Your Desk

Add a Substack, a podcast, or a news source by pasting its link: a direct feed, an ordinary page (Sonata finds the feed for you), or an Apple Podcasts show (resolved to the show’s feed). Each source becomes a card showing its latest post, its title and image, linking out to read it. The feeds are personal to you, kept up to date for you, and you can keep up to twelve. Curated reading chosen for your role may appear alongside your own feeds here in time.

When your team has adopted a watcher, its findings appear at the top of the Desk: one card per hit (say, an agreement expiring within the watcher’s window, or a bill taking a new action), named for the watcher that found it. Findings are shared work, not personal reading: everyone in your organization sees the same open findings. A finding built from sample data carries a Sample marker, a card for an approaching comment deadline carries a quiet Deadline approaching marker (the deadline itself always shown exactly as Regulations.gov states it, joined by a labeled Eastern-time conversion, with an honest line when none is stated), and a quiet status line above the findings sums up the watching itself. No open findings means no findings section at all.

What the buttons do: Dismiss closes a finding for the whole team (dismissed is retained, never deleted). When an action suggests a bill’s text changed, Compare versions opens the Bill Version Comparison agent; when it records hearing activity, Digest hearing opens the Hearing Digest agent; and a Comment-cycle card’s Analyze comments opens the Docket Analyzer for the rulemaking docket’s public comments. Each is a link, never an automatic run. An administrator can Unfollow a bill or rulemaking docket in one click, which stops future tracking without hiding anything already recorded.

Two quieter cards are honest signals, not errors. A card saying a scan matched more than it recorded is a monitor’s cap notice: each scan records findings up to a fixed cap, and when a busy window exceeds it the monitor says so rather than recording silently less than it found. And a card saying a docket or bill couldn’t be followed is the follow limit speaking: a monitor tracks up to fifty at a time, the finding itself is still recorded, and an administrator can unfollow items to make room.

A Federal Register or legislative finding goes one step further: anyone can ask for a client-alert draft from its card. A model writes a first draft grounded in the source’s own data (the Federal Register document’s record, or the bill’s detail and latest summary from Congress.gov), with the source citation built by the system rather than the model, so it can never be invented; when the live source can’t be reached, the draft says plainly that it was drafted from the recorded finding. A lawyer then edits the draft, and approving it stores their final text; the approved alert downloads as a Word document, noting that it was drafted with AI assistance and who reviewed it. A Comment-cycle finding drafts a comment-letter scaffold instead: the letter’s structure and the rulemaking docket’s grounded background, with every place where the client’s substantive position belongs clearly marked for the lawyer to fill in (the model never writes a position), under the same review, approval, and Word download. Sonata never sends anything itself: the download is the only output, and what happens next is up to you.