Trusted Partner Programme MMXXVI One Product, One Jurisdiction
Legal AI Trusted Partner Programme
The programme assesses legal AI platforms offered to law firms and legal departments. It answers one question for the organisations that buy them: has this product been independently tested on its legal output, its sources, its reliability and its handling of client data? A title is awarded to a specific product for a specific jurisdiction, for example the Turkish-law product. It is never awarded to a company in general.
§ I Two Titles
Two titles, earned in sequence
The programme awards two titles. The first rests on documents and a baseline test. The second verifies in operation what the first accepted on paper. A provider holds the second title only after holding the first.
Raydorf Verified Platform
The first level. The decision rests on four elements:
- written surveys completed by the provider's product, engineering, security, data protection and local market leads;
- an evidence review covering certificates, policies, the service level agreement, the data processing agreement, the sub-processor list, insurance and financial statements;
- a baseline output test: a sample of legal questions run on the live product and scored against Raydorf's reference answers under Raydorf's assessment method;
- draft findings sent to the provider for a factual check, followed by a decision of the Standards Council.
The Verified title is provisional. It is valid for 90 days and is replaced by the Assured decision.
Raydorf Assured Platform
The full level. It verifies in operation what the first level accepted on documents:
- a full output assessment on Raydorf's confidential test set across about ten areas of law, with repeat runs for consistency and adversarial questions;
- a source currency audit: how quickly new Official Gazette (Resmî Gazete) publications and high-court decisions appear in the product, coverage sampling and a licensing review;
- independent monitoring of availability and response time against the provider's SLA commitment;
- live verification of controls: data residency, a deletion request, the training-use setting, the sub-processor chain, access logs, single sign-on and role configuration;
- model governance in operation: a re-test after any model or product release, and a check that the change was documented and communicated to customers;
- local operations: unannounced support requests in the local language, an onboarding walkthrough as a new customer and an incident-response exercise;
- customer verification: reference conversations with customers chosen by Raydorf;
- a full assessment report, a decision of the Standards Council and publication on raydorf.com.
§ II Assessment Areas
What we rate
Every platform is assessed in eight areas. Each area is examined on the live product and against the provider's own documents, and each must be met in full for the title to be awarded.
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Legal output quality
Citation accuracy and the rate of fabricated citations. Detection of repealed or amended norms. Acknowledgement of uncertainty. Legal language and terminology. Consistency across areas of law. Measured on the live production version. The provider does not see the test set in advance.
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Source and content infrastructure
Coverage of legislation and case law. Time taken for new publications and decisions to appear. Lawful acquisition and licensing of sources. Traceability of every output to its source.
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Service continuity and SLA
Contractual availability commitment and realised availability. Response times. Recovery targets. Incident response. Enterprise support in the local language. Maintenance notice and status page.
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Information security
Access control and authentication. Encryption in transit and at rest. Logging and audit trails. Vulnerability management. Control of third-party components. Incident history.
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Data protection (KVKK and GDPR)
Data residency. Processing roles and data processing agreements. Retention and deletion. Use of customer data in model training. Legal basis for cross-border transfer. VERBİS registration. Sub-processor transparency.
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Model governance
Documented model and provider changes. Evaluation before release. Prompt and output logging. Hallucination mitigation. Provisions for human oversight. Communication of version changes to customers.
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Enterprise readiness
Role-based access. Single sign-on. Usage reporting. Administration console. API and integration documentation. Onboarding and training programme.
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Corporate continuity
Ownership structure. Financial standing. Professional indemnity and cyber insurance. Business continuity plan. Exit provisions for customer data.
§ III Decision Rule
All or nothing within its scope
Each level is decided as a whole within its scope. A platform either meets every requirement of the level or does not hold the title. There is no aggregate score and no partial title. This follows the floor rule of the Raydorf Standard, under which a firm is certified at the level of its weakest dimension.
§ IV Validity
Validity and renewal
The Assured title is published with its scope and validity period and is valid for 12 months. Surveillance continues throughout that period.
In the second and third years the title is renewed after a shorter re-test: the output test repeated on the current release, a review of changes to models, sources, hosting and sub-processors, the availability record, and updated surveys. A full re-assessment is required at the end of the third year.
If a re-test is not passed, the title is suspended until the finding is closed.
§ V What Is Received
What a listed platform receives
- The title, published on raydorf.com with its scope and validity.
- The full assessment report, and a results summary covering output quality, source currency and availability, which the provider may share with prospective customers under a non-disclosure agreement.
- Recognition of its verified provider-side controls when its customers apply for Raydorf certification. This shortens the evidence review. It never raises a tier.
§ VI Use of the Title
Use of the title
Permitted wording follows one pattern: “[Provider] is a Raydorf Verified Platform for Turkish law (Month Year).” The title covers the assessed product and jurisdiction only. It must not be extended to other markets, other products or the company as a whole. Raydorf reviews press and campaign wording that uses its name before publication.
§ VII Independence
Independence
Raydorf assesses. It does not vouch for any platform and it does not sell one.
- The programme is open to every provider on the same published terms.
- Fees are independent of the outcome.
- Raydorf does not recommend any platform to the organisations it certifies and takes no sales commission.
- Raydorf's assessors, its Standards Council and its chairman take no part in promoting any listed platform.
- The test set is confidential.
- Raydorf publishes only its decisions and their scope. Negative findings are never published.
§ VIII Listed Platforms
Listed platforms
Each entry names the provider, the assessed product, the jurisdiction, the title held, the date of the Standards Council decision and the end of the validity period.
No platforms have been listed yet.
§ IX Terms
Programme terms
Providers may request the programme terms. The terms are the same for every provider and are supplied in writing.