LegalDraft · Coverage & verification

What runs deterministically, what the AI drafts, and what is verified

Every cell on this page is computed from the same configuration the product runs on — a label here cannot say more than the software does. Assists professional review; the supervising attorney remains responsible for every output.

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Deterministic doc types

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Statute-cited AI drafts

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State clause packs

DraftBench: the evaluation harness behind these claims — 202/207 passed, 0 failed, 5 honest skips (run 2026-07-17).

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The labels, and what they are allowed to mean

Deterministic

Operative text assembled from the parameterized, attorney-reviewable clause library — the model never authors the binding language.

Statute-cited AI draft

AI-drafted and grounded in state legal context with citations; the supervising attorney verifies statutory references against official sources.

AI review

AI-generated findings and risk analysis for professional judgment — it flags, it does not decide law.

Format-checked only

Deterministic Bluebook form check. Existence NOT verified — a perfectly formatted citation can still be fabricated.

Existence-verified

Each case citation checked against real opinions (CourtListener). Not a good-law/treatment check.

Citator-checked

Negative-treatment result from a licensed citator (Westlaw KeyCite / Lexis Shepard’s).

Attorney verifies

No automated verification layer ran for this claim — the supervising attorney verifies before relying.

Deterministically assembled instruments

These documents assemble from the parameterized, attorney-reviewable clause library — the model never authors their operative text. State clause packs overlay source-cited provisions where a pack exists (FL, AL, AK); the base instrument drafts for every U.S. state with its execution formalities. The “verified state-exact” claim stays fail-closed in code until a licensed attorney signs off per state — no exceptions, including Florida.

InstrumentRigorState packsState-exact claim
Last Will & TestamentDeterministicFL, AL, AK · base instrument: all statesPending licensed-attorney sign-off (fail-closed)
Revocable Living TrustDeterministicFL, AL, AK · base instrument: all statesPending licensed-attorney sign-off (fail-closed)
Financial Power of Attorney (Durable)DeterministicFL, AL, AK · base instrument: all statesPending licensed-attorney sign-off (fail-closed)
Advance Healthcare Directive & Living WillDeterministicFL, AL, AK · base instrument: all statesPending licensed-attorney sign-off (fail-closed)
Declaration Naming Preneed GuardianDeterministicFL, AL, AK · base instrument: all statesPending licensed-attorney sign-off (fail-closed)

Florida probate filings — 12 deterministic templates

Deterministic

Petition for administration, oath of personal representative, creditor notices, inventory, summary administration, disposition without administration, ancillary petitions, accounting, and discharge — each a parameterized template with statute/Probate Rule hooks. They assemble in the probate packet flow (the engine selects the set per administration path), not the generic drafting picker, and every output is a draft for licensed-attorney review and filing.

Authority Graph: 26/27 cited Florida statutes verified against the official publisher (last check 2026-07-10) — content-hashed, re-checked on demand, history in source control. Per-clause provenance with official links is on the Florida desk page.

Fact-layer authorities by document type — 34/259 verified registry-wide

healthcare-directive: 50 statutes registered, 1 hash-verified

promissory-note: 50 statutes registered

loan-agreement: 50 statutes registered

poa-financial: 49 statutes registered, 2 hash-verified

residential-lease: 48 statutes registered, 3 hash-verified

last-will: 34 statutes registered, 3 hash-verified

living-trust: 3 statutes registered

Registered means the citation is under the drift monitor's registry; verified means a hashed baseline from the official publisher exists. Sources without a verified publisher resolver are counted and say so — they are never claimed current.

Statute-cited AI drafts

Drafted by the engine with state legal context and citations, then routed through the built-in review — with statutory references the reviewing attorney verifies against official sources.

Personal & Family

  • Guardianship Designation for Minor ChildrenStatute-cited AI draft
  • Prenuptial AgreementStatute-cited AI draft

Property & Money

  • Residential Lease AgreementStatute-cited AI draft
  • Commercial Lease AgreementStatute-cited AI draft
  • Bill of SaleStatute-cited AI draft
  • Promissory NoteStatute-cited AI draft
  • Quitclaim DeedStatute-cited AI draft
  • Loan AgreementStatute-cited AI draft

Business & Work

  • Mutual NDAStatute-cited AI draft
  • One-Way NDAStatute-cited AI draft
  • Services AgreementStatute-cited AI draft
  • LLC Operating AgreementStatute-cited AI draft
  • Employment AgreementStatute-cited AI draft
  • Independent Contractor AgreementStatute-cited AI draft
  • Cease & Desist LetterStatute-cited AI draft
  • Demand LetterStatute-cited AI draft
  • Partnership AgreementStatute-cited AI draft

Courts & Disputes

  • Civil ComplaintStatute-cited AI draft
  • Answer to a ComplaintStatute-cited AI draft
  • Civil MotionStatute-cited AI draft
  • Discovery RequestsStatute-cited AI draft
  • Declaration / AffidavitStatute-cited AI draft

Citation verification — the ladder, level by level

A citation is never labeled above the highest level that actually ran on it. Format-correct ≠ real; existence-verified ≠ good law. The ladder says exactly which rung is live today.

