Justinian is now a real phone app. The entire mobile surface has been rebuilt for one-handed use — a branded launch that reaches a usable app in under a second, a home screen that greets you, a dock you arrange yourself, and a composer that moves in lockstep with the keyboard. The full Vulcan Office suite comes with it: Word documents, Excel workbooks, and PowerPoint decks all open and edit on the phone. On every device, tool approvals now happen inline in the thread, so you keep working while you decide.
Mobile
The Justinian phone app has been rebuilt end to end. Everything below ships on iOS today; the app is on the App Store, and your organization's account works the same as it does in the browser.
A launch that means it
Cold launch reaches a usable, tappable app in about 900 ms — faster than before, while also playing a branded reveal that did not exist at all. No black flash in light mode, and the app comes back correctly when the phone kills the app in the background.
A home screen, not a blank chat
You land on a personalized home screen with a live greeting and quick-start shortcuts, so the first tap is a starting point rather than an empty box.
A dock you arrange yourself
Pin the surfaces you actually use, reorder them, remove the ones you don't, reset when you change your mind — then swipe between them. History, Files, and Forum each get a dedicated surface built to be scanned with a thumb.
A composer built for thumbs
Attachments, dictation, and reasoning effort now live on one real toolbar row, with a press-and-drag "+" menu that opens on the press instead of after you let go. Effort is one tap from the composer instead of a hunt through unlabeled circles.
Typing feels native
The interface moves in lockstep with the iOS keyboard — measured from the system rather than guessed — so the composer no longer bounces, clips, or lags a frame behind. One tap opens the keyboard again, and dictation keeps streaming, scrolling, and recovering from errors.
Light, dark, or whatever your phone is doing
Appearance is now three-state and follows the device by default, instead of a one-way switch that pinned the app to light and could never hand control back.
Steadier surfaces
Consistent spacing under the top chrome on every screen, search seated above the dock, a drawer that closes with the same swipe that opened it, instant Settings toggles, and a Files tab that no longer bricks on a slow first load.
Vulcan Office
The editor behind documents, spreadsheets, and presentations is now Vulcan Office throughout — our own build, named for what it is. The whole suite works on a phone.
The whole suite, on the phone
Open a document, workbook, or deck from Files on your phone and edit it in place — no export step, no read-only preview, no desktop round trip. Changes save back to the same file.
Spreadsheets built for a thumb
On a phone the formula bar moves to the bottom of the screen, right above the keyboard, and the sheet tabs become pills along the bottom edge — tap one to switch sheets. The desktop menu bar and cell-reference box are gone; what is left is what you can reach one-handed.
Real Microsoft files
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint formats open natively, with formulas that calculate, multiple sheets, and formatting preserved. Create a new document, sheet, or deck straight from the Files tab.
Named for what it is
The editor identifies itself as Vulcan Office everywhere it used to carry an upstream vendor's name — in the interface, in document properties, and in the dialogs you land on from a file.
Documents that don't get stuck
A document left open by a dead session is now visible and can be force-released, so a colleague's closed laptop no longer locks a file. A failed conflict park can no longer delete the only copy of your bytes, and an ambiguous editor request is refused rather than guessed at.
Chat and the agent
The changes you feel on every device, whatever you're working on.
Approvals are inline, not blocking
The full-screen "Tool Approval Required" modal is gone. The ask renders as a card at the tail of the thread with the same Approve and Deny and the same full preview of what Justinian wants to run, and the composer stays live the whole time. If the ask is off-screen, a small chip brings you back to it. Two asks at once no longer overwrite each other, and a decision that fails to send says so instead of vanishing.
Built for multi-minute work
Document builds, deep research, and large spreadsheet runs stream tens of thousands of events. The interface is now tuned for exactly that shape of turn, so a long agentic run stays as responsive as a one-line answer.
Errors you can act on
When something does go wrong, Justinian says what happened in plain language and what to do about it, consistently across the product.
Turns that finish on their own
A long turn records its own outcome and runs to completion whether or not you stay on the tab, so you can close it, come back, and find the finished answer waiting.
Mail, meetings, and accounts
Smaller surfaces that got real work this release.
Schedule a send
Email can be scheduled through your own connected mailbox, so a message written now goes out when you meant it to — from your account, not ours.
Photos in email
Images embed inline in the body of an outbound message rather than riding along as detached attachments, and replies quote the thread beneath them.
Transcription beyond meetings
Any recording can be transcribed — a hearing, a site walkthrough, a voice memo — not just something Justinian recognizes as a meeting.
Cleaner account setup
Single-use setup links, passwordless invitations that work on the first click, and a self-serve activation page for anyone who lands mid-flow.
New data
New public-record collections are available to Justinian, plus a large repair to material that was loaded but hidden from search.
Education policy, side by side
A 50-state education policy comparison collection — 415 official source pages and 26,749 answer rows — so "how do states handle this" is a query rather than a research project.
Education research literature
21,605 articles across the seven journals of the leading education research association, rankable by citation count with DOI links, alongside 65,568 state science-and-engineering workforce indicators.
Education by geography
572,432 American Community Survey education facts — attainment, enrollment, and related measures with margins of error, down to local geographies.
Twelve years of construction unit prices
State transportation weighted average unit prices at quarterly grain — 159,733 rows across 34 quarters from 2014 through mid-2026, recovered from archived publications and kept current quarterly. The source publishes only the latest quarter, so this history did not previously exist anywhere. Fourteen quarters are permanently unrecoverable and are left empty rather than interpolated.
Executive orders, structured
Executive-order collection now models the full structure of an order — its lists, tables, and headings, not just its prose. Justinian reads what an order actually directs, and answers questions about scope, deadlines, and who is covered with more precision.
More federal and state coverage
Federal regulation history is queryable alongside the current version, so "what did this rule say before" is a question Justinian can answer. Administrative hearing coverage expands to the full forward docket.
Restricted corpora can serve files
A confidential corpus with no public origin can now hand an entitled user the document itself, through short-lived links, with access resolved from directory group membership at the moment of the request.
Try it now
Three minutes with the release.
Get the app
Install Justinian from the App Store and sign in with your work account.
Rearrange your dock
Long-press the dock, pin the surfaces you actually use, and swipe between them.
Edit a deck on your phone
Open a presentation from Files on your phone, add a slide, and present it.
Ask something that needs approval
Watch the card appear in the thread — then keep typing while you decide.
Ready to explore?
I am available now in Justinian 2.2.3. Bring a source-heavy matter, a folder of research materials, or a visual artifact and see how the workflow holds together.