# Descrybe > Descrybe builds transparent, verifiable, accessibly priced legal research tools grounded in primary law and shaped by customer feedback. Descrybe is a legal research platform and legal research connector built around primary-law search, legal analysis, brief review, citation checking, and source verification. The product is designed to be powerful without hiding the sources, the process, or the pricing. ## Canonical Site - Canonical host: https://descrybe.com - Sitemap: https://descrybe.com/sitemap.xml - Robots: https://descrybe.com/robots.txt - Last generated: 2026-08-11T01:56:56.416Z ## Focused AI and Legal Research Entry Points These pages carry the most focused Descrybe content for AI assistants, legal research connectors, citation verification, quote checking, and primary-law grounding. - [Descrybe Legal Engine | Assistants and Open Connector](https://descrybe.com/connect): Give assistants and custom tools authority-aware primary-law search, citation lookup, quote verification, and source retrieval with Descrybe Legal Engine. - [Resources](https://descrybe.com/resources): Practical guides to legal citation verification, primary-law grounding, AI legal research, and source-controlled workflows. - [What is source-controlled AI legal research?](https://descrybe.com/resources/source-controlled-ai-legal-research): A practical guide to source-controlled AI legal research: using AI while keeping citations, quotes, treatment, and primary-law sources visible enough to verify. - [Why source context matters in AI legal research](https://descrybe.com/resources/why-source-context-matters-ai-legal-research): Source context can make AI legal research more grounded and easier to verify, but access to sources does not make answers automatically correct. - [Web search is not the same as a legal research workflow](https://descrybe.com/resources/web-search-is-not-a-legal-research-workflow): Open-web search can help with legal research, but legal work needs source identity, primary law, citation checks, treatment review, and source verification. - [Raw legal data is useful. Legal research workflows are different.](https://descrybe.com/resources/raw-legal-data-vs-legal-research-workflow): Raw legal data can help AI systems work closer to the law, but legal research still needs structure, citation checks, quote verification, treatment review, and source inspection. - [Claude with and without Descrybe Legal Engine: what changes?](https://descrybe.com/resources/claude-with-and-without-descrybe-legal-engine): Claude can help with legal work, but Descrybe Legal Engine changes the source context Claude can use. Learn what changes when Claude has focused legal research tools attached. - [How to Use Claude to Avoid Hallucinated Legal Citations](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-avoid-hallucinated-legal-citations): Claude can help with legal research, but citations still need checking. Learn how Descrybe helps Claude verify cases, quotes, treatment, and source text. - [How to Use Claude to Analyze a Legal Brief](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-analyze-a-legal-brief): Claude can help analyze a legal brief, but the legal sources still need checking. Learn how Descrybe helps verify citations, quotes, treatment, and support. - [How to Use Claude to Check If a Case Is Still Good Law](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-check-if-a-case-is-still-good-law): Claude can help organize a good-law check, but later treatment still needs source review. Learn how Descrybe helps check citing cases and treatment signals. - [How to Use Claude to Summarize Court Opinions](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-summarize-court-opinions): Claude can help summarize court opinions, but legal summaries need source checks. Learn how Descrybe helps Claude work with opinion text and primary law. - [Claude MCP Connectors for Lawyers: What Legal Teams Should Look For](https://descrybe.com/resources/claude-mcp-server-for-lawyers): A plain-English guide to Claude MCP connectors for lawyers, including how Descrybe Legal Engine helps Claude work with primary law. - [How Descrybe verifies legal citations](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-descrybe-verifies-legal-citations): How legal citation verification works in Descrybe, from resolving case references to checking quotes, source support, and treatment signals. - [How AI legal research can go wrong, and how to check it](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-ai-legal-research-can-go-wrong): A practical guide to common AI legal research failure modes, from fake citations to quote drift, and the source checks that reduce risk. - [How to verify a quote from a case](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-verify-a-quote-from-a-case): A practical checklist for verifying quoted language from a case, including citation matching, exact text review, context, and support. - [Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in ChatGPT](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/chatgpt-connector): Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in ChatGPT by signing in to