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Specialised in German law
General AI chat
Generic, no legal playbook
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Contract-type specific playbooks (NDA, lease, IT, T&C …)
Sources & tools
General AI chat
Hallucinations possible, no verification
Smart Legal Pro
Document quotes in analysis; optional: select → source search (Perplexity, credits)
Confidentiality
General AI chat
Inputs may flow into model training
Smart Legal Pro
EU hosting, no training on your data, per-user RLS
Document management
General AI chat
None — every chat starts from scratch
Smart Legal Pro
My Documents with versions, confidentiality level & reuse
Lawyer hand-off
General AI chat
Not available
Smart Legal Pro
One-click hand-off to verified lawyer incl. all documents
Reply letters
General AI chat
Free text
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Structured templates with deadline, tone, PDF export
Compliance
General AI chat
No audit trails
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Audit log, GDPR-compliant, RDG notice visible
Legal questions without a document
General AI chat
Unstructured answer without case context
Smart Legal Pro
Dedicated legal-question flow with sources, open points and re-analysis
Retest with new facts
General AI chat
New prompt, old details often lost
Smart Legal Pro
Targeted follow-up analysis with saved clarifications
Export for team and lawyer
General AI chat
No reliable end-to-end record
Smart Legal Pro
PDF, redline/clean and compliance ZIP with audit log
Sourced citations, not hallucination
General AI chat
Invents statutes and citations without a source
Smart Legal Pro
Statute text and case law from our own citation network; every citation is checked against it and the result is stated — supported, not found, or not verifiable. Included in the same chat, no extra cost
Deadlines are never guessed
General AI chat
Estimates deadlines from training data, mixes up jurisdictions
Smart Legal Pro
Deterministic §187/188/193 BGB calculator instead of model guesswork
Litigation & court proceedings
General AI chat
No knowledge of filing form, deadlines or citation checks — you risk a default judgment
Smart Legal Pro
A dedicated litigation companion: court-ready filings, a deadline calendar, checked citations — from the claim to enforcement
Voice call with case knowledge
General AI chat
Voice input with no case context — every conversation starts from zero
Smart Legal Pro
Lexi/Lex knows your matter and your documents; the transcript lands in your account automatically, audio is deleted after transcription
A whole matter, not single documents
General AI chat
You can drop many files into one conversation — whatever you work out is gone with the chat window. That letter no. 3 contradicts what no. 17 says is something you only learn if you ask for exactly that.
Smart Legal Pro
The full matter review works through everything in a single run: a timeline, the people and amounts involved, an evidence overview, one coherent report and a list of next steps. Contradictions between documents are named, and every item takes you straight to the passage in the original.
Your own letter, before you send it
General AI chat
Happily drafts and praises the result. Whether a mandatory item is missing or a placeholder from the template is still in there — nobody checks.
Smart Legal Pro
The pre-send review reverses the direction: missing mandatory parts, passages where your own text contradicts itself, and placeholders left unfilled — every finding marked verbatim in the original.
What's actually on a specific page
General AI chat
Guesses from training knowledge or invents plausible-sounding paragraphs — without ever having seen the page.
Smart Legal Pro
Actually fetches the page (hardened against internal networks) or searches a current legal-sources index — and says so when a page couldn't be read in full, instead of staying silent about it.
