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The workspace is organized around three model driven tools. The AI assistant plans and runs research in several steps. It searches the legal corpus and any documents scoped to the chat, checks the provisions it cites and writes an answer with sources in Arabic or English. The legal library retrieves provisions by meaning rather than by keyword, across both languages. Playbook review runs a contract against a firm's published rules and returns findings mapped to each clause, with suggested edits.

The assistant can also propose changes to a live document, which arrive as tracked changes. Matter documents, project permissions, version snapshots and a collaborative editor with live cursors and comments hold the material these tools work on, and basic collaborative editing is part of the free plan.

Answers link each claim to the provision or passage behind it and quote the supporting text. A cited provision opens in a side panel with its official reference, its date and a Visit Official Source link. The vendor describes a search first design: semantic search finds the relevant official sources, and the model then summarizes or drafts only from what was found. Product screens show a step that checks the cited laws before the answer is written.

The homepage FAQ states that requiring citations for every claim virtually eliminates the hallucinations common in general purpose AI. No accuracy rate, hallucination rate, test set or evaluation result is published to support that statement. Section 4 of the Terms of Service, effective 25 February 2026, makes the user solely responsible for reviewing outputs for legal accuracy.

The assistant plans its own research, running several steps of search and citation checking before it answers. Edits it proposes to a document arrive as tracked changes on the live file, with Keep all and Reject all controls, and the vendor states those changes are attributed to the user who asked. Playbook review returns the evidence and an analysis for each rule and offers a suggested edit for the reviewer to apply.

The playbook FAQ states that review surfaces issues rather than replacing judgment, and that the firm writes the rules. Section 4 of the Terms of Service, effective 25 February 2026, makes the user solely responsible for reviewing outputs and validating documents before relying on them. Nothing describes when the assistant stops and hands a task back to a person.

Checked the homepage, the About page, the product and use case pages, the law firm and general counsel pages and the guides on 21 October 2026. No customer, law firm or legal department is named, no testimonial is attributed, and no usage or outcome figure is published. The homepage section headed Why Top Firms Trust Qanu names no firm. Companies such as Najd Logistics and Rawabi Holding appear only as sample parties in demonstration documents. Stanford CodeX TechIndex carries a listing for Qanu, last reviewed July 2026, that describes the product.

The security page states that customer content is not used to train foundation models, and that inference runs under contractual no training and minimal retention terms with model providers where the contract requires it. Neither the Terms of Service nor the Privacy Policy, both effective 25 February 2026, carries a training term. Workspace access follows roles, project access lists and firm boundaries, and the vendor states that its staff do not open customer content for support without written approval.

Section 10 of the terms binds each party to protect the other's confidential information with reasonable care. After a contract ends, customer data is deleted in line with the agreement and applicable retention duties, with no period stated. Privilege and work product are not addressed, and what a model provider may keep is described only through the minimal retention terms.

Section 4 of the Terms of Service, effective 25 February 2026, states that Qanu does not provide legal representation, legal advice or attorney client services unless explicitly agreed in writing. It makes the user responsible for checking outputs and for getting advice from qualified professionals where required. The product is sold to law firms and in house legal teams, the free plan is described for solo lawyers, and the customer cloud option is offered to ministries and government.

The free contract templates on the site each state that they are templates and not legal advice, and several note that the draft is not the issued instrument. The vendor's AI use policy template for firms covers competence, supervision and verification under named court and regulator guidance. The terms themselves name no jurisdiction limits and do not address a lawyer's supervision duties when using the product.

The About page lists precision as a company value, with a focus on accuracy and verified grounding, and the product is described as citing official sources for every claim. No AI governance framework, accountable owner, testing before release, evaluation result or AI management standard such as ISO/IEC 42001 is published. Nothing addresses whether output quality differs between Arabic and English or across the jurisdictions covered.