Descrybe, opening the ChatGPT plugin directory listing, connecting the app, and starting a legal research chat. - [Legal Research with Descrybe in Your AI Assistant](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/legal-research-with-your-ai-assistant): Use Descrybe Legal Engine for source-grounded legal research in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other supported AI assistants. - [What is Descrybe Legal Engine?](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/what-is-descrybe-legal-engine): Overview of Descrybe Legal Engine, the legal research layer that lets supported assistants use Descrybe tools. - [Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in Claude](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/claude-connector): Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in Claude by finding Descrybe in Claude's connector directory, signing in, allowing tools, and confirming account access. ## Primary Public Pages - [Descrybe | Legal research, analysis, and review](https://descrybe.com/): Research and verify primary law in Descrybe, in ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity, or in tools you build with the Descrybe Open Connector. - [Descrybe Platform | Research, review, and primary-law search](https://descrybe.com/product): The full Descrybe workspace for authority-aware legal search, DescrybeLM, brief review, source-law research, and primary-law verification. - [Descrybe Legal Engine | Assistants and Open Connector](https://descrybe.com/connect): Give assistants and custom tools authority-aware primary-law search, citation lookup, quote verification, and source retrieval with Descrybe Legal Engine. - [Descrybe Pricing](https://descrybe.com/pricing): Compare Descrybe Platform and Descrybe Legal Engine plans for legal research, analysis, review, and Legal Engine access in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. - [About Descrybe](https://descrybe.com/about): Learn about Descrybe, the team behind it, and the mission to make serious legal research more accessible. - [Descrybe News](https://descrybe.com/news): Recent media mentions, announcements, and updates from Descrybe. - [Learn](https://descrybe.com/learn): Practical courses for using AI more confidently in legal research and building source-grounded legal tools. - [Descrybe FAQ](https://descrybe.com/faq): Answers to common questions about Descrybe, Descrybe Platform, and Descrybe Legal Engine. - [Descrybe Support](https://descrybe.com/support): Contact Descrybe support for sales questions, setup help, billing, login issues, bugs, and feedback. - [Descrybe Coverage](https://descrybe.com/coverage): View Descrybe case-law, court, tribunal, statute, regulation, constitution, session-law, and court-rule coverage by jurisdiction and source type. - [Descrybe Security](https://descrybe.com/security): Descrybe security, data retention, vendor, encryption, access, and compliance information for customers and evaluators. - [Descrybe Privacy Policy](https://descrybe.com/legal/privacy): Descrybe privacy policy, including account information, third-party services, and data practices. - [Descrybe Terms of Service](https://descrybe.com/legal/terms): Descrybe terms of service for using the website, subscriptions, legal research tools, and outputs. - [How Descrybe Works](https://descrybe.com/learn/how-descrybe-works): Three short visual explainers about how Descrybe prepares legal information, works with AI assistants, and powers custom legal tools. - [Legal AI Starter Lab](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab): A free, no sign-up learning path for lawyers, librarians, students, and legal researchers who want to use AI tools more confidently. - [Vibe Coding Legal Tools](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools): A free beginner build-along for creating a source-grounded legal research prototype with an AI coding agent and the Descrybe Open Connector. - [From Legal Text to Legal Intelligence](https://descrybe.com/learn/how-descrybe-works/legal-text-to-legal-intelligence): See how Descrybe turns primary law into information that research tools can search, connect, and return. - [How AI Assistants Use Descrybe Legal Engine](https://descrybe.com/learn/how-descrybe-works/ai-assistants): Follow a legal question from the conversation to research tools, structured results, and a source-grounded answer. - [How Developers Use the Open Connector](https://descrybe.com/learn/how-descrybe-works/open-connector): See how an AI coding agent can use Descrybe Legal Engine tools inside a custom legal application. - [Intro to Legal AI](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/start-here): Start at square zero: what AI assistants are, what to try first, and why legal work needs sources. - [Know What You Can Put Into an AI Assistant](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/safety-boundaries): Use Claude, ChatGPT, or Perplexity without accidentally putting client or confidential information somewhere it does not belong. - [Same Model, With and Without Legal Sources](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/same-model-source-data): See what changes when