The evidence that wins PI cases lives in your client's daily life.
Medical records document treatment. Affiant documents the human loss — missed family dinners, sleepless nights, afternoons on the couch instead of coaching your daughter's soccer team — All captured contemporaneously and structured as exhibits that make adjusters rethink their reserves.
Much of the value of personal injury cases is noneconomic damages. But the evidence that proves pain and suffering, loss of enjoyment, and emotional distress is the hardest to capture — reconstructed months later in deposition prep, full of gaps adjusters exploit. Affiant puts a daily evidence collection instrument in your clients' hands, generating a longitudinal record of life impact that maximizes case value and neutralizes defense tactics.
Turn "I still hurt" into six months of quantified, categorized life impact.
Affiant's structured daily surveys capture the specific evidence that drives pain-and-suffering multipliers — not vague complaints, but dated, categorized, quantifiable proof of how injuries reshape every dimension of your client's life.
- Missed activities logged by category. Every family event declined, every workout skipped, every household chore handed off — captured daily with dates, context, and emotional impact. Export missed-activity charts broken down by family, recreation, work, household, and social categories over any time window.
- Sleep disruption calendars. Night-by-night documentation of sleep quality, pain-related wake-ups, and medication use. Month-by-month visual calendars that make chronic suffering unmistakable in a demand letter or at trial.
- Resting and reclining time data. When your client spends three hours every afternoon on the couch because of lumbar pain, that's documented — not just claimed. Structured surveys capture time spent resting, inability to perform household tasks, and reliance on others for daily activities.
- Loss-of-enjoyment summaries. AI-generated narratives that synthesize months of daily entries into coherent accounts of diminished quality of life — organized by impact category, backed by hundreds of individual data points.
- Multimedia evidence of daily limitations. Photos of the brace worn to bed. Video of the stairs that take five minutes to climb. Audio journals describing what a bad day actually looks like. All AI-transcribed, tagged, and retrievable.
Give adjusters evidence they cannot discount.
Contemporaneous daily documentation transforms vague, subjective claims into timestamped daily records that adjusters can't wave away – forcing higher reserves.
- Reconstructed testimony doesn’t survive. Adjusters know that memories fade, that clients exaggerate at deposition, and that generic pain complaints don’t hold up under scrutiny.
- Timestamped daily records flip that dynamic. When your demand package includes six months of daily entries — captured on the day they occurred, structured by an attorney-directed survey, with multimedia evidence and quantified metrics — the adjuster is evaluating evidence, not allegations.
- Contemporaneous and unassailable. Each data point is independently timestamped. To dispute the record, they’d have to challenge hundreds of individual entries, each one logged in real time.
- Exhibit-ready outputs. Missed-activity tables, sleep disturbance calendars, loss-of-enjoyment narratives — drop directly into your demand letter as polished PDFs. No associate hours spent compiling timelines.
Daily symptom tracking trains clients to report with the specificity that generates powerful medical records.
The office visit notes your case depends on are only as good as what your client tells the provider. Most clients walk in and say "I still hurt." Affiant clients walk in armed with a week of structured data and say something very different.
- From vague to specific. A client logging daily pain, sleep disruption, and functional limitations reports to their provider: "My pain wakes me up 2 to 3 nights per week, I haven't been able to lift my daughter since the accident, and I missed four family activities this week." That specificity flows directly into the OVN — generating the kind of medical record entry that drives damages.
- Consistency across the treatment arc. When clients track symptoms daily, their reports to different providers align naturally. The orthopedist, the PT, and the pain management specialist all hear the same specific, data-backed complaints — because they all trace to the same daily record.
- The compounding effect. Better client reporting produces stronger OVNs. Stronger OVNs support higher damages. Higher damages justify larger demands. The improvement starts at the provider visit and multiplies through every stage of the case.
Surveillance video should corroborate your client, not impeach them.
When clients self-report daily fluctuation in real time, defense surveillance becomes evidence of credibility — not impeachment material.
- Surveillance without context is devastating. Your client testifies they “can barely function” — then defense counsel plays footage of them carrying groceries. Without a daily record showing the full spectrum of good and bad days, that video destroys credibility.
- Affiant captures both sides — every day. On good days, clients report lower pain, more activity, better sleep. On bad days, they report the opposite. This creates a documented pattern of fluctuation that mirrors how injuries actually work.
- Turn surveillance into corroboration. When surveillance shows your client at the grocery store on March 15th, you point to the record: “Yes, my client had a relatively good day on March 15th — they reported that themselves. They also had 22 bad days that month. Here’s the data.”
- The record’s integrity is unassailable. Entries are captured contemporaneously — clients complete surveys for today, today, and cannot view or edit prior submissions. The defense can’t argue the client shaped the narrative after learning about surveillance. Every entry was locked before anyone knew which days would be filmed.
Catch treatment gaps before they become defense arguments.
