Reporter

It leads from the selected facts through the research – analysis of the legal question, your own documents, case law, statutory texts, Findok and EUR-Lex – to the AI request and the finished assessment. It shows an unedited run with a tenancy case that names not a single provision. Via the relevant Supreme Court decisions the program found the governing provisions and supplied them verbatim: §§ 1096 and 1097 ABGB, §§ 3 and 33 MRG and § 9 KSchG.

Narrated by the synthetic voice “Cori” (generated locally with Piper, MIT licence; voice model trained on LibriVox recordings, public domain); the stations are captioned in English, the illustrations show the German program. 35 MB, loads only when played.

What exactly does IUCOM Reporter do

IUCOM Reporter waits invisibly in the background; all you see is a small bar of icon buttons – at the window you are working in, without a document at the top right of the screen. You trigger it by shortcut or button – what happens then, in detail:

Five steps, all in the writing program you already use.

On the left the one-off setup in six steps. Next to it the daily work and the study mode. Every picture is a screenshot from the running program.

Setting up – once

1Provider and key 2Choose the area of law 3The rule set 4Your own documents 5Official sources AT · DE · EU 6Activation

Working – every day

7The icon buttons 8The AI is working 9Where the answer goes 10Finance (BMF Findok) 11The statutes verbatim 12Every query is kept

Study

13Study mode

1Provider and keySetting up – once

Five routes to AI (Claude, ChatGPT, Mistral, Claude via Bedrock, ChatGPT via Azure); your own key stays encrypted on the computer.

2Choose the area of lawSetting up – once

Areas of law as a hint to the AI - with their own rules and documents.

3The rule setSetting up – once

Fifteen rules in opinion style, readable and editable.

4Your own documentsSetting up – once

Firm standard, templates and samples - the matching extracts go along, with the same placeholders as the facts. Before reading in, the program checks every file locally for its licence (traffic light), and you confirm that all rights have been cleared beforehand.

5Official sources AT · DE · EUSetting up – once

RIS, German federal courts, EUR-Lex - open, no sign-in; the RIS strictly by its terms of use, the other sources in parallel.

6ActivationSetting up – once

Send the request code, enter the key - done.

7The icon buttonsWorking – every day

Assessment, correction and learning - one click, without losing the selection.

8The AI is workingWorking – every day

A progress bar with provider, model and seconds counter; the “Checklist” button shows every step with status and duration. While the assessment synthesis runs, no help pop-ups appear at the progress bar.

9Where the answer goesWorking – every day

The options in five tabs – assessment, checks, input/output, privacy, display –, under every switch one sentence on what it does; the shortcuts in a window of their own. Shown is the checks tab: source support and literature check are on by default, “also official sources” (check officially confirmed citations outside the research against their wording) is off by default. Under input/output the tick “Write the answer in the style of a style profile” (off by default) with the button “Style profiles …”.

10Finance (BMF Findok)Working – every day

On request also the Findok of the Ministry of Finance.

11The statutes verbatimWorking – every day

Consolidated federal law in the version in force.

12Every query is keptWorking – every day

The archive: AI assessment, research and log or both - with the check report (every footnoted statement held against the wording of its source, every cited work verified in the catalogue of the German National Library, via ISBN, DOI and Crossref) and the study mode.

13Study modeStudy

For the scientific trial: the “Study mode” button opens the study mode. A guided procedure in seven steps first shows what is there; then answers of any origin – Reporter, plain prompting, other AI, humans – are compared blinded. In practical use the checking rules against the official sources apply; expert documents as a gold standard are an optional scientific add-on.

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IUCOM Reporter is operated from the icon buttons, the icon in the notification area and global keyboard shortcuts.

