · Sample report available on request

Agency-grade, by design

Veteran & LEO operated. Agency-grade methodology.

Every internal role at OnTrial is filled by a veteran of the military, the intelligence community, or law enforcement. The standards we operate under — sourcing discipline, verification, chain of custody, conflict avoidance — come from where our people trained. The work product reflects it.

The investigations industry is fragmented by design — database vendors who just sell records, independent investigators who sell hours without a system, and generic platforms that sell whichever data pipeline they happen to own.

OnTrial was built differently, by people who came up doing intelligence work where the stakes were higher and the standards were not negotiable.

Every case OnTrial accepts is run through the same operating discipline: defined sourcing, multi-pipeline collection, analyst verification of every finding, documented chain of custody, and a veteran or LEO case manager accountable from intake to delivery. That posture is what we mean when we say agency-grade — not a tagline, a methodology.

  • 100% Veteran & LEO Operated
  • Active or Previous Gov. Clearance Required
  • CA PI 189000
  • 01

    Veteran or law enforcement at every internal role

    Baseline requirement for every internal-role employee. The pedigree shows up in how cases are scoped, sourced, and verified.

  • 02

    Active or prior government clearance

    All internal-role employees hold a current or previous government clearance and agree to ongoing security screening.

  • 03

    Conflict-free and independent

    First-right-of-retention conflict-avoidance standards. OnTrial does not take engagements that would compromise its independence on yours.

  • 04

    Licensed, insured, and accountable

    California Private Investigator License 189000. Zero regulatory complaints or disciplinary actions since founding.

The same operating discipline applies whether the matter is a pre-suit workup, a juror investigation the morning of voir dire, or a global asset trace post-judgment. The standard does not change with the engagement.

Why OnTrial

Speed, service, and substance — without the trade-offs.

  • 90% faster turnaround

    Most reports return in 24 hours to 5 business days. Rush options on every product. No more chasing a P.I. shop for a status update.

  • White-glove case management

    Every matter is human-managed by a veteran or LEO case manager and analyst-verified before delivery. Direct chat with the case manager assigned to your file.

  • Fixed-cost, transparent pricing

    Pay-per-report. No retainer. No subscription. No monthly fee. You see the number before you order.

The standard your clients expect of you

Security, compliance, and AI governance — engineered in.

The firms that ABTL members represent expect rigorous data handling, defensible AI use, and enterprise-grade controls from every vendor in their engagement. OnTrial is built to meet that expectation — and to give you the documentation to prove it.

Data Security

Zero-retention by design.

  • SOC 2 Type II compliant across the stack — independently audited controls covering security, availability, and confidentiality.
  • Zero data retention in the processing layer. Case data is processed in isolated infrastructure and is not stored beyond delivery.
  • Granular access control — assign case visibility, sharing, and permissions across teams, matters, and offices. Designed for firms that need to enforce ethical walls and matter-level need-to-know.
  • Encrypted in transit and at rest. All client materials uploaded through the portal are protected end to end.

Regulatory & Professional Compliance

Built for the rules your practice operates under.

  • Licensed and insured. California Private Investigator License 189000. All agents fully licensed and insured.
  • FCRA / GLBA compliant. Every product is delivered under the federal frameworks that govern consumer report and financial-information handling.
  • CCPA and SB 1454 compliant. California consumer privacy and investigator-records retention requirements built into the platform's data lifecycle.
  • Conflict-free and independent. First-right-of-retention conflict-avoidance standards. OnTrial does not take engagements that would compromise its independence on yours.

AI Governance

AI that accelerates the work — not the risk.

  • No client data trains any model. Period. Your matter information is never used to train or fine-tune AI systems, internal or third-party.
  • Human-in-the-loop on every case. AI accelerates the investigative pipeline, but a veteran or LEO case manager reviews and an analyst verifies every finding before delivery. AI does not sign off on output.
  • Auditable workflows. Every step of the investigative process is logged and traceable, so you can document for your client exactly how a finding was reached.
  • Defensible for outside counsel guidelines. Built to satisfy the AI-use, data-handling, and vendor-management provisions that increasingly appear in OCG and engagement letters.
  • Licensed P.I.'s

    CA PI 189000

  • SOC 2 Type II

    Architecture

  • FCRA / GLBA

    Federal compliance

  • CCPA / SB 1454

    California compliance

  • Zero-Retention

    Processing layer

  • Human Review

    Every case

  • Enterprise-Grade

    Access controls

  • 100% Veteran & LEO

    Operated, every role

Documentation, attestations, and security posture details available on request — and in full at /ontrialsecurity.

In practice

What attorneys say.

I've been an attorney for 20 years, and wish I had OnTrial the whole time.
Civil Defense Partner
This platform is exactly what I want — clear pricing, clear communication, and excellent work-product.
Business Litigation Attorney
OnTrial makes ordering what we need fast, efficient and trackable — no steps missed and reliably on-time.
Demler, Armstrong & Rowland
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