EMP Intake Teams

Timeline reconstruction the whole team can build together.

Investigators contribute to one shared incident timeline, with changes attributed to the acting user. Logs, exports, and video land on a shared timeline, each change attributed to who made it, with the originals preserved and hashed as they come in.

EMP Intake Teams timeline reconstruction workspace: a CCTV clip placed on the timeline scrubber beside the case event log

The four reconstruction surfaces from EMP Intake Workstation (Case Workspace, Timeline, Incident Map, and Link Analysis) are now built by the whole investigation team on one case, with changes attributed to their author. The EMP Intake Teams pilot is planned for 2027. Multiple investigators can work on the shared case, with supported changes attributed to the acting user. It runs on a PostgreSQL server you host.

1. One case, many investigators

In Teams, the case is a shared surface. One investigator captures structured intake, another adds evidence, a third works the timeline, a fourth marks witness positions on the map. Every change routes through the Workspace API, which records the material actions, who made them and when. So the reconstruction stops being one person's working file and becomes one record the whole team builds, with supported actions attributed to the acting user.

2. The shared timeline

The timeline belongs to the shared case. Investigators can align supported sources with clock offsets while retaining the original timestamp values. Review the recorded changes alongside the source material.

3. The shared scene map

The incident map is edited across the team with attributed changes and section-aware coordination. Camera and incident pins, witness positions taken from interview transcripts, and the routes and zones drawn with boxes, circles, and arrows can each come from a different investigator. Placements are attributed to their author. Record the source and confidence of a location so reviewers can distinguish an observation from an estimate. Basemap data is OSM-derived, delivered through a Falcrex-controlled map delivery service using Cloudflare infrastructure; map requests never include pins, evidence, or case content, and any browser cache is local to the client workstation.

4. Shared link analysis

Link analysis maps how a case's people, evidence, and entities connect. It uses the shared case records available to the investigator. Filter by entity type and drill into any node; because every entity is a typed object in the shared graph, a link you would otherwise miss scrolling through case notes shows up as an edge. Case access follows permissions; Managers and Administrators retain broader workspace access.

5. One integrity model, attributed to the team

The reconstruction tools use the shared case record and retain the records each workflow supports. Files are hashed (SHA-256) on intake and the original is preserved, never overwritten. The team works on a copy that links back to the source hash, and every material action through the Workspace API is timestamped and attributed to the investigator who took it. The difference at team scale is that the audit trail carries the identity of each actor, so the export shows reviewing counsel exactly which team member contributed which part of the analysis.

Reconstructing incidents as a team? EMP Intake Teams puts a case in front of several investigators with shared access and per-actor attribution, role-scoped so each person sees and edits only what their role allows. It's soft collaboration, not Google-Docs-style live keystroke editing, with a pilot planned for 2027. Apply to the Teams pilot →

Frequently asked

Do team edits ever overwrite each other silently?

Case details and notes have stale-save protection. Other editing workflows have their own coordination rules; an audit record is not a universal guarantee against conflicting edits.

Can outside counsel review a reconstruction without a Teams account?

Timelines and maps export as PDFs that need no EMP install, and the export records who placed and corrected what.

Is the reconstruction the same as in EMP Intake Workstation?

Teams provides shared case access, section-level edit presence and stale-save protection for case details and notes, with supported actions attributed to their user. Confirm the reconstruction features included in your pilot build.

See it hold up on your own files

Try EMP Intake Workstation free for 14 days, with no credit card. For shared cases across PCs, discuss an EMP Intake Teams pilot.