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Mini toolsFlash 1 mini
By SimpleDirect
flash-1-mini is a 4B-parameter bilingual English-French legal AI model from SimpleDirect, released under Apache 2.0. It is specialized for two core trust requirements in legal and compliance work: correctly formatted Canadian legal citations and precise instruction following. SimpleDirect says it improves Canadian legal citation integrity from 15.8% to 42.1% against its base model on CBLRE, improves IFEval instruction-following from 30.3% to 53.2%, and preserves general knowledge performance. It is also vision-capable, can run locally or offline, and is aimed at legal teams, compliance teams, policy analysts, regulated Canadian workflows, edge deployments, and evaluators. SimpleDirect clearly notes tradeoffs: it loses some retrieval-grounded QA, function-calling, French professional-law, and Quebec civil-law performance compared with the base model, so it is not the best choice for retrieval-heavy or tool-heavy agentic workflows.
New
Multimodal
Gen 3
Overview
flash-1-mini is SimpleDirect’s open-weight 4B bilingual legal AI model for Canadian legal citation accuracy, instruction following, and English-French legal or compliance workflows.
About SimpleDirect
SimpleDirect builds open-weight AI models for Canadian legal and compliance workflows. Its flagship model, flash-1-mini, is a 4B-parameter bilingual (EN/FR) model fine-tuned for legal citation accuracy and instruction-following, licensed under Apache 2.0 and designed to run locally on user hardware without any API key or account.
Industry:
Artificial Intelligence
Company Size:
5
Location:
Toronto, CA
Website:
getsimpledirect.com
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Last updated: June 10, 2026
