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What Lovkart is, and how it works with your AI

Lovkart connects your AI assistant to the actual, current text of Norwegian law — statutes, regulations, Supreme Court decisions, and the preparatory works behind them. So instead of answering Norwegian legal questions from memory, your assistant reads the real source and cites it.

01The problem it solves

Ask a general AI assistant about a Norwegian statute and it answers from training memory. On law, that's risky: models invent plausible-but-wrong section numbers, misquote provisions, and cite cases that don't exist. Lovkart removes the guessing.

AI alone

“Arbeidsmiljøloven § 15-7 says…” — recalled from training, possibly outdated, possibly invented. No link, no way to check.

AI + Lovkart

The assistant fetches § 15-7 verbatim from Lovdata, quotes it exactly, and gives you the lovdata.no link. It can't cite a law that isn't there — it's reading the real one.

02What MCP is, in one line

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for letting an AI assistant call external tools and data — a universal adapter between the assistant and a source. Lovkart is an MCP server: it publishes a set of legal-research tools your assistant can call. You connect it once; from then on your assistant can reach for the real sources whenever a Norwegian-law question comes up.

03How it works, in practice

  1. You connect Lovkart to a client that supports MCP (Claude is the reference; see the connection guide).
  2. You ask in plain language — “what does the dismissal-protection rule say, and which Supreme Court cases apply it?”
  3. Your assistant calls Lovkart's tools — looks up the § text, finds the case law citing it, traces the preparatory works — and reads what comes back.
  4. It answers from the retrieved sources, quoting verbatim and linking each one back to lovdata.no / domstol.no / stortinget.no, so you can verify every claim.

04Questions people ask

Is this legal advice?

No. Lovkart is a research tool over primary sources — it helps you find and read the law accurately. It doesn't advise, predict outcomes, or replace a lawyer. See Scope & limits for what it does and doesn't cover.

How is this different from just asking ChatGPT?

A general assistant answers Norwegian-law questions from memory and can hallucinate. Lovkart makes the assistant read the actual current source and cite it — verbatim statute text, real decisions with their domstol.no links. The difference is grounding: recollection vs. reading the source.

How is it different from Lovdata or Google?

Lovdata is the source — Lovkart links you straight there. What Lovkart adds is letting your assistant traverse the connections (a statute § → the cases citing it → the reform that introduced it → the regulation implementing it) and quote them in your own conversation, without you cross-referencing by hand.

Which AI models does it work with?

Any MCP-capable client. It's validated with Claude Sonnet-class models and above — weaker models tend to drop the sourcing discipline (citing snippets as if they were the source). [ChatGPT support: being confirmed by the cloud session before we promise it.]

Is my data private?

For this test: we don't log the content of your queries, and Lovkart serves public legal sources plus court-decision metadata (not decision text). Full details on the Scope & limits and Privacy pages.

What does it cost?

[Owner to confirm — free during the private test.]