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Libra is an AI workspace. Its chat researches, drafts and reviews. Assistants and Workflows automate recurring tasks, Review checks a contract against a firm's playbook topic by topic, and Discovery asks the same questions across many documents and returns a table with citations. Section 3.3 of the Terms of 5 May 2026 says Libra AI builds large language models into its backend to generate content fitted to each prompt.

Section 3.2 says Libra AI is meant neither as a storage location or archive for documents nor as a system for document distribution or workflow management. The legal content the models work over belongs to Wolters Kluwer, Otto Schmidt, Stämpfli or the official portals, and is reached through separate subscriptions or included sources.

In Research mode the user picks jurisdictions and sources, and Libra cites what it retrieved. Each citation chip shows the cited passage and opens the source, a research strip lists every query step, and web results are labeled as unverified third party information. When no trusted source supports an answer, one of three notes says so. Libra's documentation says a citation shows that a passage exists, not that it supports the point, and that Libra does not track whether every provision it cites is still in force.

The product page promises answers "with minimized hallucinations". No evaluation, error rate or test set is published. Section 3.3 of the Terms says output is not checked for correctness or truth and cannot claim to be complete, correct or free of errors.

Workflows chain Assistants, and Libra's documentation says "Nothing advances on its own". Each step waits until the user decides it is finished, and its prompt can be edited before it runs. Review rates each playbook topic as No risk, Medium risk, High risk or Not found. No risk is a strict gate that needs the starting position fully met and no unacceptable rule triggered. Every finished topic has a Verify button that records the reviewer's avatar, and rule outcomes cannot be edited directly, only rerun after the topic is changed.

In Word, edits arrive as tracked changes. Research mode marks answers not built from trusted sources, and the citation guide tells users to treat a web citation as a lead to confirm rather than an authority to cite. Section 3.5 of the Terms keeps legal assessment of each case with the customer. Review is optional, and the documentation describes no step that stops a draft or an unreviewed Review from being exported or sent.

Libra's journal publishes customer stories. At NEON, a Berlin corporate and M&A boutique, partner and notary Dr. Patrick Auerbach describes due diligence, contract analysis and checks across large contract volumes (12 August 2026). At Cognitor Rechtsanwälte in Zurich, a criminal law specialist builds his own assistants (7 August 2026). The legal department of the retailer dm, about 35 lawyers, uses it for employment contracts and works agreements (14 July 2026).

CRIDO in Poland is rolling it out to nearly 200 lawyers and advisors after a pilot of several months (21 July 2026). The site quotes Franziska Hahn of Taylor Wessing and Dr. Kristina Schreiber of Loschelder Rechtsanwälte, who says routine tasks are completed significantly faster and with fewer errors. The About page cites more than 1,300 legal teams and more than 16,000 lawyers, and published company figures put annual recurring revenue at 3 million euros in October 2025. No story gives hours saved, error rates or a method.

Section 5.1 of the Terms of 5 May 2026 warrants that Libra will not use client documents or input to train Libra AI or any other AI or language model. Section 11.4 and Annex 2 bind Libra to professional secrecy under section 203 of the German Criminal Code, with written undertakings from staff and subcontractors and knowledge limited to what the work requires. Austrian customers get a fuller annex in which Libra refuses testimony, objects to seizure and tells the firm of searches and orders.

The technical measures annexed to the data processing agreement allow inputs and outputs to be stored only for the duration of each use, and saved documents are deleted when the user deletes them or at contract end. Customer data is logically separated, projects are scoped to one matter with chats private by default, and SharePoint and Kleos files open only to colleagues whose own access allows it. Libra says AI providers keep nothing after processing. Section 7.6 leaves the decision to submit protected material with the customer.

