03 — Compliance Architecture
Compliance is the most operationally important surface on the platform. These four pillars are not aspirational; they are the architecture every output is required to traverse before it reaches a client, a counterparty, or a tribunal.
In response to Mata v. Avianca and its progeny, every case citation Law-All-Day surfaces is verified against CourtListener and, for New York statutory references, the NY Senate Open Legislation API, in the same request that generates the output. Unverifiable citations are blocked at the rendering layer — not flagged, not footnoted, not “use with caution.” They do not ship. NY RPC 3.3 candor to the tribunal is enforced upstream of attorney review, not downstream of malpractice exposure.
Every artifact enters the matter workspace as a DRAFT watermark — non-removable, rendered into the document itself, surfaced in every preview, export, and e-signature envelope. Finalization requires an affirmative attorney action capturing the supervising attorney’s bar number, jurisdiction, and timestamp, written to the per-matter ledger before the artifact loses its DRAFT state. There is no “auto-send.” ABA Model Rule 5.3 supervision is enforced by the platform, not by a manual checklist.
Every prompt, every model response, every attorney edit, every finalize-signature event, every e-filing submission, and every outbound client communication is written to a per-matter append-only ledger with cryptographic chaining. The log is exportable as a sworn record. It satisfies discovery obligations, internal compliance review, and disciplinary inquiry — without after-the-fact reconstruction.
The platform does not represent clients, render legal advice, or appear before tribunals. Every client-facing communication and every filed document originates from a bar-admitted attorney at the licensee firm. The platform is the instrument. The lawyer is the practitioner. Unauthorized-practice-of-law exposure is allocated to the licensee firm by the customer subscription terms.
The four pillars above are the conversation. We’ll walk through the audit-log export, the DRAFT-watermark architecture, and the per-tenant data segregation under NDA — thirty minutes with the supervising attorney.