Workspace · Original file and email family ingestion

Bring in the originals. Keep the trail.

Daybreak ingests original files, email families and structured message exports into a case. Every accepted item keeps its source fingerprint and byte location, duplicates point to the record already held, and anything not accepted stays visible with its reason.

Who uses Daybreak

Litigation support teams

Load large productions and mailboxes with transfers that resume from the server's confirmed offset.

Paralegals

See which attachments belong to which message, and which items are duplicates rather than missing.

Case administrators

Retry unfinished ingestion, cancel a run with confirmation and check inventory counts.

Step by step

How Daybreak works

The receipt beside each step is an illustrative example of what a reviewer sees, not data from a real case.

  1. 01

    Choose the format

    Supported inputs are ordinary documents and Office files, ZIP archives, EML messages, MBOX mailboxes and message exports structured as Daybreak JSON or CSV. Message exports are selected explicitly; other vendor exports, .msg and .pst files are not accepted.

    document · zip · eml · mbox · json · csv
  2. 02

    Fingerprint in the browser

    Each file is hashed in 8 MiB chunks with SHA-256 before upload, up to 5,000,000,000 bytes. The fingerprint identifies the exact original and must be reproduced to resume.

    chunk hashes · root fingerprint
  3. 03

    Transfer and resume

    Chunks go directly to case storage. After every chunk or error the server reports how many bytes it holds, and a paused or interrupted transfer continues from that offset with the same file.

    server offset · resumable session
  4. 04

    Group families

    Messages are kept with their bodies and attachments as one family. Date and sender are shown exactly as written in the headers; they are not treated as verified identities or event dates. Thread grouping that cannot be resolved is marked ambiguous.

    family · literal headers · thread
  5. 05

    Review the inventory

    Each entry is accepted, linked as a duplicate of an existing record, withheld with a reason, or still pending. Unsupported archive members are withheld, and the inventory reads incomplete until every entry is resolved.

    accepted · duplicate · withheld · pending
Limits we state plainly
  • Original bytes are kept as uploaded. Each accepted item records the source fingerprint and its byte range or archive, JSON or CSV location.
  • Header dates and sender fields are reproduced as written. Daybreak does not authenticate senders or infer when events happened.
  • Message exports must follow the documented JSON or CSV structure. Other vendor formats, .msg and .pst files are not accepted, and unsupported members are withheld rather than reported as accepted.
  • Message HTML is not rendered. Daybreak does not summarise or interpret medical content.

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