Firms do not need a generic assistant bolted onto the side of their work. They need the matter, the firm's own standards and the supervising attorney's review to be first-class parts of the tool.
01Northstar MobilityEmploymentMemo ready for review
02Helios HealthRegulatoryResearch in progress
03Meridian SystemsLitigationArgument map updated
THE PRODUCT PRINCIPLE
The product should strengthen the firm's way of working — not flatten it into a generic assistant.
Matter boundaries, firm instructions, private precedent and attorney review shape each assignment. A partner asked to approve a draft can see the record behind it rather than being asked to trust the output of a black box.
Organized by matter, like the firm is
Practice is organized by engagement. A tool organized by conversation fights that every day.
Matter continuity
Facts, documents, research and drafts stay together across the life of an engagement and are there when the work resumes.
Client separation
Boundaries are enforced in the database, so adjacent engagements for different clients do not bleed into one another.
Standing instructions
Jurisdiction, objectives and the client's position are stated once on the matter and inherited by the work inside it.
A file a successor can read
Instructions, sources, research history and drafts remain in one place, so handover is a file rather than a conversation.
The firm's own standards
The reason associates use the precedent folder is that the firm has positions. A tool that ignores them produces work that has to be rewritten.
Private firm knowledge
Upload the precedents, forms and internal guidance the work should follow, kept under your account and separate from matter evidence.
Templates and playbooks
Author the firm's recurring deliverables and stated positions, with versions and archival as those positions develop.
Deliberate application
You choose which precedent applies to a given assignment rather than hoping a retrieval layer picked a good one.
Workflows that encode method
Turn the way the practice actually runs a task into a defined process with stated stages.
Supervision the reviewer can exercise
Partner review is where professional responsibility actually sits. The product is built around making that review possible rather than fast.
Changes arrive as proposals
Model-suggested edits are shown apart from the text with accept and reject controls, so the draft is never quietly altered.
Version history
Checkpoints, inspection and undoable restore let a reviewer see how a document arrived at its current state.
Review gates in workflows
A process stops at an explicit attorney decision rather than completing itself.
Grounding to check against
Structured review records the passage behind each extracted value, so verification means reading the source.
IN PRACTICE
The work lawyers bring to it.
Associate first draft
Produce a structured first pass on a research question, with the record of how it was produced attached for the supervising attorney.
Agreement review at volume
Run a defined set of questions across an agreement set and triage the results instead of reading each one in sequence.
Keep the house position
Draft from the firm's own precedent and stated positions rather than from a generic form.
Recurring client work
Run the same defined process each cycle so the deliverable is consistent between people and between months.
Matter handover
Pass an engagement to another lawyer with its instructions, sources and research record intact.
HOW THE WORK MOVES
A visible record from input to review.
01Open matter
02Assign the work
03Research and review documents
04Draft work product
05Partner review
06Client delivery
IN THE WORKSPACE TODAY
What you can use now.
Not yet available: Firm-wide governance of shared assets; Team invitations and role-scoped writes; Document management integration.
Matter workspace with enforced separation
Row-level security and server-derived ownership.
Live
Private firm knowledge, templates and playbooks
Owner-scoped authoring, versioning and archival.
Live
Document review with passage grounding
Structured runs across uploaded documents.
Live
Attorney review gates and version history
Explicit sign-off, checkpoints and undoable restore.
Live
Astra for Law
Legal model integration coming soon
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PRIVATE BETA
Keep the research visible. Keep the document yours.