Digital Evidence Platform for Crime Victims & Legal Aid

Crime victims and their legal representatives often struggle to effectively gather, preserve, and interpret digital evidence (videos, photos, text messages) due to lack of technical expertise and the high cost of forensic services. There's a critical need for an accessible, secure, and user-friendly solution to leverage metadata and digital artifacts in legal proceedings, especially for cases involving consent or proving events.

Product Form: A secure, cloud-based SaaS platform designed for digital evidence management and preliminary analysis.

• Features:
  • Secure Upload & Storage: End-to-end encrypted storage for sensitive digital media files (videos, images, message screenshots).
  • Automated Metadata Extraction: Automatically extracts available metadata (timestamps, device information, GPS data, sender/receiver info from message screenshots) from uploaded files.
  • Chain of Custody Tracking: Logs every action taken with the evidence (upload, view, analysis, export) to maintain an auditable chain of custody, crucial for legal admissibility.
  • Basic AI Analysis & Pattern Recognition: (Optional, with strong ethical guidelines) Identify common patterns like timestamp discrepancies or object recognition to aid investigation.
  • Report Generation: Generates comprehensive, exportable reports detailing extracted metadata and analysis results in a format suitable for legal presentation.
  • Collaboration Tools: Secure sharing capabilities with legal teams, law enforcement, or support services.
  • Educational Resources: Built-in guides explaining what metadata is, its legal significance, and best practices for collecting digital evidence.

Expected Revenue: This market has a consistent, albeit sensitive, demand. Monetization could be a low-cost, one-time fee per case for individual victims or a freemium model. For legal professionals and organizations (e.g., Legal Aid, Public Defenders, Small Law Firms), a subscription-based model (e.g., per user or per case volume) providing access to more advanced features, higher storage limits, and priority support. Legal professional subscriptions could range from $100-$500/month. If it serves even a fraction of legal aid organizations or small law firms dealing with digital evidence, annual revenue could reach significant levels (e.g., 1,000 legal users * $200/month * 12 months = $2.4M/year), plus individual case fees. The value proposition is time-saving, cost-reducing, and expertise-bridging for a critical need.