| Criterion | General AI chat | Smart Legal Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Specialised in German law | Generic, no legal playbook | Contract-type specific playbooks (NDA, lease, IT, T&C …) |
| Sources & tools | Hallucinations possible, no verification | Document quotes in analysis; optional: select → source search (Perplexity, credits) |
| Confidentiality | Inputs may flow into model training | EU hosting, no training on your data, per-user RLS |
| Document management | None — every chat starts from scratch | My Documents with versions, confidentiality level & reuse |
| Lawyer hand-off | Not available | One-click hand-off to verified lawyer incl. all documents |
| Reply letters | Free text | Structured templates with deadline, tone, PDF export |
| Compliance | No audit trails | Audit log, GDPR-compliant, RDG notice visible |
| Legal questions without a document | Unstructured answer without case context | Dedicated legal-question flow with sources, open points and re-analysis |
| Retest with new facts | New prompt, old details often lost | Targeted follow-up analysis with saved clarifications |
| Export for team and lawyer | No reliable end-to-end record | PDF, redline/clean and compliance ZIP with audit log |
| Sourced citations, not hallucination | Invents statutes and citations without a source | Statute text and case law from our own citation network; every citation is checked against it and the result is stated — supported, not found, or not verifiable. Included in the same chat, no extra cost |
| Deadlines are never guessed | Estimates deadlines from training data, mixes up jurisdictions | Deterministic §187/188/193 BGB calculator instead of model guesswork |
| Litigation & court proceedings | No knowledge of filing form, deadlines or citation checks — you risk a default judgment | A dedicated litigation companion: court-ready filings, a deadline calendar, checked citations — from the claim to enforcement |
| Voice call with case knowledge | Voice input with no case context — every conversation starts from zero | Lexi/Lex knows your matter and your documents; the transcript lands in your account automatically, audio is deleted after transcription |
| A whole matter, not single documents | You can drop many files into one conversation — whatever you work out is gone with the chat window. That letter no. 3 contradicts what no. 17 says is something you only learn if you ask for exactly that. | The full matter review works through everything in a single run: a timeline, the people and amounts involved, an evidence overview, one coherent report and a list of next steps. Contradictions between documents are named, and every item takes you straight to the passage in the original. |
| Your own letter, before you send it | Happily drafts and praises the result. Whether a mandatory item is missing or a placeholder from the template is still in there — nobody checks. | The pre-send review reverses the direction: missing mandatory parts, passages where your own text contradicts itself, and placeholders left unfilled — every finding marked verbatim in the original. |
| What's actually on a specific page | Guesses from training knowledge or invents plausible-sounding paragraphs — without ever having seen the page. | Actually fetches the page (hardened against internal networks) or searches a current legal-sources index — and says so when a page couldn't be read in full, instead of staying silent about it. |
Source expansion
Select a passage and optionally run primary-source search — with snippet check on the target page, without recalculating the analysis.
Confidentiality score
Automatic classification of your documents — you instantly see what's confidential.
Sources over hunches
Default without live web; on demand, targeted search for your selected text (paid, price shown before start).
Built by a lawyer
Designed by Marian Härtel (ITMediaLaw.com) — legal know-how meets tech.
Why not just ChatGPT?
What happens after the first answer
ChatGPT answers a question. A legal problem runs for weeks or months — and that is where the real difference starts.
Memory across sessions
General AI chat
Every new chat starts from zero — anything you explained before is gone.
Smart Legal Pro
An optional memory you switch on yourself: circumstances you explained once are available in later chats, letters and analyses — visible at any time and deletable item by item.
Keeping deadlines in view
General AI chat
Calculates a deadline on request and forgets it the same moment.
Smart Legal Pro
Deadline register with e-mail and push reminders 7, 3 and 1 day ahead — including deadlines that belong to no document.
Contracts after signing
General AI chat
Checks the text once. Term and notice window remain your problem.
Smart Legal Pro
The contract analysis detects term, notice period and automatic renewal; once you confirm, the platform reminds you in time and shows every contract as a status light.
From the letter to the reply
General AI chat
Drafts a text — it never learns what happened next.
Smart Legal Pro
Mark as sent, move the deadline into the register, upload the incoming reply — the AI evaluates it within the same matter. If no reply arrives, the platform gets in touch after 14 days.
For small companies
General AI chat
One personal account, one history — none of it shareable with a team.
Smart Legal Pro
Business subscription with five seats: contracts shared across the team, business letters (payment reminder, dunning notice, termination, notice to perform) and your company identity as sender.
What connects your documents
General AI chat
Sees every document on its own. You make the connections yourself — again with every question.
Smart Legal Pro
Your documents produce an overview of the people, dates and amounts involved and how they relate — every entry with evidence in the original document, confirmed or discarded by you.
How far it takes you
General AI chat
To the text in the chat window. Copying, formatting, sending, noting the deadline, assessing the reply — all on you.
