AI Legal Index: Contract Review & Drafting changes https://ailegalindex.com/categories/contract-review-and-drafting Material product changes at Contract Review & Drafting vendors, tracked by AI Legal Index. Every entry is dated and cited to a public source. en-us Free to reuse with a visible link to ailegalindex.com. Terms: https://ailegalindex.com/use-this-data Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT 720 StrongSuit published StrongSuit for Outlook (version 1.0.0.0) on Microsoft Marketplace, an add in for Outlook on the web, Windows and Mac… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/strongsuit ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917f94f0d70b4bff6a101 Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Legal Research Litigation & eDiscovery Contract Review & Drafting StrongSuit published StrongSuit for Outlook (version 1.0.0.0) on Microsoft Marketplace, an add in for Outlook on the web, Windows and Mac that drafts a reply to the open email using the documents and email history of the linked StrongSuit matter. Users can connect an Outlook folder to a matter so every reply in that folder starts with that matter's context, then refine the draft in one click or with their own instruction. The listing states the add in never sends email and never changes recipients, subject or attachments.

Why it matters: It carries matter context into client, opposing counsel and court correspondence, and the no send design keeps a lawyer as the final reviewer of every message. The listing says the add in can read and modify the active message, so firms should check email and client confidentiality policies before rollout.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> SimpleDocs, Law Insider's parent, launched Risk Review 2.0 in SimpleAI, the engine inside the Law Insider Word Add in. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/law-insider ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917f94f0d70b4bff6a0ff Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting SimpleDocs, Law Insider's parent, launched Risk Review 2.0 in SimpleAI, the engine inside the Law Insider Word Add in. It adds a lightweight review profile, a configurable Primary issues checklist (auto renewal, choice of law, use of data for AI training, unlimited liability and more) with custom checks, and a Market review powered by the Law Insider database that flags nonstandard or aggressive terms outside the checklist. Each flagged issue gets a risk level and a Fix action that generates a suggested redline the user can modify, dismiss or apply.

Why it matters: Legal teams get a structured first pass review of lower risk agreements without building a full playbook, with market deviations judged against Law Insider's precedent database rather than only the team's own rules. Redlines are proposed, not auto applied, so the lawyer keeps the decision.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> August launched August for Agents in beta, which lets a client company's software agents send a bounded legal question to a service that… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/august ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e0a Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting August launched August for Agents in beta, which lets a client company's software agents send a bounded legal question to a service that the client's law firm builds and supervises on August. The firm's agent checks the relevant agreement and playbook and returns a sourced answer with an execution record, or routes the matter to a lawyer when judgment is needed. Controls include scoped tools, recipients and data sources, firm defined escalation rules, and identity, permission and retention settings set per client, firm and service.

Why it matters: It spells out which questions the system may answer without a lawyer and when it must escalate, the oversight question a firm has to settle before exposing AI services to clients. Access is by contact during the beta, so availability and pricing are not yet public.

Impact: High. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Legito release 2026.48.0 changed the REST API so file versions uploaded through the API are linked to their document record and appear in… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/legito ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917f94f0d70b4bff6a0f4 Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability Legal Ops & Spend Contract Review & Drafting Legito release 2026.48.0 changed the REST API so file versions uploaded through the API are linked to their document record and appear in the File Versions dialog in Manage Documents, and file download responses now return the file's labels. The same release extends Highlight All Changes in the Document Editor to content driven by Object Record values and by multiple choice conditions.

Why it matters: Teams that push documents into Legito from other systems now get one complete version history instead of stray files. Reviewers can also see every change in conditional template content, which was easy to miss before.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Legartis added agentic workflows to its Legal AI Workspace, so the Legal Agent now runs complete processes from incoming request and… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/legartis ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e13 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting Legal Ops & Spend Legartis added agentic workflows to its Legal AI Workspace, so the Legal Agent now runs complete processes from incoming request and contract review through negotiation, approvals, reporting and signature. Legal teams set playbooks, templates, responsibilities and decision boundaries, and the Agent refers any deviation beyond a defined boundary to the responsible person with proposed solutions. Users can create new workflows in natural language, by voice or in writing, and the release is available to all customers immediately.

