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AI Tools for the Legal Industry (2026)

77 tools tracked · 55 active · 22 dead or at risk · Updated August 23, 2026

AI Tools for the Legal Industry (2026)

Legal is the highest-stakes place to deploy AI. It is also the only vertical where a single fabricated citation has already produced sanctions in open court, on the record, with names attached. That is why this page leads with status rather than features.

The industry's defining AI event so far was not a product launch. It was consolidation: a legacy publisher bought the most credible independent research assistant, and in doing so proved where the real moat sits. Not in model weights, which everyone rents, but in a licensed corpus and a working citator.

Every tool below carries a verified status - active, acquired, or gone - with a last-checked date on its own page. Around them sits the part vendors never sell you: procurement questions worth asking, a citation gate nobody can skip, and an honest answer to what you would lose if a vendor went dark this weekend.

Five Jobs, One Subscription, One Problem

Most legal teams do not have an AI problem. They have five distinct jobs and a single subscription pretending to cover all of them. Split the work first and every later decision - budget, vendor, governance - gets simpler and much easier to defend.

Research triage, document review, drafting, knowledge management, and filing carry very different risk. The first four can be assisted safely with controls. The fifth is where a professional signs their name, and nothing tracked on this site changes that.

Five stages of legal work and where AI assistance is appropriate Five stages. Four assistable. A verification gate sits between every stage and the court. 1. RESEARCH Harvey AI Casetext Licensed corpus plus a citator 2. REVIEW Claude Long contract reads, clause maps 3. DRAFTING ChatGPT First drafts and plain-English notes 4. KNOW-HOW Notion AI Precedent bank, exported monthly 5. FILING Human only Signature, duty, liability VERIFICATION GATE Every citation opened in a primary source and logged before anything leaves the building.
Assistive across four stages, absent from the fifth.

The Shortlist, With Verified Status

Each row links to a tracked status page carrying the last automated check, a confidence score, and any death signals we picked up. Do not adopt from a review roundup alone - open the status page and look at the date on it.

ToolBest jobStatusWhat to watch
Harvey AIFirm-wide research and draftingActiveEnterprise-only pricing and long procurement; see Harvey AI alternatives
ClaudeLong contract and document reviewActivePlan tier decides training exclusion; see Claude alternatives
ChatGPTFirst drafts, summaries, translationActiveNever cite unverified output; see ChatGPT alternatives
Notion AIPrecedent bank and internal know-howActiveExport precedents monthly so know-how stays portable
CasetextCitation-grounded research, now inside a publisherAcquiredRoadmap belongs to the acquirer; see Casetext alternatives

Working at practitioner level rather than industry level? The companion AI tools for lawyers collection covers day-to-day matter work. For the wider pattern of which categories lose tools fastest, see the shutdown leaderboard.

What the Casetext Deal Really Signalled

When Thomson Reuters acquired Casetext, the coverage focused on the price. The more useful signal was structural. An AI-native product with genuine traction concluded that the fastest route to scale was inside an incumbent's corpus, and the incumbent concluded that buying was cheaper than building.

That tells buyers two things. First, licensed content plus a citator is the asset; the model layer underneath is a commodity that gets cheaper every quarter. Second, any independent legal AI vendor you sign with today is a plausible acquisition target tomorrow, and terms travel with the buyer rather than the founder who promised them.

Where durable value sits in the legal AI stack Where the moat actually is Top layers are rented. Bottom layers are owned - and that is what gets bought. Chat interface - copied in a weekend no moat Foundation model - rented, commoditising thin Workflow and matter integration - sticky medium Licensed corpus plus citator - the real asset deep
Buy for the bottom two layers. Assume the top two will change under you.

Which of These Could Disappear

Shutdown risk in legal AI has little to do with product quality. It tracks whether the vendor owns content, and whether the layer it rents is being commoditised underneath it. Summarisation-only tools are the most exposed, because general models now do that job well enough at consumer prices.

