Announcements – Decree Blog https://blog.decree.om Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:53:01 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/blog.decree.om/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/favicon-decree.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Announcements – Decree Blog https://blog.decree.om 32 32 197035704 Lex AI Update https://blog.decree.om/2026/lex-ai-agentic-update/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:52:11 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3765 Since launching Lex AI as your dedicated Omani legal research assistant, we have continually looked for ways to make your research faster, smarter, and more intuitive. Today, we are thrilled to announce a major update to Lex AI, introducing fully agentic capabilities, significantly enhanced output, and robust conversation management tools.

Powered by Advanced Agentic Search

The core of this update is Lex AI’s transition to a fully agentic search model, which fundamentally upgrades its ability to intelligently navigate and locate relevant information across Decree’s extensive database of Omani legislation. This agentic capability provides an extremely powerful research experience by offering unprecedented accuracy and a precise ability to pinpoint exact legal provisions and case summaries. It also features a deeper retrieval capacity to synthesize a larger volume of relevant information for complex queries, alongside highly accurate number and data retrieval to ensure you can trust the details in your legal research.

Seamless Conversation History

Legal research is rarely a single question and answer. To better support your workflow, we have added a comprehensive Conversation History feature. You can now easily pick up where you left off by going back to review previous chat conversations. Additionally, you can manage your workspace by renaming individual chats to quickly find specific research topics, and you can delete old conversations you no longer need.

Front Page Access

We have made Lex AI even easier to access. If your subscription includes Lex AI, the assistant will now appear directly on the front page of Decree. You can begin querying our legal database the moment you log in, without having to navigate to a separate page first.


These new features are currently available on the web-based version of Lex AI. They will be added to the mobile version very soon.

Lex AI is available as an add-on to your standard Decree subscription. We highly encourage Decree members to log in today and experience the power and precision of the new agentic search firsthand. If you do not currently have Lex AI on your plan but would like to explore how it can transform your workflow, we would be happy to set up a trial. Please find our contact details here to request a trial.

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Decree Android App Update https://blog.decree.om/2026/decree-android-app-update/ Tue, 24 Feb 2026 08:05:40 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3759 Following our recent iOS update, we are excited to announce that the latest features are now officially live for Android. We’ve brought the same enhanced browsing capabilities to the Google Play Store, ensuring that all our mobile users have the full power of Decree at their fingertips.

Bringing the Update to You

  • Synced Features: Android users now have the same “Browse Legislation” view recently introduced on iOS.
  • Latest Decrees on the Go: View Royal Decrees and Ministerial Decisions directly within the app as they are published.
  • Search & Find: Use the new search functionality to pinpoint specific content without switching back to your desktop.

Get Started

The update is available now for all users with a subscription bundle that includes Lex AI.

Download or update the Decree app from the Google Play Store today to bring your legal research into full alignment.

Download on Google Play here:

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Automating Debt Recovery with Decree Risk API https://blog.decree.om/2026/automating-debt-recovery-with-decree-risk-api/ Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:13:08 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3738 Under Omani law, when a company liquidates, creditors have exactly six months from the Official Gazette announcement to file a claim for unpaid dues. Similarly, during a corporate merger or acquisition, an absorbed company is formally dissolved, and creditors have a strict, short window (as little as 30 days) to formally object if their outstanding debts are at risk. Miss these critical legal windows, and your right to recover those funds is permanently lost.

Tracking these announcements manually through the Official Gazette and daily newspapers is tedious and leaves too much room for human error. The Decree API solves this by giving your software programmatic, real-time access to official Omani liquidation, merger, and dissolution announcements.

Who is this for?

The API is built for any organisation extending credit or services to Omani companies:

  • Banks & Lenders: Automatically cross-reference active commercial loans against daily “Liquidation Start” announcements to instantly alert your recovery team.
  • Utility Providers: Automatically flag corporate accounts entering dissolution to halt services and initiate immediate debt collection.
  • B2B Suppliers: Continuously monitor client lists for “Dissolution and Merger” announcements. If a client is being acquired and dissolved, your finance team gets an immediate heads-up to either transfer the debt to the new acquiring company or lodge a formal creditor objection before the statutory deadline expires.

Technical Highlights

The Decree API is a RESTful service designed for seamless integration:

  • Simple & Predictable: Uses standard X-API-Key authentication (1,000 requests/day limit) and returns clean JSON data.
  • Actionable Payloads: Whether it’s a “Liquidation Start” or “Dissolution and Merger” event, the API hands you exactly what you need to act: the company’s Commercial Registration (CR) number, names in English/Arabic, publication date, and contact info.
  • Secure by Design: To protect your highly confidential client lists, the best practice is to use the GET /announcements/recent endpoint to pull daily updates. This allows your system to cross-reference CR numbers locally, ensuring your customer data never leaves your internal network.

You can view the full documentation of Decree API with examples of use on our API page.

Decree API is a separate service from the subscription service of Decree. Use the link below to contact us if you are interested in learning more about this powerful service:

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Decree iOS App Update https://blog.decree.om/2026/decree-ios-app-update/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:04:32 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3710 We’ve just released an update to the Decree iOS app, bringing more of the Decree experience directly to your mobile device.

While the app’s primary focus remains giving you mobile access to Decree Lex AI, this update introduces the ability to browse the latest Royal Decrees and Ministerial Decisions without leaving the app.

Whats New

  • Direct Access: View the latest legal updates as they are published.
  • Search Functionality: Find specific content easily through the new “Browse Legislation” view.
  • Unified Experience: Switch between AI-powered research and document browsing in one place.

Availability

The Decree app is available to all users with a subscription bundle that includes Lex AI.

Currently, the new browsing features are live on iOS. We are working on bringing these same updates to the Android version very soon.