Why it matters: This moves routine contract decisions inside set boundaries from lawyer review to the agent, so buyers need to check how boundaries are configured and audited before switching it on. Sales and Procurement teams can negotiate within Legal approved positions without routing every contract to Legal.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey's release notes list Agentic Search for DMS covering SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e10 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey's release notes list Agentic Search for DMS covering SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive. Harvey can now search a user's connected content in those repositories directly and find the relevant documents without the user first locating and selecting files. It extends the agentic iManage Search released on 2 Sep to Microsoft and Google document stores.

Why it matters: Firms that keep matter files in SharePoint or Google Drive rather than iManage or NetDocuments can now let Harvey find source documents itself, which removes manual upload and selection steps and widens what answers can be grounded in.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> DocJuris released DocJuris in Word, a Microsoft Word add in side pane that connects the open document to the customer's DocJuris Library… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/docjuris ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e0f Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability Contract Review & Drafting Legal Ops & Spend DocJuris released DocJuris in Word, a Microsoft Word add in side pane that connects the open document to the customer's DocJuris Library of playbooks, checklists, policies, templates and past agreements, with Ask and Edit modes for questions and requested changes. It adds Custom Actions, one click workflows that DocJuris legal engineers build and test for a specific team (for example a Fill Electrical SOW action that populates a statement of work from a supplier quote), and proposed edits are previewed and written only on click as native Word tracked changes. It supports Word for Microsoft 365 on Windows and Mac and Word on the web, is deployed through the Microsoft 365 admin center, and carries over SSO, MFA, Library permissions and the audit trail.

Why it matters: Teams can apply their own negotiating positions inside the drafting tool instead of uploading and downloading files, and DocJuris states that only paragraph text is sent to the customer's own instance and the Word file itself is never uploaded, which is a concrete point for confidentiality review. No Microsoft Marketplace listing was found, so rollout is admin managed rather than store installed.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> CobbleStone Software: CobbleStone released Contract Insight 26.1.0, a platform update with a redesigned responsive interface, enterprise wide search across… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/cobblestone-software ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e0d Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting CobbleStone released Contract Insight 26.1.0, a platform update with a redesigned responsive interface, enterprise wide search across records and document content, draft saving, and Contract Insights dashboards for renewals, financials, approvals and cycle times. Administrators get guided setup resources and automated health checks that flag common data issues. The release also adds VISDOM AI functions for natural language questions about contract data plus drafting and clause management assistance, and states that existing SSO and Word and Outlook add ins keep working through the upgrade.

Why it matters: Legal and contract teams on Contract Insight get AI question answering and drafting help inside the core CLM record rather than a separate tool, with configurations and add ins stated to survive the upgrade. The release gives no accuracy figures or data handling changes for the new VISDOM functions, so buyers should ask how answers are grounded to the contract record.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> August published documentation for MCP support, which lets August act as a Model Context Protocol client: it finds a vendor's hosted MCP… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/august ailegalindex.com:change:6ab917c2a328a2163b304e0b Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting August published documentation for MCP support, which lets August act as a Model Context Protocol client: it finds a vendor's hosted MCP server or takes a user supplied server URL, signs in through the vendor's popup, and calls the tools that server exposes. Users add, test, disable and remove connections from a new Connections tab in profile settings or from chat, and each connection uses the individual user's own credentials, stored encrypted and not shared with the firm. August enables it on request; it is not self serve.

Why it matters: Firms can reach systems that have no purpose built August integration, but August states it has no product specific knowledge of those systems and connections are per person rather than firm governed, so IT and risk teams should decide which MCP servers users may connect.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Vesence shipped Desktops in its web app: every task now gets its own desktop holding that task's documents, mail and chats, kept in the… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/vesence ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f1d Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Vesence shipped Desktops in its web app: every task now gets its own desktop holding that task's documents, mail and chats, kept in the layout the user left them. A user can start an agent on one desktop, move to another while it keeps working in the background, and the task lights up when the agent finishes so the user can return to review the resulting redline.

