# Report: ByTheLaw > GAMMA-Ray v0.0.157 (beta, for review; every rating is experimental). The GAMMA-Ray beta report on ByTheLaw: ByTheLaw (Legal Chat) A1 · R2 · C1 · O2; 40 provisions lit, 16 sources captured. > Page: https://gamma-ray.sgit.ai/reports/bythelaw/ · Source: data/reports/bythelaw.json GAMMA-Ray report · Spectrum 0.2 beta · Public tier · read 2026-11-10 · not reviewed by the company yet ByTheLaw offers an AI chat for lawyers that answers legal questions from Portuguese and European official sources, analyses uploaded documents and drafts texts, plus separate transcription, anonymisation and reference-checking tools. 1 solution carded of 6 found 16 sources captured and hashed 40 provisions lit in 8 of 8 instruments 3 examples of the agent at work, with sources Built only from ByTheLaw's own public pages and, for company basics only, the news sources named beside each fact. ByTheLaw has not seen this report. Nothing was tested and no credentials were used. If you are ByTheLaw and something here is wrong or missing, the correction will be made and dated, and you can claim the card to add evidence. ## The agentic solutions One card per solution. Each level is computed from the evidence by a [published rule](../../spectrum/evidence-map/index.md); a dimension with nothing public reads "not yet evidenced", which is not a no. A card rates a product as documented, not anyone's deployment of it. ### ByTheLaw (Legal Chat) Chat assistant that answers legal questions with citations to official Portuguese and EU sources, analyses uploaded documents, drafts contracts, emails and translations, and organises work in projects. The site menu names it 'ByTheLaw: Legal research and knowledge'; the help centre calls it 'Legal Chat'. ByTheLaw a product, as documented SPECTRUM 0.2 BETA · Public tier · 2026-11-10 A1 Autonomy Assists π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 R2 Reach Integrated with options on · as shipped R1 π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 C1 Control Stated with options on · as shipped not yet evidenced π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 O2 Openness Documented π Moderate · S1·R5·A1 ×3 Draft Stage: Building (6 of 16) Balanced Standout. Reach 2 (Integrated): "utilizar as Credenciais Citius para aceder ao Citius de forma automatizada" Next unlock. Autonomy 2 (Suggests): public evidence that the agent suggests; the person reviews and approves each action would get there. Trust. FACT-Ray : 16 facts: 16 π Moderate · found by an agent, captured and hashed, checked by 2 other agents (same model family, shared repository); no human has signed it. Standards constellation. 40 provisions lit across 8 of 8 instruments. Salesforce EAAMM OWASP MCP AAGMM Microsoft NIST AI Act Evidence: 11 sources, captured and hashed · the card's page has the vault's read key · Not reviewed by its vendor yet · correct or claim this card [The full card, every answer and its evidence](../../spectrum/cards/bythelaw-legal-chat/index.md) · [the governance layer](../../scans/bythelaw-legal-chat/index.md) ### Citius integration Reads the lawyer's court notifications, hearing schedule and case movements from the Citius courts system with the lawyer's credentials, read-only; files nothing. *No card yet (experimental, limited access): this solution has not been assessed.* ### Court Transcriber Transcribes court-hearing recordings for review and export. *No card yet (available, prepaid): this solution has not been assessed.* ### Anonymizer Suggests replacements for personal data in text and documents for the user to review. *No card yet (available): this solution has not been assessed.* ### RefChecker Checks legal references in AI-generated text against authoritative sources and classifies risk. *No card yet (available): this solution has not been assessed.* ### NPL decision engine Proposed triage, drafting and case scoring for debt-recovery servicers. *No card yet (pilot in preparation): this solution has not been assessed.* ## Our reading **The shape.** ByTheLaw reads A1 · R2 · C1 · O2 (Building). It is a chat assistant for lawyers: the lawyer writes each request, and it returns an answer grounded in official Portuguese and European sources with citations, analyses uploaded documents or drafts a text. A draft email goes to the lawyer's own mail client, where the person sends it; the assistant has no send path of its own. **Where the evidence is strongest.** Openness. The help centre lists what the assistant is for, the legislative, case-law and regulatory databases its answers are drawn from, and limits of use, such as files attached inside an email not being opened. A report-error button and an llms.txt are public, and a stop button lets the user interrupt an answer on every plan. The card carries the balanced badge. **The Citius option.