Smart Legal Pro
To the finished result: letter as PDF and Word, “mark as sent”, deadline into the register in one click, and an uploaded reply is analysed and linked to the letter. For contracts, all the way to the notice date including reminders 7, 3 and 1 day before.
| Criterion | General AI chat | Smart Legal Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Memory across sessions | Every new chat starts from zero — anything you explained before is gone. | An optional memory you switch on yourself: circumstances you explained once are available in later chats, letters and analyses — visible at any time and deletable item by item. |
| Keeping deadlines in view | Calculates a deadline on request and forgets it the same moment. | Deadline register with e-mail and push reminders 7, 3 and 1 day ahead — including deadlines that belong to no document. |
| Contracts after signing | Checks the text once. Term and notice window remain your problem. | The contract analysis detects term, notice period and automatic renewal; once you confirm, the platform reminds you in time and shows every contract as a status light. |
| From the letter to the reply | Drafts a text — it never learns what happened next. | Mark as sent, move the deadline into the register, upload the incoming reply — the AI evaluates it within the same matter. If no reply arrives, the platform gets in touch after 14 days. |
| For small companies | One personal account, one history — none of it shareable with a team. | Business subscription with five seats: contracts shared across the team, business letters (payment reminder, dunning notice, termination, notice to perform) and your company identity as sender. |
| What connects your documents | Sees every document on its own. You make the connections yourself — again with every question. | Your documents produce an overview of the people, dates and amounts involved and how they relate — every entry with evidence in the original document, confirmed or discarded by you. |
| How far it takes you | To the text in the chat window. Copying, formatting, sending, noting the deadline, assessing the reply — all on you. | To the finished result: letter as PDF and Word, “mark as sent”, deadline into the register in one click, and an uploaded reply is analysed and linked to the letter. For contracts, all the way to the notice date including reminders 7, 3 and 1 day before. |
Why not just ChatGPT?
Concrete risks when using ChatGPT for legal questions
We hear these three cases every week from clients who asked ChatGPT first — and then come to us with avoidable costs or missed deadlines.
Hallucinated paragraphs
ChatGPT regularly invents statute citations (e.g. §305c BGB para. 4 — does not exist). Pasting that unchecked into an objection destroys your credibility before the court.
Wrong deadlines
German fine notices give you 14 days from delivery; payment orders give you 14 days to object. ChatGPT confuses these with US-style 30-day windows — and a missed deadline easily costs four figures.
Confidentiality gone
Every prompt is sent to OpenAI in the US. For trade secrets, HR data or client correspondence that breaches Art. 28 GDPR — and in dispute it taints evidence.
Why not just ChatGPT?
Data flow compared
Where do your contract details end up — and who can read them?
General AI chat
ChatGPT (default)
- Document sent to OpenAI in the US
- Training usage on by default
- No per-user encryption
- No audit log, no case file
Smart Legal Pro
SmartLegalPro
- EU hosting (Frankfurt), data stays in the EU
- Contractually excluded: no AI training on your data
- Row-level security per user — colleagues see nothing
- Audit log + signed compliance ZIP for every action
Why not just ChatGPT?
Honest cost math
A typical NDA draft incl. review and lawyer handover.
Generate NDA from template
With ChatGPT: EUR 20/mo subscription + 1–2h research + risk of wrong clauses
With SmartLegalPro: From … per generation (30 credits) — vetted DE template, instant PDF/DOCX
Refine clause (adjust liability)
With ChatGPT: Multiple prompts, no diff, no audit
With SmartLegalPro: Redline diff, version history, quality score — price depends on the scope of the change and is shown before every revision
Lawyer review in a dispute
With ChatGPT: Lawyer starts from zero: from EUR 250 initial consultation
With SmartLegalPro: Case file + analysis + versions handed over in one click: significantly shorter mandate
| Scenario | With ChatGPT | With SmartLegalPro |
|---|---|---|
| Generate NDA from template | EUR 20/mo subscription + 1–2h research + risk of wrong clauses | From … per generation (30 credits) — vetted DE template, instant PDF/DOCX |
| Refine clause (adjust liability) | Multiple prompts, no diff, no audit | Redline diff, version history, quality score — price depends on the scope of the change and is shown before every revision |
| Lawyer review in a dispute | Lawyer starts from zero: from EUR 250 initial consultation | Case file + analysis + versions handed over in one click: significantly shorter mandate |
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Why not just ChatGPT?
Frequent questions on ChatGPT vs. SmartLegalPro
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