Why it matters: Lawyers can run several matter tasks with agents in parallel and are pulled back to review output only when it is ready, which changes how much agent work one person can supervise at once. It builds on the multichat tasks from the 8 Aug Vesence 2.0 release rather than adding new legal content or integrations.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Noxtua shipped the Noxtua Model System, a model picker in Chat, Matrix and the Word and Outlook add ins that lets users choose between… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/noxtua ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f19 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Model / architecture General Legal Assistants Legal Research Contract Review & Drafting Noxtua shipped the Noxtua Model System, a model picker in Chat, Matrix and the Word and Outlook add ins that lets users choose between base model categories and switch at any time, including mid conversation. Standard (Athena Agent) runs open source or open weights models self hosted on Deutsche Telekom and IONOS infrastructure, while the new Frontier category (Minerva Agent) adds an international closed source frontier model reached through Deutsche Telekom's T Cloud Public. Admins can deselect the nondefault category under Settings, Advanced Settings, and the picker is not yet offered in every market.

Why it matters: Firms that wanted frontier model output without leaving a European processing setup can now get it in the same product, while judiciary and public sector buyers can hold users to the sovereign open weights category by admin policy. Noxtua also states each model passes preregistered release gates, including legal engineering tests by C.H.BECK and bias assessments, before it enters a category.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Model / architecture.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Noxtua: The Model System support article sets out the data path for the new Frontier (Minerva) category: the closed source model is accessed… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/noxtua ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f18 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Privilege / confidentiality General Legal Assistants Legal Research Contract Review & Drafting The Model System support article sets out the data path for the new Frontier (Minerva) category: the closed source model is accessed through Deutsche Telekom's T Cloud Public over an encrypted, isolated connection into a dedicated Google processing environment in an EU data center, under a data processing agreement. Noxtua states that across all categories client data is never used for model training and is held with zero retention during processing, and that conversation history stays in Noxtua's own encrypted storage on Deutsche Telekom and IONOS under Noxtua keys, with client set retention. It says the Standard (Athena) path has no US law provider in its chain, while Minerva only reduces US CLOUD Act exposure.

Why it matters: Leaving Frontier switched on puts a Google environment into the processing chain for client matter data, so firms with strict client confidentiality or outside counsel terms should review the processing agreement and set the category by admin policy. The vendor's own statement that Athena, not Minerva, is the path with no US CLOUD Act addressee gives buyers a clear basis for that choice.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Privilege / confidentiality.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey says its agent can now search the US Case Law source by publication status, date filed, court, citing references and cited by… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f17 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey says its agent can now search the US Case Law source by publication status, date filed, court, citing references and cited by references, and can review Bluebook citations and isolate specific reporter page breaks. Harvey extracts citing and treatment relationships across the corpus so the agent follows citations between opinions before answering with inline citations. Runtime precedential treatment warnings and full brief cite checking are described as upcoming work, not shipped.

Why it matters: Citing and cited by search plus pinpoint page handling move Harvey toward citator style research inside the platform, but buyers should keep a separate good law check until the announced treatment warnings ship.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> GC AI: Admins can now pick the user groups each invitee joins on acceptance, and automatic member access applies groups to people who join by… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/gc-ai ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f16 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Safety / governance General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Admins can now pick the user groups each invitee joins on acceptance, and automatic member access applies groups to people who join by invite link, SSO or SCIM provisioning. Contract Intelligence chats started in a Vault can be shared only with full members of that Vault (no public links or edit access), external View shares send tracked email invitations, and a new Metrics view shows uploads by user to admins without revealing document or Vault names. Organization data exports can now also include uploaded and generated files alongside chat transcripts, grouped by user.

Why it matters: Access to contract data is set by group at provisioning time rather than by hand, and sharing stays inside Vault membership, which reduces the risk of confidential agreements reaching the wrong people.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Safety / governance.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> GC AI: In a Contract Intelligence Vault sidebar chat, clicking a citation badge now opens the document sheet on the cited passage, with… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/gc-ai ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f15 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research In a Contract Intelligence Vault sidebar chat, clicking a citation badge now opens the document sheet on the cited passage, with highlights on PDFs, Word files and text documents. The chat citation panel also now splits case law, legislation and web sources into separate sections so statute and regulation hits are distinguishable from cases.

