A legal assistant that refuses to cite law it can't verify
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HN · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 47%) · 0 views
Category and tags
- Legal
- Agent / copilot
- B2B
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial The chat UI and retrieval pipeline are standard, but the 'refuses to cite unverifiable law' behavior depends on an authoritative, current legal corpus and citation verification, which a solo builder cannot easily produce.
What it would actually take: The architecture is a RAG system with a verified statute and case-law index, a citation checker that rejects unmatched references, and an LLM front end. The hard part is licensing and maintaining accurate, up-to-date legal sources across jurisdictions. Real reliability also needs lawyer review to set the refusal and disclaimer policy.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Described as hilariously broken, May not work at all
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Launched 348 days after the earliest competitor.
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