How Notriv guides are made

Where the law comes from

• Each state's statutes are read from the state's own code website and stored, with the date they were read and a fingerprint of their text. Where a state's site cannot be read, the same code is read from a trusted publisher of it.
• The legal record for each document in each state, such as how it must be signed and which statute governs it, is read only from that stored law, not from a general web search, so a state website that is down cannot change or erase it.
• The stored law is read again every quarter. A page whose text changed is reported, and only what rests on it is checked again.

How each statement is checked

• Each legal fact is proposed by AI research together with the sentence of law it comes from, then checked against the whole section of law, not that one sentence cut out of it. An AI model reads the section and must quote the words that support the fact, and code confirms those words are really in the section. A condition or exception in the section that changes the meaning stops the fact.
• Every fact carries the version of the check that confirmed it. When the check changes, every stored fact is checked again and is not stated anywhere until it passes. The only other facts stated are ones our team entered together with the sentence of law they rest on.
• Each legal record has a review interval. Once it passes, the record is not stated on any page.
• When the stored text of a law changes, the facts quoted from it are checked again against the new text and are not stated meanwhile. If a passage a page cites is missing from the law on two readings, the pages built on it are taken down.

How a guide is put together

• A state document guide can be assembled from checked statements, stated word for word, under the questions people search. Code confirms that every line of an assembled guide is a checked statement, a fact about Notriv, the booking link or the closing sentence.
• A guide that is not assembled is drafted by an AI writer from the same checked facts only. Code and separate AI reviews then check each claim against those facts before it can be approved.
• What a page says about Notriv itself, such as prices and how a session runs, comes from one list of confirmed product facts, the same list shown on the facts page.
• Approval runs the same checks again on the exact text being approved. A page that fails them is not approved.

When a page is withheld

• An assembled state document guide is published only when it carries at least 5 checked facts about that document in that state. Facts shared by every document of the state, the general definition of the document and the booking steps do not count toward this.
• In an assembled guide, a list the check found incomplete is left off rather than shown in part, and a page too short to answer its question is withheld rather than padded.
• A withheld guide is built again when a new checked fact for its state and document is approved.
• Each week every live guide is checked again: the statute sentences it relies on must still be on their source pages, and every fact it cites must still be approved with the same value. A page that fails is updated or taken down.

Who reviews a page, and when a name is shown

• A page that passes every check may be approved automatically. Such a page names no reviewer; it says it was checked against the cited sources and gives the date.
• A reviewer is named on a page only when a person holding a verified, unexpired notary commission credential approved that version of the page themselves. Each named reviewer has a profile listing the credential, a link to verify it where the issuing authority publishes one, and the pages they reviewed.

Not legal advice

• Notriv does not notarize in person and has no mobile notaries.
• Notriv does not prepare, draft or fill in legal documents.
• Notriv does not give legal advice.
• A guide describes a rule and the statute it comes from, so you can read the law yourself. For advice about your own situation, ask a lawyer licensed in your state.

See also the official facts about Notriv and the terms of service.