Why it matters: Lawyers can check an answer against the exact source passage in one click and see at a glance whether a point rests on a case, a statute or a web page, which shortens verification before relying on the output.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Conga CLM for Advantage Platform release 202609.1.0, published to Preview on 22 September 2026, adds Supplier Sanctions Screening, which… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/conga-clm ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f13 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting Conga CLM for Advantage Platform release 202609.1.0, published to Preview on 22 September 2026, adds Supplier Sanctions Screening, which checks one or many suppliers against the OFAC SDN List and the UN Consolidated Sanctions List and emails per supplier PDF reports. Screening runs on a purpose built AI skill using exact match logic with no score or fuzzy matching, and it never blocks a supplier automatically: an authorized user must block with a recorded reason, after which linked contracts show a Blocked tag and their workflow actions pause.

Why it matters: Legal and procurement teams get sanctions checks inside the contract workflow with a documented human decision point, a clear answer to where the AI acts on its own and where a person must decide. This is a Preview release, so confirm production availability before relying on it.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Gatekeeper's September 2026 release adds a Local Workflow Cards Manager access tier, whose holders can raise, edit, progress, own and… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/gatekeeper ailegalindex.com:change:6ab9178d421c0bed64772f06 Sat, 19 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting Gatekeeper's September 2026 release adds a Local Workflow Cards Manager access tier, whose holders can raise, edit, progress, own and delegate cards at every phase but cannot change the workflow board itself. Workflow cards also gain a Related Contracts tab that diagrams every parent, child and linked contract, colored by lifecycle status and flagged near their end date.

Why it matters: Legal operations teams can hand day to day contract work to more people without giving them control of the workflow design, and can see a contract's whole family before acting on one card.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Ironclad released an Ironclad Contracts plugin for ChatGPT. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/ironclad ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faab Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability Contract Review & Drafting Legal Ops & Spend Ironclad released an Ironclad Contracts plugin for ChatGPT. Users can search their Ironclad contract repository and workflows in plain language from inside ChatGPT.

Why it matters: Contract repositories hold the commercial terms the business asks legal about most, so this can move routine questions out of legal's inbox. Ask whether the plugin respects Ironclad's record level permissions, since sales and procurement users often have narrower access than legal.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Litera released a ChatGPT plugin for Foundation AI Search. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/litera ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faa4 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Litera released a ChatGPT plugin for Foundation AI Search. Foundation Cloud users can ask questions about the firm's experience, relationships and people from inside ChatGPT.

Why it matters: Experience data is what business development teams pitch from, and it usually sits in a system few lawyers ever open. Putting it in ChatGPT makes it reachable. The check is whether the plugin applies the same confidentiality flags on client names that Foundation applies today.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Legora released a plugin for ChatGPT Enterprise that brings Legora's grounded legal answers into the ChatGPT interface. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/legora ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faa3 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Integration / interoperability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Legora released a plugin for ChatGPT Enterprise that brings Legora's grounded legal answers into the ChatGPT interface. OpenAI also named Legora as one of the API customers that will build on Astra for Law.

Why it matters: Legora is now on both sides of OpenAI's legal launch: a plugin inside ChatGPT and a customer building on the model underneath. Firms standardizing on ChatGPT Enterprise should ask which Legora capabilities the plugin exposes, and which still require the Legora platform itself.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Integration / interoperability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey now lets users hand any action in a Review Table to the Harvey Agent in plain language. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064faa2 Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey now lets users hand any action in a Review Table to the Harvey Agent in plain language. A team can turn a free text column into a fixed classification and rerun it, import metadata from an attached export as new columns, bulk edit cells, and flag and assign rows to a reviewer, all from one chat. Harvey's worked example is a privilege review: reclassifying the privilege column, mapping custodian data from a Relativity export and routing flagged rows to a named reviewer.