Section 3.5 of the Terms says Libra provides no legal services through Libra AI, is not meant to replace professional legal assessment or decision making, and does no legal review of the individual case, leaving the legal check of every result to the customer. Section 3.2 describes functions for lawyers, in particular law firms and corporate legal departments. Section 1.2 contracts only with businesses within section 14 of the German Civil Code, so consumers are excluded, and article 24.12 of the Italian conditions of 18 February 2026 says the same.

Libra's FAQ says it does not replace professional judgment and lists conclusions, quotations, citations, dates and the current state of the law as things to verify. The citation guide compares a citation to a junior's case cite. Jurisdiction limits are stated as source coverage, with each country's databases listed and unsourced answers marked. No check confirms that a self serve trial user is a lawyer, and section 7.6 places compliance with professional rules on the customer.

Libra's documentation lists the EU AI Act "where applicable" among the standards it follows. Its FAQ warns that instructions in a document can steer results and recommends documents from trusted sources. The changelog records model changes as they ship, including Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on 25 September 2026. It also records an anonymization feature of February 2026 in which three independent AI judges must agree before text is redacted.

No responsible AI policy, accountable owner, release testing, evaluation across languages or legal systems, or bias finding is published in the site, the documentation, the Terms or the journal. Nothing from Wolters Kluwer on AI governance is linked from Libra's pages.

Annex 3 to the data processing agreement in the Terms of 5 May 2026 lists eleven subprocessors by legal entity, address and role, from Telekom Deutschland for hosting to the Wolters Kluwer companies that provide support. Clause 5.3 commits Libra to report every addition or replacement, with 14 days to object. Clause 4.4 commits to notify a personal data breach without undue delay by email, and clause 7 requires deletion or return at the customer's choice when the contract ends.

The technical measures limit storage of inputs and outputs to the duration of each use, and saved documents are deleted when the user deletes them. Access runs on role based permissions, multifactor authentication and logging. Staff access is limited to need, administrators cannot read colleagues' conversations, and users can switch chat history off. The privacy policy dated 5 February 2025 predates the acquisition and names US recipients such as Slack, Google, ClickUp, Mixpanel and Vanta for Libra's own operations. The documentation's security pages name only four subprocessors. No breach notice period in hours is set.

Section 9 of the Terms of 5 May 2026 makes Libra liable without limit for intent, gross negligence, injury to life, body or health, product liability and any guarantee it gives. For slight negligence it is liable only for breach of a cardinal duty, and only up to the damage typical of the contract and foreseeable at signing; any further liability is excluded. No monetary cap is stated. Section 3.3 says output is not checked for correctness or truth and cannot claim to be complete, correct or free of errors.

Section 8.2 says performance descriptions are not guarantees, and defect claims lapse after twelve months under section 8.5. Section 7.9 runs the other way, with the customer indemnifying Libra against third party claims caused by its own breach. In Italy, where Wolters Kluwer Italia contracts, article 30 caps liability at the annual value of the contract outside willful misconduct and gross negligence. No indemnity, warranty on output or insurance runs to the customer.

The Word add in, installed from AppSource or deployed through the Microsoft 365 admin center, runs chat, playbook Review, document comparison and placeholder filling on the open document and edits in tracked changes. The Outlook add in summarizes threads, drafts replies and extracts deadlines. SharePoint and OneDrive connect after one organization wide admin consent, with each user signing in so Libra browses as that user.

Files are either copied in as snapshots, or a folder is linked as a database that Libra reads live and read only. Kleos, Wolters Kluwer's practice management software, links case documents into projects for teams in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. It is read only, writes nothing back, uses each user's own Kleos credentials, and needs a Kleos Advanced or Advanced+ subscription with a Libra license assigned.

Research subscriptions connect from Settings. Libra's FAQ says other document management systems are not supported out of the box. The product page marks iManage and Google Drive as coming soon, and DATEV and RA-Micro are not listed.

Annex 3 to the data processing agreement says the platform is hosted by Telekom Deutschland on the Open Telekom Cloud, which processes data only in data centers in Germany. It names Microsoft Ireland, Amazon Web Services EMEA and Google Cloud EMEA as the European clouds used mainly to provide language models. The documentation adds that chat histories and uploads are stored encrypted on servers in Germany and that inputs go to model providers whose servers are exclusively in Europe.

