# Nylon
Law Cyborg trading as Nylon (Nylon) is an AI-first tax and legal research platform serving Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. More than 2,000 firms, including accounting firms, tax advisers and law firms, use it for professional-grade tax and legal 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: 2026-10

## DESCRIPTION
Law Cyborg trading as Nylon (Nylon) is an AI-first tax and legal research platform serving Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. More than 2,000 firms, including accounting firms, tax advisers and law firms, use it for professional-grade tax and legal 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 has independently audited SOC 2 Type I and Type II reports, and is certified to ISO 27001 and ISO 42001.

## CORE CAPABILITIES
- AI-powered tax and legal research
- Hyperlinked citations to legislation, cases, 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
- Content coverage: Australian and New Zealand tax and law, and UK tax

## PLANS AND PRICING
Prices are per user, per month, billed monthly. Each market is priced in its own currency, as shown on its plans page.
- New Zealand (NZD, excluding GST): Starter $39, Adviser $99, Elite $199, Enterprise tailored pricing. https://www.usenylon.com/nz/plans
- Australia (AUD, excluding GST): Starter $39, Adviser $99, Elite $199, Enterprise tailored pricing. https://www.usenylon.com/au/plans
- United Kingdom (GBP, excluding VAT): Starter £39, Adviser £99, Elite £199, Enterprise tailored pricing. https://www.usenylon.com/uk/plans

What each plan includes:
- Starter: unlimited tax and law AI usage on every focus area, engagement management, document integrations, custom letterhead exports, advanced organisational controls
- Adviser: everything in Starter, plus 200 Pro credits a month, deep research, AI Connector (MCP) access, issue-spotting note taker, case law treatment visualisation
- Elite: everything in Adviser, plus 1,000 Pro credits a month, priority technical support, 5x usage of Pro features, 75 MB document upload
- Enterprise: custom Pro credits, dedicated success engineering, custom data residency and SSO, on-prem source ingestion, procurement, MSA and DPA support

Pro credits: 10 credits cover one deep research run or one hour of AI meeting notes. Credits refresh at the start of each billing month.

## BENCHMARK
Nylon scored a composite of 4.68 out of 5, against 4.32 for Claude Fable 5.1 and 4.28 for GPT-6 Astra. Its lead over every other system is statistically significant on the composite and on correctness, faithfulness, helpfulness and citation grounding.
- Full benchmark: https://www.usenylon.com/benchmark

## AI CONNECTOR (MCP)
Nylon's remote MCP server lets AI assistants search and read Nylon's library of New Zealand and Australian tax and law, and UK tax, and cite the source.
- Endpoint: https://mcp.usenylon.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP; OAuth 2.1 sign-in with the user's own Nylon account)
- Tools: search_library, read_document (read-only)
- Requires a Nylon Adviser or Elite seat
- Supported assistants: Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio, Gemini CLI
- Developer docs: https://developers.usenylon.com/mcp/
- Docs for AI agents: https://developers.usenylon.com/llms.txt
- Nylon for Claude: https://www.usenylon.com/mcp/claude
- Nylon for ChatGPT: https://www.usenylon.com/mcp/chatgpt
- Nylon for Microsoft Copilot: https://www.usenylon.com/mcp/copilot

## COMPARISONS (AUSTRALIA)
Side-by-side comparisons of Nylon with other Australian tax research tools. Each page dates the competitor facts it uses, taken from their public websites.
- All Australian comparisons: https://www.usenylon.com/au/compare
- Nylon vs CCH iKnowConnect: https://www.usenylon.com/au/compare/cch-iknowconnect
- Nylon vs Thomson Reuters Checkpoint: https://www.usenylon.com/au/compare/thomson-reuters-checkpoint
- Nylon vs Lexis+ with Protégé: https://www.usenylon.com/au/compare/lexis-plus-protege
- Nylon vs Elfworks: https://www.usenylon.com/au/compare/elfworks
- Nylon vs Cassandra Research: https://www.usenylon.com/au/compare/cassandra-research

## COMPARISONS (UNITED KINGDOM)
Side-by-side comparisons of Nylon with UK tax research tools, priced in pounds sterling.
- All UK comparisons: https://www.usenylon.com/uk/compare
- Nylon vs Tolley: https://www.usenylon.com/uk/compare/tolley
- Nylon vs Croner-i: https://www.usenylon.com/uk/compare/croner-i
- Nylon vs Blue J: https://www.usenylon.com/uk/compare/blue-j
- Nylon vs Accordance: https://www.usenylon.com/uk/compare/accordance
- Nylon vs Lexis+ with Protégé: https://www.usenylon.com/uk/compare/lexis-plus-protege

## COMPARISONS (NEW ZEALAND)
Side-by-side comparisons of Nylon with tax research tools used in New Zealand, priced in New Zealand dollars.
- All New Zealand comparisons: https://www.usenylon.com/nz/compare
- Nylon vs CCH iKnowConnect: https://www.usenylon.com/nz/compare/cch-iknowconnect
- Nylon vs Thomson Reuters Checkpoint: https://www.usenylon.com/nz/compare/thomson-reuters-checkpoint
- Nylon vs Lexis+ with Protégé: https://www.usenylon.com/nz/compare/lexis-plus-protege
- Nylon vs Cassandra Research: https://www.usenylon.com/nz/compare/cassandra-research

## DATA SOURCES
Nylon draws from curated legal and tax databases including:
- Legislation
- Case law
- Government publications
- 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 Type I and Type II independently audited
- ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 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
Nylon is operated by Law Cyborg Limited (NZBN 9429051313654), incorporated in New Zealand 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 tax