# Nylon
Law Cyborg trading as Nylon (Nylon) is an AI-first tax and legal research platform serving Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It is used by over 1,800 firms, including many major accounting and law firms, to conduct professional-grade legal and tax research.

@source: https://usenylon.com
@name: Nylon
@type: corporate/legal-tech
@jurisdictions: Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
@audience: lawyers, tax professionals, accountants, consultants
@last_updated: 2026-08

## DESCRIPTION
Law Cyborg trading as Nylon (Nylon) is an AI-first tax and legal research platform serving Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. It is used by over 1,800 firms, including many major accounting and law firms, to conduct professional-grade legal and tax research.

The platform enables practitioners to:
- Conduct manual research using Nylon’s proprietary search algorithm (combining keyword, semantic, and structured search techniques), or
- Use Nylon’s autonomous research agent to generate researched responses with hyperlinked primary sources and estimated certainty scores.

Nylon is independently certified for SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

## CORE CAPABILITIES
- AI-powered tax and legal research
- Hyperlinked citations to legislation, cases, commentary, government materials, and parliamentary records
- Research agent with sourced answers and confidence indicators
- Document upload, analysis, and summarisation
- Drafting assistance for opinions and professional documents
- Multi-jurisdiction content coverage (AU, NZ, UK)
- Practice-area-specific research modules

## DATA SOURCES
Nylon draws from curated legal and tax databases including:
- Legislation
- Case law
- Government publications
- Commentary
- Procedural materials
- Parliamentary materials (e.g. Hansard)

Datasets are jurisdiction-specific and maintained for professional research accuracy.

## SECURITY & DATA HANDLING
- Data encrypted in transit and at rest
- Hosted in secure, audited infrastructure
- Customer inputs are not used to train foundation models
- SOC 2 independently certified
- ISO 27001 certified

## PRIMARY USERS
- Tax advisory firms
- Accounting firms
- In-house legal and tax teams
- Law firms

## COMMON USE CASES
- Complex tax research
- Legal precedent analysis
- Drafting opinions and advisory memoranda
- Source verification and citation validation
- Junior staff support and research acceleration

## COMPANY
Law Cyborg trading as Nylon (Nylon) is operated by Cyborg Limited, incorporated in 2023.  
Founded by Andrew Wierda (tax lawyer), Jacob Sidford (software engineer), and Leo Venn (AI researcher).  
Offices in ANZ and the United Kingdom.

## WEBSITE
https://usenylon.com

## CONTACT
support@usenylon.com

## TAGS
 tax AI, legal AI, legal research, tax research, professional AI, AU law, NZ law, UK law