📋 How to get there

• Settings – left-click the program icon on the icon bar or the icon in the notification area – nine tabs:
  • AI provider – Provider, API key and model; connection test; link to the provider's key page.
  • Modality – The areas of law passed to the AI as a hint – several at once by tick – or “leave it to the AI”. The facts remain decisive. The list is yours to define: add, rename, order, reset.
  • Options – Language (automatic from Windows, German or English), number the sections, start at logon, put the answer into a new Word document instead of the text, show the AI's report after every answer, the switch for the writing window (Word, otherwise LibreOffice Writer) and the table of all shortcuts. On the Input/output tab the tick “Write the answer in the style of a style profile” (off by default) with the button Style profiles ….
  • Assessment rules – At the top you choose what the rules apply to: generally, or a single area of law. Below it the text as a preview, PDF or text file – editable under Modify; Guide opens the instructions for it.
  • Own documents – House standard, templates and classifications as Word, PDF, RTF or text files – in a folder next to the program, generally or per area of law. IUCOM Reporter passes them to the AI; before reading in, a licence check with traffic light and the confirmation of rights.
  • Case law – Switch the research in official sources on or off, and the button Statutes · case law with the flags AT, DE and EU that opens the research window: four tabs for case law (AT · DE, with sources by country), statutory texts, BMF Findok and EUR-Lex; the button Archive opens the stored queries, and searching runs through Research in a small window of its own.
  • Activation – This computer's request code, entering the key, status and expiry date.
  • Licence – The licence agreement in full – as a preview, as a PDF or as a text file.
  • Proxy / network – System proxy, no proxy or a manual address with user and password – for networks behind a firewall. Applies to the AI as well as to RIS, Findok and EUR-Lex; the password is stored encrypted.
• Right-click the icon in the notification area – opens the dashboard, like a left-click; at its bottom right three image buttons: Save (the dashboard stays open, a short notice confirms), To the desktop (into the taskbar, the Reporter keeps running) and Quit (quits the whole application; if an AI request is running, you are asked first). Only here can you quit – neither the coin on the bar nor the icon in the notification area offers Quit.

⌨ Keyboard shortcuts

Button	Keys	Function
	Ctrl + Alt + L	Assessment synthesis – the selected dictation becomes an assessment
	Ctrl + Alt + J	Assessment correction – the selected assessment is only corrected
–	Ctrl + Alt + U	Restore – the text last sent comes back
	Ctrl + Alt + R	Learn from the correction – from the draft and your revised version the AI proposes rules – an assistant guides you in four steps: compare, choose rules, scope, adopt
	Ctrl + Alt + D	Text editor – Word or LibreOffice Writer
	Click the button	Dashboard – settings, area of law, archive, study mode; at the bottom right Save, To the desktop and Quit

The same three actions also sit as icon buttons at the window you are working in (without a document at the top right of the screen). They are there while IUCOM Reporter is ready; they disappear while it is working and while the settings window is open. Clicking one does not take the selection away from your editor. The bar shows only what is available right now: without an open editor window just the program icon; every answer is in the archive.

IUCOM Reporter does not work from a free-form prompt but from a fixed, readable rule set in opinion style. The ground rules apply to every assessment and can be extended or overridden per area of law.

The rule set determines how an assessment is built. Your own documents determine how it sounds at your firm: structure, phrasing, checklists. Both go to the AI together. On request it also writes in a particular person’s style – following a style profile.

How this works in detail – caching, excerpt retrieval, cost per assessment and the selection of sources – is set out in the technical dossier.

Before every assessment IUCOM Reporter queries open official sources by itself and attaches what it finds to the request. The AI preparation makes queries of its own for every source in the language of the case law, narrowest first, and names the relevant provisions. All sources are open and need no account; only the search query goes out – with placeholders instead of names. The AI therefore cites not from memory but from the attached sources.

The sources in detail

IUCOM Reporter does not query literature. Own documents such as checklists and model assessments can be included via the “Own documents” tab.

