Legal Research and Plain-Language Memos
AI Legal Support
Understand the rule before you pay someone to apply it
Most legal questions a founder has are not disputes. They are orientation: can we do this, what does this term mean, what does the law here require, is this normal.,Marco researches the question and comes back with a memo in ordinary language: what the rule is, where it comes from, how it applies to your situation, and what remains genuinely uncertain.,Where the honest answer is that you need a lawyer, the memo says so and hands you a scoped question instead of a vague worry. That single change usually makes the eventual conversation shorter and cheaper.
Benefits
How It Works
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At a Glance
- Plain
- Language, not legalese
- Cited
- Sources you can check
- Scoped
- Question ready for your lawyer
- Honest
- Uncertainty stated, not smoothed
The Questions That Never Get Asked
There is a category of legal question that is too small to justify an invoice and too uncomfortable to ignore. Can we say this in our marketing. Is this clause normal. Do we need consent for this. What does indemnify actually mean here. Each one is genuinely minor, and each one sits at the back of a founder mind for months, occasionally influencing decisions in unexamined ways. The barrier is not usually the money, it is the friction of formulating it, sending it, and waiting. Removing that friction means the questions get asked while they are still cheap.
Knowing Which Jurisdiction Applies Is Half the Answer
Founders usually ask legal questions as though there is one answer, and for an internet business there rarely is. You might be incorporated in one country, employ people in a second, serve customers in a third, and have contracts specifying a fourth as governing law. Those facts can point to genuinely different answers, and the useful first move is almost always to establish which body of rules is actually in play. A memo that answers confidently for the wrong jurisdiction is worse than one that starts by sorting out which one matters.
Stating Uncertainty Is the Valuable Part
The instinct with a legal question is to want a clean yes or no, and the instinct of a tool trying to be helpful is to supply one. But a great deal of commercial law is genuinely unsettled, fact-dependent, or subject to interpretations that have not been tested. A memo that marks those honestly lets you calibrate: act on the settled parts, get advice on the contested ones, and know which is which. A memo that answers everything with the same confidence removes exactly the information you needed most.
FAQ
How is this different from asking a chatbot?
Two things. The research is grounded in cited sources rather than recalled from training, and the memo states its own limits instead of answering everything with equal confidence. A confidently wrong answer to a legal question is worse than no answer, because you act on it.
Can I rely on the memo?
Rely on it for orientation, which is what it is for. Understanding what a rule says, whether a practice is normal, and what your options look like are all things it does well. Deciding what to do when real money or real exposure is involved is what your lawyer is for, and the memo is written to make that conversation efficient.
What if the answer differs by country?
The memo says so and treats the jurisdictions separately rather than blending them into an average that is true nowhere. Establishing which jurisdiction actually governs is often the most valuable part of the answer.
Does he keep past research?
Yes. Questions recur, and having the earlier memo means the follow-up starts from what was already established rather than from scratch. It also means you can see what you understood at the time you made a decision.