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Descrybe

AI legal research engine for U.S. primary law, sold monthly.

Status
Active
Data statements
Partial
Last checked
September 21, 2026
Price path
Public price
Firm size
Not stated

Last observed 42 days ago. Records are treated as awaiting re-check after ninety days.

Only some data-handling statements were found. The checked sources did not contain all three of a confidentiality, training, and data-location statement. That is a gap in what the vendor publishes, not a finding about the product. Ask the vendor directly, or weigh it however your firm sees fit.

Editorial assessment

AI legal research with a published monthly price, aimed at solo and small-firm researchers.

This section is the CounselAtlas editorial desk’s own reading of the dated facts below. It is not a vendor statement, not a rating, and not a recommendation. Every product fact it rests on is recorded with a source in the record.

What it is

An AI legal research platform covering U.S. primary law, plus a separate engine that plugs into AI assistants. It publishes monthly pricing for both, which is unusual in this category.

What it is not

It is not a full research platform in the Westlaw or Lexis sense. It does not carry the secondary sources, treatises, or editorial annotations those platforms sell.

Who it tends to fit

  • Solo and small-firm attorneys who want AI research without an enterprise contract
  • Firms that want to add legal research to an AI assistant they already use
  • Researchers who value a published price over a sales conversation

Who it tends not to fit

  • Firms that need secondary sources and treatises alongside primary law
  • Firms whose research workflow depends on a specific citator they already trust
  • Firms that need a published data-location or training statement before shortlisting

What to ask before you buy

  1. Which primary-law sources are covered, and how current is each one?
  2. What does the citation-treatment feature actually check, and against what source?
  3. What happens to my research history if I stop the subscription?
  4. Where is my research data stored, and can I get that in writing?

Limits in the record

  • The product covers primary law; the secondary sources that larger platforms sell are not part of the record.
  • The checked pages do not publish a confidentiality, training, or data-location statement.
  • The platform and the assistant engine are two separate subscriptions, which the pricing page warns about explicitly.

How it sits in Legal research

Within legal research, this competes on access and price rather than on source depth. Westlaw and Lexis sell breadth of secondary material; this sells AI research on primary law at a published monthly rate.

Reading the vendor’s wording

The checked pages describe the research coverage and the assistant integrations but do not publish a confidentiality, training, or data-location statement. A firm that needs a written data commitment should ask for one directly rather than inferring it from the product description.

How to evaluate it in a trial

  1. Run a research question you already know the answer to and check whether the cited authority is correct.
  2. Test the citation-treatment feature against a case you know has been distinguished or overruled.
  3. Confirm which primary-law sources are covered and how current each one is.
  4. Decide whether you need the platform, the assistant engine, or both, since the pricing page warns against buying both.

What adopting it costs

The switching cost is low in infrastructure terms, because research is not a system of record. The real cost is the saved research history, which does not transfer to another platform.

Closest alternative

Midpage — The closest alternative. Both are AI-first legal research tools; midpage publishes encryption and certification statements that this one does not.

The same kind of tool, so you can compare before you commit to one.

Tools in other categories that share a practice area with Descrybe. Most firms need more than one product, so this is the rest of the workflow.

All Legal research tools →Alternatives page →Compare with Midpage →Back to the directory →

The record

Everything below is a dated observation from the vendor’s own published material. Each line links to the page it came from so you can confirm it yourself.

What we verified

Vendor
Descrybe. Observed September 21, 2026 · Vendor page ↗
Price path
Public price: Vendor publishes a pricing page. Observed September 21, 2026 · Source ↗
What it does
General practice. Descrybe presents an AI legal research engine covering U.S. case law, statutes, regulations, and citation treatment. Observed September 21, 2026 · Source ↗
Firm-size scope
Not stated. Observed September 21, 2026 · Checked page ↗
Connections
Not stated. Observed September 21, 2026 · Checked page ↗
Data location
Descrybe presents a legal research platform and legal data engine for AI assistants, including a Claude connector.. Observed September 21, 2026 · Source ↗
Open the vendor page ↗