Use FORENSICA with Google Docs™.
Follow the steps below to open the add-on, analyze selected text, read the result, and work with saved reports.
Installation and paid access
FORENSICA is available through Google Workspace™ Marketplace. Install and authorize the add-on with the Google account you plan to use in Google Docs™.
SCOUT remains available at no charge. LOGIC, TRACE, and STRAT are available as monthly subscriptions; the signed-in add-on shows the profile, currency, billing, and Stripe-hosted checkout options currently available to that account.
If a checkout, payment, subscription, or paid-entitlement status appears inconsistent, do not repeat the purchase automatically. Contact support@forensicalabs.com so the existing transaction can be reconciled first.
Open FORENSICA
Open a document in Google Docs™
Use an existing document or create a new document containing the passage you want to examine.
Open the add-on
From the Extensions menu in Google Docs™, open FORENSICA and choose the narrative analysis option.
Wait for the sidebar
The sidebar shows “System ready” and “Select text to begin” when it is ready for a new request.
Run an analysis
Select the passage
Highlight only the text you want FORENSICA to analyze.
Choose Analyze Narrative
Click the primary button once and keep the document open while the request completes.
Review the result
Read the Key Insight, Framing Intensity, Information Support, Structural Stability, and Assessment in relation to the message’s purpose, audience, and context.
Read the three indices
Framing Intensity
Shows how strongly the passage guides interpretation toward a particular view, judgment, or outcome.
Information Support
Shows how clearly the passage backs its claims with specific, traceable information.
Structural Stability
Shows how consistently the passage’s reasoning holds together from claim to conclusion.
Read all three values together. Each describes a different property of the selected message.
Report Archive
A successful analysis is retained in the FORENSICA Report Archive in Google Drive™. Open Report Archive in the sidebar to return to prior analyses. Archive rows show a bounded title, timestamp, and Framing value.
Opening an archive row loads the complete stored analysis and source context into the sidebar.
Append Report
Choose Append Report to add the complete report to the active document in Google Docs™. The appended report includes the source context, analytical sections, metrics, and the full guide for reading the indices.
Export Report
Choose Export Report to create a separate readable document in Google Docs™ in the configured report workspace. The exported report contains the same self-contained analytical guide as the appended report.
Archive workspace
FORENSICA uses the configured Google Drive™ workspace for archived and exported reports. My Drive is available for the standard personal workspace. Users who need a shared team workspace can connect an available Shared Drive folder from Account & Settings.
Browser privacy settings must allow the file picker to open when connecting a Shared Drive workspace.
Units and account continuity
SCOUT currently includes five units, and each completed SCOUT analysis uses one unit. The available balance appears in the FORENSICA sidebar. Settings, units, and archive continuity follow the Google account used to run the add-on.
Contact support
For installation, authorization, account access, archive connection, product use, privacy, or security questions, email support@forensicalabs.com.