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THE METHOD

How Toby reasons.

Toby is a domain-specific AI counsel, not a general model fine-tuned for HR. Four disciplines define how it works, and how it differs.

※ 01

Domain-trained

Toby is built on a curated corpus of US federal employment law (FLSA, FMLA, ADA, Title VII, ADEA, NLRA, WARN, COBRA, PWFA, ERISA), state employment statutes across all 50 states, EU labour directives (Working Time Directive, Posted Workers Directive, etc.), DOL guidance, EEOC enforcement letters, NLRB decisions, and primary case law from federal and state courts. The corpus is refreshed continuously by an in-house editorial team and reviewed by employment attorneys quarterly.

※ 02

Citation-bound

Every assertion in a Toby answer is grounded in a primary source. If Toby cannot find a citation that supports a claim, the claim is not made. Hover any sentence in a memo to see the statute, regulation, opinion letter, or precedent it rests on. We refer to this as the citation-bound discipline, and we built our model and retrieval pipeline to enforce it. No source, no answer.

※ 03

Audited end-to-end

Every query, draft, document upload, policy change, and access event is logged to an append-only audit ledger. UPDATE and DELETE are revoked at the database level, even with admin credentials, audit rows cannot be modified. The ledger is exportable as CSV or JSON for legal hold, e-discovery, or internal review. Audit log access is itself audited. Seven-year retention by default. Our own SOC 2 Type II observation period is scheduled for Q3 2026.

※ 04

Privately inferred

Your prompts and documents never train shared models. Toby runs on private inference per workspace with per-tenant encryption keys. Customer agreements include explicit no-training language. We support BYOK (bring your own key) on Enterprise. Anthropic, our model provider, has matching commitments on the underlying foundation models.

※ THE CORPUS

What Toby reads.

We started with primary sources only, statutes, regulations, opinion letters, case law, and worked outward from there. The result is a corpus that punches above its weight: smaller than the open web, but sharper.

※ I
Primary statutes
US Title 29, 42 USC, state codes
※ II
Federal regulations
29 CFR, 26 CFR, 45 CFR
※ III
Case law
Supreme Court + Circuits + select state
※ IV
Agency guidance
DOL, EEOC, NLRB letters + bulletins
※ V
State law
All 50 states + DC
※ VI
Editorial commentary
In-house articles + state tables
※ JURISDICTIONS

Where Toby practices.

US federal + all 50 states get treatment today. Major international jurisdictions (UK, EU, Canada, AU) covered for common questions; we expand coverage to match where our customers actually operate. We do not claim coverage we cannot defend.

RegionAdmittedNotes
United States50All states + DC, with Puerto Rico in scope
Canada10Federal + 9 provinces (excl. Yukon territory)
European Union27All member states; UK separately covered
United Kingdom1England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland
Australia6Federal + 6 states/territories
Other OECD8JP, KR, IL, CH, NO, NZ, MX, CL
※ ANATOMY OF A CITATION

Every sentence, traceable.

A Toby memo is not a search summary. Each clause has a primary citation, and that citation is reproducible to the source.

EXHIBIT C · ANATOMYCONFIDENCE 0.94
TOBY · MEMO

Under FMLA, an eligible employee may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year for a serious health condition.1 Job restoration to the same or equivalent position is required upon return.2 An employer's failure to designate qualifying leave as FMLA is itself a violation.3

1 29 U.S.C. § 2612(a)(1)(D)
2 29 U.S.C. § 2614(a)(1)
3 29 C.F.R. § 825.301(e); Ragsdale v. Wolverine, 535 U.S. 81 (2002)
DOL Fact Sheet #28 29 CFR Part 825 Bachelder v. Am. West

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