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Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness)
Orbital Witness Limited · HQ GB · Last checked 2026-09-03
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AI platform for commercial real-estate legal work with source-linked outputs and audit trails; runs OpenAI models; clients include Seyfarth, Vinson & Elkins and BCLP.
- Category
- Contract review & due diligence · real estate, due diligence, Orbital Copilot, asset intelligence, drafting and negotiation
- Built for
- Large firms, Mid-sized firms, In-house legal
- Model providers (disclosed)
- OpenAI
- Data residency options
- UK
- Pricing
- enterprise
- Markets
- UK, US
- Last checked
- 03 Sept 2026
What the vendor documents
Recorded from the vendor's own trust, privacy and terms pages. "Not disclosed" means we found no public statement, not that the control is absent.
What the public documentation states
Orbital's site describes AI for commercial real-estate legal work and asset intelligence, with exports to Word or Excel. The trust and security blog names "third-party model providers—including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google" and says customer inputs are not used for model training, tuning or performance optimization. It also states strict zero-retention policies with those providers. The privacy policy was last updated on 22 March 2025. The public trust centre lists a Data Processing Agreement and audit logging. The sub-processor page lists currently used sub-processors, processing purposes and transfer measures. It names Amazon Web Services in Australia, Germany, Ireland, Singapore and the USA, MongoDB Atlas in the EU and US, Auth0 in the US, CrowdStrike in the EU and US, and several business or screening services. Security pages state SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001:2022, encryption at rest and in transit, SSO, MFA and independent penetration testing. Pricing pages returned not-found pages in the audit.
In the vendor's words
“Customer inputs are not used for model training, tuning, or performance optimization.”
“strict zero-retention policies with our third-party model providers”
“List of Orbital’s sub-processors”
“SOC 2 Type 2 certified”
Not disclosed on public pages
"Not disclosed" records that no public statement was found where we looked, on the date shown. It does not assert that the control, term or figure is absent.
Not published on the pages we read on 2026-09-06: public price, free trial, seat minimum, minimum term, terms last-updated date, ISO 42001, and private deployment terms. Procurement and DPIA review normally need these items to compare fee commitments, define processor contract terms, assess client-confidentiality controls, and document lawyer supervision of AI outputs.
Questions to put to the vendor
- Which Orbital product workflows use OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, and can a customer disable any provider?
- Which listed sub-processors process client matter data for UK real-estate matters, and which only support business administration?
- What price, seat minimum, and contract term apply to Orbital Copilot and asset-intelligence use?
- Does the Data Processing Agreement publish a breach-notification window, and when does that clock start?
- What evidence supports the stated accurate, domain-specific results for real-estate legal workflows?
Accuracy evidence
No published accuracy or hallucination evaluation found as of 2026-09-03.
Related incidents
No incidents are recorded for this tool as of 2026-09-03.
Sources
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Cite this record
SafeLegalAI Legal Tech Tools, "Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness)", safelegalai.com/tools/orbital (last checked 2026-09-03, accessed 2026-10-07). Data: CC BY 4.0.
What the vendor has announced, dated
- Orbital announces $60M Series B fundraise · Funding as announced
- Orbital publishes Spring Product Update · Feature release
- Orbital introduces first drafts from precedents · Feature release
- Orbital announces ACREL partnership · Partnership
- Orbital publishes PCS Legal customer story · Named deployment
First-party statements from the vendor's own pages, as dated; "announced" is not "in use today". This month across all vendors · release timeline.
Documented facts, side by side
- Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness) and Checkbox First Pass
- Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness) and Genie AI
- Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness) and LEGALFLY
- Orbital (formerly Orbital Witness) and ThoughtRiver
Facts from both vendors' pages in one table; never a ranking. All comparisons.
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