Who we are.

1. Who we are

BenchRecon is a founder-led, single-operator data products project serving federal criminal defense attorneys. The product is structured exhibits from public federal sentencing data — briefs that document what the U.S. Sentencing Commission collected and what the standard courtroom tool (JSIN) does not show.

Built by a data engineer with prior federal-criminal-data ETL experience. Every BenchRecon analytical pipeline is operated by one person — that's why the methodology page is the longest page on the site, and why every claim ties to a USSC datafile vintage that anyone can re-run. The product is the data discipline, not the operator's name.

We are not a law firm. We do not employ attorneys in a client-representation capacity. The work is data engineering against public-records datasets — no legal advice, no representation.

2. What we ship

Two products in general availability: the Sentencing Snapshot (a full-distribution comparables brief for any federal Guidelines cell) and the JSIN Exclusion Brief (an exclusion-accounting exhibit showing what JSIN drops from its published statistics and why, plus § 3006A ↗ motion language).

Additional products are in development: Amendment 821 ↗ impact briefs, compassionate release comparables, district-level bench tendency reports, and appeal-posture exhibits. If a product is listed as "coming soon" on the site, you can join the waitlist and we will email you when it is available.

3. The data-source citation philosophy

Every claim in every brief that can be sourced to a specific record cites the USSC datafile vintage from which it was drawn. The Commission anonymizes case-level microdata by design — there is no per-docket URL on ussc.gov; the verifiable source is the datafile itself.

The motivation is straightforward: after Mata v. Avianca (S.D.N.Y. 2023) ↗, the professional-responsibility risk of presenting unverifiable factual claims to a court is permanent and well-documented — 1,227 documented hallucination incidents in 2026 ↗, with a record sanction of $109,700. BenchRecon ships zero generative content; every claim is an aggregated public record.

We count source citations. The footer of every brief reports the total. If any data-source citation in a brief is broken or does not resolve to the USSC datafile, email us within 7 days. We will correct the brief or refund the purchase.

4. What we do not do

We do not provide legal advice. We do not generate argument text using language models. We provide template motion language drawn from prior practitioner submissions; you draft, edit, and file. We do not represent clients.

The JSIN Exclusion Brief includes a § 3006A factual-recital template — a fixed text with cell-specific data values substituted in, labeled edit before filing — for counsel's review and use. Briefs are structured data exhibits: numbers, distributions, and source citations.

We do not guarantee any sentencing outcome. The data is what the Commission collected. What it means for your client is a legal judgment that belongs to you as counsel.

5. Contact

Questions about a brief you received, a refund request, or a product you want to see built: