Nexis+ with Protégé
AI research you can trust
About Nexis+ with Protégé
Nexis+ with Protégé (formerly Nexis+ AI, renamed in July 2026) is LexisNexis's generative-AI business research platform. It answers research questions with cited, multi-source responses drawn from licensed news, company filings, financial data, and legal content, and adds document analysis, news summaries, and AI-drafted first reports. It targets competitive intelligence, M&A, business development, and strategy teams that need answers they can trace back to a source.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- Answers cite licensed, publisher-approved content instead of only the open web, so claims are verifiable
- Deep news archive: 45+ years and 33,000+ licensed sources across 170+ countries and 50+ languages
- Combines news, company filings, financials, and legal content in one research workspace
- Document Analyzer and Collect & Draft cut time spent reading filings and writing first-draft reports
- Individual subscriptions can be bought online without a sales call
Cons
- Expensive: AI tiers start at $935/month for a single seat
- Subscriptions are 3- or 12-month terms that cannot be cancelled early
- No self-serve free trial; trials and demos go through sales
- Public records and legal datasets cost extra or require a custom package
- Feature depth can overwhelm occasional users
Key Features
Conversational search
Ask complex research questions in natural language and get cited, multi-source answers from licensed news, company data, and open-web sources.
Transparent citations
Every generated answer links back to the source document so you can verify the claim before using it.
Document Analyzer
Upload reports, filings, and research papers, then ask a chatbot questions about their contents; answers cite the passage they came from.
Collect & Draft
Save snippets of insight while you research and turn them into a cited first-draft report, prioritizing the sources and topics you choose.
Media snapshots
AI-generated summaries of news coverage about a company, topic, or trend.
Company intelligence
Single-screen profiles of millions of companies with filings, financials, earnings calls, executives, and news, downloadable as editable summaries.
45+ year news archive
Search 33,000+ licensed sources (45,000 total) from 170+ countries in more than 50 languages, with free-text and Boolean search.
Enterprise API delivery
Custom enterprise packages add specialized content sets, public records, and API delivery.
Pricing
- 1 seat, 1-year term (3-month term also available)
- 30K+ licensed news sources
- 45+ year news archive
- Free-text and Boolean search
- No AI features
- Everything in Nexis Essential
- Conversational search
- Document Analyzer
- Collect & Draft reports
- Everything in Nexis+ with Protégé Essential
- Company data and profiles
- Financial data
- Executive information
- 5+ seats via sales
- Specialized content packages
- Public records
- Flexible API delivery
- Custom pricing
Best For
Competitive and market intelligence
Track competitor strategy, financial performance, product launches, M&A, and key hires with cited summaries of global news and filings.
M&A and due diligence research
Monitor deal activity, screen acquisition targets, and summarize filings and news coverage on a company before a transaction.
Business development and account research
Build 360-degree views of prospects and customers from company profiles, financials, executive data, and news.
Report writing for strategy teams
Collect insights during research and generate a cited first-draft report with a bibliography and source links.
Long-document analysis
Upload earnings reports, research papers, or filings and ask questions instead of reading them end to end.
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