Parliate
Parliate is a French AI assistant built for parliamentary work: it drafts amendments, analyses bills, searches legal sources and condenses dense documents for members and staff of the Assemblée nationale and the Sénat, with data stored in France.
What is Parliate?
Parliate is a French SaaS platform that applies large language models to legistics, the craft of writing and reading legislation. It is published by SAS Parliate, a Paris company, and it names its audience without hedging: members of parliament and parliamentary assistants working at the Assemblée nationale and the Sénat.
The homepage sets out six uses. Assisted legistic analysis produces summaries, flags risks and answers with sourced references. Boosted drafting turns an intention into amendments, speeches and communication material. Advanced legistic search takes questions in natural language and returns detailed, documented results. Documentary exploration reaches into legal source material. Document summarising condenses long files. Augmented discussion offers open-ended help on legistic subjects. The publisher states that the tool respects the formatting and structuring requirements of both chambers, including the motifs and exposé sommaire that give a French amendment its shape.
Under the bonnet, Parliate says it mixes language models from OpenAI, Mistral and Google, preferring providers hosted in France or, failing that, in Europe. It positions itself against general assistants such as ChatGPT, Le Chat and Claude on three grounds: legistic specialisation, confidentiality, and hosting in France. Data is described as stored at Scaleway on French servers, encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit. The company also states that it is entirely self-funded and answers to no outside investor.
The publisher is candid about limits. Hallucinations are acknowledged as impossible to eliminate, merely kept low by grounding answers in reliable sources and refusing to speculate. The tool is presented as optimising analysis and drafting time without replacing political judgement, and the terms describe an AI system still in development whose output is not legal advice.
Access runs through app.parliate.fr after creating an account. A fourteen-day free trial opens the door, after which a monthly or annual subscription is required; billing can be issued in the name of the member of parliament a user is attached to, which makes payment through the Avance de Frais de Mandats possible. Subscriptions remain individual for now, a team plan being described as work in progress.
What it does
- Draft amendments from an intention expressed in plain language
- Analyse a legislative text, flag its risks and answer with sourced references
- Search legal documentary sources by asking questions in natural language
- Condense dense documents and lengthy files into reliable summaries
- Compare texts against one another
- Draft speeches and communication material
- Check the legistic and syntactic consistency of a draft
When to use Parliate / When not to
A quick filter to help you decide if Parliate is the right fit.
When to use Parliate
- Parliamentary assistants at the Assemblée nationale or the Sénat who draft and review amendments day in, day out
- Members of parliament who need a bill summarised, a text compared or a speech drafted at short notice
- Political group staff producing analyses of private members' bills and briefing notes under deadline
- Public affairs and advocacy specialists following texts through their parliamentary passage
- Public-law practitioners and legal assistants working on French legislative drafting
When not to use Parliate
- Anyone working outside the French parliamentary system: the tool is shaped around Assemblée nationale and Sénat procedure
- Teams wanting a shared workspace or seats, since every person currently needs an individual subscription
- Users looking for a general-purpose assistant for code, images, spreadsheets or marketing copy
- Developers and organisations expecting an API, a mobile app or a browser extension, none of which exist
- Anyone seeking qualified legal advice, which the terms of use rule out explicitly
How to use Parliate
A typical end-to-end flow, from setup to results.
- Open parliate.fr and follow the link through to app.parliate.fr
- Create an account with your email address, first name and a password of at least twelve characters, per ANSSI guidance
- Set your preferences: user type and the parliamentary body you are attached to
- Enter the name of the member of parliament you work for if the invoice should be issued in their name
- Start the fourteen-day free trial, which begins when the account is created
- Upload the material you want worked on: bills, legislative texts, lengthy files
- Ask your question in plain language, or request an amendment, a speech or a summary
- Read the sourced references and check the output, since verification remains your responsibility
- Choose a monthly or annual plan before the trial ends and pay by card through Stripe
- Cancel whenever you wish from your account area or by writing to contact@parliate.fr
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Genuine specialisation: the formats and procedures of both chambers are handled, not approximated
- Data processed and stored in France at Scaleway, encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS in transit
- Unusually complete and dated legal documentation: legal notice, terms of use, terms of sale, privacy and cookie policies
- Full corporate transparency, from share capital and trade register number to the publication director and the host
- Financial independence claimed outright, with no outside investor
- Fourteen-day free trial with no commitment, and cancellation from the account area at any time
- Billing compatible with the Avance de Frais de Mandats, invoiced in the name of the member of parliament
Cons
- No price is published anywhere: there is no pricing page, and the cost only appears once you have registered
- No permanent free tier; a paid subscription becomes mandatory after fourteen days
- No team plan: each person must hold their own subscription
- The homepage FAQ guarantees that data never leaves European territory, while the privacy policy names OpenAI and Stripe in the United States as recipients
- The terms of sale contradict themselves on the trial period, promising fourteen days in two articles and seven in another
- Web only: no API, no mobile app, no browser extension, and a French-language interface alone
- No security certification is claimed, no data processing agreement is offered, and the stance on model training is never stated
Pricing & Plans
There is no permanent free plan. New accounts are given a fourteen-day free trial, after which a paid subscription is required to continue using the service. Parliate publishes no price: the site carries no pricing page, and no amount appears on any of its pages. The terms of sale specify only that subscriptions run monthly or annually, that prices are quoted in euros inclusive of tax and payable in euros exclusively, and that payment is taken by card through Stripe. The cheapest paid entry point is therefore not public and can be established only after creating an account.
- Monthly subscription
- renewed by tacit agreement
- Annual subscription
- renewed by tacit agreement
Data, GDPR & hosting
A consolidated view of how Parliate handles your data.
