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Simpliciter

The models do the work Simpliciter charges for, on top of a legal database that would still be worth something without them. The unit of charge is the AI answer, while direct database searches and searches through the MCP connector do not count against the quota. Research, document analysis and drafting all run through the chat on in house model versions a user can choose, and Simpliciter describes the system as agentic AI coordinating research, analysis and drafting in one conversation.

Case summaries are generated automatically. Without the models, a curated database of Italian and European law remains, sold with paid modules, private databases and a connector that lets other assistants query it.

Grounding is designed in and described, and the accuracy built on it is not measured. Simpliciter's FAQ says it considers only the sources in its database or the user's own documents, and a February 2026 company post says every source it cites exists because citations are retrieved from the databases rather than generated. Answers are organized into the regulatory framework, the main lines of case law, specific precedents and conflicting interpretations, and decisions are available in full text.

No accuracy figure, test set or error rate is published; the FAQ also says content is factually correct in most cases. The help center's limitations page names the failure modes, invented judgments, imprecise readings of legislation and irrelevant case law, which the Terms treat as no malfunction.

A qualified person must review and decide under the Terms, and real review surfaces exist, while the agent's steps between question and answer go undescribed. Article 9 bis of the Terms, citing article 13 of Italian Law 132 of 2025 and article 14 of the EU AI Act, says the service is for supporting work only and that human intellectual work must always prevail. It prohibits using the service to adopt decisions without qualified human supervision, or to generate court filings and legal opinions automatically without qualified human review.

Drafts open in a panel where a lawyer can rework a passage, each change saves a version that can be reopened, and web search stays off unless the user turns it on. The system is called agentic, and nothing describes the steps it chains or when it stops to ask.

Usage figures are published, and no customer is named anywhere. Simpliciter's home page says more than 45,000 professionals use it and calls it the most used AI for law in Italy, and says documents are processed and drafts generated in under 60 seconds. The comparison page says it is chosen by public administrations, corporate offices and lawyers in ten European countries. None of these comes with a period, a method or a source.

No law firm, legal department, notary practice, court or public body is named as a customer, and no testimonial, case study or measured result for a named user is published. A press strip shows the names Millionaire, Cassa Forense and Altalex without links or dates. The public changelog shows a product shipped continuously since July 2023, which establishes that it is live but not what it has changed for anyone.

Contract terms on training and access are strong, and professional secrecy itself is never addressed. Article 9 of the Terms says Atmos Media has no access to client content except for support the client requests, technical problems, complaints or purposes agreed in advance, and keeps content in logically isolated, encrypted environments reachable only by the authenticated user. The same article bars any use of client material for training, and says uploaded documents are sent in full to the AI providers' interfaces under zero data retention and data processing agreements.

Simpliciter's FAQ says it never shares information with third parties, which sits beside that transfer. No clause addresses professional secrecy, privilege, or what happens if a client's file is sought from Atmos Media.

The advice line, the audience and the supervision duty are all in the agreement, and the jurisdiction boundary is not. Article 1 of the Terms limits the service to people acting in a professional capacity, excludes consumers, and has each user declare the competence to evaluate outputs critically and awareness of the limits of AI in their field. Article 11 says the product cannot substitute for a professional where legal assistance is needed, which matters because accountants, labor consultants, companies and public bodies are also sold the product.

The help center tells lawyers that blaming the system for an error is not acceptable, and the magistrates page presents the product as research support, not automatic decision. The collection is Italian and European law, and nothing tells a lawyer outside Italy what the product does not cover.

A certification is claimed and two statutes are cited, with no governance program published. Simpliciter's home page lists ISO/IEC 42001, the management standard for AI, beside ISO/IEC 27001, with no holder, certifying body, scope or date. The Terms align the service with Italian Law 132 of 2025 and the EU AI Act on human oversight. The changelog also discloses one defect found and fixed: in October 2025 the automatic case summaries were confusing a case's facts with its principles of law, so every decision was summarized again with a new algorithm, and precision on administrative case law was raised the same month.

Nobody inside Atmos Media is named as answering for model behavior, nothing describes what is tested before a new model version ships, and nothing says whether output quality varies across courts or practice areas.

Most of the ground is published, and the commitments a firm could enforce stop at generic wording or sit in an agreement sent on request. The privacy policy and data processing page, both updated May 2026, name the principal providers with country, function and transfer safeguard. They list multifactor authentication, role based access on least privilege, logical tenant isolation and encryption in transit and at rest, and staff access to content is limited to documented cases and logged.

Technical logs and audit trails are kept up to 24 months, and breach records at least five years. Breach notice as processor is promised without undue delay, with no hours stated. The data processing agreement itself is available only on request.

