Case Canvas

• Renders your case's criteria and evidence as an interactive graph — nodes for each criterion and each linked piece of evidence, so gaps and single points of failure are visible at a glance.
• Adds four more views on the same data: a per-criterion strength Radar, an evidence-kind × criterion coverage Heatmap, a chronological Timeline, and (once you have two or more analysis versions) a Compare view showing what changed.
• Makes no AI call of its own — it's a live visualization built directly from your existing Case File, evidence items, and grading, so opening it never costs credits and never re-analyzes anything.

Case Canvas sits in the Case Journey's Position stage, alongside Field & Narrative Studio and your drafting tools — it unlocks once the Strengthen stage is complete. In practice, open it any time after your first analysis to see the current state of your case, and return to it after every round of new evidence to confirm a gap actually closed.

Its Compare view pairs naturally with Case Matcher and Officer Simulator: use Canvas to see where your evidence is thin, then use those tools to stress-test the argument once it's filled in.

• Requires at least one completed case analysis. Canvas reads your most recent Case File version's criteria and evidence — with zero evidence linked, you'll see the empty-state prompt instead of a graph.
• Cost: free to open, always. There's no credit cost for Case Canvas itself; it's gated only by plan (Pro), not by a per-use charge.
• Typical time: a few minutes to explore; best viewed on a larger screen (a Timeline-only fallback shows on mobile).

• Strength badges — Gap (no evidence), Weak, Moderate, Strong: a plain-language reading of how well-supported a criterion is, not a probability of approval.
• "Backs several criteria" — marks an exhibit that supports two or more criteria at once; a stronger version of that item lifts every criterion it supports.
• "Ungraded" — evidence that hasn't been through grading yet; treat it as pending, not weak.
• Criterion-kind mismatch notice — flags evidence tagged with a criterion that doesn't typically match its document type; worth a second look, not automatically an error.
• Prior-version notice — Canvas always shows only the most recent analysis version's evidence; earlier versions live in the Compare view, not the main Graph.

• Case Canvas is not available on the Free plan at all — it's on the Pro plan's included tools list, so once you're Pro, opening it costs nothing per use.
• The 7-day Pro trial (card required at Stripe checkout — not a no-card trial) includes 10 trial credits for the tools that do spend credits; Canvas itself never spends any of them since it makes no AI calls.
• Canceling is self-serve from your billing page any time before renewal.
• Start your free trial to see your own case mapped as a graph.

• Expecting Canvas to show evidence from an earlier analysis version. It only ever shows the latest version's data on the main views — use Compare to see history.
• Reading a criterion-kind mismatch as an error. The notice is explicitly a "worth a second look" flag, not a validation failure — some legitimate evidence genuinely crosses kinds.
• Ignoring the "Backs several criteria" markers until filing. These are exactly the items Achievement Miner and new evidence should target first, not something to notice for the first time during Officer Simulator.
• Trying to use it on mobile for the Graph/Radar/Heatmap views. Those are desktop-only; mobile shows Timeline instead, by design.