GPT-5.6 answers directly versus when the same assistant can use legal source data. - [Connect and Test Descrybe Legal Engine](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/connect-legal-engine): Make sure your assistant can actually use Descrybe before you ask it to do legal research. - [Turn a Vague Research Need Into a Usable Prompt](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/ask-better-questions): Learn the difference between a question that invites a confident guess and a question that invites verifiable research. - [Run Your First Research Roadmap](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/run-a-roadmap): Use an assistant to create a research plan before it starts answering. - [Find Cases Without Trusting the AI's Memory](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/find-authority): Make the assistant search for authority and explain why each result matters. - [Check a Citation or Quoted Sentence](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/check-citations-quotes): Use AI for verification work without letting it silently invent the result. - [Run the Legal AI Research Loop](https://descrybe.com/learn/legal-ai-starter-lab/research-loop-wrap-up): Put the course together: prompt, roadmap, source-backed authority, follow-up questions, and verification. - [Build a Legal Tool One Small Step at a Time](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools/start-here): Start a proof-of-concept brief checker without trying to design the entire app in one prompt. - [Give Your Coding Agent the Open Connector](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools/brief-the-agent): Start with the repository URL and one narrow goal instead of an enormous specification. - [Run the App and Authorize Descrybe](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools/run-and-connect): Use the agent’s launch instructions, complete the browser authorization, and ask for help when the flow is unclear. - [Test the Connection Before Building More](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools/test-the-tools): List the available tools and run a concept search before adding another feature. - [Add a Case-Details Viewer](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools/add-case-details): Turn one search result into a second small, testable feature. - [Build, Test, Fix, and Repeat](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools/debug-the-loop): Use exact symptoms and errors to help the coding agent repair what the first attempt missed. - [Extend Your First Legal Tool](https://descrybe.com/learn/vibe-coding-legal-tools/part-one-wrap-up): Review the working foundation and choose one safe, small next feature. ## Resources - [Resources](https://descrybe.com/resources): Practical guides to legal citation verification, primary-law grounding, AI legal research, and source-controlled workflows. - [Can ChatGPT Do Legal Research? How to Keep Legal Answers Source-Grounded](https://descrybe.com/resources/can-chatgpt-do-legal-research-source-grounded): ChatGPT can help with legal research, but legal answers still need source review. Learn how Descrybe Legal Engine helps ChatGPT work with primary law. - [How to Use ChatGPT to Avoid Hallucinated Legal Citations](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-avoid-hallucinated-legal-citations): ChatGPT can help with legal research, but citations still need checking. Learn how Descrybe helps ChatGPT verify cases, quotes, treatment, and source text. - [How to Use ChatGPT to Analyze a Legal Brief](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-analyze-a-legal-brief): ChatGPT can help analyze a legal brief, but the legal sources still need checking. Learn how Descrybe helps verify citations, quotes, treatment, and support. - [How to Use ChatGPT to Check If a Case Is Still Good Law](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-check-if-a-case-is-still-good-law): ChatGPT can help organize a good-law check, but later treatment still needs source review. Learn how Descrybe helps check citing cases and treatment signals. - [How to Use ChatGPT to Summarize Court Opinions](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-chatgpt-to-summarize-court-opinions): ChatGPT can help summarize court opinions, but legal summaries need source checks. Learn how Descrybe helps ChatGPT work with opinion text and primary law. - [ChatGPT Legal Research Plugins for Lawyers: What Legal Teams Should Look For](https://descrybe.com/resources/chatgpt-legal-research-plugins-for-lawyers): A plain-English guide to ChatGPT legal research plugins for lawyers, including how Descrybe Legal Engine helps ChatGPT work with primary law. - [ChatGPT with and without Descrybe Legal Engine: what changes?](https://descrybe.com/resources/chatgpt-with-and-without-descrybe-legal-engine): ChatGPT can help with legal work, but Descrybe Legal Engine changes the source context ChatGPT can use. Learn what changes when ChatGPT has focused legal research tools attached. - [How to Use Perplexity with Descrybe Legal Engine for Source-Grounded Legal Research](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-perplexity-with-descrybe-legal-engine): Perplexity