Bartolus Appellate intelligence

Oral argument intelligence

Know what your panel will ask before you stand up.

Bartolus tags every question judges ask at oral argument — purpose, technique, tone — and turns your panel's record into a prep report for your case.

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A tagged question card from the Bartolus dashboard: Justice Alito's three-driver hypothetical in Flowers Foods v. Brock, tagged by tone (challenging), purpose, technique, and importance — 30% of his questions pose a hypothetical against a 16% court average.
One of 5,095 tagged questions — explore them all in the dashboard
Chart of all 24 divided OT2025 decisions: in 23 of them, the eventual dissenters asked harsher questions of the eventual winner than the rest of the bench did.
In 23 of 24 divided decisions this term, the dissenters telegraphed themselves at argument.

The free dashboard is SCOTUS. The product is your circuit.

Prep reports are built from the same methodology for any federal circuit — your panel, your record, your case.

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How it works

Transcript-first. The report is built from what your judges have actually asked, applied to what your case actually argues.

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Tag the corpus.

Every question in every argument transcript is tagged by purpose, technique, and tone.

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Profile your panel.

Your judges' tagged records become behavioral profiles: how each opens, what each presses, and what makes each shut an argument down.

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Report built on your briefs.

Bartolus reads both briefs in full and writes predicted questions with answers grounded in your brief, page citations included.

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Free to explore

The dashboard

The same tagging that builds the reports, public on the current Supreme Court term. Explore the methodology before you commit.

Oct. Term 2025 · All nine justices · 58 cases

Every question of OT2025, tagged and searchable — free.

Filter by justice, purpose, technique, or tone. Click any number to read the questions behind it.

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Questions tagged 5,095 Every question of every OT2025 argument — 58 cases.
Dissents telegraphed 23 of 24 Divided decisions where the dissenters were harsher on the eventual winner at argument.
Blind backtest · real case 9 hits Report generated blind, scored against the transcript: 9 hits, 4 near. The panel raised two topics the report missed. Read the case study → As examined on GeekLawBlog "Some Technical Questions About SCOTUS AI" — May 2026.
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Available for arguments in any federal circuit and the Supreme Court. Turnaround is typically 48–72 hours once briefs are received.

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The team

About

Bartolus is a product of Greil Analytics LLC.

John Greil

Founder · Greil Analytics LLC · Bartolus

John Greil is a law professor and practicing appellate attorney. He has argued at the federal circuit and state supreme court level, clerked at the federal appellate level, and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He built Bartolus because he wanted a prep tool that could test empirical data against gut feelings — and couldn't find one that did.

Harvard Law J.D. Federal appellate clerk Law professor Fifth Circuit practitioner
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