--- title: "Legal Tech and Compliance | Solutions | SurrealDB" description: "Model evidence, disagreement and professional judgement as a graph, with per-matter access control and scoped agent memory, for legal and compliance teams." url: https://surrealdb.com/solutions/legal-tech-and-compliance --- # Built for legal intelligence [Start free with SurrealDB](https://studio.surrealdb.com/current/instances/deploy) [Talk to sales](https://surrealdb.com/contact/sales) **Evidence.** Every statement kept with its source, its author and its date. **Judgement.** Reviews and corrections recorded beside what they review. **Isolation.** Per-matter access control, enforced in the database. 1. ![Babcock](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/babcock.lo4rnVg1.svg) 2. ![ING](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/ing.X3I6S3_V.svg) 3. ![British Airways](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/british-airways.KEsZiwV-.svg) 4. ![Nvidia](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/nvidia.DaIEuMil.svg) 5. ![Apple](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/apple.D5pq4flY.svg) 6. ![SpaceX](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/spacex.CQJEk-IL.svg) 7. ![Samsung](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/samsung.CH-vQgnb.svg) 8. ![adidas](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/adidas.DdTC5qhk.svg) 9. ![Tencent](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/tencent.paQmLxyy.svg) 10. ![Alibaba](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/alibaba.B16idgfM.svg) 11. ![PolyAI](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/poly-ai.c3w_fAg6.svg) 12. ![Later](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/later.Ds736jFO.svg) 13. ![Verizon](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/verizon.BI7CajdX.svg) 14. ![Liberty Mutual](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/liberty-mutual.B7qOU1pd.svg) 15. ![Walmart](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/walmart.BjDg_Sr8.svg) 16. ![Carrier](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/carrier.D21gC6NX.svg) 17. ![Saks Fifth Avenue](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/saks-fifth-avenue.COIDpLSb.svg) 18. ![San Francisco Compute Company](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/sfcc.B7jlImq4.svg) 19. ![Shield AI](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/shield-ai.pINZ0KJr.svg) 20. ![Wix](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/wix.DvHhmoBi.svg) CAPABILITIES ## Evidence you can trace. Designed for matters where parties disagree and every step must be explained. ### Evidence graph Records, sources and statements linked so every claim leads to its basis. ### Matter isolation Table and field permissions evaluated per record, with access denied by default. ### Agent Memory Scoped memory that lets an assistant resume work from a reviewed correction. ### One platform Documents, graph, vectors and full-text search in a single engine. SEE IT IN ACTION ## Isolate every matter. Permissions the database enforces on each query. A lawyer signed in through a record access method sees only the documents of the matters assigned to them. Copy ``` 1-- A document belongs to one matter2DEFINE TABLE document SCHEMAFULL3 PERMISSIONS FOR select, create, update4 WHERE matter IN $auth.matters;5DEFINE FIELD matter ON document TYPE record;6DEFINE FIELD title ON document TYPE string;78-- Signed in as a lawyer assigned to matter:smith9SELECT title FROM document;10-- Returns only the documents of matter:smith ``` USE CASES ## Core use cases. How legal and compliance teams apply SurrealDB. ### Disclosure and e-discovery Competing statements about the same asset kept side by side, each with its source. ### Contract and clause intelligence Clauses, parties and obligations as a graph, searchable by meaning and by structure. ### Regulatory change tracking Rules linked to the policies, controls and contracts they affect. ### Matter and case management Each client's matter held in its own permission boundary, inside the engine. ### Audit trails and provenance Reviews, decisions and corrections stored as records that can be queried later. ### Legal research assistants Retrieval over embeddings and linked records, scoped to one authorised matter. WHY SURREALDB ## Why decision makers choose SurrealDB. The advantages that matter in legal and compliance work. ### [Relationships that carry data](https://surrealdb.com/surrealdb/features) Graph edges are full records, so who said what, on which source and when sits on the relationship itself. ### [Permissions in the engine](https://surrealdb.com/surrealdb/features) Record-level rules mean a query returns only what the signed-in user's matters allow. ### [Agent Memory with scope](https://surrealdb.com/surrealdb/features) Memory is partitioned by firm, matter and user, while principals and grants govern access. ### [Adaptable schema](https://surrealdb.com/surrealdb/features) Start with flexible documents, then add structure as practice areas and regulations change. ### [Fewer systems to align](https://surrealdb.com/surrealdb/features) The graph, the vectors and the access rules share one store and one transaction. PIVOT AI ## See it in practice. How Pivot AI builds on SurrealDB. ### [Computing over evidence, disagreement and judgement](https://surrealdb.com/blog/computing-over-evidence-disagreement-and-judgement-by-pivot-ai) How Pivot models disputed financial evidence as competing assertions, findings and decisions. Read the story ### [Remembering the correction: Ontology and agent memory in Pivot AI](https://surrealdb.com/blog/remembering-the-correction-ontology-and-agent-memory-in-pivot-ai) How an agent resumes unfinished work from a reviewed correction, scoped to one matter. Read the story ### [Pivot AI case study](https://surrealdb.com/customer/pivot) An assertion graph for financial disclosure, with retrieval 20 to 40 times cheaper. Read the story ## Your questions, answered How does SurrealDB keep an AI inference apart from source evidence? Each statement is its own record with the voice that made it, its kind (for example a source statement or a model inference) and a link to its source. A reviewer's decision is a separate record, so the original inference stays unchanged. How are client matters isolated from each other? Can an assistant remember a solicitor's correction? Can SurrealDB search contracts by meaning and by structure? How does SurrealDB support audit and regulatory reporting? THE PLATFORM ## Everything an application and its agents know. Five surfaces, one engine. Database Document, graph, vector, time-series and relational in one engine. ![Five data models as dotted tiles: documents, graph, vector, time-series and relational](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-database.DUdumYDz.avif) Read more [Database](https://surrealdb.com/surrealdb) Agent Memory What an agent learns, with its source and its time, in the same engine. ![A timeline of remembered facts, each with its source](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-agent-memory.Cvv8D5Wl.avif) Read more [Agent Memory](https://surrealdb.com/agent-memory) Cloud Managed clusters in the regions you choose, scaled on demand. ![Clusters in three regions on a world map, each running or scaling](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-cloud.--QZnaVi.avif) Read more [Cloud](https://surrealdb.com/cloud) Studio Query, explore and design the schema from the browser. ![A SurrealQL query in Studio and the schema graph under it](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-studio.7ykBFNLq.avif) Read more [Studio](https://surrealdb.com/studio) MCP Every model that speaks MCP reaches the database and the memory directly. ![Three models connected through MCP to the database and Agent Memory](https://surrealdb.com/assets/static/platform-mcp.D_oH0_wm.avif) Read more [MCP](https://surrealdb.com/mcp) IN PRODUCTION ## Trusted at scale. Samsung, Nvidia, Verizon, Tencent, and Walmart run on SurrealDB. 14,000+ Developers building on SurrealDB Cloud 4M+ Developers building on SurrealDB worldwide FROM THE TEAMS > SurrealDB gives us a foundation where we can unify semantic search, knowledge graphs, and AI-driven decision making without stitching together multiple systems. Collapsing responsibility into SurrealDB has become our default engineering posture. *Justin Foley* VP of Engineering, Later GET STARTED ## Start building with SurrealDB. Evidence, judgement and access control in one database, ready for the scrutiny legal work attracts. 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