Dinotisia, a specialist in artificial intelligence (AI) and semiconductor integrated solutions, said Thursday it has launched the beta version of "legalQ," a natural language-based AI legal search service.
LegalQ is an AI legal search service that finds relevant statutes, provisions and related laws through natural language queries, even when users do not know the name of a law or article number. The service applies an "agentic RAG" approach, in which an agent interprets the intent of a user's query and rewrites it into expressions suitable for legal search, rather than inputting the question directly. The agent then selects a search method and progressively narrows down the results.
For example, if a user enters, "My jeonse (a Korean lease system requiring a large lump-sum deposit instead of monthly rent) contract has ended but I haven't received my deposit back—which laws should I check?" legalQ draws on its legal database to present provisions and related laws tied to issues such as deposit refunds, contract termination and leasehold registration.
LegalQ employs multiple agents that separately handle query interpretation, search scope selection, retrieval of related information and answer verification. Rather than completing the task in a single search, the agents collaborate and refine the results. Even when a single question involves multiple laws, the service is designed to jointly explore related information such as acts, enforcement decrees and enforcement rules, and to support follow-up questions on the same topic.
Dinotisia built the core search layers of legalQ—including legal data indexing, embedding, vector search and multi-agent orchestration—using its own AI infrastructure technology. Original legal texts and revision histories are indexed in its "Seahorse" vector database, and the large language model (LLM) used at the answer generation stage can be swapped depending on the purpose. Guardrails have also been applied to the service to improve the reliability of answers. When a response is uncertain or requires further verification, the service directs users to official legal information sources.
"LegalQ is an AI legal search service that helps anyone quickly find the legal grounds they need," Dinotisia CEO Jung Moo-kyung said. "Based on our Seahorse vector database and our own agent technology, Dinotisia will expand sovereign AI services in the public data sector."
Dinotisia recently attracted 90 billion won ($62 million) in Series A funding and is accelerating the upgrade of its services and infrastructure.
