Roy

What is Roy?

Roy is a legal analysis tool built for the legal department. It gives the team control over the sources, access rights, reasoning, and history behind every analysis it produces. Rather than handing over a black-box answer, Roy shows the chain of reasoning that led to a conclusion — from the qualification of the obligation at stake, through the relevant case law and statutory texts, to the final assessment. In the example of a service agreement's clause art. 11, Roy walks through Cour de cassation precedents such as Chronopost and Faurecia I and II, confronts them with Art. 1170 of the Civil Code introduced by the 2016 reform, and cross-checks the latest positions from courts of appeal in Paris and Versailles before concluding. The result is a documented analysis backed by 31 consulted sources, not a single opaque verdict.

Who it's for

• In-house legal teams — who need to review contract clauses and understand the exposure behind each one.
• Legal operations and knowledge managers — who care about traceability, access rights, and a defensible audit trail.
• Lawyers and counsel handling contract risk — who want case law and statutory reasoning laid out rather than summarized away.

Key features

Source control

Roy keeps the sources behind each analysis visible and attributable, so the legal department can see exactly what was consulted. References to case law and legislation remain part of the record rather than disappearing into a summary.

Access rights

The tool gives the department control over who can see and use each analysis. Access is managed at the level of the legal team rather than left to individual users.

Reasoning transparency

Each conclusion is presented as a chain of steps — qualification of the obligation, case law, statutory confrontation, and cross-checks with appellate positions. The reasoning is exposed so it can be reviewed, challenged, or reused.

History

Roy preserves the history of every analysis, so earlier positions and the sources behind them stay available over time. This makes it possible to trace how a conclusion was reached and what it rested on.

What stands out

Roy doesn't just answer the legal question — it shows the sources, the reasoning, and the history behind the answer.

That distinction matters for a legal department, where the value of an analysis depends on being able to defend it. By keeping sources, access rights, reasoning, and history under the department's control, Roy turns each analysis into something reviewable rather than something to be taken on faith. The clause art. 11 example illustrates the approach: a conclusion about requalification as a clause deemed unwritten, grounded in named case law and a specific article of the Civil Code.

Worth checking out if…

You want legal analysis your department can audit, not just consume. If your team regularly reviews contract clauses and needs to justify its positions with traceable sources and reasoning, Roy is built around exactly that need.