Install CDIA

This page follows trial registration. To install CDIA, start your free 30-day trial (about a minute, no card) and your download starts here. Already have a trial or subscription? Get the installer again. One free trial per email address.

Before you do anything else

When CDIA first starts, enter this email address: the one you used to start your trial or subscription on this website.

Use the same email address you registered. CDIA checks it online against your licence; if you have not started a trial yet, activation will not succeed.

Not started a trial yet? Start your free 30-day trial now; your download starts on this page afterwards.

Install

  1. Open CDIA_Setup.exe from your Downloads folder.
  2. If Windows SmartScreen shows a warning, click More info, confirm the publisher is CDIA Technologies Limited, then click Run anyway.
  3. Follow the installer. No administrator account is needed.
  4. Start CDIA from the Start Menu and enter your licence email. First activation can take up to about 90 seconds.

Your first ten minutes

  1. Choose your AI. CDIA asks whether to use Cloud AI or Private AI. Cloud AI gives the strongest results and sets up in minutes with your own provider key; CDIA guides you through creating one. Private AI keeps everything on your machine and needs a one-time model download of several gigabytes. You can change your mind later in Tools > AI Settings.
  2. Load the example project. On the welcome screen, choose Load Example Project. It is a small, ready-prepared demonstration matter.
  3. Ask a question. Type it the way you would ask a colleague, then click Ask.
  4. Review the evidence. CDIA pauses and shows you what it found: records, report extracts, contract clauses. Click Continue.
  5. Click a citation. The source document opens beside the answer, at the cited page where CDIA holds one.
  6. Try Draft or Advice. Open the Draft tab and ask for a factual background from the evidence, or open Advice for labelled analysis.

Then create a project of your own, add your records, reports and contract, and choose Prepare Project.

CDIA Version 3 in about a minute: a question, the evidence review, a cited answer, the source page, Advice and a cited Draft exported to Word. Example project, fictitious matter.

If something does not work

  • Activation fails. Check the internet connection and that you entered the email address you registered on this website. Wait for the progress message to finish; first activation can take up to about 90 seconds.
  • AI not ready. Open Tools > AI Settings. For Cloud AI, run Set up Cloud AI and Test Connection. For Private AI, the setup offers the runtime download and Try Again.
  • Anything else. Email contact@cdia.co.uk. Help > Support & Contact in CDIA has a Copy Diagnostics button that copies what we need.