** Reach 2 and Control 1 hold only with the Citius integration on, so both are marked available. It is experimental and granted by ByTheLaw to selected users, who enter their own Citius credentials. Its terms limit it to reading and consulting the courts system and state that it performs no procedural acts; an unread notification, which opening marks as read in Citius, is opened only after the user's express action, preceded by a warning. As shipped, the assistant works inside its own product on legal material, and Control is not yet evidenced. **What would move it.** Autonomy 2: a documented action the assistant proposes and a person approves, beyond a draft the person then uses. Reach 3: a published agent interface with documented authorisation narrower than the whole account. Control 2: a public list of what the assistant can reach, beside the Citius approval step; a rule in prose on the assistant as shipped would make Control 1 hold without the option. Openness 3: published evaluation results with their method. **Seen, and not counted.** The challenger lowered two credits. Drafting an email is assisting, not proposing an action, because the person does the step. The subprocessor page names Microsoft Azure as the provider of language models, with Perplexity and Jina AI, but names no model, so it is not a model list. Marketing calls the product fully autonomous and claims up to 20 hours a week saved; neither is counted. ECO/Advocatus reported 1,100 active users in November 2025; the figure is the press report's, not measured here. ## What would move it The one piece of public evidence that would lift each card next: - **ByTheLaw (Legal Chat)**: Autonomy 2 (Suggests). Public evidence that the agent suggests; the person reviews and approves each action. ## The agent at work Examples from public pages that name a customer or give figures. Each source was captured and hashed on the date shown. ### (usage figure) ECO/Advocatus reported 1,100 active users in November 2025. "O projeto conta já com 1.100 utilizadores ativos" [Source](https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/11/06/startup-portuguesa-lanca-sistema-de-ia-que-poupa-tempo-aos-advogados/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `54709d1dfd41c8b8`) ### Sérvulo & Associados; P&A Legal Named as clients in the same ECO/Advocatus report, with a pilot at CMS. "tendo como clientes a Sérvulo & Associados, a P&A Legal" [Source](https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/11/06/startup-portuguesa-lanca-sistema-de-ia-que-poupa-tempo-aos-advogados/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `54709d1dfd41c8b8`) ### Câmara Municipal de Coimbra Reported in use by the Coimbra municipality, and under evaluation by the Regional Government of Madeira. "está já em utilização pela Câmara Municipal de Coimbra" [Source](https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/11/06/startup-portuguesa-lanca-sistema-de-ia-que-poupa-tempo-aos-advogados/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `54709d1dfd41c8b8`) ## The company - Operated by Draft of Life, Lda., with its seat in Coimbra. "Draft of Life, Lda." [Source](https://app.bythelaw.com/pt/termos-citius) (captured 2026-11-10T18:45Z, sha256 `8cdb661d2a779f7d`) - Described as a spin-off from the University of Coimbra. "evolved into a Spin-Off from the University of Coimbra" [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `13d88e688fa40d84`) - The system was built from eight months of work at Sérvulo & Associados (ECO/Advocatus, 6 November 2025). "O sistema nasceu de oito meses de trabalho imersivo na Sérvulo" [Source](https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/11/06/startup-portuguesa-lanca-sistema-de-ia-que-poupa-tempo-aos-advogados/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `54709d1dfd41c8b8`) - ByTheLaw acquired advIA, another Portuguese legal AI platform, in 2026. "A ByTheLaw adquiriu o advIA" [Source](https://bythelaw.com/advia/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `7275fe2ab6f12be9`) - Two paid plans: Pro at 29 euros plus VAT a month, and Pro Teams on request. "ByTheLaw offers two paid plans." [Source](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/planos-e-precos/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `ac0e222931977da0`) - Model and infrastructure providers are listed as subprocessors, with Microsoft Azure for language models. "Last updated: October 20, 2026" [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/subprocessors/) (captured 2026-11-10T10:44Z, sha256 `068a734b2130c56a`) ## The people Public and professional only, from the company's own pages or a public professional source. - **André Dionísio**, CEO and co-founder. [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) - **Totas Rodrigues**, COO/CFO and co-founder. [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) - **João Cabral**, CTO and co-founder. [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) - **Ana do Mar**, CXO. [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) - **Gonçalo Almeida**, CPO. [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) - **Dennis Monschauer**, Fractional CMO. [Source](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) ## The graph The company, its people and the stories