PRT-26 Realtime

Check whether the position a precedent was drafted against has moved

Point PRT-26 at the published guidance, form or scheme page that one of your templates depends on and ask it to bring back the wording. You get the wording it retrieved and a link to the page, so the fee earner can open the source, check what has shifted since the template was written and decide whether the clause still holds.

Gather published background on a counterparty

Ask for the published background on a company you are contracting with or in dispute with — registered details, filing history pages, group structure as published, trading names, press coverage — assembled into one note with links throughout. This is the legwork stage of due diligence, not the judgement stage.

Support conflicts and client onboarding checks

Search publicly available sources for connected names, former names and group companies before a matter is opened, and hand the results to whoever runs your conflicts and client due diligence process. What comes back is what it retrieved, not a complete search: it is an input to that process, and your firm's own checks and your MLRO's assessment still govern the decision.

Assemble a factual background before you advise

Give it a transaction, a dispute or a sector and ask for the publicly reported facts — who the parties are, what has been published about the market, what is on the record. The result is a starting brief for a fee earner to test and correct, not a statement of the law.

Track dates and figures that change

Pull published deadlines, commencement dates, thresholds and fee levels into a single list when you are refreshing templates, client letters or a practice note. Each figure arrives next to the page it was read from, so the person updating the document verifies each one against that page before it goes out.

Prepare for a client meeting or a hearing

Ask for a briefing on the other side, their advisers, the sector and anything published about the matter, so the person walking into the room has read what PRT-26 retrieved from published sources and can spend the meeting on the parts that need a lawyer.

Keep client-facing documents pointing somewhere real

Re-check the external pages your terms of business, privacy policy or client-care letters refer to, and flag the ones that have moved, changed wording or disappeared. The link-checking part of an annual documentation review becomes a short list of specific pages to look at.

Chair the council when a question goes to several engines

In multi-engine review, PRT-26 retrieves the published material first and passes it to the drafting and analysis engines, so their answers are built on the same set of sources rather than on the question alone. You can see what was retrieved and follow it back.

Watch what competitors actually publish

Pull the published pricing pages, product pages, careers listings and announcements for a named set of competitors and get back a plain summary with links, so you are discussing what they have published rather than what somebody remembers hearing.

Do the desk research before you sign a supplier

Ask for the published position on a supplier before the contract reaches legal: company status, published terms and policies, security and status pages, and anything publicly reported about outages or incidents. It gives whoever runs the supplier check a gathered starting point instead of a blank page.

Research a tender or a buyer before you bid

Gather published contract notices, buyer information, incumbent suppliers and previous awards for a named opportunity, so the bid team starts from gathered published material instead of from assumption.

Brief the team before a pitch or a client call

Give it a company name and get a short account brief back — what the business does, its sector, recent announcements and how it describes its own priorities — drawn from what that company has published about itself.

Collect benchmarking inputs for pricing and pay

Pull published rate cards, listed prices and advertised salary ranges for a service line or role into one table as a starting point for an internal discussion. What is published is a sample of the market, and the note should say so.

Stop an internal playbook going stale

Re-check the external sources a policy, playbook or process note depends on and report which have changed, so the document owner knows where the review time needs to go rather than re-reading the whole thing.

Follow a scheme or programme to its deadline

Pull the published eligibility criteria, documentation requirements and closing dates for the funding, accreditation or certification schemes you are tracking, each with the page it came from.

Act as the retrieval step in front of other work

Use PRT-26 to collect the published material, then hand it to whichever drafting or analysis engine suits the job. The writing engine works from gathered sources instead of from a blank prompt.

A client has been introduced to a new supplier and asks whether your standard supply terms still work.

PRT-26 pulls that supplier's published terms, policies and company information into one note with links. The fee earner reads it against your template, identifies the two or three places the supplier's published position conflicts with your standard clauses, and drafts the amendments. The engine did the gathering; the solicitor did the comparison and gave the advice.

You are refreshing a client-facing note that quotes several statutory figures and filing deadlines.

Ask PRT-26 for the published value of each figure and the page it appears on. You get a checklist rather than a rewrite: every number sits beside its source, and the person who owns the note opens each page and confirms the figure before the updated version is issued to clients.

The BD team is preparing a pitch to a company nobody in the room has dealt with before.

PRT-26 assembles a company brief from what the target has published — sector, recent announcements, stated priorities, named partners and suppliers — with links throughout. The team arrives having read what PRT-26 retrieved from published sources, so the meeting is spent on better questions instead of on background.

Best for

• Questions whose answer depends on what is published outside your files, not on a document you already hold
• The gathering stage of due diligence, client onboarding, supplier checks and bid research
• Refreshing templates, playbooks and client notes that quote outside figures, dates or guidance
• Giving the other engines a shared set of retrieved material to work from
• Work where the reviewer wants to open the source page and judge it personally

Not the tool for

• Legal advice. PRT-26 gathers published material; a qualified person in your firm reads it, decides what it means, and takes responsibility for what reaches the client.
• Anything that is not publicly published. Material behind a login, a paywall or a subscription, and your own internal or unpublished records, are outside what it can reach — and silence from the engine is not evidence that nothing exists.
• Treating a retrieved page as verified or as the present position. Published sources vary in quality and can be out of date or simply wrong, and what is retrieved may be a cached or superseded version; the links are there so a reviewer can open the source and test it before anything is relied on.
• Long-form drafting and structured document production. Take what PRT-26 returns and hand it to a drafting engine.