A language model answers every question, even when it does not know the answer. In legal matters that shows up plainly: file numbers that never existed, judgments nobody handed down. IUCOM Reporter therefore takes a step in front of it – an upstream stage that sits between your dictation and the AI and makes sure the evidence is on the table before the first sentence is written.

What an upstream stage is

Upstream means: it runs before the request, not after it. It does not check afterwards whether the AI cited correctly – it puts only what is officially documented in front of it from the start, and forbids everything else. The difference is practical: a check afterwards finds mistakes, an upstream stage keeps them from arising. The price is a few seconds before each assessment.

The process, step by step

1. AI preparation. Your text – or what you type into Research – goes, with placeholders instead of names, to the AI you set, in a short preliminary step. It returns the area of law, the competent courts (for medical liability, say, only the Supreme Court and ordinary courts), three to five queries in the words that actually occur in decisions (narrowest first, then broader) and the relevant provisions – Austrian ones, and German ones too if German sources are on. For Findok and EUR-Lex it names queries only if tax or Union law is involved; otherwise those sources are not asked at all. Without a key or an answer, the program itself extracts up to three telling terms from the text. The AI picks courts and filters per query – for Germany too (federal courts, jurisdiction) and for EUR-Lex (judgments or legal acts); your settings stay untouched. A short keyword in Research is prepared the same way; your own words are searched first. The areas of law you have set – one or several – reach the AI only as a hint: the facts decide, you need not change anything before a search. If nothing comes back – no preparation or no source – the program checks why by itself: the AI's answer (key, overload, “no legal issue”), connection errors per source, a test query to the RIS, active filters and the search term (umlauts, too many words). The result appears as a message in front, with what helps, and is written to the log. Only what is relevant: before the assessment the AI checks every source against the facts and discards decisions from other areas of law – with their provisions; chapter 1 of the report names what was discarded. Provincial law: if the AI recognises a province (building, zoning, land transfer …), the provincial statutes are added verbatim. Citation check: after the answer the program matches every file number, RS number and section against the sources and your text; an unsupported decision is reported at once. Selected an earlier assessment? The program asks: revise or assess anew.
2. Queries per source. The queries go to the case law in the RIS, the BMF Findok and EUR-Lex – each with its own parameters, measured beforehand against that very interface. The fourth source, the statute, is queried by norm (see below). In the RIS all selected courts (OGH, VfGH, VwGH, BVwG …) are asked side by side instead of stopping at the first one with enough hits; if the RIS cannot be reached, the search stops quickly instead of waiting for minutes. If German sources are switched on, the AI's German queries go there (sources by country).
3. Query by query. Each source asks the AI's queries in turn, each in full, until enough has come together. There is no more word-by-word shortening: the databases join all words with AND, and shortened facts hit everyday words. Measured on a medical liability case – contrast examination without written consent, death on the way home: the old staged search ended at “wurde in einem Krankenhaus” and returned asylum decisions of the Federal Administrative Court together with the Asylum Act; the preparation returns the Supreme Court's propositions on the doctor's duty to inform and §§ 1299, 1295, 1327 ABGB, § 5a KAKuG and § 51 ÄrzteG.
4. Selecting. Each source returns a stock – three times what goes out. From it the program picks: how well a source fits the text is weighed, and a match in the statutes or the file number counts double – in law the provision is the most precise signal. Whatever overlaps too strongly with an already chosen decision drops out: five sources on the same legal proposition would be four too many. Only for the most promising is the wording then fetched – side by side rather than one after another, which saves the most time.
5. The statutes. Last, the statutory text is added – consolidated federal law, in the version in force on the date set. Taken are first the norms the AI preparation names, then those your text names (dictated too, and including enumerations and ranges such as “§ 1295 Abs 1 und 2 ABGB” or “§§ 1293 bis 1295 ABGB”, whose intermediate sections are filled in) and those the decisions found rely on – from all areas of law, not only the one selected. If a section is longer than the limit, the excerpt starts at the paragraph named. If nobody names a norm, the program searches all federal law by keyword.
6. The block. Everything travels as a clearly marked block of text before your own – with court, file number, date, norms, link and the explicit rule: cite ONLY from this; anything not in it counts as unproven.
7. The assessment. Only now does the request go out: rule set, own documents, sources, your text – in that order.
8. The record. Every search is filed in the archive (how the report is built) – with the AI's answer and the log of the AI request. And below the finished assessment – if “Show the upstream stage below the answer” is ticked in the options – stands what it rests on: the sources with court, file number, date and link, the own documents used and the code of rules it was written by. So it is always clear on what basis the AI wrote.

