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Drafty AI

The product is a chain of model driven steps that turns a client's evidence into a filing. Smart Upload reads uploaded documents and fills in case details, and the drafting interview asks only about facts the matter does not already hold. The Strategy Outline engine maps the evidence to each legal element of the claim, builds an evidence matrix showing which elements have little support, detects the forum and flags deadlines, bars and weak points, each with a citation.

From there one Draft action routes the matter by case type. Generic matters go to the Drafting Studio interview, while RFE, NOID and NOIR responses, asylum, withholding and CAT briefs, I-601A waivers, expert letters, affidavits, exhibit lists and translations each run in a dedicated flow. The Document Improvement Studio rewrites an existing document paragraph by paragraph. Matters and clients are the only parts that work without the models, and the product is sold for what the models draft.

Drafts are built with live legal research tailored to the jurisdiction, and attorneys quoted on the site point to its circuit specific case law. Every section in review shows the generated text beside the citations and supporting sources tied to it, and the authorities a draft relied on are gathered into a table of authorities that carries into the exported Word file.

After generation, citations the system failed to match to its sources are flagged in that table for a closer read. The matching tolerates a different pinpoint or format, so a flag means a citation missing from the sources or a match that failed to complete. Drafty presents this as an aid rather than a guarantee and tells attorneys to verify every authority and fact whether flagged or not. The research sources behind the drafts are not named, and no accuracy rate, test set or measured error figure is published.

Every matter moves through the same visible stages, Outline, Draft, Review and Drafts ready, and nothing becomes a Word document until an attorney finalizes it. Drafts come back in sections that each start as Pending. The attorney reads the text with its sources, edits it, rewrites it with AI help or marks it Reviewed, in any order, and the matter header counts the drafts still awaiting review. Unmatched citations stop in the table of authorities for a closer look rather than passing silently.

Notice responses run a separate Verification step before export, with automated checks for issues that lack linked evidence and for unlinked exhibits. Exhibit lists are approved by the attorney before export, and the Document Improvement Studio applies no change the attorney has not accepted. Where an interview question is skipped, the draft carries a placeholder rather than an invented fact. The terms make the attorney responsible for reviewing and approving each document as their own before it goes to any agency or court.

Immigration attorneys Patrick Kolasinski, Joe Michelotti and Vilerka Bilbao and legal consultant Luis Bares are quoted by name, praising brief drafting, circuit specific law and the RFE drafting studio, without their firms or any figures. An unnamed user reports saving more than 60% of the time spent drafting cover letters.

The headline claim is a 60% or greater cut in case preparation time, described as verified by customers, with no customer, sample or method behind it. A worked example on the home page assumes nine hours a week reclaimed at a $300 hourly rate. Coverage in ABA Journal, Bloomberg Law and AILA and membership of NVIDIA Inception are listed as press and programs. No dated deployment at a named firm with measured results is published.

The data processing agreement, part of the terms every user accepts, limits use of client data to providing the service and bars Drafty and its subprocessors from using it to train, fine tune or improve any AI model. Client and attorney details are masked before a prompt reaches an AI provider, so the provider receives personal details only where a draft needs them. Providers hold inputs for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring and then delete them, and everyone who handles client data is bound to confidentiality.

A published guide covers United States v. Heppner, the 2026 ruling on AI and work product, but the agreement itself does not address privilege or work product. Firms add users through team management, and nothing describes walls between matters or users inside a firm. Session replay runs inside the platform and can capture case content shown on screen. Input fields are masked, and staff view a recording only with the customer's authorization to resolve a support request.

Only attorneys licensed in the United States may use the product, and each must give a bar license number at sign up. The terms describe Drafty as an AI system designed to assist attorneys and disclaim the accuracy of AI generated content. Review, validation and compliance with professional conduct rules sit with the user, who must approve each document as their own before filing it with an agency or court.

Scope is stated narrowly as immigration practice in the United States and nothing else. Blog guidance walks attorneys through Florida Bar Ethics Advisory Opinion 24-1, ABA guidance on AI and the Heppner ruling, and offers an AI use policy template and retainer language for firms. How the product supports an attorney's competence and supervision duties, as opposed to placing them on the attorney, is not set out in the terms.

No responsible AI policy, governance framework, accountable owner or testing program is published. A 2023 post describes a commitment to make AI practical and safe for immigration attorneys and to evaluate AI at every stage, without saying how. Drafty's ABA guidance summary lists fairness and avoiding bias as principles for lawyers using AI, and nothing describes how its own drafts are tested for uneven quality across case types, forums or client populations.

