Cited. Instant. Precise.Across jurisdictions.
European legal work spans civil law and common law, multiple official languages, and both EU and national sources. Court Stairs is built for that reality: cited answers, voice intake, and meeting intelligence, in English and Portuguese, grounded in the materials we index.
The map
Where Court Stairs sits on the legal-tech map
Two questions sort every legal-tech product: who is it built for, and does it answer the legal question or just point you at documents? Plot the categories and a gap appears in the top-right. That gap is what Court Stairs is built for.
Free public indices
Free public access to case law and statutes. Search-only: you read every result yourself.
Everyone, cited AI
Cited AI answers, voice agent, meeting intelligence. Built for civil- and common-law materials we index, in English and Portuguese, with a free tier open to everyone.
Subscription research
Paid research databases. Search-focused, primarily designed for firms.
Firm-focused legal AI
AI products primarily designed for firm subscriptions and specific firm workflows.
Two questions sort every legal-tech product: who is it built for, and does it answer the legal question or just point you at documents to read? Court Stairs is built to sit at the intersection that the other categories miss: cited AI answers, across civil-law and common-law materials in our corpus, in English and Portuguese, with a free tier open to everyone.
Different category, different audience
What Court Stairs is, and is not
When people first hear "AI for legal research," they reach for one of three mental models. Here is the honest version of which category we are in.
Different problem space
Some legal-tech products handle time tracking, billing, matter management, and document storage. They are a firm's back-office system.
Court Stairs is the legal-research and client-intake layer, not a practice-management tool. We answer the legal question with citations, take the intake call, and turn meetings into matter files. We are designed to sit alongside back-office systems, not replace them. Our free tier is open to everyone.
Different audience
Other legal AI products are designed primarily for the largest firms with enterprise procurement processes, contracts, and onboarding.
Court Stairs is designed for solos, small practices, paralegals, students, and individuals researching their rights. Civil- and common-law aware, bilingual, free tier. A different audience requires a different ground truth.
Built to add an answer layer
Public legal databases give access to case law and statutes. They are search engines and libraries, not answers to a question.
Court Stairs is built to give you a cited answer in seconds, by voice or text, in English or Portuguese, with deep links back to the public source so you can verify it yourself. Where legally permitted, we link out to public legal sources for verification.
What we focus on
Five capabilities, one product
Each capability takes time to build. Together, they shape the purpose of Court Stairs.
Civil and common law
Civil-law codes and procedure, EU instruments, and common-law judgments and statutes in the same jurisdiction-aware engine. Built to handle both traditions where they appear in the corpus.
Portuguese and English, native
Not a translation layer. The voice agent, retrieval, and citation grounding are designed to run in Portuguese and English at parity across the materials we cover.
Privacy by design
EU-aligned hosting options, GDPR-style controls, and contractual safeguards for cross-border processing. SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness on the roadmap. Built so client data does not need to be retrofitted to work with us.
Phone call workflow
What happens when a client calls Court Stairs: the AI takes the call in their language, transcribes it, builds a mind map, drafts the matter file, and surfaces relevant precedent before you walk back to your desk.
Citation-grounded answers
200,000+ legal documents in the corpus, indexed and structured. Every AI answer ships with clickable deep links to the source. If we cannot cite it, we do not say it.
Coverage
Member states, EU courts, two languages
Court Stairs is built to work across national systems, EU-level sources where indexed, and English and Portuguese in a single product.
National courts and legislation
Grounded retrieval over supreme and appellate courts, national statutes, and regulations where they appear in the corpus. Same case workspace, same infrastructure.
EU and cross-border context
Treaties, regulations, and Court of Justice materials where indexed—alongside national doctrine and case law—so you can reason about both layers.
English and Portuguese
Designed to handle both languages natively in research, voice, and meetings, without treating either as an afterthought.
Solos and small teams everywhere miss intake calls, want grounded research, and need hosting and controls that match modern privacy expectations. That is who we build for.
Try it
Ask a legal-research question. Free tier.
No credit card. Pick chat, voice, or meeting upload. Same product.