on the left; each solution, the captured sources behind its card, the indicators those sources evidence and the provisions of the instruments those indicators touch, to the right. "Touched" never means "complies". people and stories company solutions 11 sources 16 indicators 40 provisions, by instrument I01: The help centre describes ByTheLaw as its own AI platform built for lawyers and legal teams; that customers use it as supplied is the scan's reading of a vendor platform. I09: It works on legal material: Portuguese and European legislation, case law and the user's uploaded documents. I11: The Citius integration uses the lawyer's own Citius credentials to read the courts system automatically, and Citius can be a source of the chat on request and approval; experimental, granted by ByTheLaw to selected users. I15: In the chat as shipped, the lawyer writes each request and the assistant returns an answer to it; this credit is for the chat only, since in the optional Citius configuration ByTheLaw reads Citius on its own schedule without a prompt (see not credited). I20: The help centre lists what the assistant is for: legal questions, document analysis, drafting, reading legislation, organising work. I21: The Citius terms limit the integration to reading and consulting, and state it performs no procedural acts. I22: Help pages document limits of use, such as upload limits and that files attached inside an email are not opened. I36: The GDPR is named as the law under which personal data in the platform is processed. I38: In the Citius integration, an unread notification is opened (which marks it read in Citius, irreversibly) only after the user's prior express action, preceded by a warning. I39: A release note of 21 December 2025 announces a stop button that interrupts an answer while it is generated, on the Free, Pro and Pro Teams plans. I46: A user can restrict, per project, which sources answers draw on; it is a setting the user's own account changes. I47: The Citius terms state in prose that the authorisation covers only consulting and reading. I54: The Citius terms commit to notifying the user without undue delay of a security breach affecting credentials or data. I57: A release note of 21 May 2026 announces a report-error button as a popup over the help icon and on messages that failed, on all plans. I58: The help centre lists the legislative, case-law and regulatory databases answers are drawn from. S3: The site publishes an llms.txt describing the product and its pages; fetched and resolving on 10 November 2026. ByTheLaw André Dionísio Totas Rodrigues João Cabral Ana do Mar Gonçalo Almeida Dennis Monschauer (usage figure) Sérvulo & Associados; P&A Legal Câmara Municipal de Coimbra ByTheLaw (Legal Chat) ByTheLaw A1 · R2 · C1 · O2 Citius integration Citius integration Court Transcriber Court Transcriber Anonymizer Anonymizer RefChecker RefChecker NPL decision engine NPL decision engine help.bythelaw.com/en/o-que-e-a-by… bythelaw.com/en app.bythelaw.com/pt/termos-citius help.bythelaw.com/en/escrever-o-p… help.bythelaw.com/en/formatos-lim… help.bythelaw.com/en/privacidade-… help.bythelaw.com/novidades/soft-… help.bythelaw.com/en/escolher-as-… help.bythelaw.com/novidades/pesqu… help.bythelaw.com/en/fontes-ofici… bythelaw.com/llms.txt It is a vendor's assistant, used as supplied I01 It works in one domain's data I09 It connects to external tools or services across a trust boundary I11 The person operates: every action is prompted and controlled by them I15 Its purpose and permitted tasks are stated in writing I20 Its autonomy limits and the tools it may use are defined I21 Its limits and known failure cases are documented for those who use it I22 The laws that apply to it are identified I36 High-impact actions need a person's approval I38 There is a way to pause or stop it I39 A limit on it is a setting that its own account could change I46 A limit on it is a rule in prose I47 Incidents and errors are communicated to those affected I54 There is a channel to report problems with it or contest its output I57 The data it uses is described I58 It is machine-readable for agents: it publishes an llms.txt, an AGENTS.md, an API description or an agent card S3 Salesforce 6 EAAMM 2 OWASP 7 MCP authorization 2 AAGMM 2 Microsoft 2 NIST AI RMF 15 EU AI Act 4 OWASP, AT1 Vendor Embedded Assistant Salesforce, Level 2: Simple Orchestration, Single Domain Salesforce, Level 0, how companies can advance from Level 0 to Level 1 OWASP, AT6 Externally Extended Agent NIST AI RMF, GOVERN 6.1 NIST AI RMF, MAP 4.1 EAAMM, L1 Assistive (survey item Q9) NIST AI RMF, MAP 1.1 NIST AI RMF, MAP 2.1 NIST AI RMF, MAP 3.3 NIST AI RMF, MAP 1.3 EU AI Act, Article 13 OWASP, Maturity Level 1 Experimentation without Guardrails, key enterprise action NIST AI RMF, MAP 2.2 Microsoft, 300: Defined, Business strategy NIST AI RMF, MEASURE 2.5 NIST AI RMF, GOVERN 1.1 OWASP, Maturity Level 4 Adaptive, Self-Regulating Governance, key enterprise action Microsoft, 100: Initial, AI governance and security OWASP, Maturity Level 2 