Chapter 14
Legal
Legal is StepX's Vietnamese law assistant: ask in plain language, and it searches the current body of legal documents directly and answers with a Legal basis block. Legal Q&A is live today; contract review, contract drafting, legal support and lawyer contact are coming soon.
Five videos: what the Legal page is, a first question in Standard mode, Pro mode, follow-ups and History, then costs, limits and plans. Answers are for reference only and do not replace a lawyer's advice.
5 videos · 7:26
The Legal page has a feature tab strip, two mode cards, a History panel on the left and a credit bar top right. Standard plans and above can use it; every question draws on the organization's credits.
Use it when: Opening Legal for the first time, or checking which features are live and how costs work before asking.
Steps
- 1Open Legal in the sidebar (last group, next to Chat and Limits & plans). The title and description say the assistant searches the Vietnamese legal corpus.
- 2The tab strip: Legal Q&A is live; Contract review, Contract drafting, Legal support and Lawyer contact carry a Coming soon badge and only show a description card.
- 3Two modes: Standard for looking up provisions and summarising documents; Pro reasons in several steps across many documents and costs more credits.
- 4On the left is History: every legal conversation of yours is saved and can be reopened; the button next to the tab strip hides or shows the panel.
- 5Top right shows your remaining credits, the same pool as Chat. Owners also get a Usage button.
Good to know
- Answers are for reference only and do not replace a lawyer's advice; that reminder always sits under the composer.
Outcome: Know what the Legal page does, which tab is live, which mode to pick and where credits are charged.
Pick Standard, type your question as you would ask a person and send. The assistant searches and streams its answer; it ends with a Legal basis block listing each document and article it relied on.
Use it when: A quick lookup of one rule: a deadline, a fine, a condition, a procedure.
Steps
- 1On the empty Legal page the Standard card is selected. Click the Ask your legal question box, type the question and click send or press Enter (Shift + Enter for a new line).
- 2The question appears on the right; below it Searching legal documents shows, then the answer streams in. While it works the send button becomes Stop; a hard question can take over a minute.
- 3Read the answer: the specific rule, with headings and bold where useful.
- 4The Legal basis block at the end: each chip is one document with its article and clause. Click a chip to open the original text on Thư viện pháp luật (new tab).
- 5The real cost is charged as soon as the answer finishes, by its actual length and difficulty; the credit bar top right drops accordingly. The conversation is saved to History.
Q: How much notice must an employee on an open-ended contract give before resigning?
A: at least 45 days, except in a few special cases where the contract can be ended without notice.
Legal basis: Labour Code No. 45/2019/QH14, Article 35
Good to know
- Short questions with a clear situation (contract type, who is involved, when) get closer answers at lower cost.
Outcome: Ask a first question, read the answer and open the right source document from the Legal basis block.
Pro is for questions that compare several documents or need multi-step reasoning. The assistant shows its thinking while it searches, answers as a comparison table and lists more sources; in return it costs more credits than Standard.
Use it when: Comparing two business models, two contract types, or a situation that touches several laws at once.
Steps
- 1Click New question, pick the Pro card, type the question and send.
- 2The Thinking panel opens with lines about which documents it is checking and what it compares. A complex question can take over a minute; leave the page running, switching tabs does not lose the answer.
- 3Once the answer starts, the thinking collapses into Thought for … seconds; click it to read again. The answer is usually a comparison table, criterion by criterion.
- 4Scroll down: the Legal basis block lists more documents; the credit bar drops more than after a Standard question.
- 5To stop midway, click the Stop button (square) next to the composer: what has been answered stays, and credits still reflect what the assistant already processed.
Q: How do a household business and a single-member LLC differ in asset liability, headcount and tax?
A: a three-criterion comparison table, citing the 2020 Law on Enterprises and its guiding decrees.
Good to know
- Use Pro when it is worth it: a simple lookup in Standard gives the same answer at a fraction of the cost.
Outcome: Know when to pick Pro, read the thinking panel and the comparison table, and stop an answer when needed.
Within a conversation the assistant remembers earlier turns, so you can ask follow-ups without repeating the context. History keeps every conversation of your own: reopen, continue or delete.
Use it when: Digging into one situation over several questions, or finding an answer you asked for last week.
Steps
- 1Open a conversation from History. Under the composer are the two compact mode cards and New question; the mode can be switched midway.
- 2Type a follow-up and send: the assistant knows you mean the situation just discussed.
- 3The History panel highlights the open conversation; its title comes from the first question, with the time and message count.
- 4New question clears the screen; the new conversation is saved once you send. Create conversation in History adds an empty entry named New conversation right away and names it after your first question later.
- 5Click an older entry to bring back every question, answer and legal basis; you can continue right away.
- 6Hover an entry and click the bin, then confirm Delete. Deletion is permanent.
Good to know
- History is per user: colleagues in the same organization cannot see your legal conversations.
Outcome: Ask follow-ups in one conversation, start new ones, reopen and delete old ones.
Legal has no separate plan: each question draws on the organization's chat credits by actual usage, the same pool as Chat. The Free plan does not include Legal; Standard and above do.
Use it when: Checking how many credits the team spent on Legal, what happens when credits run out, or why the page is locked.
Steps
- 1The credit bar top right on the Legal page is your share, the same figure as the Credits box in the sidebar. Owners can allocate credits to each member.
- 2Owners click Usage: three tabs, Overview, Members and Credit allocation, show credits spent by day and by person and let you re-allocate without leaving the page.
- 3When monthly credits (or your share) run out, the assistant says so and charges nothing; the question goes back into the composer. Top up or wait for the next period under Limits & plans; top-up credits work for Legal too.
- 4On the Free plan the Legal menu shows a crown and the page is locked behind Upgrade to use; Upgrade now takes you to Limits & plans.
Good to know
- Pro costs many times more than Standard; before sending, the system checks you can afford one question at the ceiling so the balance never goes negative.
Outcome: See that Legal shares chat credits, open Usage, and know which plans include it.