Why this makes the difference

What leaves the computer – and what does not

Only the search terms go to the authorities. They never see your dictation, file numbers or documents; the facts are seen beforehand only by the AI provider you chose – for the preparation, with placeholders instead of names and after the same check before sending. Names are sorted out of the search terms – words after Mr, Ms or titles, next to party roles such as plaintiff, defendant or client, before GmbH, AG or KG, and words written in capitals; only legal terms and known statute and court abbreviations go out. The queries run without an account. What comes back are published, official texts. Only afterwards does the actual request go to the AI provider you chose – with placeholders instead of client data, which you review first (see below).

Review before sending

If the selected text contains personal data, IUCOM Reporter replaces it before anything leaves the computer – and shows you the result before it goes out.

1. Detect. Before sending, IUCOM Reporter looks for personal data in the selected text: real names and academic titles, addresses with postcode and town, e-mail addresses, phone and mobile numbers, IBAN, account number, bank code and BIC, credit cards, social security numbers, ID card, passport and driving licence numbers, tax numbers, vehicle registration plates, IP addresses, dates of birth, company register and VAT numbers. Each is replaced by a synthetic placeholder such as [PERSON_1] or [TITEL_1]. In addition a local name model recognises people and companies from context – even a first name on its own or a foreign name. It runs on your computer only, offline. If it is missing, a check against the Windows dictionary flags unknown proper names as suspected. Medical and technical eponyms (such as “Crohn’s disease”, “Bosniak”) and courts are left as they are.
2. Review. If anything was replaced or is suspected, the revised version opens in a separate Word instance – every replacement marked in red. Beside it a small window shows the mapping. You can still correct the text in Word; without Word, IUCOM Reporter shows it in a window of its own. Beside it is one table (since 3 October 2026): every item with the placeholder it is sent as, its type and what found it. Uncertain items are at the top in yellow; a tick replaces them, removing it puts the original back, a grey tick marks a fixed rule. Whatever you send yellow and unticked counts as harmless from then on and is no longer marked. Right-click remembers “always” or “never” (all such settings can be viewed and revoked in the options); under “Missed something?” you add a name. IBAN and card numbers count only with a valid check digit, a form of address or role (“Mr”, “client”, “patient”) makes an uncertain name certain, and law-firm and partnership names are replaced as companies.
3. Send – or cancel. Only Send passes exactly this version to the AI; the legal databases receive search terms without personal data only. Cancel means nothing is sent.
4. Restore the real data – if you wish. Once the AI answer has arrived, IUCOM Reporter shows it in a separate Word instance with the real data put back, each item marked in green; you choose Insert real data or Keep placeholders. The mapping never leaves the computer.What the answer for restoring looks likeClient Mag. Max Mustermann concluded a tenancy agreement with Muster Immobilien GmbH which … The legend of the replacement table (placeholder → plain text) is saved locally with every archive entry in the protected storage folder – as chapter 7 “Replacement table – placeholders and plain text” in the report; the folder is readable only by your own Windows account.

The assessment is a draft; you revise it. That is exactly where the knowledge sits that the program lacks. With Ctrl+Alt+R the AI compares its draft with your final version and proposes up to two rules, so that next time it comes out that way at once. This comparison, too, runs pseudonymised and with the review before sending. Nothing is written until you adopt it.

