How we write our legal guides
Transparency about who wrote what you're reading, where the legal claims come from, and where we'll be honest about our limits.
The short answer
Pactlio is a legal-tech company, not a law firm. The guides on this blog are drafted by a multi-agent AI panel — the same architecture that powers Pactlio's contract generator — and every published guide goes through automated validation against a published rubric before it's allowed live. We do not publish hallucinated case law, and we cite primary sources for every legal claim.
The agents that draft a guide
Every Pactlio guide passes through five agents in sequence:
- Researcher — performs live web searches against statutes, agency pages, and reputable legal references; collects citations before drafting.
- Drafter — writes the article using an answer-first structure: a 40–60 word quotable opener, a Key Takeaways block, comparison tables where the topic warrants, 5–8 FAQ items, and a Sources section with real linked citations.
- Critic — challenges weak claims, vague language, and missing jurisdictional nuance. The Drafter must respond to every critique.
- Validator — checks every legal citation resolves to a real primary-source URL, confirms statute identifiers match the cited text, and verifies internal links point to existing Pactlio pages.
- Adversary — argues the opposite position to surface counter-arguments and edge cases the Drafter missed.
What we cite — and what we won't
We cite: statutes (e.g. 42 U.S.C. § 3601), state codes (e.g. California Bus. & Prof. Code § 16600), agency rules (e.g. FTC Non-Compete Rule), official regulators (HUD, FTC, EU Commission, state Attorneys General), and reputable legal references such as Cornell LII and the American Bar Association.
We will not cite: case law summaries from secondary sources we can't verify, paywalled databases the reader can't check, or AI-generated law-firm blog content. If a claim can't be traced to a primary source, it doesn't get published.
Dates and updates
Every guide shows a visible Published date and, when revised, a Last updated date. Both are emitted in Schema.org datePublished / dateModified so AI search engines can prioritize current content. We re-run the highest-traffic guides through a refresh pass on a rotating schedule and update the visible date when the rewrite ships.
Authorship
Articles are credited to Pactlio Team in JSON-LD as an Organization, not as a fabricated individual byline. Pactlio stands behind every guide; if you spot an error, email hello@pactlio.com and we'll correct it and re-issue with an updated dateModified.
What this is not
These guides are general legal information, not legal advice. Pactlio is not a law firm, doesn't practice law, and reading a Pactlio guide does not create an attorney-client relationship. Laws vary by jurisdiction and change over time. For anything that matters — a high-stakes contract, a regulatory filing, a dispute — have a licensed attorney review the result.
Reporting an error
Found a wrong citation, an outdated statute, or a claim that doesn't hold up? Email hello@pactlio.com with the URL and the issue. We treat factual corrections the same as a critical bug — investigated and shipped quickly.