Download the iOS app here:

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Introducing: Decree Mobile App https://blog.decree.om/2026/introducing-decree-mobile-app/ Mon, 19 Jan 2026 03:33:47 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3652 We are releasing today the Decree mobile app, a major new expansion of Decree’s platform that allows Decree members to bring the full power of Lex AI with them wherever they go.

The app, available on iOS and Android, allows members to search legislation, ask questions, and view related sources directly from their phones. This capability enables users to leverage Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistant without having to be seated at a desktop computer.

As part of our launch, we are providing unrestricted mobile access to all Decree members for one month, regardless of your current plan.

After this introductory month, mobile app access will be exclusive to users who have the web-based version of Lex AI included in their subscription bundle.

Download Now:

You can also download the app directly on your device by scanning the code below:

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Introducing: Lex AI “Spotlight” https://blog.decree.om/2025/introducing-lex-ai-spotlight-feature/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 03:45:17 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3368 We are releasing today Lex AI Spotlight, a major new feature to Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistant that allows Decree members to ask Lex AI questions about the specific item that they are already viewing.

For example, when a member views the Personal Income Tax Law, a new Ask Lex button will appear on the corner of the page. The user can use this command to ask questions about the Personal Income Tax Law without having to query Decree’s entire database. This process is usually faster and can provide more accurate answers when the user needs information from a single specific item.

When Lex AI Spotlight is unable to find the answer in the currently viewed item, the user will be advised to use the full version of Lex AI.

Lex AI and Lex AI Spotlight are available through a bundle subscription to Decree. They are available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans for the whole of the month of September.

You can try Lex AI Spotlight on most pages on Decree, including the Personal Income Tax Law, the Penal Law, the Personal Data Protection Law, and many more.

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Lex AI on GPT-5 https://blog.decree.om/2025/lex-ai-on-gpt-5/ Sun, 10 Aug 2025 10:08:45 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3346 Lex AI, Decree’s artificial intelligence legal research assistance, receives a major update today by upgrading to GPT-5, the new cutting-edge artificial intelligence model from OpenAI.

Lex AI generates its answers exclusively from Decree’s database of translated Omani legislation and case summaries while providing full citations and references for all answers generated. Using GPT-5, Lex AI now runs at a faster speed and provides significantly improved analysis of Decree’s content to answer user questions, summarise the law, and create compliance checklists.

Decree members with access to Lex AI can try the new and improved Lex AI on the link below:

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Introducing: Decree Toolkits https://blog.decree.om/2025/introducing-decree-toolkits/ Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:45:11 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3184 We are launching today Decree Toolkits—a new feature on Decree for helping organisations improve their compliance operations by identifying key obligations imposed by Omani legislation.

While Lex AI is capable of generating compliance checklists, Decree Toolkits goes beyond this by providing a curated collection of easy to use checklists that are reviewed and verified by our legal team. Each toolkit provides key information regarding the application of the item in question along with a breakdown of the key obligations imposed and a highlight of potential fines for failing to comply. Decree Toolkits are also downloadable in Excel and adopt a structure commonly used by compliance practitioners in Oman, which should allow our users to download our checklists and customize them to work with their workflows.

When a Toolkit is available for a specific item on Decree, a new Toolkit button will be displayed on the page of the law or regulation in question:

It is also possible to browse all available Toolkits on the main Decree Toolkits page and also look them up using the standard Decree search.

Decree Toolkits is available through a bundle subscription to Decree. It is available for free for all Decree members on all subscription plans until the end of the month of July.

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New Update and Tools for the Oman Legal Citation Standard (OLCS) https://blog.decree.om/2025/new-update-and-tools-for-the-oman-legal-citation-standard-olcs/ Sun, 25 May 2025 06:16:41 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3097 The Oman Legal Citation Standard (OLCS) was first launched in 2016 as a guide for creating a standard format for citing Omani legal authorities in academic works and legal documents. The previous version of the OLCS only covered the rules for citing Omani legislation of all levels. We updated the OLCS to include new rules for citing Omani court judgments as well as Ministry of Justice and Legal Affairs fatwas.

We are also launching today new automation tools for generating OLCS compliant citation. You can now use a Citation Assistant on the OLCS website to easily generate legislation, cases, and fatwas citations. A similar feature has also been added to the free Decree Chrome Extension to allow you to quickly generate citations directly from your browser toolbar.

You can view the OLCS and use our new tools on the link below:

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Lex AI Update https://blog.decree.om/2025/lex-ai-update/ Thu, 15 May 2025 04:11:33 +0000 https://blog.decree.om/?p=3083 We received a lot of feedback from the use of Lex AI by the members of Decree over the past couple of weeks, and this enabled us to better understand how our members use the service and the kind of answers they expect. Based on this feedback, we made several changes to Lex AI:

– Lex AI is now fully conversational and appears as a chat thread to make it easier for the user to continue conversing with Lex. Even though the original version of Lex had conversational capabilities, the tool behaved more as a single question single answer tool.

– Lex AI question box now allows you to insert a larger amount of text that appears as a paragraph block. The original version of Lex accepted a smaller amount of text that was limited to a single line in the search box.

– Lex AI now lets you copy the text using a share button under each response message. This is useful for individuals who need to use the answers generated by Lex.

– To improve the quality of the answers, Lex by default will not include in its analysis any repealed law. If the user wishes for repealed laws to be considered, the user would have to check a new box for this above the chat box message. This is usually necessary for comparing differences between an old and a new law.

– We also made some technical improvements to the logic of Lex to improve the quality of the answers.

Decree members on all membership bundles have free access to Lex AI until the end of May. If you have not used it until now, we highly encourage you to do so. Please make sure to use the vote buttons to help us improve the service.

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