Relative shutdown and disruption risk for legal AI tools Disruption risk, lowest to highest Composite of funding, corpus ownership, changelog activity, and support responsiveness. ChatGPT low Claude Notion AI Harvey AI Casetext high Acquired products score high because the roadmap now belongs to somebody else.
Risk here means "your workflow changes without your consent", not only "the site goes dark".

The Four-Check Citation Gate

Every other AI risk in a legal organisation is commercial. This one is professional. Courts have sanctioned filings built on citations that did not exist, and the reasoning was never that AI had been used. It was that nobody checked. The duty of competence does not soften because a machine wrote the paragraph.

The control is boring and it works. Build it into the drafting template rather than the training deck, so skipping it leaves a visible gap instead of a silent one.

Four checks required before an AI-assisted citation is filed The four-check gate Skip one and the whole filing inherits the risk. CHECK 1 It exists Opened in a primary source, not a summary CHECK 2 It says that Holding matches the proposition claimed CHECK 3 Still good law Citator run, not overruled or distinguished CHECK 4 Logged Who checked, when, against which matter ALL FOUR PASS Citation may be filed. Any single failure sends the draft back, not the tool. The log line is the control. Without it you have an intention, not a process.
Four checks, one log line, no exceptions for urgency.

A 30-Day Governance Audit

This is the version that survives contact with a busy quarter. One work-stream a week, roughly two hours each, and at the end you have a defensible position rather than a slide about one.

Four-week legal AI governance audit schedule Thirty days to a defensible position Two hours a week. No new software required. 1 Inventory Every tool, owner, plan tier, card 2 Terms and status Training clause dated, status page checked 3 Consolidate and export One tool per stage, full export taken 4 Write the policy One page, with a review date Deliverable: an inventory sheet, a dated terms extract, a clean export, and a one-page policy.
The audit that fits around billable work is the one that actually gets done.
  1. Week one - inventory. List every AI tool in use, including personal subscriptions on personal cards, with owner, plan tier, monthly cost, and which of the five stages it touches.
  2. Week two - terms and status. Paste each tool's training-exclusion clause and its date into the same sheet, then open its tracked status page and note the last check and any death signals. No clause means no client material, starting immediately.
  3. Week three - consolidate and export. Settle on one tool per stage and cancel the duplicates; most teams are paying twice for the same summarisation. Then pull full exports of precedents, prompt libraries, and matter notes into your document management system.
  4. Week four - write it down. One page: approved tools, approved uses, prohibited uses, the four-check requirement, escalation route, and a review date ninety days out.

Five Mistakes Legal Teams Keep Making

  1. Treating a chatbot as a research database. A general model has no citator and no duty of accuracy. It will produce a fluent citation to a case that never existed, formatted perfectly.
  2. Buying at organisation level before testing at matter level. Run one real matter end to end. Vendor pilots on curated sample documents flatter every product.
  3. Assuming consumer terms match enterprise terms. They rarely do, and the difference is precisely the clause that protects the client.
  4. Leaving know-how inside the vendor. A precedent bank built in someone else's workspace is a hostage. Export monthly or accept the eventual loss.
  5. Never re-checking after an acquisition. Pricing, roadmap, and data terms all reset when a publisher buys a product. See what happened to Harvey AI and the Casetext status page for how fast the ground moves.

What This Actually Costs

General models sit at roughly twenty to thirty dollars per seat per month. Legal-specific platforms are negotiated annually and typically land an order of magnitude higher per seat, because you are buying a licensed corpus and an indemnity posture rather than a chat box.

The real cost is rework. A single unverified citation reaching a filing can consume more partner time than a year of subscriptions, and it arrives without warning. Judge spend against that exposure, not against the free tier you tested with.

Price the exit as well. Exporting a precedent bank is an afternoon if you have done it before and a fortnight if you have not. Knowing which one applies to your team is most of the value of this page.

Keep Exploring the Graveyard

Professional-services tools fail for the same reasons everywhere: rented models, thin moats, and buyers who consolidate. If you are auditing a broader stack, see AI tools for lawyers, AI tools for healthcare, AI tools for research, and AI tools for transcription.

Want the underlying data? Browse every tracked tool from the homepage, compare survivors on the leaderboard, read the latest postmortems, or report a tool you believe is winding down.