Policy-Defined, Human-in-the-Loop, key enterprise action EU AI Act, Article 14 AAGMM, GD-06 NIST AI RMF, MAP 3.5 Salesforce, Level 3, how to advance from Level 3 to Level 4 OWASP, Maturity Level 3 Integrated, Continuous Oversight, key enterprise action NIST AI RMF, MANAGE 2.4 OWASP, Maturity Level 0 Unaware and Ad Hoc, key enterprise action NIST AI RMF, MANAGE 4.3 EU AI Act, Article 73 EU AI Act, Article 26 NIST AI RMF, MEASURE 3.3 NIST AI RMF, GOVERN 5.1 Salesforce, Level 1, how to advance from Level 1 to Level 2 Salesforce, Level 4, how to maximize value NIST AI RMF, GOVERN 5.2 AAGMM, GD-05 EAAMM, Readiness dimension 2 Salesforce, Level 1, how to advance from Level 1 to Level 2 MCP authorization, Authorization (draft) MCP authorization, Authorization (draft) ## The evidence | Source | Read | SHA-256 (first 16) | |---|---|---| | [app.bythelaw.com/pt/termos-citius](https://app.bythelaw.com/pt/termos-citius) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `8cdb661d2a779f7d` | | [bythelaw.com/advia/](https://bythelaw.com/advia/) | 2026-11-10T10:44Z | `7275fe2ab6f12be9` | | [bythelaw.com/en/](https://bythelaw.com/en/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `36d714b4205c7b07` | | [bythelaw.com/en/about/](https://bythelaw.com/en/about/) | 2026-11-10T10:44Z | `13d88e688fa40d84` | | [bythelaw.com/en/subprocessors/](https://bythelaw.com/en/subprocessors/) | 2026-11-10T10:44Z | `068a734b2130c56a` | | [bythelaw.com/llms.txt](https://bythelaw.com/llms.txt) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `8d558d4149240db0` | | [eco.sapo.pt/2025/11/06/startup-portuguesa-lanca-sistema-de-ia-que-poup](https://eco.sapo.pt/2025/11/06/startup-portuguesa-lanca-sistema-de-ia-que-poupa-tempo-aos-advogados/) | 2026-11-10T10:44Z | `54709d1dfd41c8b8` | | [help.bythelaw.com/en/escolher-as-fontes-de-um-projeto/](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/escolher-as-fontes-de-um-projeto/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `65b55689e0a9d696` | | [help.bythelaw.com/en/escrever-o-primeiro-prompt/](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/escrever-o-primeiro-prompt/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `d975dcaa530f859f` | | [help.bythelaw.com/en/fontes-oficiais/](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/fontes-oficiais/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `ba9211ba0a9d771e` | | [help.bythelaw.com/en/formatos-limites-e-ocr/](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/formatos-limites-e-ocr/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `1ce90174b97b213c` | | [help.bythelaw.com/en/o-que-e-a-bythelaw/](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/o-que-e-a-bythelaw/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `089820ad43c181f5` | | [help.bythelaw.com/en/planos-e-precos/](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/planos-e-precos/) | 2026-11-10T10:44Z | `ac0e222931977da0` | | [help.bythelaw.com/en/privacidade-e-dados/](https://help.bythelaw.com/en/privacidade-e-dados/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `c323bf8686d890fc` | | [help.bythelaw.com/novidades/pesquisa-web-para-todos-e-novo-perfil/](https://help.bythelaw.com/novidades/pesquisa-web-para-todos-e-novo-perfil/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `2ffd847d4ec836ab` | | [help.bythelaw.com/novidades/soft-law-financeira-e-controlo-das-respost](https://help.bythelaw.com/novidades/soft-law-financeira-e-controlo-das-respostas/) | 2026-11-10T18:45Z | `f54b4fede4d61725` | ## How this report was made A researcher-assessor gathered and captured the sources and mapped the evidence to indicators, without assigning a level. A challenger argued against every level three and four and every doubtful credit. The [deterministic scorer](../../spectrum/pipeline/index.md) computed the levels and the gate checked the rules. A card appears here only after two rounds of review and a sign-off by agents that did not write it (the team's workflow); ByTheLaw (Legal Chat): reviewed in 4 rounds, signed off by gamma.approve@web-summit.dinis on 2026-11-10. A person's sign-off of the series is still to come. | Role | Who | |---|---| | researcher-assessor | a sub-agent of gamma.studio@web-summit.dinis | | challenger | a sub-agent | | scorer | build/spectrum.mjs | | analyst, designer, writer | gamma.studio@web-summit.dinis | | review | gamma.review@web-summit.dinis, 4 rounds | | sign-off | gamma.approve@web-summit.dinis, 2026-11-10 | ## The vault Every capture, the dossier, both assessors' mappings, the challenger's notes and this report's data are in a public sgit vault (`dllzmbc3`). Read key: sgit_public_read_7f528ecd6fbd9c2d0f293f8361fd3ad93d4ea63fd8b1f1a70ec77feb04110bb6:dllzmbc3 With [sgit](https://sgit.ai/): `sgit clone` followed by the key. The key reads; it cannot write. ## Corrections None yet. A correction is made in place, dated here, and carried to the card, the vault and the article. ## The article [ByTheLaw on the GAMMA-Ray Spectrum: A1 · R2 · C1 · O2](article.md), written from this report for PrompTugal.news.