Why it matters: Review tables are where document review actually happens in Harvey, and until now every change meant rebuilding columns by hand. The privilege example is the one to test. Ask how the agent's edits are logged, and whether rerunning a column keeps the cells a reviewer has already verified.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> LinkSquares introduced Workflow Builder Agent and Workflow Blueprints. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/linksquares ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064fab0 Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting Legal Ops & Spend LinkSquares introduced Workflow Builder Agent and Workflow Blueprints. A legal or business team describes a contract process in plain English, and the agent turns it into the steps, sequencing, dependencies and routing needed to run it. Every configuration stays in a governed environment where the team reviews and edits it before anything goes live.

Why it matters: Workflow configuration is where most CLM rollouts stall, because the people who know the policy are rarely the people who can build it. The review before publishing is the detail to test. An agent that drafts a workflow is useful; one that ships it unreviewed is a governance problem, so ask to see the record of what the agent changed.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Legora is rebuilding the research layer of its platform on a full ontology of the law and an AI native citator, built with technology from… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/legora ailegalindex.com:change:6aaea9fcafa54bf67064fab2 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Legora is rebuilding the research layer of its platform on a full ontology of the law and an AI native citator, built with technology from its Qura and Wexler acquisitions. The ontology maps how authorities rank and relate, including amendments, holdings versus dissents and temporal validity, and a team of former publisher attorney editors sets and audits the citator standard. It is in limited beta now, with general availability planned for Q4.

Why it matters: Citator status is the part of legal research AI buyers have had to take on faith, and it is where the sanctions cases came from. Legora says it has cataloged more than 50 distinct ways AI fails at legal research, which hands buyers a checklist to test any research tool against. Until Q4, treat this as a beta to evaluate, not something to rely on in a filing.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey introduced Contract Review Agents, in early access through a waitlist. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26d Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey introduced Contract Review Agents, in early access through a waitlist. A team builds an agent from its executed contracts, negotiation guidelines and playbooks, then answers a guided interview about how it applies those standards in practice, such as the liability cap it proposes and the fallback it will accept, or which clauses always escalate; the agent then delivers a first pass review of each redline with recommended edits, reasoning and citations to the sources behind each decision. Precedent benchmarking compares a counterparty's proposal clause by clause against positions the team has accepted in executed contracts, and the agent flags where recent negotiated outcomes have drifted from its own standards and proposes an updated position for the team to review.

Why it matters: This is the difference between a playbook and a precedent bank made into a product. A playbook records the stated position; the executed contracts record what the team actually accepted, and in house teams have always negotiated from the second while writing down the first. The drift detection is the feature to watch, because an agent that can tell a team its playbook is six months out of date is doing a job that nobody currently owns.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey's 9 September release note puts user level Memory into the product across the Assistant, the Word add in and Playbooks, two weeks… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26c Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey's 9 September release note puts user level Memory into the product across the Assistant, the Word add in and Playbooks, two weeks after its 26 August early access announcement. A memory is a standing instruction such as a drafting style, a negotiating posture or a jurisdiction of admission, saved on request or when a prompt signals a preference, confirmed on a card at the point of saving, and then applied in future sessions across the web app, Outlook and Word, with Harvey citing the memory it used the way it cites a source. Every memory sits in Personal Settings where it can be edited, searched, deleted or switched off, admins control whether Memory is on and for whom, and Harvey states that individual memories are never used to train models.

Why it matters: Memory is where a legal AI product either earns or loses the confidentiality argument, because what it remembers about a lawyer's clients and positions is exactly what a firm does not want quietly accumulating. Harvey has chosen the opposite of the consumer pattern: nothing is stored without a visible confirmation, everything stored is listed and deletable, and the vendor has said in writing that memories do not train models. Scope today is the individual user only; memory shared across a matter or an organization is described as next, and that is the version that will need a policy.

Impact: High. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor documentation

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Lexroom acquired Query Juriste, a French legal AI research company, and Praven Intelekt, a Bulgarian legal AI assistant, in its first… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/lexroom ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26e Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Acquisition / corporate Legal Research General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Lexroom acquired Query Juriste, a French legal AI research company, and Praven Intelekt, a Bulgarian legal AI assistant, in its first acquisitions since founding. Query Juriste brings a research platform connected to more than five million French and European legal documents, with roughly 300 customers and 1,000 paying users; Praven Intelekt brings more than 900 customers and Lexroom's first presence in Central and Eastern Europe. Both founding teams join Lexroom, the acquired brands transition to Lexroom over time, and the company now operates in Italy, Germany, Spain, France and Bulgaria.

