Harvey, which builds AI tools for lawyers, announced the updates on its blog on 12 November. The latest redlined draft shows the changes since the previous version, the company said, but not why earlier terms were accepted or where the legal department gave ground. Harvey said that information is scattered across emails and old drafts.

Each new version is reviewed against earlier rounds

When the counterparty returns a new version, Contract Intelligence links it to the existing contract. The application adds the version to the overview alongside prior rounds and related agreements. Harvey said the tool takes into account positions the legal department has already accepted when it reviews the new round. This also lets another lawyer continue the review if the original reviewer is away.

Contracts are given statuses: in review, awaiting the counterparty and signed. The company said these let the legal department see in one place what stage each contract has reached. Nobody needs to update a separate spreadsheet.

A signed contract goes into the contract repository, where the terms the legal department accepted are extracted. Harvey’s AI agents for contract review, Contract Review Agents, use them when suggesting changes to the next contract. Users can also ask about their contracts, for example which suppliers objected to security terms and which terms were eventually accepted.

Harvey says this helps contracts close faster. The company gives no figures to support the claim. The features are in early access: the company directs interested customers to contact their account manager or request a demo.

Agents sort lawyers’ email

Blockchain.News reported on 13 November that Harvey has released Harvey Agents for Outlook, agents for the Outlook email program. The agents prioritise emails, draft responses, create tasks and organise correspondence, the publication said. A lawyer reviews and approves each action.

In the article, people with legal backgrounds, some of them working as legal engineers, describe possible uses. They say the agents could compile a daily briefing of meetings and urgent messages, draft calendar entries based on court orders and file messages in Harvey’s Vault document store. These are ideas about how the agents could be used, not measured results. Blockchain.News does not say it tested the tool. Harvey’s blog carries the company’s own post on the same subject, How Legal Engineers Would Use Harvey Agents for Outlook.

Blockchain.News said demos of Harvey Agents for Outlook can be requested through Harvey’s platform.