Bottom line: choose per job, insist on a licensed corpus before you cite anything, get training exclusion in writing on your actual plan, and keep an export you control. Do that and no acquisition or shutdown takes your work with it.

Still Active

Harvey AI

🟢Active

Best firm-wide legal AI platform

Harvey launched in 2022 with a GPT-4-based product for case research, drafting, and document review tailored to elite law firms. Allen & Overy and PwC became flagship customers. By mid-2025 Harvey had raised over $500M across Sequoia, Kleiner, GV, and OpenAI's Startup Fund at a $5B+ valuation and counted most of the AmLaw 100 as customers. The product, team, and roadmap continue to grow.

Search

Read the Harvey AI status page or Harvey AI alternatives, best tools like Harvey AI, is Harvey AI dead?, what happened to Harvey AI and why Harvey AI failed.

Claude

🟢Active

Best for contract and document review

Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant, built for long-document reasoning, code review, and careful writing. Active and shipping in 2026.

Chatbot

Read the Claude status page or Claude alternatives, best tools like Claude, is Claude dead?, what happened to Claude and why Claude failed.

ChatGPT

🟢Active

Best for drafting and summarisation

OpenAI's conversational AI assistant that sparked the generative AI revolution.

Chatbot

Read the ChatGPT status page or ChatGPT alternatives, best tools like ChatGPT, is ChatGPT dead?, what happened to ChatGPT and why ChatGPT failed.

Notion AI

🟢Active

Best for legal knowledge management

Notion AI is the assistant layer inside Notion: drafting, summarizing, workspace Q&A, and AI-filled databases. Active and shipping in 2026.

Productivity

Read the Notion AI status page or why Notion AI failed.

Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI assistant available on the web, Windows, mobile devices, and Microsoft Edge. It answers questions, drafts and summarizes text, creates images, and can connect with Microsoft services.

Productivity

Read the Microsoft Copilot status page.

Dropbox Dash

🟢Active

Dropbox Dash is an AI-powered universal search and knowledge-management product for finding, organizing, and asking questions about workplace content across connected apps and company sources.

Productivity

Read the Dropbox Dash status page.

Tactiq

🟢Active

Tactiq is an AI meeting assistant and browser extension that transcribes Google Meet, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams calls. It can generate summaries, action items, follow-up text, and answers based on meeting transcripts.

Productivity

Read the Tactiq status page.

Motion

🟢Active

Motion is a productivity platform from Use Motion that combines calendar scheduling, task and project management, meeting assistance, and workflow automation. Its AI features automatically plan and reprioritize work on users’ calendars.

Productivity

Read the Motion status page.

Taskade

🟢Active

Taskade is a collaborative productivity platform combining tasks, projects, notes, chat, video calls, and AI agents. It supports shared workspaces, workflow automation, templates, and cross-device collaboration.

Productivity

Read the Taskade status page.

Clockwise

🟢Active

Clockwise is an AI-powered calendar and scheduling service for teams. It rearranges flexible meetings, protects focus time, coordinates availability, and integrates with workplace calendars and collaboration tools.

Productivity

Read the Clockwise status page.

Shortwave

🟢Active

Shortwave is an AI-powered email client for Gmail and Google Workspace. It organizes messages into bundles and adds search, summarization, writing assistance, scheduling, task, and collaboration features.

Productivity

Read the Shortwave status page.

SkedPal

🟢Active

SkedPal is a smart calendar and task-planning application that schedules tasks into available calendar time according to priorities, deadlines, routines, and user-defined time maps, then adjusts the plan as circumstances change.

Productivity

Read the SkedPal status page.

Trevor AI

🟢Active

Trevor AI is a time-blocking and daily-planning application that connects task lists with a calendar. It helps users schedule tasks into available time and includes AI-assisted planning suggestions.

Productivity

Read the Trevor AI status page.

Magical

🟢Active

Magical is a productivity and automation tool that helps users move data between browser tabs, fill forms, and generate or expand text. Its browser extension supports reusable shortcuts and workflow automation.

