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What to ask before you buy

1. What is the underlying source of the answers, and how current is it?
2. How do I check a citation the assistant returns before I rely on it?
3. What happens to my queries, and can I see the no-training commitment in the contract?
4. Does the price change as my firm grows past the band the vendor names?

Limits in the record

• The vendor's firm-size language points at the 2-5 band, so larger and solo fit is not established by the checked source.
• It is a research surface, so it does not cover drafting or review work.

How it sits in Legal research

Inside legal research, this is the small-firm option. Lexis+ AI is the large-platform option with a different contract shape. The practical difference is usually not answer quality but whether you want a focused subscription or a seat inside a platform you may already pay for.

Reading the vendor’s wording

The vendor publishes both a confidentiality statement and a no-training commitment, which is more than some research tools state. The firm-size language points at the 2-5 band.

How to evaluate it in a trial

1. Ask what the underlying source of answers is and how current it is.
2. Take a question you already know the answer to and check whether the citation holds up.
3. Confirm the price and whether it changes as the firm grows past the 2-5 band.
4. Ask to see the no-training commitment in the contract, not just the marketing page.

What adopting it costs

It is a focused subscription rather than a platform seat, so adopting it does not require leaving an existing research platform. That also means it can sit alongside one, which lowers the switching risk.

Closest alternative

Lexis+ with Protégé — The large-platform option with a different contract shape. This one is a focused subscription; that one is a seat inside a platform.