Here is a thing that is easy to miss when you build software: a solicitor does not want to visit your product. They want to draft the letter, answer the email, and get home. The best tool is the one that disappears into the work — and the work happens in Word, in Outlook, and, more than anyone admits, in Excel.

So the Office add-in suite takes the agent fleet out of the browser and puts it inside the tools you already live in.

The Word ribbon

Open a document, pick the matter, and the ribbon offers you the same drafter, scrutineer and opponent-scout the product runs — this time against the matter context, right where you are typing. Ask the drafter for a clause and it writes back into your selection. No copy, no paste, no switching to a browser tab to ask a question and carrying the answer back by hand. The scrutineer reads what you have written with the matter in mind; the opponent-scout looks at it the way the other side would.

The context loads from the matter you already have. The output lands in the document you are already in. The friction the browser version removes is removed one step earlier — before you ever had to leave Word.

The Outlook task-pane

Reading an email, the task-pane scores it against your open matters — subject, sender, recipients, with a bonus when the email address already matches a matter contact — and suggests the top few candidates. One click saves the email to that matter's correspondence, where it belongs, instead of you opening the case in a browser to log it by hand.

Composing a reply, it drafts one anchored in the matter, using the same client-update generator the rest of the product ships, so the reply is grounded in the case rather than written from a cold start. And when there is a date buried in the body — a deadline, a hearing — it reads the date out of the text and can write the confirmed one to the matter timeline.

Can, not does. It surfaces the deadline for you to confirm. A date that governs a matter is a consequential thing, and nothing about it is filed silently. You confirm, then it lands.

The Excel batch lookup

And then there is the one nobody expects a legal AI tool to ship: an Excel add-in.

It exists because some jobs are spreadsheet-shaped and neither Word nor Outlook can do them. You have a column of counterparty identifiers — company numbers — and you need due-diligence checks run across each one. The add-in reads the column, runs the register and screening checks per row, and writes name, status, officers and a flag into columns to the right. Fifty counterparties become fifty rows of results, not fifty separate matter intakes opened by hand.

That is a genuinely Excel-shaped task, and putting the check where the list already lives is the obvious answer once you have watched someone do it the hard way. We have not seen another legal AI tool ship an Excel add-in, and we think that is because most of them were not built by people who had to do batch counterparty checks on a Friday afternoon.

Same case, same discipline

All three add-ins run against the same matter context, the same audit chain and the same reasoning record as everything else. The agent fleet moves; the guarantees do not. A human is still on every consequential step, the privilege discipline still holds, and the matter is still one coherent case whether you are looking at it in the browser, in the Word ribbon, or in a cell in Excel.

Built by solicitors, for solicitors, means meeting you where the work actually happens — not asking you to come to us.

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