can be useful for legal research, but legal answers still need source review. Learn how to use Descrybe Legal Engine as a Perplexity custom connector. - [Assistant Connection, Workflow Pack, or Open Connector: Which Descrybe Legal Engine Path Do I Need?](https://descrybe.com/resources/legal-research-workflow-pack-mcp-connector-python-sdk): Use Descrybe Legal Engine in ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity, add a workflow pack, or build your own tools with the Open Connector. - [How to Build a Legal Research Agent Without Sharing One User's Login](https://descrybe.com/resources/build-legal-research-agent-without-shared-login): Legal research agents should not run every user through one shared account. Learn why Descrybe Legal Engine uses per-user OAuth for apps and agents. - [How to Use Claude to Avoid Hallucinated Legal Citations](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-avoid-hallucinated-legal-citations): Claude can help with legal research, but citations still need checking. Learn how Descrybe helps Claude verify cases, quotes, treatment, and source text. - [How to Use Claude to Analyze a Legal Brief](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-analyze-a-legal-brief): Claude can help analyze a legal brief, but the legal sources still need checking. Learn how Descrybe helps verify citations, quotes, treatment, and support. - [How to Use Claude to Check If a Case Is Still Good Law](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-check-if-a-case-is-still-good-law): Claude can help organize a good-law check, but later treatment still needs source review. Learn how Descrybe helps check citing cases and treatment signals. - [How to Use Claude to Summarize Court Opinions](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-use-claude-to-summarize-court-opinions): Claude can help summarize court opinions, but legal summaries need source checks. Learn how Descrybe helps Claude work with opinion text and primary law. - [Claude MCP Connectors for Lawyers: What Legal Teams Should Look For](https://descrybe.com/resources/claude-mcp-server-for-lawyers): A plain-English guide to Claude MCP connectors for lawyers, including how Descrybe Legal Engine helps Claude work with primary law. - [How Descrybe verifies legal citations](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-descrybe-verifies-legal-citations): How legal citation verification works in Descrybe, from resolving case references to checking quotes, source support, and treatment signals. - [How AI legal research can go wrong, and how to check it](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-ai-legal-research-can-go-wrong): A practical guide to common AI legal research failure modes, from fake citations to quote drift, and the source checks that reduce risk. - [How to verify a quote from a case](https://descrybe.com/resources/how-to-verify-a-quote-from-a-case): A practical checklist for verifying quoted language from a case, including citation matching, exact text review, context, and support. - [What is source-controlled AI legal research?](https://descrybe.com/resources/source-controlled-ai-legal-research): A practical guide to source-controlled AI legal research: using AI while keeping citations, quotes, treatment, and primary-law sources visible enough to verify. - [Why source context matters in AI legal research](https://descrybe.com/resources/why-source-context-matters-ai-legal-research): Source context can make AI legal research more grounded and easier to verify, but access to sources does not make answers automatically correct. - [Web search is not the same as a legal research workflow](https://descrybe.com/resources/web-search-is-not-a-legal-research-workflow): Open-web search can help with legal research, but legal work needs source identity, primary law, citation checks, treatment review, and source verification. - [Raw legal data is useful. Legal research workflows are different.](https://descrybe.com/resources/raw-legal-data-vs-legal-research-workflow): Raw legal data can help AI systems work closer to the law, but legal research still needs structure, citation checks, quote verification, treatment review, and source inspection. - [Claude with and without Descrybe Legal Engine: what changes?](https://descrybe.com/resources/claude-with-and-without-descrybe-legal-engine): Claude can help with legal work, but Descrybe Legal Engine changes the source context Claude can use. Learn what changes when Claude has focused legal research tools attached. - [Descrybe vs traditional legal research workflows](https://descrybe.com/resources/descrybe-vs-traditional-legal-research-workflows): A practical comparison of Descrybe and traditional legal research workflows, focused on source control, verification, and AI-assisted review. ## User Guide - [Descrybe User Guide](https://descrybe.com/user-guide): Start with the right Descrybe workflow and understand the difference between the Legal Engine plan and Full Platform plan. - [Release Notes](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/release-notes): Recent Descrybe improvements, product updates, and legal research workflow