L1Bluebook format check (deterministic)

Reporter spacing, T6 abbreviations, short-form integrity, pincite rules.

Live

L2Case existence (CourtListener, real opinions)

Built and wired; activates when the CourtListener token is set — until then the report says “existence not verified.”

Built — dormant until key

L3Court / date / precedential-status cross-check

Matched-opinion metadata (court, date, published/unpublished) surfaced from the existence layer; plumbing built and tested, activates with the citator token.

Built — dormant until key

L4Pinpoint & quote verification

Quoted language string-checked against the retrieved opinion text — catches misquotes, not just fake cases. The matcher is live and tested; the opinion-text fetch activates when the CourtListener token is set.

Built — dormant until key

L5Statute & regulation currentness

Authority Graph: 34/259 registered official sources verified against dated, hashed snapshots (last verified 2026-07-10); the daily runtime monitor records every re-check to the ledger and flags drift for review — changes are never silently re-blessed.

Live

L6Negative treatment (licensed citator)

Westlaw KeyCite / Lexis Shepard’s provider slots are built and dormant; nothing is ever labeled “good law” without a real citator result.

Planned

L7Brief-level authority table + manual checklist

Table-of-authorities export with a per-citation verification checklist.

Planned
Citators:Westlaw KeyCite DormantLexisNexis Shepard's DormantCourtListener DormantAI citation-use judgment (advisory, capped at “warning”) Disabled

State capability classes

Every US jurisdiction carries a deployment class that sets what the consumer software may do there — data with citations, not guesswork. This table is compiled from the same policy table the permission engine enforces at runtime.

JurisdictionClassBasis
FLDNo software safe harbor. Fla. Bar R. 10-2.2 / Brumbaugh line define nonlawyer limits; §454.23 makes UPL criminal. Rule 10-9.1 advisory-opinion channel available.
AZD (declared B — registration pending)ACJA §7-208 (certified Legal Document Preparer program); ACJA §7-209 (Alternative Business Structure) for the licensed-services entity.
CAD (declared B — registration pending)Bus. & Prof. Code §6400 et seq.: Legal Document Assistant registration (county-level, bonded); LDA work is ministerial, at the client’s specific direction.
NVD (declared B — registration pending)NRS 240A: document preparation services registration.
NYDJudiciary Law §§478/484; Upsolve v. James (2d Cir. 2025: PI vacated, content-neutral/intermediate scrutiny; cert No. 25-948 pending).
NCDN.C. Gen. Stat. §84-2.2: registered interactive self-help document lane with statutory consumer-protection conditions.
TXATex. Gov't Code §81.101(c): practice of law excludes software and similar products that clearly and conspicuously state they are not a substitute for attorney advice (post-Parsons Tech. amendment). Ch. 83 (real-property instruments) still applies.
WADEntity Regulation Pilot (Order 25700-B-721, portal open 2025-10-21) — application drafted (docs/upl/WA-ENTITY-PILOT-APPLICATION-DRAFT.md), not authorization.
All other jurisdictions (43)D (default)No software-specific UPL authority identified; Gray-Area-Plus default — consumer-operated, user-authored, non-representational, with the attorney rail available. Each row is a dated position under counsel review, not a determination of law.

A: express software safe harbor · B: registration lane (behaves as D until our registration lands) · C: publisher-precedent, counsel-signed (currently none) · D: gray-area consumer mode · E: restricted — analysis routes to a licensed attorney (currently none; also the incident rollback class).

The hard gates

What the software refuses to let happen — and, honestly, which gates are enforced today versus committed on the roadmap.

Jurisdiction gate

Active

Blocks: Drafting without a valid governing state.

Coverage gate

Active

Blocks: Deterministic-assembly claims outside clause-library coverage.

State-exact claim gate

Active

Blocks: Asserting “verified state-exact” before a licensed-attorney sign-off exists.

Attorney attestation gate

Active

Blocks: Attorney engines running without the licensed-attorney clickwrap.

Access gate

Active

Blocks: Paid work product reaching unpaid/over-limit sessions.

Attorney finalization gate

Active

Blocks: Finalizing while any finding lacks an approve/reject/revise decision. No bulk approval exists.

Citation label gate

Active

Blocks: A citation rendering a higher verification label than the layer that actually ran.

Execution formalities gate

Active

Blocks: Exports shipping without the state execution-formalities appendix.

UPL gate

Active

Blocks: Consumer surfaces giving advice, outcome prediction, or strategy.

Required-facts gate

Active

Blocks: Assembly/workflow advancing past intake with mandatory facts missing.

Conflict gate

Active

Blocks: Contradictory intake facts (same person in must-differ roles, unparseable dates) reaching an instrument silently.

Currentness gate

Active

Blocks: Asserted-current authority claims when a source snapshot is stale or changed.

Court-form gate

Active

Blocks: Court packets referencing an unregistered or unverified official form.

UPL capability gate

Active

Blocks: Any output class outside the brand × state-class permission matrix — fail closed on unknowns.

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