Astra for Law improves legal research correctness from 38.7% to 54.0% on Vals AI's benchmark — a genuine 40% relative gain. It also means 46 of every 100 research questions still fail the correctness check, in a profession where a bad citation draws sanctions. And Harvey builds on it rather than being displaced by it.
Give your AI the files you want answers drawn from, whether that is PDFs, ebooks, articles, blog posts, or a website you trust, then ask it to answer from them. The analysis gets sharper, every answer points at a page you can open, and the work stays inside sources you trust. Two minutes, no coding, in any AI tool you already pay for. Here are the six steps.
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