Retention and deletion are contractual. Case data stays while the account is open, and on closure or earlier request Drafty deletes or returns it at the customer's choice within a reasonable period, with backups removed on the regular cycle. AI providers keep inputs for up to 30 days, and analytics recordings follow the analytics provider's settings.

A security schedule in the agreement covers encryption in transit and at rest, role based and least privilege access for staff, and multifactor authentication on administrative and production systems. It adds staff training, vulnerability scanning, backups with a documented recovery process and logging of production access. Breaches are reported without undue delay. Subprocessors fall into six named categories, all in the United States and all barred from training on customer data, with prior notice of any change and a right to object. The named list is sent on request by email, and breach notice carries no fixed deadline.

The terms, last updated 5 October 2026 under Delaware law, exclude indirect, incidental, special, consequential and punitive damages, including lost data and profits, and say nothing about a cap on direct damages. Drafty makes no warranty on the accuracy or completeness of AI generated content and accepts no liability for loss caused by its third party AI providers or for submission of documents the user did not revise.

The service is provided as is, with merchantability, fitness and non infringement warranties disclaimed, and disputes go to mediation and then binding AAA commercial arbitration. Users indemnify Drafty for infringing or defamatory material, misrepresentation, breach and claims by third parties arising from their use. Drafty gives no indemnity in return, and no insurance or output warranty is offered. The data processing agreement's security commitments survive the disclaimers, and its liability falls under the same terms.

Drafty stands alone. Client documents are uploaded or linked through each matter's documents panel, and finished drafts download as Word files named for the client and matter type, ready to edit and file. No connection is offered to a case management system such as Docketwise, Clio or MyCase, to a document store, or to USCIS or EOIR filing. Drafty's own comparison with Docketwise presents the two as separate products a firm runs side by side. Enterprise plans add single sign on.

The service runs in the cloud on Amazon Web Services. Customer data is processed and stored in the United States under the data processing agreement, and every subprocessor, the AI providers included, is based there too. Transfers of data covered by the GDPR or UK GDPR rely on standard contractual clauses incorporated into the agreement.

One deployment in the United States serves every plan. No other region, private deployment or residency choice is described, and the tenancy model is not stated. The security portal lists a recovery time objective of five hours.

No independent security attestation is held today. The security portal, run on SafeBase, describes the company as aligning with and in pursuit of the CCPA, the GDPR and SOC 2, and lists SOC 2 under compliance without a report, auditor or date. It sets out controls for data security, access monitoring, backups, erasure, bot detection, credential management and the development lifecycle, shows a SecurityScorecard rating, and lets a reviewer request access to restricted documents.

Customers hold audit rights under the processing terms, which Drafty may meet with certifications, reports or a security questionnaire.

Drafts come from third party AI providers called through their APIs, under contracts that bar training on inputs, with client and attorney details masked before a prompt leaves Drafty. The providers and models are not named, and nothing describes which model handles which flow.

AI processing is one of six subprocessor categories in the agreement, all based in the United States. Prior notice of any added or replaced subprocessor is promised, with a right to object, which covers a change of AI provider. Use of the providers' models is also subject to their own usage policies, which the terms pass through to users.

Prices are published in USD and bought without a sales call. The base plan is $250 a month for one seat and ten matters a month. Each further seat costs $100 a month, and matters cost $25 each for the first ten and $10 each above that, shared across the firm. A matter is one client case with unlimited drafts inside it, charged once at the first AI generation.

Overage at $20 a matter is off by default. Yearly billing gives two months free and releases the year's matter pool up front, and seat or matter changes are prorated. A four day Starter Trial with two matters needs no card, followed by a seven day trial once a card is added. The calculator stops at 25 seats and 500 matters. Enterprise pricing, with volume matter rates, SSO, an uptime SLA and onboarding, is set on a call. Self serve plans carry no stated setup fee.

Immigration practice in the United States is the whole scope, for attorneys licensed there, from solo practitioners to firms large enough for an enterprise plan. Drafty puts that point at around ten users or 100 matters a month. Named case types include asylum, withholding of removal and CAT claims, I-601 and I-601A waivers, cancellation of removal, VAWA, U and T visas and BIA appeals. Motions to reopen and reconsider, RFE and NOID responses and family petitions are covered too, as are employment petitions such as EB-1A, NIW, EB-5, O-1A, P-1A, L-1 and TN.

Limits are stated. Naturalization matters get a client filing checklist and cover page rather than a drafted brief, and court motions are offered only for immigration court matters. Forum detection frames work for USCIS, immigration court or appellate review. In house and government use are not addressed, which fits a product sold only to licensed immigration attorneys.