What to do

1. Have it assessed. First an ordinary assessment with Ctrl+Alt+L. It stays saved – together with the area of law – as the reference point, after a restart too; “Other answer …” picks an earlier one.
2. Revise it. Change the draft the way it should go out – in Word, in LibreOffice Writer or in any window. Only what you actually change can be learned from.
3. Select and press Ctrl+Alt+R. Select the revised version and press Ctrl+Alt+R – or the learn button on the bar or “Learn …” on the rules page. Without a selection the whole document counts. If nothing has changed, the program says so and stops.
4. Compare and choose rules. The learning assistant shows the draft and your version side by side, every change below, and proposes up to two rules – with ticks, freely editable, also one of your own. You also choose whether they apply generally or only to the area of law of the last assessment.
5. Adopt – or discard. The assistant shows what goes into the rule set and warns if a rule is already there. Only Adopt writes – from the next request on the rule takes effect; Discard leaves everything as it was.

What the program does NOT do

Why this is worth it

A code of rules otherwise grows only when someone sits down and writes rules – and in daily practice that rarely happens. Here it grows where the work happens anyway: at the point where you are revising a draft in any case. After a few weeks the rules hold what makes your hand recognisable – in sentences you approved yourself.

In practical use every answer passes fixed checking rules against the official sources. In the study mode – itself a project in trial – measurement is blinded and in comparison with plain prompting – also for answers by other AI providers or by humans, as they arise in practice. Expert documents as a gold standard are an optional scientific add-on; they do not serve as the yardstick for practical use. The procedure is in the study dossier; the check of every answer in use in process dossier.

The program shows these same three diagrams under Process on the rules tab – switched with the buttons Rule-making, Request and Learning; there they can also be saved as an image.

1. 1
   What forGenerally – or choose a single area of law.
2. 2
   WriteModify opens Word (otherwise LibreOffice Writer). Rules of other categories can be inherited with a double-click.
3. 3
   KeepYour version stays as regeln_roh.txt – it is never lost.
4. 4
   The AI checksContradictions among themselves AND against the general rule set, plausibility, order – the AI resolves them without inventing anything.
5. 5
   Settle the orderThe AI settles the order in which the parts go out: G general rule set, K rules of the category, U own documents, T your text – T always last. Measures, in this order of priority: 1. the best answer, 2. speed, 3. cost.

   Own documents in the fixed system block: it stays the same and is cached at the provider – faster and cheaper.

   Own documents immediately before the text: closer to the case, but sent anew every time.
6. 6
   Anything changed?The AI says whether it touched anything.

   yes: dossier and protocol are created.

   no: an old dossier is deleted, your version applies.
7. 7
   Dossier and protocolEvery change with its reason – and the settled order. Both stay with the category and can be viewed in Word at any time.
8. 8
   ScopeThe green button on the rules tab decides.

   extends the general rule set.

   replaces it – only these rules apply.
9. 9
   In useFor every request the parts go out in the order of the protocol: general rule set, rules of the area of law, own documents – your text last.

1. 1
   SelectSelect the text – in Word, LibreOffice Writer, a PDF or the browser. The icon bar sits in the document window in front; floating on the desktop it shows only the main button (since 3 October 2026).

   selected: exactly this passage goes out.

   nothing selected: the whole document goes out.
2. 2
   TriggerCtrl+Alt+L for the assessment, Ctrl+Alt+J to only correct – or the button on the icon bar.

   document, PDF or browser window in front: the buttons appear in it (no correction in PDF and browser).

   none open: both buttons stay locked.
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   Replace personal dataNames, titles, addresses, phone, account, ID and tax numbers are replaced by synthetic placeholders – [PERSON_1], [TITEL_1], [ADRESSE_1], [IBAN_1] … The mapping stays on this computer only. A local name model also recognises people and companies from context (without it: dictionary suspicion).

   something replaced or suspected: on to the check before sending.

   nothing replaced or switched off in the options: on without the check.
4. 4
   Check before sendingA separate Word instance shows the version that will be sent – the placeholders in RED; beside it a window with the mapping. One table: every item with placeholder, type and origin; tick = replaced, uncertain items YELLOW at the top – sent unticked, they count as harmless from then on; right-click: always/never.

