What UK solicitors ask before signing up.

LawFuze is an AI co-worker built for UK solicitors regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA). It triages new matters, drafts the first version of documents, pulls UK precedent, and keeps an append-only audit trail — while the supervising solicitor stays in control of every judgment call.

Primary audience: UK solicitors regulated by the SRA. Secondary: barristers (Bar Standards Board regulated) and in-house counsel. Not for: US firms, unsupervised AI use, or consumer-facing self-service legal advice.

1 September 2026. Until then we're in a closed five-firm beta with free access. Public launch activates the Computational Analysis Licence from The National Archives (UK case-law retrieval), Stripe payments, and the full client portal.

LawFuze is in paid pre-release: early-access firms pay their tier price minus 30% (Solo £104/month, 2–5 fee-earner firms £349/month), invoiced quarterly by bank transfer. That early-access price is locked until 12 months after public launch on 1 September 2026, when full tiers and Stripe card billing go live.

Every new annual subscription carries a 14-day cancellation right under UK distance-selling rules. We don't currently plan a separate free trial — the beta is the trial.

Apply at lawfuze.com/request-beta. We have five firm slots open and prioritise solicitors who can give us regular product feedback. SRA roll number required at sign-up.

Microsoft Azure UK South. Databases, document storage and backups all live in the UK South region. No US data transfers, no cross-border data transfers. Daily encrypted backups to Azure Blob with 30-day retention.

No. Every AI call is sent with a do-not-retain header, so Anthropic does not keep your prompt or response content. The search index sits on our own infrastructure, so no third party ever holds your data. The LawFuze source license also explicitly prohibits training-use of our code or output.

SRA Rule 6.3 confidentiality is built into how each AI call is sent. Every prompt and response is logged to the matter it belongs to, scoped to that matter only. Cross-matter access requires admin or compliance-officer designation plus mandatory MFA. Each matter is isolated at the database level so cross-matter access is impossible without explicit compliance-officer authority.

Yes. LawFuze AI Systems Limited is the UK GDPR controller, ICO registration ZC147676 (registered 14 May 2026, expires 13 May 2027). The Data Protection Officer is dpo@lawfuze.com.

Three layers. First, the AI is prompted to refuse rather than guess when retrieval returns no supporting source — that's the refusal-first architecture. Second, every output is cited back to its source paragraph in the retrieved corpus; uncited claims surface a warning in the UI. Third, citations are post-verified against the retrieved set before the response renders, so hallucinated case names are caught and stripped before the solicitor sees them.

Every AI output is reviewable. Flagged outputs route automatically to the supervisor-review queue where a qualified solicitor approves, rewrites, rejects or escalates. The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 Section 80 (which replaced UK GDPR Article 22) requires meaningful human involvement in significant decisions; LawFuze's supervisor-review queue is the implementation pathway. See also Ayinde v Haringey [2025] EWHC 1383 (Admin), the named UK wasted-costs order where the court referred legal representatives to the SRA and BSB for relying on fabricated AI-generated case citations.

Solicitor sign-off is available on every output. Outputs that are flagged (manually, by automatic risk rules, or by output type — e.g. settlement recommendations always flag) route automatically to the supervisor-review queue. Outputs that aren't flagged can be reviewed in-line by the responsible solicitor at the moment of use; they're never sent to a client without that solicitor's review.

Generic AI tools run on vendor terms-of-service that reserve broad data re-use rights and have no professional accountability framework. LawFuze pins the AI to the SRA Code itself — confidentiality built into the AI call itself (SRA 6.3), refusal when sources don't support an answer (SRA 7.1 competence), and supervised end-to-end with a full audit trail under SRA 4.1. The solicitor's professional code binds the AI; the vendor's TOS doesn't bind the firm.

US-incorporated tools route at least some matter data through US sub-processors and US legal jurisdiction. LawFuze is a UK limited company (Companies House 16800372), hosted entirely in Azure UK South, with every citation checked against The National Archives Find Case Law (the official UK source, not unofficial mirrors). Pricing model is built for UK firms: per-fee-earner Solo / Firm / Premium tiers, not the per-seat enterprise model built only for the largest firms.

Contract-AI tools are deep on one workflow — clause-by-clause analysis inside Word. LawFuze covers contracts plus matter management, chat-first research, time + billing, compliance reporting, and the supervisor-review queue — all in one record per matter, with one audit trail. The breadth means you don't have to stitch together a contract-AI + matter-management + research tool stack.

Five firm-facing access tiers: Admin (firm runner), Solicitor (qualified, does case work), Staff (paralegals + support), Client (read-only portal), Guest (read-only invitee). Plus four optional SRA compliance designations layered on top: COLP, COFA, Barrister, CILEX Legal Executive. Designations trigger mandatory multi-factor authentication and expand the user's JWT permissions claim.

The pre-release is firm-scoped: we need an SRA-authorised firm with a verified SRA number. Solo practitioners are welcome — sign up and assign yourself as Admin + Solicitor + COLP + COFA (the standard solo configuration).