Purpose-built for New York Labor Law §§ 240(1) & 241(6)

Scaffold Law has never been a fair fight.

Every Scaffold Law file begins as scattered paper, email, and institutional knowledge. Rayne turns that material into one defense record built for trial.

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NEW YORK / SCAFFOLD LAW DEFENSESee how Rayne works
The problem

A law written for another century. A defense still managed in inboxes and spreadsheets.

New York’s first Scaffold Law was enacted in 1885. Today, Labor Law § 240(1) places extraordinary exposure on owners and contractors in elevation-related injury cases. Yet the defense record still lives across email, spreadsheets, claim files, law-firm systems, medical records, and dockets.

Identity, employment, treatment, prior claims, contracts, safety devices, instructions, and control can all be difficult to verify. Most matters settle. Too few are organized from the beginning as though they will be tried.

Rayne was built by a 20-year Scaffold Law defense veteran who watched that fragmentation compound case after case.

The premise.

General AI is already extraordinarily good at law.

I’m sure you’ve tried it. After thousands of hours working with and building AI, we’ve learned that today’s constraints are not analysis or intelligence. Both are already extraordinary out of the box. Rayne tackles the context and memory problem—the usefulness and usability of that intelligence.

01 / General AI

Broad reasoning is no longer the missing ingredient.

The best systems already reason across an enormous universe of subjects, jurisdictions, authorities, documents, and tasks.

02 / The present constraint

A context window is not a litigation file.

What a model can reason over is still bounded by what remains present. A session is not durable case memory, and a prompt is not an institutional record.

03 / Rayne’s role

Give the intelligence a governed case brain.

The ontology decides what belongs, how it relates, what persists across the matter, and where every consequential fact came from.

AI supplies the reasoning. Rayne supplies the context, memory, and structure.

Client-controlled model paths

Local by design. Frontier by client choice.

Each client decides which model account touches its work and which data policy governs it.

01 / Lex · Local

A Rayne-controlled model trained on the Scaffold Law ontology and real judicial decisions.

02 / Nemo · Local

A second Rayne-controlled model built for the same specialized defense record.

For Lex and Nemo, client matter data is not used for model training and is not retained for secondary use.

03 / Frontier · Client enterprise account

Optional frontier processing uses the client's selected enterprise account, credentials, and provider data terms.

Frontier usage is client-selected and client-borne. Provider privacy, training, and retention terms follow the client's enterprise agreement.

The unified case brain

The ontology becomes the case’s brain.

Rayne gives the model durable, governed context: the knowledge of this matter, the controlling body of law, and the network surrounding Scaffold Law.

The ontology tells the system what each document is, what on it matters, why it matters, what it touches, and what remains missing. More than 20 years of defense experience shaped that structure.

From the record to Position A.

31 seconds · The case brain in motion
The case fileThe lawThe network
One case brain.

A complete record. A connected defense.

Plays on request
01 / The matter

What happened here?

Documents, testimony, chronology, parties, injuries, contracts, coverage, and every source in this file.

02 / The law

What governs it?

Statutory elements, Industrial Code provisions, defenses, burdens, and the decisions that carry the law in practice.

03 / The network

Who surrounds it?

Courts, carriers, firms, employers, providers, experts, sites, trades, and relationships that recur across matters.

Unified, source-linked context One case brain

Persistent across the life of the matter.

Investigation Discovery Facts to law Defense position Coverage Counsel reporting
01

Law and defenses

Statutory elements, Industrial Code provisions, dispositive defenses, burdens, and controlling authority.

02

People and entities

Claimants, employers, owners, contractors, counsel, witnesses, experts, providers, and their relationships.

03

Accident and worksite

Work activity, elevation risk, devices, supervision, control, instructions, safety practice, and chronology.

04

Medical and damages

Injuries, treatment, referrals, facilities, prior history, disability claims, billing patterns, and claimed loss.

05

Contracts and coverage

Trade contracts, indemnity, insurance provisions, additional-insured status, tenders, limits, and allocation.

06

Procedure and judiciary

Motions, deadlines, decisions, assigned court, appellate treatment, and case posture.

