Scaffold and access law, word for word.

Ask the way you would ask a colleague. Plumbline returns the provisions that govern — quoted whole, ranked, and linked to the government page they came from, so you can check every one.

Ask in plain language

Ask one specific thing at a time. Retrieval grounds most strongly on the single provision that best matches, so a question bundling several requirements gets a capped confidence and is better asked in parts.

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Indexed — own legislation
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Shading shows what this tool has indexed, not how strict a jurisdiction’s law is. A pale shape means no legislation has been indexed here yet and says nothing whatever about that jurisdiction’s requirements.

Select at least one jurisdiction. Nothing is searched by default, because guessing where you work would be the first step toward answering from the wrong law.

Common questions

What is indexed

7,191: sections of law, each individually citable
11 Canadian · 3 US: jurisdictions live now
34: official documents, every one checked against its source

Coverage and currency, per document

The two badges

Word for word — It says nothing about whether this is the provision you need. Transcription and selection are different jobs that fail in different ways, and this badge only speaks to the first.

Current to — This is a periodically rebuilt index, not a live feed. Currency is recorded per document rather than per jurisdiction, because a province will happily publish a brand-new Act alongside a regulation nobody has touched since 2008.

Also here

Before you rely on it

A reference, not an opinion

It will not tell you whether a requirement applies to your job.

It will not tell you whether what you built complies.

It will not recommend a method, a product, or a course of action.

Those are judgements about your situation, and a search engine is not entitled to make them. The provision is the authority; reading it is the work. For a judgement, go to the regulator for your jurisdiction, or to a qualified safety professional or lawyer who can look at your actual site.

Why the text can be trusted even when the tool cannot

No part of an answer is written by a language model.

Nowhere to put an opinion

The response type has no field for a summary, an explanation or a recommendation. There is no place in the data structure where an interpretation could live, so none is returned.

The model only orders results

It receives candidate sections and returns their identifiers with relevance numbers. Identifiers it invents are discarded and sections it omits are put back, so it can neither add a provision nor bury one.

Quotes are checked, then served

Every quoted passage is matched against the stored official text before display. If one fails, the whole answer is withheld rather than partly shown — including from us.

Read how it works