The Search API Built for LegalTech AI

Olostep's Search and Extract API gives legal AI platforms programmatic access to the public web and a specialized private index of international legal sources. It handles search, retrieval, and structured extraction in a single API call — so your AI can cite authoritative legal data without you building crawl infrastructure.

General-purpose search engines optimize for breadth. Olostep balances breadth with depth — investing in infrastructure to thoroughly crawl the highest-value legal content on the web. We also maintain a private index for international legal domains (court systems, regulatory bodies, legislative databases) that have never been indexed by Google or any foundation model training pipeline.

Olostep is designed for any team building AI-powered legal research, contract analysis, compliance monitoring, or jurisdictional intelligence — from early-stage LegalTech startups to enterprise platforms serving global law firms.

Our public index covers the major English-speaking legal web comprehensively. Our specialized private index is actively expanding to 60+ countries, including hard-to-reach sources like Brazil's state tribunals, Argentina's regulatory codes, South Korea's committee resolutions, and court systems across Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

Many international legal domains feature dynamically rendered pages, deep PDF archives, and complex navigation that standard crawlers cannot handle. Olostep's proprietary crawl, retrieval, and ranking infrastructure is purpose-built for exactly this problem. We handle JavaScript rendering, paginated archive navigation, and PDF ingestion natively.

Yes. Olostep maintains a specialized private index of legal sources that your platform can search directly via the API. This index is continuously updated and covers authoritative sources that are invisible to general search engines — giving your AI access to data no competitor can provide.

Olostep natively processes PDF archives and converts them into clean, structured text your AI can consume. We handle both digitally-generated PDFs and, where applicable, OCR'd scanned documents from government and court sources.

The API returns clean, structured JSON with the extracted text content, source URL, and metadata. You can optionally pass a JSON schema to enforce a specific output structure — for example, extracting case name, court, date, and ruling summary from any court document.

Yes. The API supports filtering by domain, geographic region, content type, and recency. Enterprise customers working with our specialized private index can apply additional filters specific to their jurisdictional requirements.

For standard public web search and extraction, latency is typically under 5 seconds. For deep retrieval from the specialized private legal index, response times depend on query complexity but are optimized for real-time AI workflows.

Yes. Every account starts with 500 free credits — no credit card required. This lets you test search and extraction against real legal sources before committing to a paid plan.

Pricing is usage-based, billed per successful request. For platforms with large monthly volumes — such as AI tools serving hundreds of law firm users — we offer Scale and Enterprise plans with significantly reduced per-request costs. Contact our sales team for custom enterprise pricing.