Liability rests on a standard exclusion clause, and wrong AI output is expressly carved out of it. Article 11 of the Terms of 19 September 2026 says Atmos Media does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, reliability or fitness of AI generated outputs, supplies its products as they are, and treats inaccuracies, errors and so called hallucinations as no malfunction. Indirect damages, lost profits and damages flowing from the client's own liability to third parties are always excluded.

The limitations fall away for intent or gross negligence under article 1229 of the Civil Code, and where AI law makes liability mandatory. No monetary cap, indemnity to the client, insurance or service level is offered. Article 11 bis runs the other way: the client accepts the risk of inaccurate outputs and indemnifies Atmos Media against claims from use in breach of the Terms.

Connections into file storage and other AI assistants are documented, and none reaches the systems Italian firms run matters in. Documents load from Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or the user's computer. Word is handled as a file: drafts and answers export to Word or PDF, tracked changes and comments in uploaded Word files are read, and so are digitally signed .p7m files and .eml emails. The MCP connector is documented in depth, with a server address, OAuth sign in, three named tools and read only access to the legal sources on the account.

It supports Claude, ChatGPT and Le Chat among others, and conversations, uploaded documents and private databases are expressly not exposed. No practice management, document management or telematic filing connection is described, there is no Word add in, and the Enterprise custom integrations are not specified.

Storage location, processing location and the main exceptions are all stated. Under article 9 of the Terms, client content is stored on servers in the European Union, and the data processing page names the hosting: Hetzner in Germany, Amazon Web Services EMEA in Luxembourg and Google Cloud Italy, which also runs inference through Vertex AI. Processing is set out separately. Anthropic Ireland and Mistral AI in France run inference under zero data retention, and Cohere in Canada processes semantic queries under standard contractual clauses, with original documents never sent there.

Content delivery runs through Cloudflare in the United States, and billing data is replicated to Amazon Web Services in North Virginia under the EU and US Data Privacy Framework. Customers are separated by logical tenant isolation, and the Enterprise plan offers a private instance on demand, whose location and isolation are not described. No choice of region is offered.

Two ISO standards and a SOC report are named, and nothing reachable shows who holds them. Simpliciter's home page puts ISO/IEC 27001 and 42001 on a card about secure servers and certified European infrastructure, and PCI Level 1 and SOC 3 on a card about protected payments. Its FAQ says "i nostri sistemi vantano la certificazione ISO27001 e SOC3", while the help center says uploaded files sit on GDPR compliant servers with SOC 2 certification.

The standards attach to servers and payments rather than to Atmos Media as an audited organization, and SOC 3 and SOC 2 are named on different surfaces. No certifying body, certificate number, scope, date or report is published, and there is no trust center. Business clients can request a technical and security overview by email, which lists no certificate or audit report. Whether these certificates belong to Atmos Media or to its hosting and payment providers is open.

Model providers are named with their locations, and the model versions a user selects are Simpliciter's own labels with nothing said about what sits beneath them. The privacy policy and data processing page name Anthropic Ireland and Mistral AI for inference under contractual zero data retention, Google Cloud Italy for inference through Vertex AI, and Cohere for semantic queries in the retrieval step. Anthropic may run risk classifiers on prompts and outputs to detect policy violations.

Users pick among Simpliciter Plus v4 from April 2026, v3 from October 2025 and v2 from May 2025, and the changelog introduced v3 as a new language model. Nothing says which provider or base model serves each version, whether a version is fine tuned, or which provider handles drafting as against research. The provider list may change, and no commitment to notify customers is published.

Two self serve plans carry published prices, units and terms, and Enterprise and add on prices are withheld. Personale and Business are priced per month for one user and three users, each with an interaction quota, a discounted first month and two months free on annual billing. The help center defines an interaction as each completed chat response, with direct database and MCP searches excluded and unused quota lost at month end, and plan changes are charged pro rata with the amount shown before confirmation.

Enterprise, with unlimited users, a custom quota and a private instance, is priced on request. Specialized modules and private databases are paid extras priced only inside the account before purchase, so the full cost for a firm that needs the tax or labor module is not public.

Segments and practice areas are set out in detail, and the claim of use in ten countries has no boundary. The plans name their buyers, from independent lawyers and small firms on Personale to large firms, public administration and corporate teams on Enterprise, with separate pages for notaries, accountants, labor consultants, magistrates and public bodies. The help center documents the collection court by court, from the Court of Cassation and the Constitutional Court down to first instance, with Court of Auditors case law from 2007 only in a paid module and regional law covering 17 regions.

Those limits are real. Simpliciter's home page says the product covers every legal sector and the comparison page says it is used in ten European countries, and nothing says what a lawyer working under another country's law receives.