Microsoft Word add-in
LexBharat for Word
Statute and regulation lookup grounded in the US primary law corpus, inside Microsoft Word. No copy-paste into a separate tab: ask in the task pane and get an answer with checkable citations.
What it does in Word
Everything happens on the file you have open, and applies as native Word changes. Every answer carries checkable sources.
Playbook-driven review
Drafting from a brief
Case-law and statute research
Defined terms, figures and cross-references
Compare and finalize
Hosted, or bring your own key
The add-in is described as open source: run the hosted edition for the full product, or a community build on your own AI key.
Account (hosted)
Sign in and answers are grounded in the full statute corpus, with cited authority. Nothing to run.
- ✓Grounded in case law and statutes, with cited authority
- ✓Statute verification and good-law signals
- ✓Document compare and tracked-changes export
- ✓Save work back to your matters and web app
Bring your own key (community)
An open-source build that runs on your own AI provider key, with no account and no hosted backend.
- ✓Open source and self-hostable; no account required
- ✓Your own provider key, kept on your device
- ✓Full document tools, review, redlines and drafting
- ✓Playbooks and prompt libraries saved locally
How to install
The add-in is described as not yet in Microsoft's store, so for now it is added by hand. It takes about three minutes.
- 1Open a document in Word on the web or Word for Mac, signed in to Microsoft 365.
- 2Download the add-in manifest file (one small .xml file) from the install guide.
- 3On the Home tab choose Add-ins → More Add-ins → Upload My Add-in, and upload the manifest.
- 4Open the task pane, sign in or create an account, and start on the open document.