About

Why LexLint?

LexLint is built by UnGovr, whose transparency platform documents governments across 200+ countries. Operating at that scale means crawling public sites, processing recordings, and generating content under many different legal regimes at once, so we had to answer for ourselves, continuously, which AI and scraping obligations apply where. LexLint is the tool we built to lint our own work. Now we are opening it to other developers, so any coding agent can catch the basics as early as we do.

What it is, in one paragraph

A compliance lint, not a legal assessment. Findings are research summaries of public legal sources with citations and as-of dates. They are not legal advice, they create no attorney-client relationship, and they are never authorization to access any system. The passing state is "no basic issues found," never "compliant." LexLint is in beta.

AI and this site

The lint itself is deterministic. When your agent calls LexLint, no model runs on our side: findings are rules applied to a researched legal corpus, and the only AI in the loop is the agent you bring.

AI does help build what the lint reads. The UnGovr corpus is researched with AI assistance, and citations are verified against primary sources. The pages on this site, including the law notes, are drafted with AI assistance and reviewed before publication, and UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for them. The News page carries publishers' own headlines: AI selects the stories and resolves their jurisdictions, it does not write them. Several jurisdictions LexLint covers now require disclosure when AI-generated text is published. This section is that disclosure, and a lint should pass its own checks.

Terms and privacy

LexLint is an UnGovr service: the UnGovr terms of service and privacy policy apply to all of it, including your use of the MCP server and your UnGovr API key. LexLint itself stores nothing: your key passes through to the UnGovr Open Data API on each call.