AI is already in legal work · put the firm in control

AI is already in your firm.
Now make it accountable.

Avantwerk turns general-purpose AI into a controlled legal workflow: the matter, jurisdiction, specialist context, confidentiality decision, source checks and human approval travel together from intake to final record. Less repetitive first-pass work. No surrender of professional judgment.

The AI performs the first pass. The solicitor makes the legal decision.
Avantwerk Legal AI matter workspace showing a VAT appeal: a signed engagement letter, a notice of appeal citing VATA 1994, and a completed consistency check
The real workspace, not an illustration: a VAT appeal in the demo firm, with its drafts, their cited authorities and your verdict on each. Every matter in the demo is fictional.

A general chatbot gives you an answer.
A law firm needs control around the answer.

Client confidentiality, data protection, reliable authorities, supervision and the duty to the court do not disappear because AI is useful. Avantwerk keeps those decisions visible in the workflow and records what the model produced, what the solicitor changed and what the firm approved.

Why it has to be us

Put a live matter through it.

A tool that processes matter text on an external model has to send that selected text to the route first. Avantwerk keeps the authoritative matter in an encrypted vault you control; request-applicable controls run before AI processing, and the attended UK path warns on protected or unknown material before a solicitor may override it for that request. That is an inspectable product boundary rather than a promise that nothing ever leaves.

The canonical client file stays in your own vault
The file is not uploaded or synced to a Bennovate matter store. The text assembled for a documented AI step, including upload summary, draft or analysis, and optional dictation clean-up, may transit the configured route after its applicable controls. On the attended UK path, protected or unknown material is refused unless the attending solicitor explicitly overrides the warning for that request.
Supported identifiers are pseudonymised on covered text routes
The published identifier classes are replaced in your browser and restored locally. A text pass cannot inspect names embedded only as pixels, and AI-assisted dictation clean-up deliberately sends dictated text plus selected matter vocabulary. This reduces exposure but is not anonymisation; the solicitor still decides what may be sent.
Built native: never translated
Every market it serves is built in its own right: jurisdiction, registers, statutes and voice all native, never a translated wrapper. A cross-border firm gets every market it works in under one agreement, not a shell that's neither.
A tamper-evident record of covered events
Successfully written events on covered paths are HMAC-authenticated and chain-linked, with surfaced write failures. The export cannot verify itself and does not prove that every AI step was captured.
Human decisions on the registered consequential path
The attended registry stops 10 consequential skills, eight drafting, one filing and one signing, for approve, reject or modify. Direct and unregistered paths are outside that guarantee.
Safe enough, and affordable enough
The enterprise tools are priced for firms with a procurement team. You're the firm that's actually exposed, and the only one we built for is you.
Human in the loop · registered path
The attended registry stops 10 consequential drafting, filing and signing skills for a human decision. You approve, reject or modify. Direct and unregistered paths are not covered by that gate.
What changes on Monday

Same firm. Same matters. Your evenings back.

Nothing about your judgement changes: that's still yours, on every page. What changes is everything around it: the typing, the chasing, the re-reading. Here's the week you stop losing.

The Saturday

The trial bundle that used to eat your weekend: done before lunch.

Chronology, list of issues, witness prep, skeleton: drafted from the file you already have, paginated and indexed. You review the calls that need a lawyer. You get the weekend back.

The new matter

The engagement letter you've typed a hundred times: written out once more, for you to check.

Scope, fee basis, conflicts, complaints procedure, data handling, governing law: already there, on your firm's own terms, correct for the jurisdiction. You read it, complete what is marked, sign.

The late night

The case you'd have re-read until midnight: already mapped, waiting for you.

Parties, claims, evidence, dates and the holes in them: pulled from the matter into a structure you can check at a glance, with the weak points already surfaced. You arrive ready, not exhausted.

Inside the product

What you see when you open it.

Screens from the populated demo: the same workspace a firm works in, with fictional matters in place of client files.

Evidence index for a matter, with each document marked privileged or disclosable and a re-classify control
Every document on the matter is marked privileged or disclosable, and you can re-classify any of them.
Morning briefing across the firm's matters, listing urgent dates with days remaining and the client each belongs to
The morning briefing across the firm: what is urgent, how many days away it is, and whose matter it belongs to.
Everything, handled

It does the work. You make the calls.

The whole matter, end to end: drafted, checked, watched. Every output stops at your signature; nothing acts on its own. See all of it

It drafts

Every draft starts from the matter, not a blank page.

Engagement letters, pleadings, client letters and court forms: native to the jurisdiction, with authorities surfaced for checking and the matter facts carried through.

It understands

The whole matter, read for you.

Drop in the brief and the evidence. It pulls the parties, the dates, the claim, and builds the case into a structure you can see and check.

It pressure-tests

The other side's best move: before they make it.

Run a thirteen-angle adversary pass on any draft (one you wrote or one the assistant produced) and it reads the whole document, not the first few pages. Every criticism quotes the passage it attacks and names the rule behind it, and the report tells you how much was read and which angles reported. Each recognised UK case citation is checked live against Find Case Law and its response is recorded before ordinary export; a match confirms the citation in that source, not the legal proposition. Statutes are linked to legislation.gov.uk for solicitor confirmation.

It protects you

AI egress crosses a documented control.

The file is kept in your own encrypted vault. Request-applicable privilege and pseudonymisation controls run before AI processing; their limits are stated, and recorded events can be exported with an integrity verdict.

See whether the control survives a real legal workflow.

Open a fictional matter and follow what enters the model, what is checked, where the solicitor must decide and what is recorded. Then judge the time saved without surrendering professional control.