BrentWorks Inc., founded by technology attorney and MIT-trained engineer Brent Britton and technologist Brent Hunter, launched CiteSentinel on 11 June 2026. The platform scans legal documents and flags case citations, statutes, and legal authorities that may be fabricated, misstated, or erroneous before they are filed.
Generative AI tools produce authoritative-sounding citations to cases that do not exist. Courts are now responding with sanctions, and the problem extends beyond attorneys who use AI directly: paralegals and contract attorneys working under a supervising attorney's name may be using AI without disclosure. When a brief containing hallucinated citations reaches a judge, the question of who drafted it is quickly secondary to whose name is on it.
CiteSentinel allows attorneys to scan their own drafts, submissions from co-counsel and support staff, and opposing counsel's filings. The scanning-of-opposition capability is positioned as both a compliance check and a litigation advantage: identifying fabricated citations in an adversary's brief before the court does.
"The legal profession is learning, in very public ways, that AI doesn't just make mistakes, it confidently lies to your face," said co-founder Brent Britton.
BrentWorks says CiteSentinel is the first in a series of products the company plans to release. Britton's background includes technology law and investment advisory work; Hunter previously applied neural networks to finance in 1993 and has led transformation programmes at GE, Wells Fargo, Disney, and Warner Bros. Discovery.
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