GDPR overview
Implementation is concrete and documented. The privacy policy, updated on 20 January 2026, invokes Regulation 2016/679 and the French Informatique et Libertés Act, and claims processing in strict compliance with the GDPR. Eight rights are set out individually, including erasure, portability and post-mortem instructions, exercisable at contact@parliate.fr or by post, with a one-month response commitment and a named route of complaint to the CNIL. Subprocessors are listed: OpenAI and Stripe in the United States, hosting in France and Europe, an SMTP service in France. Security measures are itemised, from AES-256 at rest to bcrypt password hashing. Two gaps remain: no data processing agreement is offered anywhere, and no transfer mechanism is named for the United States recipients.
Who owns the data?
You keep what you bring and what the tool produces. The terms of use state that the publisher claims no ownership over user content and that you retain your rights in full. The licence you grant is non-exclusive, free of charge and worldwide, but limited to the sole purpose of delivering the service. Outputs generated from your content belong to you, with one caveat: comparable results may be produced for other users, so nothing is exclusive. The publisher undertakes to treat submitted content confidentially and not to disclose it to third parties, save where the law requires it or you agree to it. SAS Parliate is named as the data controller.
Reuse rights
Outputs are yours to reuse without asking permission: the terms of use place the results generated from your content in your hands, and the licence running the other way is confined to operating the service. Two limits deserve attention. Similar results may be generated for other users, so no output is exclusive to you, and the publisher guarantees neither accuracy, nor completeness, nor currency, leaving verification entirely to you before any professional or legal use. Use of the service itself is fenced in: prompt injection, reverse engineering and automated mass extraction are all prohibited, and the right of use is personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable for the duration of the subscription. Note also that the terms of sale let the publisher cite a customer's name and logo as a commercial reference.
Data retention & training
Hosting summary
Parliate presents itself as designed, built and hosted in France. The legal notice names Scaleway SAS as the site's host, and the homepage FAQ states that all data, including conversations, messages, files, settings and personal information, is stored at Scaleway on servers located in France. The same FAQ guarantees that data does not leave European territory during processing. Encryption is described as AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.3 in transit, with bcrypt password hashing and isolated Docker containers. That picture is not entirely consistent. The privacy policy lists OpenAI in the United States as receiving messages and the files chosen for analysis, and Stripe in the United States for payments, without naming standard contractual clauses or any other transfer mechanism. Hosting and infrastructure are placed in France and Europe, and the SMTP service in France. A technical check made when this record was compiled also found the domain resolving to a French network operated by Free SAS rather than to a Scaleway range: the same country, a different operator from the one declared, possibly a relay in front of the infrastructure. The French jurisdiction claim holds; the American recipients are the point to clarify.
Things to keep in mind
Risks and trade-offs to weigh before adopting Parliate.
- Uploaded parliamentary material may be sensitive, and the privacy policy states that conversations and files are passed to OpenAI in the United States
- The homepage guarantees that data never leaves European territory, a promise the privacy policy does not support: settle this before uploading anything confidential
- The publisher guarantees neither accuracy nor completeness, and the terms exclude professional legal advice, so every output has to be checked by a human who knows the file
- Hallucinations are acknowledged as non-zero: an amendment is an act that commits its author politically, and a plausible wrong citation is worse than no citation
- Leaning on assisted drafting can erode legistic craft over time, particularly for staff still learning the trade
- Session recording through OpenReplay captures clicks, scrolling and form entries, with masking of sensitive fields claimed but not independently verifiable
- The subscription renews by tacit agreement with no refund for the term in progress, and the price cannot be known before signing up
Setup & Integrations
Technical difficulty
Very low. Parliate runs in a browser: nothing to install, no API key to obtain, no integration to configure. You create an account on app.parliate.fr with an email address, a first name and a password of at least twelve characters following ANSSI guidance, then set your user type and the parliamentary body you belong to. From there the work is uploading documents and asking questions in plain language. The only material requirements stated in the terms are an internet connection and compatible equipment.
Deployment
Supported languages
Behind Parliate
Social
Resources
All the official URLs gathered for verification and reference.
Alternatives
Tools that compete with or complement Parliate.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Parliate for?
How does it differ from ChatGPT, Le Chat or Claude?
Which AI models does it run on?
Where is my data stored?
Does it replace a parliamentary assistant?
Can it hallucinate?
How much does it cost?
How do I try it?
Can several of us share one subscription?
Can it be paid for through the Avance de Frais de Mandats?
Should you pick Parliate?
Parliate is a deliberately narrow tool, and that is its strength. One trade, two chambers, one language: it does not pretend to be a general assistant, and it handles the formatting conventions of a French amendment rather than approximating them. For a parliamentary assistant facing a stack of texts and a sitting deadline, that specialisation is worth more than raw model power.
The publisher is also unusually transparent about itself. The legal pages give the company form, share capital, trade register number, VAT number, registered office, publication director and host, all of them dated and consistent. The company states that it is entirely self-funded, and it is honest about the limits of its own technology, acknowledging that hallucinations cannot be eliminated and that its output is not legal advice.
Three reservations should weigh on the decision. The first is complete pricing opacity: no amount appears anywhere on the site, so the only way to learn the cost is to open an account and start the trial. The second is a substantive contradiction on data: the homepage guarantees that data never leaves European territory, while the privacy policy names OpenAI and Stripe in the United States among the recipients of messages and uploaded files, with no transfer mechanism mentioned. For users handling sensitive parliamentary material, that gap deserves a direct question to the publisher. The third is structural: a very young company with modest share capital and a single officer carries a continuity risk, and the application was unavailable for major maintenance when this record was compiled.
For the audience it targets, Parliate is worth the fourteen-day trial. Use it to settle the price and the data question at the same time.
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