Richard

Richard is a domain-specific AI platform designed for California workers' compensation professionals, consolidating legal research, deterministic calculations, case law search, and directory tools into a single subscription interface.

Key features and functions include:

Multi-Model AI Chat The platform provides access to multiple large language models within a single subscription. Each model is configured with system prompts referencing California Labor Code, WCAB procedural rules, the AMA Guides, and the case law corpus, so responses are jurisdiction-aware and include citations to applicable authority.

Deterministic Calculators Richard includes more than 35 calculators covering the computational requirements of California workers' compensation practice. These include permanent disability rating under the 2005 and 2013 PDRS schedules with FEC, age, and occupational adjustments; combined values via the CVC formula; present value calculations with COLA adjustment; commutation tables for PD, Life Pension, PTD, and death benefits; temporary disability rates; death benefits by dependency scenario; late payment penalties under Labor Code §4603.2, §4622, and §5814; interest on awards under Labor Code §5800; life expectancy lookups; statutory deadline date calculations; and occupation code search across PDRS codes. Each calculation result includes a step-by-step breakdown with legal citations.

WCAB Case Law Corpus The platform's case law database contains WCAB decisions and Court of Appeal opinions spanning 120 years of California workers' compensation jurisprudence. Cases are indexed with both semantic embeddings for natural-language search and full-text indexing for citation and party-name lookup. Structured fields extracted from each decision include injured body parts, AMA Guides chapter cross-references, legal topics, PD rating, date of injury, presiding judge, applicant occupation, outcome, apportionment methodology, and PDRS group.

AMA Guides 5th Edition Tooling For users who upload a licensed copy of the AMA Guides 5th Edition, Richard activates tools covering all eighteen chapters, tables, definitions, and sections of the reference. Responses to AMA Guides queries retrieve content from the uploaded licensed source.

Attorney, Firm, and Professional Directory Richard includes a directory of California workers' compensation attorneys and firms, browsable by city, county, specialty, and firm size. Profiles include bar number, license status, certified specialist designation, firm affiliation, and ranking. The directory also includes QME profiles, WCAB judge profiles by district office, and Medical Provider Network (MPN) lookup.

Computational Treatise The platform includes a 19-chapter treatise on California workers' compensation covering foundations, medical treatment, disability rating, indemnity, settlement, penalties, procedure, and special topics. Numerical examples within the treatise are generated by the platform's calculator tools, and affected sections are flagged when new WCAB decisions are added to the corpus.