The fastest way for lawyers to find the right cases and paste-ready, citable reasoning—without hallucinations or bloat.
Precedent Ai is the fastest way for lawyers to find the right cases and paste‑ready, citable reasoning—without hallucinations or bloat.
Lawyers spend hours sifting through irrelevant hits or cleaning up Ai drafts that can't be trusted. Generic LLMs write fluent answers but routinely invent cites. Full‑stack tools (Westlaw/Lexis) are comprehensive but heavy and expensive for narrow tasks.
There's room for a focused, high‑trust copilot that does one thing extraordinarily well: on‑point precedent with page‑accurate citations.
We launch with tightly scoped precedent packs—topic- and jurisdiction-specific collections where we can guarantee high recall and precision (e.g., restrictive covenants, trade secrets, wage & hour). We'll expand to adjacent topics and jurisdictions based on demand.
Corpus: Curated, published appellate opinions from selected jurisdictions (1990→present + key anchors).
Outcome: Get to controlling cases and citable reasoning in minutes; confirm treatment/statutes/secondary sources in your full‑stack tool.
We're not trying to replace Westlaw/Lexis. We are the fast, focused layer lawyers open first.
| Task | Precedent Ai | Generic LLM (chat) | Westlaw/Lexis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Find controlling CA cases fast | ✓✓ | △ | ✓ |
| Quotes with page‑accurate pincites | ✓✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Good‑law signal | ✓ | ✗ | ✓✓ |
| Statutes/regs/secondary | △ | △ | ✓✓ |
| Drafting snippets (motion‑ready) | ✓ | △ | △ |
| Cost/simplicity for this niche | ✓✓ | ✓ | △ |
Positioning: Use Precedent Ai to get to the right cases and reasoning in minutes; confirm treatment and explore statutes/secondary sources in Westlaw/Lexis as needed.
Do cases exceptionally well before anything else.
Every claim is traceable to a page; no orphaned assertions.
Narrow scope, high authority, predictable results.
Time to first on‑point case < 30 seconds.
Each opinion renders as a standardized case card:
• Citation, court, year
• Disposition & procedural posture
• Issue(s) and holding (1–2 sentences)
• Rule/test (controlling standard)
• Key facts (material only)
• 2–5 verbatim quotes with pincites
• Statutes referenced (e.g., B&P §16600/§16601, Lab. Code §925)
• Treatment (citator‑lite): followed/criticized/limited/distinguished
• Topic tags: non‑compete, non‑solicit, sale‑of‑business, choice‑of‑law, NDA‑overbreadth, etc.
Litigators, in‑house counsel, and practitioners who need fast, reliable case pulls and motion‑ready quotes.
Users who prefer to open a focused copilot first, then validate in Westlaw/Lexis.
No. It's a copilot for precedent discovery and drafting. You'll still confirm treatment and explore statutes/secondary sources in your full‑stack tool.
We only output quotes that match the opinion's bytes and attach page numbers. If we can't verify, we don't show it.
Not in MVP. We start with published, precedential CA Supreme/Ct. App. + 9th Cir. applying CA law.
Because narrow, well‑curated corpora produce higher precision, trustworthy citations, and faster time‑to‑answer. We expand breadth only when we can maintain that standard.
Precedent Ai is built to be the research tab you open first—because it gets you to controlling authority and citable reasoning faster than anything else.