Why it matters: Lexroom's argument is that each civil law jurisdiction needs its own certified source base rather than one model trained on everything, and buying local companies with local corpora is that argument executed. A firm working across those five markets gets one vendor rather than five; a firm in France or Bulgaria should expect the product it bought from the smaller company to change name, and possibly shape, as the integration proceeds.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Acquisition / corporate.

Evidence: Trade press

Source: AI Legal Index change log. Free to reuse with a link back. Terms.

]]> Harvey released Agentic Vault Search to general availability and opened Agentic Vault Organization in Early Access. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6aa5904d7b2eefda1d34c26b Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey released Agentic Vault Search to general availability and opened Agentic Vault Organization in Early Access. Search lets a user attach a whole Vault, or work inside a Space with Vaults attached, and have the Harvey Agent locate the relevant documents from signals such as folder placement, naming convention and uploader rather than exact keywords, operating under the user's own Vault permissions and ethical walls with every file it touches logged to the workspace audit trail. Organization takes a plain language instruction such as sorting a data room by counterparty and agreement type, proposes a plan showing every rename, move and tag before anything changes, executes only on confirmation, can undo the most recent set of changes, and never edits file content.

Why it matters: The interesting part is the oversight design rather than the search. An agent that restructures a discovery production or a closing data room is exactly the kind of tool a firm's risk committee asks about, and Harvey has answered the three usual questions in the announcement itself: it inherits the user's permissions, it shows its plan first, and it cannot touch content. Organization is early access through a Harvey representative, so only Search is available to buy today.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

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]]> LegalOn published a set of workflow additions: Cross Document Review for analyzing a whole contract family together, searchable… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/legalon ailegalindex.com:change:6a9c2c3cec4ad2f765994255 Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting General Legal Assistants Legal Ops & Spend LegalOn published a set of workflow additions: Cross Document Review for analyzing a whole contract family together, searchable negotiation history through the LegalOn Assistant, and an upgrade to AI Revise that drafts and inserts language for missing provisions inside the Word add in. Teams can also set a department level editor name for redlines in Word for the Web.

Why it matters: Two of these solve the same problem from different ends, which is that negotiation context lives in people's memory and in old email threads. The department level editor name is a smaller thing that in house teams ask for constantly, because a redline should not tell the counterparty which junior lawyer made the edit.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

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]]> Harvey rebuilt Playbook Review as a multi agent system. https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/harvey ailegalindex.com:change:6a9c2c3cec4ad2f765994252 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Model / architecture General Legal Assistants Contract Review & Drafting Legal Research Harvey rebuilt Playbook Review as a multi agent system. The change is architectural rather than user facing: the work of checking a contract against a playbook is now distributed across cooperating agents instead of running as a single pass.

Why it matters: Playbook review is the workflow most in house teams buy this category for, so how it is built matters to anyone evaluating depth rather than demo quality. A vendor publishing its own architecture change is also, by itself, a data point on how much it is willing to say about how the product works.

Impact: Medium. Verification: Verified. Type: Model / architecture.

Evidence: Vendor announcement

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]]> Avvoka launched Curate, a standalone product that reads a firm's historical transaction documents, extracts the clause variations that… https://ailegalindex.com/changelog/avvoka ailegalindex.com:change:6a9c2c3cec4ad2f765994250 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMT Product / capability Contract Review & Drafting Avvoka launched Curate, a standalone product that reads a firm's historical transaction documents, extracts the clause variations that performed best, and generates templates from them. The output feeds back into Avvoka's automation and AI drafting workflows.

Why it matters: Template maintenance is the unglamorous cost center of knowledge management, and most templates drift from what the firm actually negotiates. Building them from executed documents rather than from a partner's memory is the interesting claim, and it is testable against a firm's own back catalog.

Impact: High. Verification: Partially Verified. Type: Product / capability.

Evidence: Trade press

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