Waves S through W represent five sequential build cycles targeting a defined set of case types that share a common trait: high-stakes commercial and intellectual-property disputes where outcome and duration uncertainty carry outsized financial consequences for the parties and, where applicable, for capital deployed against the matter. Patent, copyright, and trademark litigation; securities and RICO claims; antitrust actions; general commercial disputes; and environmental litigation each demanded models built and validated against the case law, procedural posture, and venue behavior specific to that practice area — a single generic litigation model does not transfer cleanly across categories this different in structure.
Coverage across this wave set spans all twelve federal circuits, the qualifying district courts beneath them, and all fifty states, reflecting a deliberate build sequence: establish federal coverage first, since federal courts generate the most consistent record structure and the deepest available history for the case types in this wave, then extend into state-court equivalents where those causes of action are also litigated at the state level.
Every model in the registry carries a status — production, experimental, or stub — and that status is not cosmetic. A production model has cleared validation gates against a held-out population it was never trained on and is approved for use in live underwriting and diagnostic work. An experimental model has been built and is undergoing that validation but has not yet cleared it. A stub marks a case type or jurisdiction that has been scoped for future model development but has not yet been built. Publishing the registry with all three statuses visible, rather than only announcing production models, is a deliberate transparency choice: it shows the shape of the roadmap, not just the finished portion of it.
The registry's wave structure exists so that any model's scope and vintage can be checked precisely. A model built in Wave S targeting patent litigation in a specific circuit is a different artifact from a Wave W model targeting the same circuit for environmental litigation, even though both are described under the same wave-cycle release. Institutional buyers evaluating a specific case type and jurisdiction should confirm the model's wave, its production status, and its coverage scope directly against the registry rather than inferring coverage from a wave-level announcement.
This release continues a build cadence that has run consistently since Criterica Intelligence began publishing wave-level model releases: expand coverage across case types and jurisdictions in defined batches, validate every model against the same gates before promoting it to production, and publish the registry status honestly rather than rounding experimental or stub models up to production.