Causius
Roadmap
The legal layer of the fleet: an agent that does legal work on a sealed case file, a person who decides what leaves it, and licensed lawyers where the law reserves the work for them. Read a letter without an account, or open a matter and let the agent research, keep the deadlines and draft.
Read a letter and say what it wants
- Intake by pasted text or a photo of the letterDelivered in
- The case file: deadline, checklist, translations, draft replyDelivered in
- Cases kept in the browser, with export and importDelivered in
- Your own model: connect a key, checked, strongest model preselectedDelivered in
- The interface and the analysis in English, German, French and Italian; letters translated into nineteen languagesDelivered in
- Letters of several pages, photographed in orderDelivered in
- The deadline shown with the sentence of the letter it was read fromDelivered in
- Shared model keys set on the host, and the first real letter analysed there
- A set of real letters with known answers, to measure how often the deadline is right
- Letters that arrive as a PDF
Private by construction
- Personal details replaced in the browser before a letter is sentDelivered in
- Details covered on page photos before they are sentDelivered in
- An anonymised case file to hand to a helperDelivered in
- A strict content security policy and security headersDelivered in
- Read the text of a photographed page in the browser, so photos are anonymised automatically too
- Model providers that contractually do not train on or retain what they are sent
- An independent security review before the first real users
Say what Causius is, in one place
Matters worked by an agent
- Causius accounts of its own (password, sign-in link, passkey, two-step codes); Sign in with OrangeCat as one way inDelivered in
- Matters stored on our host, each sealed with its own key (AES-256-GCM)Delivered in
- The agent: web research with sources, deadlines, tasks, facts, drafts, approvals
- Every personal detail, and the account name, hidden from the model
- Documents added to a matter: PDF and text, only the text keptDelivered in
- Check domain names with the registries before founding on a nameDelivered in
- Start from a common problem: a workflow says what to establish and draft, never the law itselfDelivered in
- Ask up to three questions across every document of a matter, answered as a table with the passage each answer came fromDelivered in
- The agent reads the law itself from the official sources, for no fee: Swiss federal law from Fedlex, Liechtenstein from gesetze.li and all 26 cantons through LexFind
- Every answer checked before it is shown: law needs a source, a deadline given is a deadline recorded, tool calls are made and not narrated, the answer is in the reader's language, and a turn always ends with an answer
- Watch a matter's rules: tell its owner when a law, a form or a deadline it depends on changes
- Deadline reminders by e-mail
- Bring a quick-check letter into a matter in one stepDelivered in
- Keys only the owner holds, so the operator cannot open a matter
The fleet's design and a technical narrative
The law from Solon
- Solon holds the acts (its register, then federal text, then Liechtenstein, then the cantons)
- The agent asks Solon first and falls back to the publisher; an answer cites the publisher's link and Solon's hash. Done for federal acts and Liechtenstein's ten common acts; cantonal acts are still read from LexFindDelivered in
- The agent finds the law by what it says: it searches Solon's text of the Confederation and of the places a question names, then reads the provisions that matter, so "may one keep a fox in Graubünden, and in Lucerne?" is answered from both cantons' own textDelivered in
- The agent asks Solon for cantonal acts too, once Solon names them by abbreviation or reads each canton's own text
- The agent tells a person when a law a matter depends on has changed, with what changed
The big problems, as workflows
- Founding a company in Switzerland or Liechtenstein: the form (GmbH, AG, sole proprietorship), capital, statutes and the founding checklist; the notarial deed, the capital deposit and the register entry are handed over to a notary, never done here
- Divorce: agreement or dispute, children, property and pensions; the petition and a draft convention; a lawyer recommended where the law and the sums call for one
- A notice ending a tenancy, and an eviction: which it is, the thirty days to contest, the request for an extension, the draft
- Choosing a vehicle for an investment or an inheritance (foundation, Anstalt, company, fund) and comparing it across Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Ireland: a sourced first draft, and then a licensed trustee or lawyer
Law beyond Switzerland and Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg: Legilux, read as Fedlex is
- Ireland: the Irish Statute Book, read the same way
- The citation check recognises each market's way of citing law, so a rule quoted without a source is caught there too (today it knows Swiss and Liechtenstein forms only)
Helpers you can actually reach
- The rules: who may give legal advice, and who may be pseudonymousDelivered in
- Helpers list themselves by jurisdiction, area and language, under a name or a pseudonym
- A lawyer's identity held privately and shown to a client when they engage them
- A lawyer's admission checked against the public register before the label, published as a signed attestation
- Ask a helper about a matter, sharing it with or without your personal details
- Helpers paid through OrangeCat, with the money held until the work is accepted; a flat price per piece of work, never a share of a lawyer's fee
- Credentials issued by a bar itself, so the check needs no word of ours. Today's attestation is a signed selective disclosure: a reviewer checked the admission, and the public sees only what the lawyer chooses. It is not yet a zero-knowledge proof, and says so
- Notices by e-mail when a helper is asked, answers or writes
Decide the marketplace rules in the open
- Admission and labelling rules adopted by a recorded vote
- A dispute between a person and a helper has a written path
A matter shared with a helper
Legal existence
- Found a company or an association: documents prepared by the agent, filed on approval
- Register a domain on approval, through a registrar connected to OrangeCat payments
- Contracts signed by the parties, obligations tracked, payment held in escrow on OrangeCat
- Law firms running Causius on models inside their own walls
More than letters
- Forms filled from the facts already in the case
- Guides per jurisdiction for the most common procedures