Learn Nyrava, end to end
A single walkthrough for getting your account set up, connecting AI providers, running your first case, and training your whole team to use it well.
Overview & who this is for
This guide is the fastest path from a brand-new Nyrava account to a firm that runs cases confidently and trains new hires without hand-holding. It's written for whoever is standing the platform up — usually a Firm Admin or Admin — but every section notes what each role on your team actually needs to know.
1. Set up your account
- 1Create your accountGo to Sign In → Sign Up using your work email address, not a personal Gmail/Outlook/Yahoo address.
- 2Firm grouping happens automaticallyNyrava recognizes your email domain and groups you with everyone else at your firm who signs up the same way — there's no workspace name to set up.
- 3Accept the Terms of Service & Privacy PolicyRequired once per account. Review the Trust Center if your firm needs it for a vendor security review.
- 4Confirm your email and sign inYou'll land on the Command Center dashboard — this is home base for every case.
2. Add your AI provider keys
This step is optional — Nyrava works out of the box on its built-in providers. Add your own keys if your firm has an existing OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Groq, or OpenRouter relationship, wants direct billing, or has a compliance requirement to use its own vendor account.
- 1Open Settings → API KeysAvailable to Admin and above.
- 2Paste your provider keyNyrava validates the key immediately and encrypts it at rest with AES-256-GCM before storing it.
- 3Repeat for additional providers (optional)Configuring more than one lets the router fail over automatically if a provider errors or throttles.
- 4Leave it blank if you're not sure yetYou can add keys later — nothing blocks you from running a case in the meantime.
3. Invite your team & assign roles
Go to Admin → Team & Seats to invite teammates by email. They don't set a password or fill anything out ahead of time — they just sign up normally with that same email address, and the moment they do, they land in your firm with the role you picked. Everyone starts as a Standard User by default until a role is assigned. Nyrava uses five tiers, from broadest to narrowest:
4. Run your first case
- 1Click New Case from the dashboardName it using an internal-facing label — it's only visible inside your firm's account.
- 2Pick a case typeCriminal, civil, appellate, family, tax, etc. This determines which intelligence engines run.
- 3Upload the full recordDrag in the entire production. Scanned PDFs and photographed exhibits run through OCR automatically.
- 4Click Run PipelineEngines execute in sequence — Evidence → Timeline → Witness → Constitutional → Strategy → Motion (if requested) → Report. Progress streams live.
- 5Open the panels as they completeEvidence, Timeline, Witness, and Constitutional findings appear as each engine finishes — you don't have to wait for the whole run.
Want the fully detailed walkthrough, including prerequisites and export formats? See Running your first case.
5. What to expect from results
Nyrava produces findings, not verdicts. Here's what a first run typically surfaces and how long it takes:
6. Reviewing & verifying findings
Nyrava is built to be checked, not trusted blindly. Before anything leaves your desk:
- Click through citations on any finding you plan to rely on — confirm the source says what the summary claims.
- Reject or edit findings that need attorney judgment; Nyrava flags likely issues, it doesn't make legal conclusions.
- Treat generated motions and reports as first drafts — review and revise before filing or sending.
This mirrors Nyrava's own Responsible AI principles and AI Transparency commitments — worth a read before rolling this out firm-wide.
7. Getting the best results
- Upload the full record, not excerpts. Contradiction detection, witness clustering, and timeline reconciliation all improve with the complete corpus.
- Use descriptive filenames and bates ranges.
SMITH000123-000145_Dep_Chen.pdfresolves cleaner citations thandoc7.pdf. - Re-run Evidence Intelligence after supplemental productions. Prior citations stay valid; new findings are appended, not overwritten.
- Configure a second provider key if uptime matters for your workflow — the router fails over automatically.
- Keep case types accurate. The case type controls which engines run, so a mismatched type means some analysis simply won't fire.
8. Training your team
For firm-wide rollout, don't hand new hires the whole platform at once. A short, role-based path gets people productive fastest:
- 1Have them read this page firstIt's the 15-minute version of everything below.
- 2Shadow one real caseHave a new user watch an experienced Case Manager run a case from upload to export before running their own.
- 3Assign the narrowest role that fits the jobSee the role table in step 3 — most new hires start as Standard User or Case Manager.
- 4Point them at the deep-dive docs for their jobCase Managers → Running your first case & Uploading documents. Reviewers → What to expect & Reviewing findings above.
- 5Set a verification norm earlyMake citation-checking part of your firm's workflow from day one — it's much harder to retrofit a habit later.