OpenAI models run through Microsoft Azure's European service, and no data is transferred to the United States. The Swiss guide of 10 June 2026 says processing stays entirely within the European Economic Area. Clause 5.4 allows subprocessors in third countries only under Chapter V of the GDPR. The service is delivered as software as a service, with logical separation of customer data required by the technical measures.

No private instance, choice of region or difference in hosting between plans is offered, and the country of each model call within Europe is not named.

Libra claims its own ISO 27001:2022 certification. The certifications page of its documentation lists what the information security management system covers, from software development and infrastructure security to incident response and business continuity. It names annual surveillance audits, regular penetration testing and continuous vulnerability scanning as the checks, and the security, pricing and product pages repeat the claim.

The certificate is said to be downloadable from the security page, which points to a trust center at trust.libratech.ai offered for certificates, a nondisclosure agreement and the data processing agreement. Audit and penetration testing documentation is requested through the account team, according to Libra's FAQ. No certificate number, certification body, issue date or audit report is published on the security page, the documentation or the pricing page.

The ISO 27001 certificates of Open Telekom Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and DeepL listed alongside belong to those providers, and no SOC 2, BSI C5 or ISO 42001 attestation is claimed.

Libra's FAQ says it combines models from Anthropic and OpenAI. It names the premium ones, every Claude Opus model and GPT-5.6 Sol, with daily message allowances by plan. The changelog dates each change: Claude Sonnet 4.5 in fall 2025, Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 on 30 July 2026, and Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on 25 September 2026, selectable beside the Standard, Deep Thinking and Fast modes. Annex 3 to the data processing agreement names the cloud entities that serve the models, Microsoft Ireland Operations, Amazon Web Services EMEA and Google Cloud EMEA, each used mainly as a language model provider.

OpenAI models run through Microsoft Azure's European service, and Libra's documentation says the provider agreements bar training. Clause 5.3 commits Libra to tell customers of any new or replaced subprocessor, with 14 days to object. A model change within an authorized provider is not covered, since section 12.2 of the Terms allows updates without prior notice. Which cloud serves the Claude models is not stated, and no Google model is named.

Starter costs 900 euros per user per year, Professional 2,000 euros and Team 2,400 euros, all billed yearly and excluding VAT. Starter caps chat at 100 messages and uploads at 100 files a month, with three projects. Professional removes the caps and adds Review, Discovery, Workflows, the Word and Outlook add ins and SharePoint. Team adds shared projects, administration, databases, a usage dashboard, priority support and optional single sign on.

A footnote on Libra's pricing page says the price covers the workspace only and that content from the legal data partners needs a separate subscription, with German statutes and case law from Wolters Kluwer included. The documentation describes self serve checkout through Stripe, monthly billing for German and Swiss teams, prorated added seats and a database allowance of 100,000 page equivalents per license. Section 6.3 of the Terms allows yearly price changes on four weeks' notice, with a right to terminate above 5 percent.

Publisher content, the single sign on module, the monthly rate and the paid pilot that section 14.5 describes are not priced on the page.

Segment pages address law firms, in house legal departments and solo practitioners. The Terms describe functions for lawyers, in particular law firms and corporate legal departments, and exclude consumers. Terms are published for Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania. Libra's documentation lists each country's sources, from German statutes and case law across federal and state courts to One LEGALE in Italy, LEX in Poland, ASPI, Jogtár and Sintact, plus EU case law and the Unified Patent Court.

Practice areas are named broadly as civil, commercial, criminal and public law, and the customer stories span transactions, employment, criminal defense and advisory work. Libra's FAQ says not every source is available to every account, and that whether a cited provision is still in force is not tracked. Libra does not say what the product does poorly, or whether courts or public bodies are served.