Appointment tracking, automated reminders, and firm dashboard alerts keep compliance documented and gaps spotted early — before a missed PT session becomes "the plaintiff wasn't really injured" at mediation.
- Automated appointment reminders. Clients log upcoming appointments and receive reminders before each one. No more discovering at month six that your client stopped attending PT at month two.
- Firm dashboard gap alerts. The dashboard flags clients who have missed appointments or gone extended periods without provider visits. Your case manager intervenes early — a phone call this week prevents a defense argument next year.
- Compliance documented automatically. A client who attends every appointment, follows every home exercise program, and still reports significant daily limitations is a powerful plaintiff. Affiant documents that compliance story with zero manual effort.
- Persistent symptom capture through gaps. Even when a client misses treatment, daily surveys continue capturing symptoms and limitations. This builds a record that the injury persisted despite the gap — countering the "they stopped treating because they recovered" argument.
No surprises at mediation or trial.
AI case overviews surface inconsistencies, symptom changes, and treatment gaps while there's still time to address them — so attorneys walk into every proceeding knowing exactly what the data shows.
The worst time to discover a problem in your client's record is at deposition. Affiant's AI-powered case analysis ensures your team sees every potential issue — and every potential strength — well before proceedings begin. AI case overviews synthesize each client's full evidence record into actionable summaries, surfacing treatment gaps you may not have noticed, symptom inconsistencies between time periods that opposing counsel will certainly notice, reporting pattern changes that could signal a problem or a turning point, and data highlights that strengthen the damages narrative. The firm dashboard aggregates this across your entire PI caseload, giving managing partners and case managers real-time visibility into which cases are strong, which need attention, and which are at risk.
Clients who testify in specifics, not generalities.
Daily evidence capture produces deposition and trial testimony grounded in documented patterns — consistent, specific, and credible.
- Deposition testimony grounded in real data. Your client doesn't need to guess or reconstruct. They speak to documented patterns: "According to my daily logs, I missed 47 family activities in the first six months" is a different caliber of testimony than "I missed a lot of stuff."
- Consistency across every forum. What your client told their doctor, what they said at deposition, and what they testify to at trial all align — because everything traces back to the same contemporaneous daily record. No contradictions for the defense to exploit.
- Credibility through specificity. Decision-makers — adjusters, mediators, jurors — respond to witnesses who speak with precision. A client who can describe the specific trajectory of their recovery, with dates and data points, presents as credible and thorough. Vague generalities invite skepticism.
Missed activity charts, sleep calendars, pain trends, multimedia compilations — all PDF-ready.
Every PI exhibit type your demand package needs, generated directly from daily client data with zero manual compilation.
- Missed activity charts by category. Bar charts and tables that quantify missed family, personal and social activities.
- Sleep disturbance calendars. Month-by-month color-coded calendars immediately communicate persistent difficulties.
- Loss-of-enjoyment summaries. AI-generated narrative summaries weaving hundreds of daily data points into a compelling account of diminished quality of life.
- Resting/reclining time data. Quantified daily hours spent resting or otherwise devoted to managing the injury or treatment side effects.
- Multimedia journal compilations. Photo, video, and audio entries — AI-transcribed, organized chronologically or by theme — presented as a visual record of lived experience.
- PDF export. Every exhibit type exports to polished PDF, ready for attachment to demand letters, mediation statements, or trial exhibit lists.
Attorney-directed evidence capture built to survive cross-examination.
The concern about client diaries doing more harm than good is valid — for unsupervised, freeform diaries. Affiant is architecturally different in every way that matters.
- Structured surveys, not freeform narratives. Clients respond to specific, attorney-designed questions with structured inputs — pain scales, activity checklists, sleep ratings, functional assessments. The survey captures exactly the data points that drive noneconomic damages, in a format that produces quantifiable evidence .
- Contemporaneity enforced. Surveys are for today, today. Clients cannot go back and add or edit entries for prior days. Every data point is timestamped at the moment of capture.
- Clients cannot view prior submissions. This prevents clients from reviewing and "adjusting" their narrative over time. Each entry stands as an independent, contemporaneous data point.
- AI monitoring for red flags. The platform flags potentially problematic entries — inconsistencies, statements that could undermine the case, sudden pattern shifts — so the firm addresses issues proactively rather than discovering them under cross-examination.
- Privilege-protected by architecture. All data is collected at the direction of counsel as part of legal representation. The firm controls all access, disclosure, and export. Encrypted at rest and in transit. The privilege belongs to the client; the firm manages it.
Your clients are living their losses. Affiant documents them in real time.
Every day without documentation is a day of lost evidence — missed activities undocumented, sleepless nights unrecorded, daily limitations uncaptured. Contemporaneous evidence is, by definition, time-sensitive. Start building the record now — for every active case on your docket. No minimums. No long-term contracts. Usage-based pricing — you only pay for clients who actively document. 30-day money-back guarantee.