Productivity

Read the Magical status page.

Axiom.ai

🟢Active

Axiom.ai is a no-code browser automation platform for creating bots that click, type, scrape data, and connect web workflows with services such as Google Sheets, Zapier, and webhooks.

Productivity

Read the Axiom.ai status page.

Voicenotes

🟢Active

Voicenotes is an AI note-taking application from Coping Hard that records or imports speech, creates transcripts and summaries, and lets users organize, transform, and ask questions about saved notes.

Productivity

Read the Voicenotes status page.

AudioPen

🟢Active

AudioPen is a web-based productivity tool that records or accepts spoken notes, transcribes them, and uses AI to reorganize the transcript into clearer written text for notes, journals, emails, and drafts.

Productivity

Read the AudioPen status page.

TalkNotes

🟢Active

TalkNotes is an AI voice-note application that transcribes spoken recordings and restructures them into formats such as notes, task lists, journal entries, and other editable text outputs.

Productivity

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Fellow

🟢Active

Fellow is an AI meeting assistant and meeting-management platform that records, transcribes, and summarizes calls, organizes agendas and action items, and integrates with workplace calendars and collaboration tools.

Productivity

Read the Fellow status page.

Zoom AI Companion is a generative AI assistant built into Zoom Workplace. It can summarize meetings, identify action items, help draft chat and email messages, and answer questions using permitted workplace context.

Productivity

Read the Zoom AI Companion status page.

Tana

🟢Active

Tana is a collaborative knowledge-management and productivity workspace that organizes notes as connected nodes. It combines structured data, Supertags, search, meeting capture, and AI-assisted workflows.

Productivity

Read the Tana status page.

Wispr Flow

🟢Active

Wispr Flow is an AI voice-dictation application from Wispr AI that converts speech into edited text across desktop and mobile apps. It applies contextual formatting and supports personalized vocabulary and commands.

Productivity

Read the Wispr Flow status page.

MacWhisper

🟢Active

A macOS transcription application from Good Snooze that converts audio files and microphone recordings into text. It supports local Whisper models, speaker recognition, batch transcription, and export formats including subtitles.

Productivity

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Rows AI

🟢Active

AI features built into the Rows spreadsheet platform for generating formulas, analyzing and transforming data, creating tables, and answering spreadsheet questions with natural-language prompts.

Productivity

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GPT for Work

🟢Active

GPT for Work provides AI assistants inside Google Sheets, Docs, Slides, Gmail, and Microsoft Excel and Word. Its add-ons support bulk text generation, extraction, classification, translation, and document workflows.

Productivity

Read the GPT for Work status page.

Elicit

🟢Active

Elicit is an AI research assistant from Ought that helps researchers search academic literature, screen papers, extract structured information, and synthesize findings for literature reviews and systematic reviews.

Search

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ChatGPT Search

🟢Active

ChatGPT Search is OpenAI’s web-search capability within ChatGPT. It finds timely information online, returns conversational answers with links to sources, and can search automatically or when users select the web-search option.

Search

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Felo Search

🟢Active

Felo Search is an AI-powered search engine from Tokyo-based Sparticle. It searches across languages, translates information into the user’s language, summarizes cited web sources, and offers topic collections and research-oriented features.

Search

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Phind

🟢Active

Phind is an AI search engine and answer assistant aimed primarily at developers. It combines web search with large language models to answer technical questions, cite sources, explain code, and assist with programming tasks.

Search

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iAsk

🟢Active

iAsk is an AI-powered question-answering search engine that generates natural-language responses and cites web sources. It is operated by AI Search Inc. and offers general web, academic, forum, expert, and wiki-focused search modes.

Search

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Brave Search

🟢Active

Brave Search is an independent web search engine from Brave Software. It uses its own search index and offers optional AI-generated answers, while emphasizing privacy and not profiling users for targeted advertising.

Search

Read the Brave Search status page.

Exa

🟢Active

Exa is an AI-focused web search engine and API for developers and AI agents. It supports semantic and keyword search, webpage content retrieval, similarity search, and research workflows over web data.

