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For small and mid-size law firms and paralegal services

An answer is only as good as the sentence it points to.

Whereas answers questions about a contract with a citation to the exact section it came from, or says plainly the answer isn't in the document, instead of guessing. And it checks whether a new matter connects to one already in that client's file, through a board seat, a family tie, or a prior representation, showing the full reasoning, not just a flag.

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The problem with legal AI

A citation that looks right and isn't is worse than one that's obviously wrong.

A peer-reviewed Stanford study found legal AI tools marketed as accurate hallucinate 17 to 34% of the time, and the most dangerous failures are the ones that pass a quick glance. Whereas is built so that never happens silently: every answer either has real support, or says plainly that it doesn't.

What a confident wrong answer costs
One instance of a citation that doesn't support the claim it's attached to, on something a client was about to rely on, ends the relationship with the tool immediately. Not gradually.
How it works

Two questions, answered the way a careful colleague would answer them.

Article One · Contract review
§ I

Ask a contract a question. Get an answer that points back to where it came from.

When the answer spans more than one clause, Whereas shows every step, not one citation at the end you have to trust on faith. Every citation carries the exact sentence it came from, and you can open the original page to see it in context.

“Confidential Information” is defined in Section 3.1 to include pricing terms. Section 9.4 requires 30 days' written notice before disclosing anything under that definition.
Section 3.1 “‘Confidential Information’ means all pricing, margin, and cost data disclosed by either party in connection with this Agreement.”
Section 9.4 “The disclosing party shall provide no fewer than thirty (30) days' written notice before disclosing any Confidential Information to a third party.”
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Article Two · Conflict checks
§ II

See the relationship, not just a flag.

A conflict flag with no explanation just moves the work back to you. Whereas hands you the chain, written in plain sentences you can paste straight into a memo.

(a)Marcus Feld sits on the board of Solandri Capital.
(b)Solandri's board also includes Renata Ashe, spouse of a named party here.
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No graphs. No guessing.

Just the chain of reasoning, in plain sentences.

A conflict flag is only useful if you can hand it to an attorney with no translation needed. So that's exactly what this is: lettered, declarative, ready to paste into a memo.

Whitfield Logistics v. Osei Rowe
(a)Marcus Whitfield is a board member of Whitfield Logistics, the opposing party.
(b)He's also a board member of Dunham Partners, a current client.
(c)This firm represented Dunham Partners in a matter closed 14 months ago.
Why it's different

The moment that earns trust isn't a right answer. It's a correct “no.”

Grounded answer

Every citation carries a confidence signal. The common case looks unremarkable, no badge, no color. Only a genuinely uncommon extraction gets flagged, right next to the step it concerns.

Not stated

The first time it correctly says something isn't in the document, on a question you already knew the answer to, it does more than ten right answers. It proves the tool has a floor.

System error

A real failure never gets dressed up as a confident non-answer, or a confident non-answer mistaken for a failure. The three are never the same card in three colors.

Who it's for

Built for two people doing this work every day.

Paralegal service reviewer

Handling matters for several client firms at once, none of which can see each other's data.

Every document and matter is confirmed to a client firm every time you act, never a remembered default. Nothing ever crosses that boundary in a session.

Small or mid-size firm attorney

Owning the client relationship end to end, with no support staff behind you.

A fast, sourced first pass on a contract, and a conflict check you can act on yourself, decline or escalate, with the full reasoning to back the decision.

Try it on one real document, or one real matter.

No cost, no commitment. If it holds up on something real, that's the only test that matters.

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