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Deep research

An opinion that tells you what it does not know.

Seven phases, a deliberately adversarial counter-pass and a final edit that reads all sections together. Every statutory citation is checked against the official wording, every verbatim quote against the stored page excerpt — and whatever stays open is in the opinion, not in the small print.

Before it costs anything

The brief first, then the research

The AI turns your question into a research brief and puts it in front of you: question, scope, depth. The run starts only once you confirm it — and only then do costs arise.

  • You read the brief verbatim before anything runs.
  • Three depths — from a tightly framed question to targeted counter-research per objection.
  • Works inside a matter just as well as a free-standing legal question.
Research briefawaiting your approval
  • Question: validity of a termination under § 626 BGB
  • Scope: without works council hearing, without social selection
  • Depth: detailed — 10 sub-questions, with counter-check
The run

Seven phases instead of one call

A single deep-research call is not an opinion. What runs here is an orchestrated process across many work steps, each with its own checkpoint — if something breaks off, the run resumes there instead of starting over.

  • Gathering follows a fixed order: our own body of statutes first, then your matter, then the web.
  • The run works in the background; you get an email as soon as it is done.
  • The finished opinion lands in the matter's document store as PDF and Word.
  1. BriefYour approval
  2. Plan: 10 sub-questions
  3. Gather: statutes → matter → web
  4. Counter-check
  5. Writing
The difference

A pass that works against its own result

After gathering, a dedicated and deliberately adversarial pass looks for contradictions between sources and missing counter-positions. For every objection that needs a source, targeted counter-research is started.

  • Contradictions are named, not smoothed over.
  • Whatever stays open goes into the “Open questions” section — not into the bin.
Counter-check3 objections
  • Prevailing view not evidenced → counter-research started
  • Source older than the statutory amendment → checked
  • No counter-position found → open, noted in the opinion
Honesty

What the opinion does not know

Every opinion carries a mandatory section “Open questions and limits of this research”. And if nothing stayed open, it says explicitly that this does not mean there is nothing.

  • A citation marker pointing nowhere is visibly devalued to [?] rather than deleted — a deleted marker would make the sentence look as if it had never claimed a source.
  • Facts from the matter appear in the source list separately from statutes and decisions: a fact establishes what happened — never what the law is.
  • Quotes that could not be found again and unconfirmed statutory citations are listed individually.
Open questions and limitsmandatory section
  • 2 sub-questions without a solid source
  • 1 statutory citation not confirmed against the official wording
  • 1 objection from the counter-check remained open
  • 3 paragraphs without their own source
Researched once

The same legal question, several matters

The same legal question rarely comes up only once. A finished opinion can be copied into another matter — without paying for it twice.

  • The copy deliberately inherits no costs: those belong to the original.
  • Only finished opinions appear in the catalogue — quoting from half of one would be an invitation to error.
  • The AI assistant knows the catalogue and reads one passage on demand instead of putting 30 pages into the prompt.
Copy into another matterno second charge
  • Opinion: termination under § 626 BGB
  • Target matter: Müller v. Schmidt GmbH
  • Copied: the verified summary together with its confirmed sources
Why this is different

One call is not an opinion

A single deep-research request returns a text. What is produced here is a work product with a source list, verification notes and an explicit list of what stayed open — created by an agent that runs, like every other, under your approval and your quota.

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Agents in this workflow

Runs the seven-phase job: brief, plan, gather, counter-check, write, final edit, verify.

Deep research

Additionally checks the citations in the result against our own body of statutes.

Citation check

Control & safety

  • Costs arise only after you have approved the research brief.
  • A citation marker without a source is visibly devalued, not silently deleted.
  • Every web source is archived on retrieval and the quote verified on the page.
  • Every opinion carries a mandatory section “Open questions and limits”.
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