Search

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Consensus

🟢Active

Consensus is an AI-powered academic search engine that searches peer-reviewed research and uses language models to summarize findings. It provides cited answers, paper-level insights, and synthesis tools for research questions.

Search

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Google Lens

🟢Active

Google Lens is a visual search and recognition product that uses a phone camera or image to identify objects, extract and translate text, find visually similar products, and surface related information from Google Search.

Search

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Andi

🟢Active

Andi is an AI-powered web search assistant that presents direct answers alongside cited source links. It uses a conversational interface and is designed to help users search, summarize, and explore information without conventional ad-heavy result pages.

Search

Read the Andi status page.

Kagi Search

🟢Active

Kagi Search is a paid, ad-free search engine operated by Kagi Inc. It uses its own indexes alongside other sources and gives subscribers controls for ranking, blocking, and personalizing websites in results.

Search

Read the Kagi Search status page.

Hebbia

🟢Active

Hebbia develops AI-powered enterprise search and document analysis software. Its Matrix product lets teams analyze large collections of documents, extract structured findings, compare sources, and trace outputs to citations.

Search

Read the Hebbia status page.

PimEyes

🟢Active

PimEyes is a facial-recognition search engine that lets users upload a face photo to locate visually similar faces on publicly accessible websites. It provides source links and paid monitoring tools, but excludes social media from its stated search scope.

Search

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Lucidworks Fusion is an enterprise search and discovery platform built on Apache Solr. It provides tools for indexing, querying, relevance tuning, personalization, analytics, and machine-learning-assisted search applications.

Search

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Searchie

🟢Active

Searchie is a platform for hosting, transcribing, searching, and organizing video and audio content. It supports searchable media hubs, captions, analytics, and content repurposing for courses, memberships, and internal knowledge libraries.

Search

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AlphaSense

🟢Active

AlphaSense is a market-intelligence search platform for companies and financial professionals. It applies AI and natural-language processing to search filings, earnings calls, research, news, and expert transcripts.

Search

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MeetGeek

🟢Active

MeetGeek is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes online and in-person meetings. It integrates with conferencing, calendar, CRM, and collaboration tools.

Productivity

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Sembly AI

🟢Active

Sembly AI is an AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes online meetings. It also extracts action items, decisions, and topics and supports searchable meeting records and team collaboration.

Productivity

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Read AI

🟢Active

Read AI is a meeting productivity platform that records and transcribes online meetings, generates summaries and action items, and provides analytics across meetings, email, and workplace messaging.

Productivity

Read the Read AI status page.

Supernormal

🟢Active

Supernormal is an AI meeting assistant that records or processes meetings, generates transcripts and notes, and helps teams share follow-ups. It integrates with common videoconferencing and workplace tools.

Productivity

Read the Supernormal status page.

Krisp

🟢Active

Krisp is an AI-powered meeting assistant and audio utility that removes background noise, suppresses voices and echo, transcribes calls, and produces meeting notes across conferencing applications.

Productivity

Read the Krisp status page.

Jamie

🟢Active

Jamie is an AI meeting assistant that records and summarizes conversations, extracts action items, and supports follow-up work. It is designed to function across meeting platforms and for in-person conversations.

Productivity

Read the Jamie status page.

Circleback

🟢Active

Circleback is an AI meeting assistant that records or joins meetings, produces transcripts and summaries, identifies action items, and can sync meeting information with supported workplace tools.

Productivity

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Bluedot

🟢Active

Bluedot is an AI meeting recorder and note-taking service for Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and in-person conversations. It records meetings without a visible bot and produces transcripts, summaries, and follow-up notes.

Productivity

Read the Bluedot status page.

Google’s generative AI features for Workspace apps, including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Chat, and Drive. It helps users draft, summarize, analyze, create images, take meeting notes, and find information.

Productivity

Read the Gemini for Google Workspace status page.

Slack AI

🟢Active

Slack AI is a set of generative AI features built into Slack for searching workplace knowledge, summarizing conversations and channels, creating recaps, and helping users find answers from organizational content.

Productivity

Read the Slack AI status page.