   Send: the version from Word goes out – including what you corrected there.

   Cancel: nothing is sent.
5. 5
   Ask the official sources – AT · DE · EUThe AI turns the text – already with placeholders – into queries in the language of the courts and names the relevant provisions; Findok and EUR-Lex only if tax or Union law is involved. Austria: RIS, federal law, BMF Findok; EU: EUR-Lex and the CJEU, the ECtHR via HUDOC; optionally Germany: federal courts, Open Legal Data and the statutes of gesetze-im-internet.de. A match in the statutes weighs heavily, near-duplicates drop out; every entry found carries its country. The AI checks every source for relevance and discards other areas of law; Supreme Court legal principles carry their RS number; if the AI recognises a province, provincial law is added. A brief network drop-out is retried once.

   found: the sources go along – cited, not invented.

   nothing found: the internal check names the reason. The assessment is built without sources and is clearly marked “without supported sources” at the top.
6. 6
   Build the requestThe parts go out in the order of the protocol – your text last. Plus the rule on interpretation and rank of sources and the chosen length (short, medium, detailed). Large collections contribute only the fitting excerpts: each excerpt carries its heading, consecutive excerpts overlap, and what belongs to the chosen area of law comes first. The search runs on wording and on meaning – meaning is computed by a small language model on your machine; nothing goes online.

   one area of law replaces: only its own rules.

   one or several extend: general rules + the rules and documents of all chosen.
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   To the providerStraight to the chosen provider over HTTPS, with your key – it is stored encrypted with Windows data protection (DPAPI). A continuous progress bar with the reporter's emblem shows every step up to the finished answer – provider, model, time; Cancel stops the request at any time, the cancellation is logged and listed as “cancelled” in the archive. As its last rule the AI checks every word for plausibility – in the text it was given as well; ambiguous passages are rendered neutrally and reported as “unclear in the text”. On request (Options, off by default) the word and sense check follows – still with placeholders: fixed spellings, invented words and wrongly used terms. What Windows spell check, the texts sent along and the learned term list do not know, the AI checks in a short extra call; confirmed words are learned, wrong ones replaced at once next time.

   cut off or connection lost: the program continues by itself.

   complete: word and sense check if switched on, then output.
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   Bring the real data backIf anything was replaced, a separate Word instance shows the answer with the real data re-inserted in GREEN. The mapping never came from the AI – it stayed on this computer.

   Insert real data: the answer is back in plain text.

   Keep placeholders: the answer goes on with the placeholders.
9. 9
   FileThe answer is saved at once. The archive entry – sources in the colour of their origin and with their flag, the answer, the log of the AI request and the replacement table placeholder → plain text – lies as one file in the filing folder, readable only by your Windows account; Word, PDF and HTML are created from it at a click, the table of contents with provision or court and statute in short form. Search by name, reference or content; the right mouse button assigns a reference and sets up a watcher: on request it asks with the same search terms for decisions published since the query.
10. 10
    Where to?A read-only document, a PDF or browser window, or the box on the Options tab decides.

    a separate Word document – your text is untouched.

    in place of the selection.
11. 11
    InsertThe target window is brought back to the front; in Word the answer takes exactly the place of the selected passage. An open editor window receives it as well. If the target window is not really in front, the answer stays on the clipboard with a notice.
12. 12
    ReportThe box on the Options tab decides. The report always appears in front – even when Word is on top. It contains the citation check: every decision and provision in the answer is matched against the sources, anything unsupported is reported.

    on: model, stop reason, tokens, cache.

    off: just a short notice.
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    Review and take responsibilityCtrl+Alt+U brings the original back – the answer was a draft.

