Storyboard Domain

Overview#

A prosecutor preparing for trial needs to walk the jury through a complex financial fraud scheme that unfolded over 18 months. She opens the Storyboard domain, pulls key evidence cards from the investigation, arranges them chronologically on the canvas, draws connection arrows between related transactions, and marks the three critical milestone events. She then generates an AI narrative that synthesises the evidence cards into professional prose. The exported report goes directly into her court submission package. The Storyboard domain turns a case full of individual evidence items into a coherent, visual narrative, whether the audience is a jury, an executive, or a fellow investigator taking over the case.

Key Features#

• Visual Storytelling: Build visual narrative timelines by arranging evidence cards, milestone markers, and connection arrows on an interactive canvas to tell the story of an investigation.

• Evidence Card Management: Create, organise, and annotate evidence cards that represent key facts, documents, and findings within the narrative, with drag-and-drop arrangement.

• Milestone Markers: Define significant events and decision points along the narrative timeline to highlight critical moments in the investigation.

• AI Narrative Generation: Generate written narratives from arranged evidence cards using AI-powered analysis that synthesises evidence into coherent, professional prose.

• Export Capabilities: Export completed storyboards as professional reports suitable for court presentations, executive briefings, and case documentation.

• Evidence Library Integration: Browse and pull evidence items directly from the investigation evidence library into the storyboard canvas without leaving the composition environment.

• Connection Visualisation: Draw connection arrows between evidence cards to illustrate relationships, sequences, and causal links between facts and findings.

Use Cases#

Visual investigative storytelling tools are valuable wherever complex, multi-event cases must be communicated clearly to non-specialist audiences. Primary industries include law enforcement and criminal justice, financial crime investigation, and defence and intelligence.

• Court Presentations: Build compelling visual narratives that present complex investigation findings in a clear, chronological format suitable for legal proceedings.

• Executive Briefings: Create concise visual summaries of investigation progress and findings for leadership and stakeholder updates.

• Case Documentation: Organise and document the narrative arc of an investigation for case files and institutional knowledge preservation.

• Collaborative Analysis: Work with team members to arrange and discuss evidence in a visual format that surfaces patterns and gaps in the investigation narrative.

Integration#

The Storyboard domain connects with investigative workflows across the platform:

• Evidence Management: Pull evidence items directly into storyboard compositions
• Investigation Management: Storyboards are linked to their parent investigations
• AI Services: Narrative generation uses AI-powered analysis
• Reporting: Exported storyboards complement standard investigation reports

Open Standards#

• GraphQL: The entire Storyboard API is implemented as a typed GraphQL schema, with queries and mutations for storyboard composition, card management, narrative generation, and share-link resolution.
• OAuth 2.0 (RFC 6749): All authenticated operations are gated by bearer-token authorisation; the IsAuthenticated permission class enforces access control on every query and mutation.
• JSON (RFC 8259): Evidence metadata, card connection graphs, and shared-with user lists are stored and exchanged as JSON throughout the domain.
• ISO 8601: All temporal fields, capture timestamps, publication dates, share-link expiry, and audit trail entries, are represented as ISO 8601 datetime strings.
• ISO 32000 (PDF): Completed storyboards can be exported as PDF documents suitable for court submissions, case files, and executive briefings.
• ECMA-376 (Office Open XML): The export pipeline additionally supports DOCX and PPTX output formats, enabling storyboards to be delivered as editable Word documents or PowerPoint presentations.
• W3C WCAG 2.2: As a browser-based interactive canvas used by legal and investigative professionals, the storyboard UI is expected to conform to WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines.

Last Reviewed: 2026-02-05 Last Updated: 2026-04-14