Box AI

🟢Active

Box AI is a generative AI capability within Box for asking questions about stored content, summarizing documents, extracting metadata, and supporting content workflows while applying Box permissions and security controls.

Productivity

Read the Box AI status page.

Tettra

🟢Active

Tettra is an AI-assisted knowledge management and internal wiki platform for teams. It centralizes company documentation, integrates with workplace tools, and helps employees find answers through its Kai assistant.

Productivity

Read the Tettra status page.

Craft

🟢Active

Craft is a collaborative document and note-taking app for individuals and teams. It supports structured pages, rich media, real-time editing, publishing, tasks, calendar-linked notes, and AI-assisted writing and search.

Productivity

Read the Craft status page.

Lex

🟢Active

Lex is an AI-assisted writing application from Every. It combines a document editor with tools for drafting, rewriting, feedback, collaboration, and publishing, and is available through the web and native apps.

Productivity

Read the Lex status page.

Dead or At Risk

These have shut down, been abandoned, or been absorbed into another company. Check before you renew.

Casetext

🟡Acquired / Merged

Acquired by Thomson Reuters

Casetext launched CoCounsel in March 2023, a GPT-4-powered legal assistant for case analysis, contract review, and deposition prep. The product gained traction with AmLaw 100 firms and Thomson Reuters announced a $650M cash acquisition in June 2023, closing in August. CoCounsel was rebranded as a Thomson Reuters product line and integrated with Westlaw. The standalone Casetext site is gone.

Search

Read the Casetext status page or Casetext alternatives, best tools like Casetext, is Casetext dead? and why Casetext failed.

Reclaim.ai

🟡Acquired / Merged

Reclaim.ai is an AI scheduling and calendar automation service that places tasks, habits, focus time, breaks, and meetings on users’ calendars. Dropbox acquired the company in 2024, and Reclaim continues to be offered as a product.

Productivity

Read the Reclaim.ai status page or why Reclaim.ai failed.

Superhuman

🟡Acquired / Merged

Superhuman is a subscription email client for Gmail and Microsoft Outlook. It emphasizes keyboard-driven workflows and includes AI features for drafting, summarizing, searching, and managing email.

Productivity

Read the Superhuman status page or why Superhuman failed.

Woven

🔴Shutdown / Dead

Woven was a calendar and scheduling application that combined multiple calendars, event templates, scheduling links, maps, and analytics. Slack acquired its team in 2020, and the Woven service later closed.

ProductivityShutdown: 2021

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Mayday

🔴Shutdown / Dead

Mayday was an AI-assisted calendar and task-management app that scheduled tasks around meetings, protected focus time, and helped users reorganize their day across supported calendar services.

ProductivityShutdown: 2024

Read the Mayday status page or why Mayday failed.

Compose AI

🟡Acquired / Merged

Compose AI was a Chrome writing assistant that offered autocomplete, text generation, rephrasing, and email reply features across websites. The company later announced that it had joined OpenAI and discontinued the extension.

ProductivityShutdown: 2023

Read the Compose AI status page or why Compose AI failed.

Flowrite

🟡Acquired / Merged

Flowrite was an AI writing assistant for composing emails and messages from short prompts. Its browser-based tools generated replies and drafts for common workplace communication. The product was acquired by Maestro Labs in 2024.

Productivity

Read the Flowrite status page or why Flowrite failed.

Stashpad

🟡Acquired / Merged

Stashpad was a developer-focused note-taking and productivity app designed for rapid capture, organization, and retrieval of working notes. Its team later announced that Stashpad would shut down after being acquired by ClickUp.

ProductivityShutdown: 2024

Read the Stashpad status page or why Stashpad failed.

Diagram

🟡Acquired / Merged

Diagram was an AI design-tool company that built Figma plugins including Magician, an assistant for generating interface copy, icons, and images. Figma acquired the company in 2023 and incorporated its team and technology.

Productivity

Read the Diagram status page or why Diagram failed.

Luna

🟡Acquired / Merged

Luna is an AI-assisted sales prospecting platform that recommends leads and drafts personalized outreach emails. Public company materials indicate the original standalone service was folded into software company Reply in 2023.