1. 1
   ReviseYou revise the AI's answer the way it should go out – in Word, in the editor or in any window.
2. 2
   Start learningCtrl+Alt+R, the learn button on the bar or ‘Learn …’ on the rules page – all open the same assistant.

   from the document: the selection or the whole document becomes your version.

   from the dashboard: you paste your version in the assistant.
3. 3
   CompareThe AI's draft and your version side by side, every change below (‘old → new’). The draft comes from the last answer – after a restart too; ‘Other answer …’ picks an earlier one.
4. 4
   Propose rulesThe AI compares both – pseudonymised, with the check before sending.

   only style or spelling: no rule – an own one is still possible.

   a difference in substance: up to two proposed rules.
5. 5
   Choose rulesEvery proposal with a tick box and editable, plus a field for an own rule – up to here the rules are untouched.
6. 6
   ScopeYou decide the scope.

   for all assessments.

   only for the area of law of the last assessment.
7. 7
   AdoptThe assistant shows what goes into the rule set and warns if a rule is already there. Only ‘Adopt’ writes – the rule applies from the next request.

1. 1
   Choose documentsDocuments, gold standard or works for a style profile – every import starts with the same window.
2. 2
   Licence checkEvery file is read on your computer – one reading, not legal advice.
3. 3
   Traffic light per filepermitted · with conditions · own document only · permission required.
4. 4
   Confirmation of rightsRequired tick: “all rights cleared beforehand, I am liable myself”.

   confirmed: on – the confirmation is logged locally.

   cancelled: nothing is read in.
5. 5
   Marked red?Documents with “permission required”.

   with the additional tick “licence/permission exists”: may be used in AI requests.

   without the additional tick: do not go to the AI.
6. 6
   Read inOnly now are the files read in – with the confirmed rating of each.

1. 1
   File the worksOne profile per person – a folder in the program folder (Style profiles … → Create, Open folder).
2. 2
   Selection and indicatorsLocally: excerpts, at most 40,000 characters, without file names – plus locally measured indicators.
3. 3
   Confirmation of rightsThe same window as before every import: traffic light per file, required tick.
4. 4
   PseudonymiseThe excerpts go out only with placeholders instead of names and identification numbers.
5. 5
   Check before sendingYou see what goes out.

   Send: once to the AI provider you set.

   Cancel: nothing is sent.
6. 6
   Style profileA profile in the AI’s own words: tone, sentence structure, choice of words, structure, argument, citation style.
7. 7
   Only the profile per requestUse for answers and the tick under Options → Input/output (off by default): only the profile goes with each request – never the works, never the profile name.

1. 1
   Gold standard (optional)Optional scientific add-on: expert documents per area of law as reference for completeness and quality.Who: Experts
2. 2
   CaseAn entry from the archive – the question for all answers.Who: Study lead
3. 3
   ConditionsReporter with pre-processing, control without pre-processing, imported finished answers.Who: Reporter & import
4. 4
   BlindingNormalise, pseudonymise, random order, codes X, Y, Z …Who: Program
5. 5
   ComparisonPre-sorted blind: hallucination rates for sources and facts, category – with a gold standard also the agreement.Who: AI reviewer
6. 6
   ReviewersBlind folder for humans – rating sheet, guess the origin, agreement.Who: Humans
7. 7
   ReportUnblinded: every code in the colour of its originXYZWQ – every condition with model, version, date and checksum.Who: Study lead

The steps outlined in amber are decisions; below them you see what happens in either case. The bold silver box is the result.

What defines IUCOM Reporter is not law alone but the interplay of three things: what you put in, the evidence the program finds for it, and the rules by which it becomes a text. This pattern can be carried over to other fields.

One installer that brings everything along – install, start, activate, enter your key.

