Hi friends: We are thrilled to announce a major upgrade to the descrybe platform—just in time for the last day of Hispanic and Latinx Heritage Month! See below for the official press release, and let us know what you think. Thanks, as always, Kara & Rich.
Justice tech company descrybe.ai announced today a major upgrade to its award-winning free case law research platform, offering more sophisticated case law research through its revamped capabilities. Touted as a major improvement over their original release of last summer, the enhanced platform also introduces a major expansion of legal access with the addition of Spanish translations and Spanish search capacity as well as simplified summaries in English and Spanish.
The new release has four major enhancements:
- Infrastructure: The platform has been redesigned with cutting-edge AI models, incorporating insights gained over the past 18 months to better meet user needs and optimize performance and scalability.
- Search Results: The enhanced architecture, combined with the latest AI models, enables significantly more accurate summarization of case law, providing greater nuance in search term comprehension and search results.
- Spanish: In addition to summaries in English, the revamped platform also provides judicial opinions summarized and translated into Spanish.
- Simplified English and Spanish: Augmenting the standard English and Spanish summaries, descrybe.ai now offers results in simplified English and simplified Spanish for people with limited reading proficiency.
“We have learned so much about how to successfully apply AI to legal research since our launch,” says co-founder Richard DiBona. “This reimagined platform is a direct result of endless hours perfecting our architecture, prompting, and processes and is also a reflection of user feedback and the gaps we have seen in the legal tech space.”
The updated platform will launch with 1.2 million judicial opinions from state appellate and supreme courts across seven states—California, Florida, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, and Texas. The company estimates it will migrate all 3.6 million judicial opinions to the new platform before the end of the year. In the meantime, all states will still be available in the classic search. As for what comes next, DiBona says they plan to develop new and innovative tools on top of this data: “We are really excited to utilize this curated data to further innovate in the justice tech arena.”
While paid features are in development, the company is sticking to its mission of using AI to increase access to the law and will keep the search function free, even with the advanced features. “We know that one tool—no matter how good—cannot solve the access to justice crisis,” says co-founder Kara Peterson. “But if enough of us in the legal tech sector prioritize using AI to improve access to law and access to justice, we can collectively move the needle in a meaningful way.”
descrybe.ai is planning independent testing of its new platform, with details to be shared at a later date.