Productivity

Read the Luna status page or why Luna failed.

Kronologic

🟡Acquired / Merged

Kronologic developed calendar-based sales automation software that used AI to identify leads, propose meeting times, and schedule conversations for revenue teams. It was acquired by East11 Ventures in 2024.

Productivity

Read the Kronologic status page or why Kronologic failed.

Timeful

🟡Acquired / Merged

Timeful was an intelligent calendar and task-management app that used behavioral science and machine learning to suggest when users should schedule tasks and habits. Google acquired its team and technology in 2015.

Productivity

Read the Timeful status page or why Timeful failed.

Julie Desk

🟡Acquired / Merged

Julie Desk was a French AI-powered virtual assistant that scheduled meetings by email, coordinating participants and calendars through natural-language exchanges. Its technology was acquired by Accor in 2019.

Productivity

Read the Julie Desk status page or why Julie Desk failed.

Limitless

🟡Acquired / Merged

Limitless is an AI-powered memory and meeting assistant from Limitless AI that records or imports conversations, produces transcripts and summaries, and lets users search and query captured information across its apps and wearable Pendant.

Productivity

Read the Limitless status page or why Limitless failed.

Storia AI

🟡Acquired / Merged

Storia AI was an AI-assisted visual design and image-editing product developed by Storia. Its tools included text editing within generated images, object removal, background changes, and image cleanup.

Productivity

Read the Storia AI status page or why Storia AI failed.

Voiceliner

🟠Possibly Dead

Voiceliner was an Android-first voice notes and outlining app that converted spoken thoughts into transcribed, nested bullet points. Its open-source code remains available, but the hosted product’s current operation is unclear.

Productivity

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Kono

🟠Possibly Dead

Kono was an AI scheduling assistant that coordinated meetings through email, calendar integrations, and natural-language requests. Public product updates appear to have ended, and its former homepage is no longer reliably accessible.

Productivity

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Undock

🟠Possibly Dead

Undock was an AI-assisted calendar and scheduling service that let users propose meeting times, coordinate availability, and book meetings through browser and calendar integrations.

Productivity

Read the Undock status page.

Scite

🟡Acquired / Merged

Scite is a research discovery and citation-analysis platform that uses machine learning to classify citation contexts as supporting, contrasting, or mentioning a claim. It also offers literature search and an AI research assistant.

Search

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Waldo

🟡Acquired / Merged

Waldo was a research search platform for finding and extracting information from online sources. It provided source-backed answers and tools for organizing research, with a focus on professional knowledge work.

Search

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Rewatch

🔴Shutdown / Dead

Rewatch was a collaborative video workspace for recording, organizing, searching, and sharing company meetings and screen recordings. Atlassian acquired the company in 2024 and discontinued the standalone service in 2026.

ProductivityShutdown: 2026

Read the Rewatch status page.

Airgram

🔴Shutdown / Dead

Airgram was an AI meeting assistant for recording, transcribing, summarizing, and organizing online meetings. It supported collaboration around notes and action items and integrations with major conferencing platforms.

ProductivityShutdown: 2023

Read the Airgram status page.