1. Run the installer Run Setup_IUCOM_Reporter.exe. It brings everything along – the program, the language model for the meaning-based search and the required runtime files –, checks the requirements (Windows 64-bit with .NET Framework 4.7.2, present on Windows 10 and 11; Microsoft Word is required as well, without Word LibreOffice Writer), shows the licence for confirmation and puts everything into one folder, C:\IUCOM Reporter by default. No registry or environment entries. If Windows SmartScreen reports an unknown file: the files are not signed – only run what you received through your personal link.
   Details

   • On request it creates shortcuts in the Start menu and on the desktop.
2. Start the program Via the shortcut or Iucomreporter.exe in the installation folder: IUCOM Reporter places itself invisibly in the background, puts its icon in the notification area and shows the icon buttons at the window you are working in, without a document at the top right.
   Details

   • Starting it twice does not create a second instance – it simply brings up the settings of the running program.
3. Activate On first start the Activation window opens. The procedure is described in the next section; without activation the program writes no assessments.
4. Enter your API key In the AI provider tab choose a provider and paste your own API key; “Test connection” checks it right away. The key is stored encrypted with Windows data protection (DPAPI) in iucomreporter.ini next to the EXE (or under %APPDATA%\Iucomreporter if that folder is read-only).
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   • Behind a firewall: tab Proxy / network.
5. Optional: start automatically In the Options tab the checkbox “Start automatically at logon” switches autostart on and off: when set, saving writes an entry under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run; clearing it removes the entry again. No Windows service is installed. To uninstall, run Entfernen.bat in the installation folder (clear the checkbox first): it removes the program and the shortcuts, your documents and the activation stay.
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   • What remains: iucomreporter.ini, the folders Unterlagen and Freischaltung in the installation folder and, if used, %APPDATA%\Iucomreporter with the activation mark and the log – delete them by hand if you wish.

IUCOM Reporter is activated per machine. This keeps track of where the program runs, and modified copies cannot activate themselves.

1. Read the request code The Activation window (automatic on first start, later via the tray menu) shows this machine's code at the top, e.g. RR-AKTIV-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-0. It is derived from a one-way function over the Windows device ID – it cannot be traced back to the machine or to you.
2. Send the code Send request sends the request with your e-mail address straight to the licence server. If that is not possible, Prepare e-mail sets up a ready-made message to the licensor, or you copy the code. What is transmitted is listed below.
3. Enter the key You receive an activation key of the form PCK2-YYYYMMDD-…. Pasting the entire reply e-mail into the field is enough – the key is extracted, even if the mail program wrapped it over several lines. “Activate” checks it immediately.
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   • The key is an RSA signature over exactly this request code. It is valid once and only on this machine; on another machine it is rejected.
   • The program verifies with the public key only – it cannot create an activation itself.
   • The expiry date is taken from the signed key only.
4. After the trial period The first activation is valid for three months; during the prerelease phase it is extended free of charge on request. Seven days before expiry the program reminds you at start-up. In the Activation window, Send request sends your request code; the new key comes back. No reinstallation, settings are kept.
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   • The mark is stored in %APPDATA%\Iucomreporter\iucomreporter_aktiv.dat and is bound to the machine: copying it elsewhere has no effect.

IUCOM Reporter is activated per computer. During the prerelease phase use is free of charge; the trial is extended on request. The plans for the period afterwards will be announced when the study ends – nothing becomes chargeable without your express consent.

IUCOM Reporter queries only open sources, and only in the way they permit. The same overview is in the program behind the button Licences of the sources (research window and the “Case law” page) and in the hint of every source. Statutes and decisions are official works (§ 7 Austrian Copyright Act); for literature, abstracts and datasets the providers' terms apply. The details summarise the providers' terms as we read them (checked: October 2026); the linked wording is authoritative in each case. The program appends the required attributions to every research itself.

Green = the Reporter accesses this source. Orange = all others: usable only with a licence, contract or permission of the provider, reference only or not included.

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