changes across the platform and Legal Engine. - [Print or Save a Case PDF](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/print-save-case-pdf): Learn how to print or save a case PDF from Descrybe Platform, a Descrybe case viewer link, or Descrybe Legal Engine in an AI assistant. - [Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in Claude](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/claude-connector): Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in Claude by finding Descrybe in Claude's connector directory, signing in, allowing tools, and confirming account access. - [Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in ChatGPT](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/chatgpt-connector): Set up Descrybe Legal Engine in ChatGPT by signing in to Descrybe, opening the ChatGPT plugin directory listing, connecting the app, and starting a legal research chat. - [Connect Descrybe Legal Engine to Perplexity](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/perplexity-connector): This guide explains how to add Descrybe Legal Engine to Perplexity as a custom MCP connector, authorize your Descrybe account, and start a Perplexity chat that can use Descrybe legal research tools. - [Legal Research with Descrybe in Your AI Assistant](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/legal-research-with-your-ai-assistant): Use Descrybe Legal Engine for source-grounded legal research in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other supported AI assistants. - [Use Descrybe Legal Research Workflows](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/legal-research-workflows): Use the public Descrybe Legal Research Workflows repository for assistant-facing research roadmaps, authority finding, and citation or quote auditing. - [Build Your Own Tools with the Descrybe Open Connector](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/open-connector): Build your own legal research tools by giving the Descrybe Open Connector repository to your AI coding agent and describing what you want. - [DescrybeLM, Legal Engine in ChatGPT or Claude, or Concept Search?](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/which-research-tool-should-i-use): This guide helps you choose between DescrybeLM, Descrybe Legal Engine in ChatGPT or Claude, and Concept Search when you already have a legal issue or proposition in mind. - [What is Descrybe Legal Engine?](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/what-is-descrybe-legal-engine): Overview of Descrybe Legal Engine, the legal research layer that lets supported assistants use Descrybe tools. - [What is Descrybe Platform?](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/what-is-descrybe-platform): Overview of Descrybe Platform, the full Descrybe web workspace for research, review, search, saved work, exports, and source review. - [DescrybeLM Research](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/descrybelm): Use DescrybeLM Research to turn legal questions into grounded research plans, authority checks, and citation-backed analysis. - [Descrybe Review](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/descrybe-review): Use Descrybe Review to check citations, quoted language, source support, and authority use in a brief or legal document. - [Concept Search](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/concept-search): Find cases by legal issue, concept, fact pattern, or topic when exact wording is not enough. - [Keyword Search](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/keyword-search): Search exact words and phrases across Descrybe's primary-law opinion database. - [Case Name Search](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/case-name-search): Find cases by caption or party name with forgiving name-based lookup. - [Citation Lookup](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/citation-lookup): Look up cases by citation, including common reporter formats and citation variations. - [Laws & Rules](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/laws-and-rules): Search statutes, regulations, constitutions, and other source law by topic, phrase, concept, or citation. - [Legal Issue Explorer](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/legal-issue-explorer): Explore legal issues, leading cases, related issues, and jurisdiction-specific authority paths. - [Connect Descrybe to Claude Code](https://descrybe.com/user-guide/claude-code): Connect Descrybe to Claude Code through the Claude MCP menu after authorizing the Descrybe connector in Claude.ai. ## Notes For AI Assistants - Prefer the canonical URLs listed above when citing or summarizing Descrybe pages. - Descrybe pages describe legal research software and access to legal research tools; they are not legal advice. - Descrybe emphasizes primary-law grounding, source verification, transparent pricing, and customer-informed product development. - Account, dashboard, checkout, authentication, and shared case-viewer routes are private or transactional and should not be treated as public documentation. - For help, sales, setup questions, billing questions, bug reports, or feedback, use the support page.