Side-by-Side Comparison

ToolStatusBest forDeep dive
Harvey AIActiveBest firm-wide legal AI platformHarvey AI alternatives
ClaudeActiveBest for contract and document reviewClaude alternatives
ChatGPTActiveBest for drafting and summarisationChatGPT alternatives
Notion AIActiveBest for legal knowledge managementwhy Notion AI failed
CasetextAcquired / MergedAcquired by Thomson ReutersCasetext alternatives
Microsoft CopilotActiveMicrosoft Copilot status
Dropbox DashActiveDropbox Dash status
TactiqActiveTactiq status
MotionActiveMotion status
TaskadeActiveTaskade status
ClockwiseActiveClockwise status
ShortwaveActiveShortwave status
Reclaim.aiAcquired / Mergedwhy Reclaim.ai failed
SuperhumanAcquired / Mergedwhy Superhuman failed
SkedPalActiveSkedPal status
Trevor AIActiveTrevor AI status
WovenShutdown / Deadwhy Woven failed
MaydayShutdown / Deadwhy Mayday failed
Compose AIAcquired / Mergedwhy Compose AI failed
MagicalActiveMagical status
Axiom.aiActiveAxiom.ai status
VoicenotesActiveVoicenotes status
FlowriteAcquired / Mergedwhy Flowrite failed
AudioPenActiveAudioPen status
StashpadAcquired / Mergedwhy Stashpad failed
TalkNotesActiveTalkNotes status
DiagramAcquired / Mergedwhy Diagram failed
FellowActiveFellow status
Zoom AI CompanionActiveZoom AI Companion status
LunaAcquired / Mergedwhy Luna failed
KronologicAcquired / Mergedwhy Kronologic failed
TimefulAcquired / Mergedwhy Timeful failed
Julie DeskAcquired / Mergedwhy Julie Desk failed
LimitlessAcquired / Mergedwhy Limitless failed
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Brave SearchActiveBrave Search status
ExaActiveExa status
ConsensusActiveConsensus status
Google LensActiveGoogle Lens status
AndiActiveAndi status
Kagi SearchActiveKagi Search status
HebbiaActiveHebbia status
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Lucidworks FusionActiveLucidworks Fusion status
SearchieActiveSearchie status
AlphaSenseActiveAlphaSense status
MeetGeekActiveMeetGeek status
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SupernormalActiveSupernormal status
KrispActiveKrisp status
JamieActiveJamie status
CirclebackActiveCircleback status
BluedotActiveBluedot status
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How to Choose

  • Is the underlying legal corpus licensed, current, and traceable to a primary source you can open?
  • Does the tool leave an audit trail a partner, client, or regulator could actually review?
  • Is client material excluded from model training by default and in writing, on your exact plan?
  • Does it fit your document management and matter numbering, or quietly become a shadow system?
  • Who owns the roadmap now - the founders, a publisher, or a private equity buyer?
  • If the vendor shut down on Friday, could you export every work product before Monday?

Frequently Asked Questions

How is AI used in the legal industry in 2026?

Five jobs dominate: research triage, document review, first-draft generation, knowledge management, and client-facing intake. Legal judgement, sign-off, and filing responsibility remain entirely human, and every court that has addressed the issue has said so plainly.

What was the biggest legal AI acquisition?

Thomson Reuters buying Casetext, maker of the CoCounsel assistant, is the category-defining deal. It folded an independent AI research assistant into an incumbent publisher and confirmed that licensed content, not the model, is the durable asset.

Is legal AI regulated?

There is no dedicated regime in most jurisdictions yet. Professional conduct duties on competence, confidentiality, supervision, and candour to the court already apply in full to AI-assisted work, and courts have not been sympathetic to the argument that a tool made the error.

Can I upload a client document to a general chatbot?

Only on a plan whose terms exclude your data from training, and only if your engagement letter, conflicts position, and any protective order allow it. Consumer tiers usually fail that test, so treat them as public.

How do I stop hallucinated citations reaching a filing?

Treat every AI citation as unverified until someone opens the primary source, confirms the holding, checks it is still good law, and records the check. Make that a reviewable line in the matter file rather than a cultural habit.

Which legal AI tools are most at risk of disappearing?

Point solutions that only summarise, because general models now do that adequately for a fraction of the price. Watch for stalled changelogs, silent social accounts, expiring domains, and support that stops replying - each tool page here tracks those signals with a date.

Is legal AI cheaper than hiring?

It shifts cost rather than removing it. Seat licences are predictable; verification time, rework, and migration are not. Firms that budget only for licences are the ones surprised at renewal.

What happens to our precedent bank if a vendor shuts down?

Documents you downloaded survive. The workspace around them usually does not - prompt libraries, matter notes, tags, and chat histories go first. Export monthly into your own document management system so the vendor is never the only copy.

Keep Reading: Status Checks and Alternatives

Deeper research on the tools above — shutdown reports, death-signal checks, and replacement shortlists.

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