The security page states that connections use TLS and that stored documents and metadata are encrypted at rest. Customer managed storage keys are available through an Enterprise discussion rather than by default. Access runs on roles, project access lists and firm boundaries, with Microsoft Entra and single sign on for enterprise tenants. Customers can request export or deletion, and data is deleted after the contract ends in line with the agreement, without a stated period.

The Privacy Policy, effective 25 February 2026, describes service providers by category (infrastructure, analytics and operations) and names none, and keeps personal data for as long as necessary. No incident response or breach notification commitment is published.

Section 12 of the Terms of Service, effective 25 February 2026, provides the service as is and as available, without warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose or noninfringement. Section 13 excludes indirect, consequential and punitive damages and lost profits, data and goodwill, and caps total liability at the amount the customer paid, if any, in the twelve months before the claim. No indemnity runs in either direction, and no service level, uptime commitment or output warranty is published.

Bahraini law governs, with exclusive jurisdiction in the courts of Bahrain unless a written enterprise agreement says otherwise.

Checked the product, documents, editor, security and pricing pages on 21 October 2026. Word and PDF files up to 25 MiB import into a matter workspace, and drafts export to Word and PDF with Arabic right to left layout preserved. Enterprise tenants sign in through Microsoft Entra. No Word or Outlook add in, document management system such as iManage, NetDocuments or SharePoint, matter management, billing or electronic signature connection is published. Electronic signature is marked as coming soon in the document workspace.

Three tenancy models are published. Qanu Cloud is a multi tenant workspace hosted by Qanu for the Pro and Team tiers. Enterprise customers get an isolated stack operated by Qanu, with logical isolation, single sign on and their own model keys by default. For ministries and government, Qanu runs in the customer's own AWS, GCP or SCCC account, and the customer holds the cloud account, backups and audit trail. Matter data can be hosted in Saudi Arabia or the UAE today, with more countries on the roadmap.

Inference can run in the customer's own virtual private cloud with its own keys, or through a gateway hosted by Qanu with an egress allowlist. The cloud provider behind Qanu Cloud, and where model processing happens on the standard tiers, are not stated.

Checked the homepage, the security page, the About page, the Legal Notice, the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy on 21 October 2026. No SOC 2 report, ISO/IEC 27001 certificate or other independent security attestation is claimed, and no trust center is published. The site describes enterprise grade encryption, access control and in country hosting without naming an audited standard.

No model, model family or model provider is named on any page. The security page describes inference through outside providers bound by no training and minimal retention terms where the contract requires it. Enterprise customers bring their own model keys by default, so the provider contract stays with them, and inference can run in the customer's own cloud. Which providers or models serve the Free, Pro and Team tiers, and which models the bring your own key option supports, is not stated. No subprocessor list or notice of model changes is published.

The homepage pricing table shows two plans. Free is shown at no cost per user and covers one seat without organization management, basic collaborative editing, legal library search, playbook rules and document review, document analysis and a limited number of chat messages, with no credit card required. Enterprise is priced by contacting sales. It adds unlimited editing, library search and chat, team wide playbooks, organization management with roles and permissions, and a dedicated account manager.

The security page refers to Pro and Team tiers on the multi tenant cloud, which the pricing table does not list. No paid price, currency or implementation fee is published, and the chat limit on the free plan is not quantified. Section 7 of the Terms of Service sets paid pricing in plan details or a separate order form.

Qanu names three buyer groups: law firms, from solo lawyers on the free plan to large firms on Enterprise; general counsel and in house teams; and ministries and government on the customer cloud option. The library covers official sources for supported jurisdictions, including Saudi and UAE legislation, circulars and judicial decisions, with more on the roadmap. The vendor states one limit directly: English common law work tied to the DIFC or London can stay on tools such as Harvey or Legora, while Qanu covers Arabic and bilingual Gulf matters.

The About page names contract analysis, due diligence, compliance and litigation, and product examples cover employment contracts, commercial leases and labor disputes. Practice area support is not set out beyond these examples.