Every governed fact retains its source and history. The system can reason across the matter without pretending that a temporary prompt is durable memory or severing an answer from the evidence.

The bounded legal universe

The law is large. The law that carries practice is measurable.

General legal AI must range across an immense and changing universe. Rayne starts narrower: the decisions that actually carry Scaffold Law citations, then brings that corpus into the governed record of this matter.

General legal knowledge Scaffold Law corpus This matter
67

decisions account for half of every observed citation

The steepest part of the curve: a focused core carries 50% of citation instances.

454

decisions carry 80%

Including 90 Court of Appeals and 349 Appellate Division decisions.

811

decisions carry 90%

Including 152 Court of Appeals and 628 Appellate Division decisions.

179

Court of Appeals decisions in the full supply

The complete Court of Appeals corpus touching §§ 240(1), 241(6), or 200.

Research basis. Rayne census of 1,688 live Kings County Scaffold Law dockets and 11,992 citation instances. Citation coverage describes this observed docket population; it is not a claim that other decisions are irrelevant.

The bounded network

The people and institutions are a defined ecosystem too.

The same courts, carriers, firms, employers, providers, experts, and trades recur across Scaffold Law matters. A system built only for this field can preserve those relationships without confusing a connection for a conclusion.

35–45New York City judges handling these matters
4–5recurring insurance carriers
~50defense firms
~200plaintiff firms
Courts Carriers Owners & contractors Defense firms Scaffold Law
matter
Plaintiff firms Providers & experts Employers & trades Claimants, sites & matters

Actor counts are current Rayne research estimates for the New York City market and will be published with a fuller methodology. Network signals remain source-linked investigative context subject to professional review.

Use Rayne where the work happens

Web workspace, native desktop, and approved agents. One case brain.

The interface can change without dividing the record. The same governed matter remains available through the browser, the Rayne desktop client, and scoped agent access approved by the client.

Rayne Intelligence for Mac & PC

The desktop belongs beside the file.

Work with local documents and watched folders while keeping the matter connected to the same source-linked case brain.

  • Local document workflows
  • Watched folders
  • Shared matter context
Current native release: v8.7.0. Client access remains governed by your Rayne account.
Approved agent access

Bring the governed record into the tools your team authorizes.

Scoped access lets approved agents work against Rayne’s matter structure without turning a model session into the system of record.

rayne matter context / citations / scoped tools client approved
Open agent setup
For whom

Built for the parties a Scaffold Law claim touches.

01 — Defense counselThe case, before it controls the case.

Move from a document room to a defensible position. See the contradictions, the available defenses, and the deadlines with each one anchored to the record — so preparation time goes to argument, not to reconstruction.

02 — Carriers & claimsExposure you can reserve against.

Read a single matter and a book of matters through the same verified lens. Understand coverage, indemnity, judicial posture, recurring participants, and fraud indicators early enough for the reserve, SIU response, and defense strategy to be right.

03 — Owners, contractors & in-house legalKnow where the contract puts the risk.

Give owners, contractors, and their in-house legal teams one view of how trade contracts, indemnity, and additional-insured status allocate liability across the project — with the contract language itself one click away.

Governance

Built for privileged work.

P1Source-linked by design

Every assertion Rayne makes opens to the document, page, and line it came from. Analysis is a path back to the record, not a substitute for it.

P2Auditable work product

What Rayne surfaces can be reviewed, checked, and defended. The provenance of a conclusion is part of the conclusion.

P3Attorney review remains

Rayne organizes and surfaces. Legal judgment — what to argue, what to concede, what to file — stays with counsel.

P4Controlled access & data boundaries

Access is scoped to the matter and the engagement. Client material is used to serve the matter it belongs to — not to train shared systems.

P5Indicators, not accusations

Fraud indicators are investigative leads tied to evidence. A score or network connection does not become a conclusion without professional review.

P6Verified reference

Judicial and cross-claim intelligence retains its source, date, scope, and confidence so that the underlying record can be checked.

Access

One body of law. Twenty years of defense knowledge. One operating record built to carry it forward.

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Rygo Emerson Foss, Esq. www.fosslaw.co