> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.rytz.com.au/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# AI assistant — overview

> RYTZ's conversational AI legal assistant — Claude Opus, grounded in Australian family-law, matter-aware, with file upload, working brief, and a 5-message free quota before premium kicks in.

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The **AI assistant** at `app.rytz.com.au/chat` is RYTZ's conversational interface for asking questions, getting strategic advice, drafting help, and matter-specific guidance. It is one of the most-used surfaces on the platform — many users open it before any other tool.

## What it is

Real-time conversation with **Claude Opus**, Anthropic's frontier reasoning model, configured specifically for Australian family law and grounded in:

* The platform's [Education Portal](/learn/education-portal) entries
* The [Legal Research Library](/learn/legal-research-library) corpus (2,389+ Gold Standard legal vectors)
* Your Master Case File (parties, matter shape, history, current state)
* Your Evidence Portfolio (what you've captured, what you've tagged)
* The post-2024 / post-2025 Family Law Act framework throughout

The assistant remembers your matter across sessions. A conversation you start today can be continued in three months, with the assistant aware of everything that happened in between.

## What it can do

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  <Card title="Answer questions" icon="circle-question">
    "What does s60I actually require?" / "Will my plan hold up if I file as Consent Orders?" / "What's the threshold for varying final parenting orders?"
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  <Card title="Draft and refine" icon="pen">
    "Help me draft paragraph 14 of my affidavit" / "Rewrite this clause to be less hearsay-prone" / "Review this proposed routine"
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  <Card title="Strategise" icon="chess">
    "What are my options here?" / "What would a senior family-law solicitor think about this?" / "Where are the risks in my position?"
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  <Card title="Explain" icon="book-open">
    "Explain Rice v Asplund in plain English" / "What does the post-2024 s60CC look like compared to the old framework?" / "Walk me through the four-step property test"
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  <Card title="Search and summarise" icon="magnifying-glass">
    "Find me cases like mine" / "Summarise the Stanford reasoning" / "What evidence do I have on changeovers?"
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  <Card title="Reason about your matter" icon="diagram-project">
    "Look at where my matter is" / "What should I do this week?" / "What am I missing?"
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## Free tier vs premium

The assistant is freemium:

* **Free tier** — first 5 messages per month free for every authenticated user
* **Premium tier** — unlimited messages, plus advanced features (working brief, file upload, deeper matter context)

The 5-message quota is generous enough to test the assistant against your matter's hardest questions; premium is for ongoing daily use.

See [Pricing and tiers](/account/pricing-and-tiers) for current pricing.

## What sets it apart

Three things this assistant does that a generic AI chatbot does not:

### 1. It knows your matter

Most AI chatbots are stateless or near-stateless. The RYTZ assistant has full access to your Master Case File, Evidence Portfolio, and prior conversations. You don't need to re-explain your matter every time.

When you ask "what should I do about the changeover issue", the assistant knows:

* Who the parties are
* What changeover arrangement is in your draft plan
* What changeover-tagged evidence you've captured
* What was discussed about changeovers in prior conversations
* Whether FV is disclosed (which shapes the safety lens applied)

### 2. It is grounded in Australian family law

Generic AI chatbots produce family-law content but the grounding is varied — sometimes US, sometimes UK, sometimes general. The RYTZ assistant is grounded specifically in:

* The Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) **as currently in force**, including post-2024 parenting amendments and post-10-June-2025 property amendments
* The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021
* The Evidence Act 1995 (Cth)
* High Court and FCFCOA case law (Stanford, Mallet, Rice v Asplund, Goode, Pierce, Polonius, etc.)
* Australian-specific procedural conventions

When the assistant cites authority, it cites Australian authority. When it discusses procedure, it discusses Australian procedure.

### 3. It is honest about limits

A subtle but important difference: the RYTZ assistant is calibrated to surface uncertainty rather than perform confidence. It will tell you when:

* A question requires legal advice (and recommends a solicitor consultation)
* The answer depends on facts it doesn't have
* Your matter has unusual features that make general guidance unreliable
* Recent legislation may have shifted the position
* Different cases have different outcomes on similar facts

This is calibration, not weakness. An AI that performs confidence on uncertain questions is a worse tool than one that flags uncertainty.

## What it cannot do

<Note>
  **It cannot give legal advice.** RYTZ provides legal information, not legal advice. Advice — recommendations specific to your matter and reliant on legal qualification — comes from a family-law solicitor.

  The assistant explains the law, walks the framework, and helps you reason about your matter. The decisions remain yours.
</Note>

<Note>
  **It cannot file documents for you.** The assistant can help draft affidavits, forms, applications, and letters. Filing happens at the [Commonwealth Courts Portal](https://www.comcourts.gov.au) — by you.
</Note>

<Note>
  **It cannot represent you.** Even with full premium access, the assistant is a research and drafting tool. It does not appear in court, attend FDR, or make statements binding on you.
</Note>

<Note>
  **It cannot guarantee outcomes.** Family-law matters turn on facts; outcomes are not predictable. The assistant gives you the best-available reasoning; the matter's outcome depends on many factors.
</Note>

## Sub-features

The assistant comes with several sub-features:

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  <Card title="Working brief" icon="briefcase" href="/ai/working-brief">
    Toggle (⌘B / Ctrl+B) that focuses the assistant on a specific drafting task. Reduces context-switching cost during deep work.
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  <Card title="File upload" icon="upload" href="/ai/file-upload">
    Upload documents (court orders, the other party's affidavits, expert reports) for the assistant to read and reason about.
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  <Card title="Conversation history" icon="clock-rotate-left" href="/ai/conversation-history">
    Browse, search, and continue any past conversation.
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  <Card title="Limits and safety" icon="shield-check" href="/ai/limits-and-safety">
    What the assistant won't do, how to recognise when to seek a solicitor, and the safety overlay for FV-pathway users.
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  <Card title="How the chat works" icon="circle-info" href="/ai/how-the-chat-works">
    Architecture-level — what's grounded, what isn't, how answers are produced.
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  <Card title="Asking good questions" icon="lightbulb" href="/ai/asking-good-questions">
    How to phrase questions to get the most useful answers.
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## Where it connects

The assistant is the connective tissue across the platform:

* Surfaces in every feature page as a "ask the AI about this" button
* Consumes from Master Case File, Evidence Portfolio, Education Portal, Legal Research Library
* Outputs into affidavit drafts, parenting plans, settlement positions, response correspondence
* Cited in the Master Case File's strategy synthesis

## What's next

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  <Card title="How the chat works" icon="circle-info" href="/ai/how-the-chat-works">
    Under the hood — what's grounded, how answers are produced.
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  <Card title="Asking good questions" icon="lightbulb" href="/ai/asking-good-questions">
    Phrasing questions for best results.
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  <Card title="Working brief" icon="briefcase" href="/ai/working-brief">
    Focused-drafting toggle.
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  <Card title="Limits and safety" icon="shield-check" href="/ai/limits-and-safety">
    What the assistant will not do.
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