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Habeas · Self-serve Sole Practitioner / Professional (AUD, published) versus Legal Firms/Enterprise (contact). Azure-hosted models are described as an option for larger firms.
Australian legal-research and drafting assistant grounded in Australian case law and legislation, aimed at litigators, boutiques and in-house teams.
Opens a private software assessment of Habeas for one task, with this profile’s questions to hand.
| Deployment | SaaS |
|---|---|
| Hosting regions | Australia |
| Australian region | Yes |
| Model providers | Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure |
| Training on customer content | No |
| Retention summary | Conversations and uploads can be deleted in-product; account data while the account is active. Anonymised aggregated usage may be retained. Subprocessor list on request for procurement. |
| Integrations | Smokeball (logo), Lawpath (logo) |
| Pricing summary | Sole Practitioner AUD 125/month (500 queries, 200 uploads); Professional AUD 200/month (1000 queries, 1000 uploads/month); 14-day free trial. Enterprise is contact-us with fair-use unlimited search. |
| Legal content coverage | Vendor says every output is grounded in Australian case law and legislation, cited to paragraph level. Confirm corpus completeness (authorised reports, unreported, tribunals, states) in a trial. |
| Australian presence | Yes — Founded 2023. Databases hosted in Australia. Logos include UNSW, Smokeball, Lawpath and many small firms/chambers; treat logos as claimed customers, not independently verified retainers. Legal policy claims design alignment with NSW SC Gen 23. |
Define the configuration, people, information and tasks being assessed.
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Published AUD plans with query/upload caps; enterprise is custom. Azure models are an option for larger firms, not necessarily the self-serve default.
Ask: Which plan, query caps and Azure option will we buy?
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Legal policy: databases hosted in Australia with per-organisation isolation. Models may run via Azure, Bedrock or Anthropic enterprise APIs.
Ask: Confirm storage and inference countries for our plan, including Bedrock/Azure regions.
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Closed-corpus search, paragraph-level citations, custom assistants, document upload. Hallucination mitigation is claimed via the Australian corpus.
Ask: Which assistants are in our licence, and can we disable upload?
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Expansive corpus of Australian case law, legislation and regulatory materials is claimed. Completeness versus Westlaw/Lexis/JADE is unproven.
Ask: List courts, date ranges and whether authorised reports and current consolidations are included.
Record the practical work needed to introduce and maintain the software.
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AUD 125 and 200 monthly self-serve tiers with query caps; enterprise contact. Overage when caps are exceeded is not stated.
Ask: What happens at the query cap, and what is the enterprise minimum term?
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Smokeball and Lawpath logos appear. Custom integrations are an enterprise bullet. No Word add-in was described.
Ask: Which integrations are live, and do they honour PMS permissions?
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Enterprise includes onboarding and training. Self-serve support SLA unknown.
Ask: What are support hours and the security contact?
Compare complete work at the required quality, including checking and correction.
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Paragraph-level citation is claimed. No independent benchmark was found.
Ask: May we trial on our Australian problems with a scored error log?
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Fit is Australian research and first drafts grounded in that corpus. Uploading client files is optional; research-only use is supported.
Ask: Will we use research-only mode, or also upload matter documents?
Compare the actual configuration with firm, client and jurisdiction requirements, supported by evidence.
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Legal policy asserts the product is built to comply with NSW SC Gen 23 for dedicated legal research software with non-training safeguards. That is the vendor's reading, not a court endorsement. Uploads remain a disclosure.
Ask: Provide the written SC Gen 23 analysis and a client-disclosure template.
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Anthropic via Azure/Bedrock or Anthropic enterprise is given as an example. AWS and Google Cloud are named as subprocessors. Exact production mix is 'on request'.
Ask: Name the providers and regions on our tenancy.
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Full list available on request in procurement. AWS and Google Cloud are named. No public dated list or objection right.
Ask: Provide the current list, locations, notice and flow-down of no-training.
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Legal policy: queries, conversations and uploads are not used to train or fine-tune any model; retrieved documents are never used to train; public data is used to train models (security blog). Enterprise-tier API no-store/no-train guarantees are claimed.
Ask: Point to the signed API terms and confirm they apply to self-serve as well as enterprise.
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Anonymised aggregated usage may be retained for performance trends. Not Subscriber Content training.
Ask: Can query text appear in aggregated analytics?
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Content not retained beyond what is necessary to provide the service and legal obligations. In-product deletion of conversations and uploads. Default periods not numbered.
Ask: State default retention for chats, uploads, embeddings and backups.
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Users can delete conversations, uploads or the whole account in-product. Certification on exit not described.
Ask: On account deletion, are embeddings and provider logs purged, and will you certify?
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Production access restricted to authorised personnel under RBAC. No customer-visible access log described.
Ask: When can staff read content, and is it logged for us?
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Session timeouts and suspicious-activity detection are claimed. SSO/SCIM not described for self-serve.
Ask: Is SSO/MFA/SCIM available on enterprise?
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Encrypted in transit and at rest. Azure option adds Azure's encryption. Algorithms not named.
Ask: Name TLS/AES versions and whether customer keys are available.
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Regular security reviews and vulnerability assessments claimed. AWS/GCP certifications are the cloud providers', not Habeas's. No Habeas SOC 2/ISO claim found.
Ask: Does Habeas hold SOC 2 or ISO 27001, and will you share a pen-test summary?
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Public legal-policy page, not a signed MSA/DPA. Governing law not extracted. Enterprise likely has a separate agreement.
Ask: Provide the MSA, DPA, liability cap and Australian law/forum for our plan.
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Databases hosted in Australia. Model calls may go to Azure/Bedrock/Anthropic enterprise; region not specified.
Ask: Does any prompt leave Australia on our plan, and what is the APP 8 basis?
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No public breach-notification timeline.
Ask: What notice period from discovery will you contract?
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Not documented.
Ask: How are model or hosting changes notified?
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In-product account deletion. Export format unknown.
Ask: How do we export chats and uploads before deletion?
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Enterprise custom integrations mentioned; not specified.
Ask: List connectors and residual copies after disconnect.
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Research is described as over Habeas's Australian corpus, not the open web. Confirm no fallback web search.
Ask: Can any skill call the open web?
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Custom assistants are described; autonomous email/DMS actions were not.
Ask: Can assistants take actions outside the Habeas UI?
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Paragraph-level citations to Australian law are the verification path. Lawyer checking remains required.
Ask: Show 'no source' behaviour and pinpoint links on our sample questions.
Official pages reviewed for this profile, last reviewed 2026-09-20.
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