LegalFabISO 27001:2022SOC 2 Type IIFCA-aligned
1 · Fabric
2 · Studio
3 · Utilities
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LegalFab · The Agentic OS for Law Firms

The Central Nervous System
for the connected legal enterprise.

LegalFab turns the matters, documents, people, bills and relationships already inside your firm — continuously enriched by external intelligence and OSINT from beyond its walls — into a living, governed intelligence layer, drawn from the practice, matter, finance and knowledge systems you already run, operated by your lawyers and agents across the client and matter lifecycle.

No rip-and-replace.No data migration or duplication.No vendor lock-in.
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Certified
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
FCA-aligned
Risk & compliance
Layer 3
Utilities · across the lifecycle

Governed legal utilities

Modular applications on top of the platform — select only what you need today, expand to the full lifecycle when you are ready.

Compliance · Conflicts & AMLBusiness DevelopmentPricingMatter MgmtResourcing
built in the Studio
every matter enriches the Fabric
Layer 2
The builder

Agentic Studio

Where the firm composes, tests and publishes governed agents — custom agents, virtual experts and explainable automation.

grounds
enriches · governed
Layer 1
The foundation

Knowledge Fabric

Clients, matters, documents, people, practice groups and bills — resolved into one living graph, read in place — permission-aware on every access.

The architecture

Don’t rebuild the firm. Draw it.

LegalFab discovers and resolves the systems you already run — practice management, DMS, finance and CRM — into a governed knowledge state, then gives your people and agents the tools to operate, refine and compound it.

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Layer 1 · The foundation

The Knowledge Fabric.

Your firm already knows — LegalFab makes it usable. It connects clients, matters, documents, people, practice areas and bills as one living graph, read in place and kept current — then reaches past the firm’s own systems, resolving external intelligence and OSINT into the same graph. And it is governed from the first read — every access honours the firm’s permissions, ethical walls and client confidentiality. It is the ground every agent and utility stands on.

Resolve in place · beyond the lakehouse

Access, not extraction.

A lakehouse unifies storage; a Knowledge Fabric unifies meaning. LegalFab reads from your systems and resolves on the way back — data stays in source, nothing is duplicated, and there is no vendor lock-in. And it doesn’t stop at the firm’s walls: registries, sanctions and adverse-media OSINT are resolved into the very same graph — so the firm’s knowledge reaches beyond its own four systems. And every read is governed — the fabric honours each source system’s own permissions and the firm’s ethical walls, so resolving in place never widens who can see what.

Knowledge Fabric
reads · resolves · never copies
◆ every read is permission-aware
Practice Mgmt
matters · clients
DMS
documents · versions
Finance / Billing
WIP · bills
CRM / Marketing
relationships
Registries
official records
OSINT / external
beyond the firm’s walls
Knowledge graph

A living graph of the firm.

Clients, matters, people, documents, practice groups and bills — resolved into typed, dated, provenanced relationships. Hover a node to trace its edges.

REL. PARTNERFOR_CLIENTADVERSE_TOHAS_DOCPRACTICEBILLEDMeridianJ. WhitfieldCFL-48213M&ANorthgateEng. letterWIP £48k
Interconnection: this is the exact graph the Studio’s agents reason over and the Conflicts utility screens against — one resolved state, every practice group sharing it.
Permission-aware by constructionOne resolved state is never a flat one. Ethical walls, matter-level need-to-know and client confidentiality are enforced at the graph itself — on every read, for every person and every agent. Each user and each agency traverses only the slice it is cleared for, so one shared fabric never means one undivided view. Governance isn’t a layer bolted on top; it is the edge of the graph — a world-class access model that is the reason a firm can safely run on a single resolved state.
Entity resolution

A name match is never an identity.

The same party appears differently in every system. LegalFab resolves them into one golden record — the backbone of relationship-aware conflicts and perpetual KYC. Every merge is provenanced and reversible, uncertain matches go to a person rather than a guess, and the resolved identity inherits the same access controls as its sources.

CRM
John A. Smith
London · client contact
Practice management
J. Smith
Smith & Co · matter 4821
Corporate registry
Jonathan Smith
DOB 1979 · director, 3 cos
match & clusterpartner review
◆ Golden record
Jonathan A. Smith
Confidence
0.94
3 sources merged · registry p.2 · CRM #7741 · matter 4821
◆ provenanced · reversible · access-inherited
Stage 1
Blocking
candidate pairs
Stage 2
Matching
deterministic + probabilistic
Stage 3
Clustering
configurable thresholds
Stage 4
Partner review
uncertain matches
Stage 5
Golden record
authoritative party
Time to value

The model emerges as the fabric understands the firm.

You do not model the firm before the fabric can understand it. Value does not wait for a modelling programme.

The usual order
define modelmap systemstransform datapopulatevalidateuse
The fabric’s order
connectdiscoverresolvederiverefine while already using
Firm memory

A knowledge state that compounds.

A persistent, provenanced graph — schema-bounded so the system cannot invent entities outside your schema. It accumulates as matters are run.

The loop, previewedThe fabric is not enriched only from source systems. Governed schemas, accepted relationships, approved decisions and matter outcomes created in the Studio cascade back into this state — with provenance, authority and version. See Layer 2.
◆ Fabric ⇄ Studio

The Fabric grounds — the Studio enriches.

↑ Fabric → Studio · grounded

Every agent reasons over the resolved graph — clients, matters, relationships and provenance — not raw, unresolved systems.

