Last Updated: May 1, 2026
System Covered: Brief Master™
Developer: Brief Master, Inc.
Effective Date: January 1, 2026
Contact: [email protected]
1. Overview
Hereinafter, Brief Master™ and Brief Master, Inc. are jointly referenced as “Brief Master™. Brief Master™ is a legal research, analysis, and drafting-support system designed to assist attorneys with federal-court Social Security disability appeals. Brief Master™ uses a third-party large language model accessed through an API together with Brief Master™’s application layer, retrieval system, attorney-developed structural materials, evaluation materials, and curated legal-reference database.
Brief Master™ does not control or possess the complete training corpus of the third-party base model. Brief Master™ did not train the third-party base model. This disclosure describes, at a high level, datasets and materials used by Brief Master™ to develop, configure, test, validate, and operate the Brief Master™™ application layer.
This disclosure does not include proprietary prompts, source code, retrieval logic, embeddings, ranking systems, internal workflows, attorney work product, confidential materials, or the underlying contents of Brief Master™’s curated legal-reference database.
2. High-Level Dataset Summary
| Dataset or Material Category | Approximate Number of Data Points | Sources or Owners | Purpose |
| Curated Legal-Reference Database | Approximately hundreds of legal authorities | Public legal and governmental materials; legal authorities accessed through licensed electronic legal research databases, subject to applicable license terms; publications and materials made available by the Social Security Administration | Supports legal research, organization, retrieval, and attorney-supervised drafting support |
| Structural and Organizational Materials | Dozens to hundreds of structural components | Attorney-developed materials created by Brief Master™ | Supports attorney-supervised briefing workflows |
| Evaluation and Test Materials | Dozens to hundreds of prompts, test scenarios, and validation materials | Materials created, modified, or evaluated by Brief Master™ | Used to evaluate system performance, legal relevance, and consistency with attorney-supervised workflows |
3. Curated Legal-Reference Database
Brief Master™ uses a human-curated legal-reference database relevant to federal-court Social Security disability appeals.
The database includes approximately hundreds of legal authorities, including case law, statutes, rules, regulations, agency materials, and related legal authorities.
The sources of the legal authorities include public legal and governmental materials, legal authorities accessed through licensed electronic legal research databases subject to applicable license terms, and publications or materials made available by the Social Security Administration.
The database is used to support legal research, organization, retrieval, and attorney-supervised drafting support.
4. Structural and Organizational Materials
Brief Master™ was developed, configured, tested, and evaluated using attorney-developed structural and organizational materials designed to support attorney-supervised briefing workflows.
These materials consist of dozens to hundreds of attorney-developed structural components.
The curated legal-reference database does not include a dataset of completed attorney briefs, client briefs, or exemplar brief drafts.
5. Evaluation and Test Materials
Brief Master™ was developed through iterative testing and evaluation using dozens to hundreds of prompts, test scenarios, and validation materials. These materials were revised over time to evaluate system performance, legal relevance, and consistency with attorney-supervised workflows.
These evaluation and test materials are used to assess and improve system performance and support attorney review.
6. Types of Data Points
The datasets and materials used by Brief Master™ include the following general categories of data points:
7. Intellectual Property Status
The datasets and materials used by Brief Master™ include a combination of public-domain, publicly available, licensed, and attorney-developed materials.
Some public legal authorities may be in the public domain. Other collected, organized, licensed, or attorney-developed materials may be subject to copyright, contractual restrictions, license terms, or other intellectual-property protections.
This disclosure does not grant any license or right to access, copy, reproduce, redistribute, or use any underlying legal authorities, licensed materials, attorney-developed materials, proprietary prompts, source code, workflows, or other proprietary components of Brief Master™.
8. Purchased or Licensed Materials
Certain legal authorities and related materials included in or used to develop the curated legal-reference database were accessed through licensed electronic legal research databases and may be subject to applicable license terms. Brief Master™ also uses public materials, including publications or materials made available by the Social Security Administration.
9. Processing, Cleaning, and Modification
Materials used in the Brief Master™ system may be processed and organized to support retrieval, relevance, consistency, and system performance.
These processing steps are intended to support attorney-supervised legal research, organization, and drafting workflows.
10. Collection Period and First Use
The curated legal-reference database was first used in development on or about January 1, 2026.
Structural and Organizational Materials were first used in development on or about January 1, 2026.
Evaluation and Test Materials were first used in development on or about January 1, 2026, and were modified over time during system testing and validation.
The collection period for materials in the curated legal-reference database began before January 1, 2026, and may continue on an ongoing basis as the database is updated to reflect new or revised legal authorities relevant to federal-court Social Security disability appeals.
11. Personal Information and Aggregate Consumer Information
The curated legal-reference database is focused on legal authorities and governmental materials relevant to federal-court Social Security disability appeals. Some legal authorities may include references to parties, claimants, judges, agency officials, medical providers, vocational experts, administrative proceedings, or other information appearing in public or licensed legal materials.
To the extent such materials contain personal information, that information is incidental to the public or licensed legal authorities included in the curated legal-reference database. Brief Master™ does not intentionally include private client files, user-uploaded documents, or confidential attorney work product in the curated legal-reference database unless separately disclosed and authorized.
The curated legal-reference database is not intended to include aggregate consumer information as a training or development dataset.
12. Synthetic Data
The curated legal-reference database does not use synthetic data generation as a source for its legal-authority database unless otherwise stated in a later version of this disclosure.
Testing, validation, or demonstration workflows may include prompts, hypotheticals, or test scenarios created or modified during development. To the extent any synthetic or hypothetical materials are used, they are used for testing, evaluation, validation, or demonstration purposes, not as a substitute for the human-curated legal authorities in the curated legal-reference database.
13. User-Uploaded Materials
User-uploaded documents, client files, draft briefs, and case-specific materials are not intended to become part of the curated legal-reference database or to be used to train or improve Brief Master™ unless the user separately authorizes that use in writing or unless otherwise disclosed in applicable user terms.
User-provided materials may be used during a session or workflow to generate attorney-supervised outputs for that user, subject to applicable terms, confidentiality obligations, and data-handling policies.
14.Updates
Brief Master™ may update this disclosure from time to time. Updates may reflect changes to data sources, system architecture, evaluation materials, user-data policies, or other development practices.
