Find the advice your firm already gave
Certant answers your team's questions from your own matters, letters and precedents, with the file and page attached. It can run entirely inside your walls.
Have we advised a council on a liability cap above $5 million?
Yes, on two matters. In 2023 the firm accepted a $10 million cap on a waste services contract, with consequential loss excluded. In 2025 it advised a second council to reject an uncapped indemnity and proposed $7.5 million.
Three files from two matters, and the page in each.
Old files hold your best work
Your firm has answered most of its questions before. The answer is in a matter folder from 2021, a partner's sent email, or a precedent someone saved under a name only they remember.
So juniors ask seniors, seniors search the document system, and the client pays for the firm to work it out again. Or someone pastes client material into a public chatbot to save an hour.
Certant reads the firm's files and answers from them, with the matter and page attached, so the work you've already done gets used again.
- Advice_final_v3.docx2021
- Precedent, indemnity clauses.docx2019
- Council MSA template.docx2022
- Waste contract markup (2).pdf2023
- RE: RE: cap?2025
And 61 more results. Each one has to be opened to find out which matter answers the question.
Put past work to use
One knowledgebase built from your files answers questions, lines up clauses across documents and runs routine checks.
Ask in plain English
Ask the way you'd ask a colleague down the hall. The answer comes from your own files, shows the page each part came from, and says so when the files don't cover it.
Click a citation and the document opens at that page.
What did we tell the client about the payroll tax ruling last year?
The October 2025 letter advised that contractors engaged through the labour hire arrangement were likely to count as employees, and recommended a voluntary disclosure before 30 June.
Line up clauses across contracts
Ask for every liability cap across a set of contracts, or every rent review date across a property portfolio, and you get a table back with the page each value came from.
Certant reads tables and schedules as well as the text, so a fee schedule in an appendix comes back with the rest.
| Contract | Cap, and where it says so |
|---|---|
| Waste services, 2023 | $10 million, consequential loss excluded Clause 14.2 · page 19 |
| Road maintenance, 2024 | $5 million Clause 11.4 · page 12 |
| IT services, 2025 | 12 months' fees Schedule 2 · page 31 |
| Cleaning, 2022 | No cap stated in the contract Cleaning services agreement |
If a contract doesn't state a cap, its row says so.
Run the routine checks
Build an agent that reviews each new engagement letter against your standard terms, or checks a client's figures against the limits written in their documents.
It flags what it finds, and anything that changes data or goes outside Certant waits for a person to approve it. See the Agent Builder.
Send the review summary for the new engagement letter to the client partner.
| Found | Two departures from standard terms, at clauses 7.3 and 12.1 |
|---|---|
| Checked against | Standard terms of engagement, version 6 |
| Effect | Sends email outside Certant |
Nothing is sent until someone presses Approve.
Check it before you sign
Your name goes on the advice, so every answer has to be something you can check in seconds.
Keep client files inside your walls
Pick where Certant runs to suit your clients and your insurer. You can start in our cloud and move inside your walls when a client or your regulator asks you to.
Whichever you pick, you decide which people and teams can reach each knowledgebase, and staff can sign in through your own identity provider.
| Certant Cloud | Shared or dedicated, managed by us, using hosted models billed in credits. |
|---|---|
| Your cloud | Installed in a cloud account your firm already has. |
| Your hardware | Open-weight models on a machine in your office, under a fixed annual licence, air-gapped if you need it. |
Built for firms that sign off
Law firms
Advice letters, precedents, contract markups, and the clauses your firm always negotiates. Strata can read leases, fee schedules and settlement terms as data.
Accounting and advisory firms
Client files, rulings, working papers and the answers seniors give juniors every week.
Financial planning and wealth firms
Statements of advice, product disclosure statements and the reasons written down behind each recommendation.
What partners ask first
Can we keep privileged material off the public internet?
Yes. On a sovereign deployment Certant runs on your own hardware with open-weight models, and nothing leaves your network. See what leaves the network in each deployment.
Will it read the files in our document management system?
Certant takes file drops, scheduled exports and documents sent through the API. Tell us which system you use when you book a demo, and we'll tell you what connects to it today.
Can each team see only its own matters?
Yes. You decide which people and teams can reach each knowledgebase, so one practice group's files can sit apart from another's.
Does it replace a lawyer's or an accountant's review?
No. It finds what your firm has already said and shows you where it said it. The advice is still yours to give.
What does it cost?
Self-serve plans run in Certant Cloud and are billed in credits. Running it on your own hardware is a fixed annual licence with no charge per question. See pricing.
See what your files can answer
Book a demo on a sample of your own precedents, and bring the question your juniors ask most often.
Your files don't show advice on that point. The closest is matter 22-031, which dealt with a cap on a private contract.
When your files don't hold the answer, it says so.