A workflow that only ticks boxes adds administration. A workflow worth running knows what each stage needs, what it produces, and which stage a human is required to sign.
A workflow should carry the matter from facts to a defined legal deliverable.
Each process names where judgment is required, where analysis can be assisted, what each stage produces and when an attorney must approve the result before the work moves on. The run is persistent, so a process that takes a week does not have to be held in one session.
Processes with a defined shape
The value is in the definition, not the automation. A stated process can be reviewed, argued with and improved; an implicit one cannot.
Curated legal workflows
Start from processes written for defined legal tasks, with their stages, inputs and outputs already set out.
Explicit inputs
A run begins from stated matter facts, selected documents, governing jurisdiction and a required deliverable.
Stage by stage
Each stage is visible as its own step with its own state, so the work can be inspected part-way rather than only at the end.
A named deliverable
A run ends in a defined output — a memorandum, an issue list, a draft section — not an open-ended conversation.
The review gate is structural
The attorney's sign-off is not a disclaimer at the bottom of the page. It is a stage the run cannot pass without.
Explicit approval step
A run reaches a review gate and stops there. Completion is an attorney decision recorded in the run, not an automatic transition.
Assisted, not autonomous
Stages are labelled by who does the work. Nothing presents itself as having exercised legal judgment on your behalf.
Persistent runs and steps
A run and its steps are stored from launch through review, so the process survives the session that started it.
Inspectable history
What each stage produced remains available, so a reviewer can see how the deliverable was arrived at.
Make it the firm's process
A workflow that cannot encode the house position will be abandoned for the document the practice already trusts.
Private playbooks
Write the positions and standards the work should follow, and keep them under your account rather than in a shared generic library.
Versioned and archived
Playbooks and templates carry versions, so a change in position is a revision with a history rather than an overwrite.
Connected to the run
Templates, playbooks and pending suggestions are wired to the authenticated product screens and owner-scoped APIs.
Firm-wide governance is next
Applying these assets across an organization, with roles and administration, is acknowledged future work rather than a shipped feature.
IN PRACTICE
The work lawyers bring to it.
Motion research
Move from procedural posture and facts to issues, authority, contrary law and a draft memorandum that stops at review.
Recurring client deliverable
Run the process the practice performs every month the same way each time, with the same stages and the same sign-off.
Onboarding an associate
Hand over a process that states its own stages, so the method is legible rather than transmitted by apprenticeship alone.
Agreement intake
Take an incoming agreement through extraction, comparison against the house position and a first-pass issue list.
Multi-day matters
Start a run, leave it, and return to the stage it reached with the work product and context still attached.
HOW THE WORK MOVES
A visible record from input to review.
01Matter facts
02Issue identification
03Authority stage
04Analysis
05Draft deliverable
06Attorney review gate
IN THE WORKSPACE TODAY
What you can use now.
Not yet available: Organization-wide governance; Team assignment and collaborative writes.
Curated workflows with review gates
Defined stages ending at an explicit attorney decision.
Live
Persistent runs and steps
Stored from launch through review, per account.
Live
Private templates and playbooks
Authoring, versioning and archival.
Live
Assisted public-source research stages
Runs can search selected public sources, persist results and carry source markers into reviewable work product.
Live
Astra for Law
Legal model integration coming soon
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