↓ Studio → Fabric · governed

Schemas, accepted relationships, approved decisions and matter outcomes cascade back — with provenance, authority and version.

Observed
an agent discovered
Proposed
system inferred
Validated
evidence confirmed
Approved
authorised knowledge
Superseded
later evidence changed it
A design disciplineSelf-enriching under governance — not self-learning without supervision. Nothing becomes firm truth until it has passed validation and approval.
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Layer 2 · The builder

The Agentic Studio.

Where the firm composes its own governed agents — and orchestrates them into relationship-aware workflows with lawyer review gates. Every agent inherits its user’s permissions — it can only ever act on the slice of the Fabric that user is cleared to see. It is how the Fabric is put to work, and how it is enriched.

True agentic AI

Ask. Automate. Explain.

Ask any question and get an answer grounded in real-time operational intelligence; run agentic workflows that reason over your data; and create new agents that execute against the firm’s unified foundation.

Custom-build agents

Tailored to specific practice areas or internal workflows.

Virtual experts

Answer complex queries from the firm’s unique historical knowledge.

Explainable automation

Beyond “black box” AI — reliable, audit-ready processes.

Two ways in

Two hands on the same tool.

Fee-earner · business user

Build it in language.

No code. Describe the outcome; the Studio wires it.
Describe it in wordsAI planning → a draft agent
Upload matter documentsdomain discovery → schemas
A sentence → a workflowtext-to-pipeline
Start from a templatepre-built legal workflows
Knowledge engineer · IT

Compose with full control.

Every node, schema and connector — yours to shape.
Compose in the visual builderdrag-drop nodes · live validation
Write code & scriptscustom logic in the plan
Author custom connectorsto your PMS / DMS / finance
Define schemas & plansfull query-plan control
Both routes converge on one governed agent.
schema-bound · sandboxed · lawyer-gated · audited
Build without code

Describe it. See the workflow.

Write the workflow in a sentence; the Studio generates a pipeline you can preview, refine and run — or drag it together from the palette. No engineering bench required.

Input
LLM
Code
If / Else
Knowledge
Tool
Output
Template
Iteration
Agent
Client
Lawyer gate
Orchestration

Agencies, not agents.

Compose agents into a relationship-aware workflow — with lawyer review gates wherever judgement belongs. Governed teams of agents, each with one job.

Intake
Conflicts check
AML / KYC
Lawyer reviewclearance gate
Matter open
How much it runs itself

The level of automation is a dial.

Each use case — and each step — runs at the autonomy its risk allows, from fully deterministic to fully agentic.

Determined · controlledAutonomous · agentic
Deterministic
Fixed, reproducible steps.
Autonomy 1/5
BPM-Governed
A defined process routes the work.
Autonomy 2/5
Human-in-the-Middle
Agents work; a lawyer approves.
Autonomy 3/5
Self-Organising
Agents adapt within policy.
Autonomy 4/5
Pure Agentic
Autonomous within the sandbox.
Autonomy 5/5
The dial is per stepDocument extraction runs agentic, the conflict clearance is lawyer-gated, the fee calculation is deterministic — all in one workflow.
◆ Studio → Utilities

A utility is the platform, pointed at a stage of the lifecycle.

↑ Studio → Utility · assembled

A utility is agents, workflows and dashboards composed in the Studio and published — the same build surface, packaged for a stage of the client & matter lifecycle.

↺ Utility → Fabric · sharpens

As a utility runs, its governed decisions and matter outcomes enrich the Fabric — the firm gets sharper at the work the more work it does.

What that means commercially

Legal intelligence, without the transformation programme.

LegalFab draws the firm from the systems already running, turns that knowledge into governed execution, and compounds what the firm learns — without a new data estate, a hand-built ontology, or a permanent specialist team.

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Layer 3 · Across the lifecycle

Governed legal utilities.

A modular ecosystem across the client & matter lifecycle — from first contact to final bill. Select only what you need today; expand to the full lifecycle when you are ready. Every utility inherits the same governance — permissions, ethical walls and a complete audit trail — from the platform beneath it. Click a utility to expand it.

Deep-dive below

Compliance · Conflicts & KYC/AML

Relationship-aware conflict management and FCA-compliant perpetual KYC/AML — the deepest deep-dive.
Inside this utility
Relationship-aware conflictsentities, not just names
Perpetual AML / KYCcontinuous, not point-in-time
Ethical wallsenforced across systems
Audit-readyexplainable & traceable
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Available

Business Development & Intelligence

Firm-wide relationship mapping, proactive BD and cross-sell — through the lens of public signals.
Inside this utility
Relationship mappingwho-knows-whom, firm-wide
Cross-sellrecommendations across matters
Sector strategyOSINT-led foresight
Win rateshare-of-wallet growth
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Available

Pricing & Profitability

The true cost of work, accurate scoping and predictive margin — confident, data-driven pricing.
Inside this utility
Historical benchmarkingtrue cost of work
AFAsalternative fee arrangements
Matter scopingdata-driven, accurate
Margin modellingpredictive
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Available

Matter Management

Unified dashboards, proactive deadline & overrun alerts, and automatic capture of decisions and risks.
Inside this utility
Unified dashboardssingle reliable view
Alertsdeadlines & overruns
Decision capturerisks & actions
Resourcingallocation optimised
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Available

Resource Management

A firm-wide command centre for skills, capacity and cost — the right people on the right matters.
Inside this utility
Capacityfirm-wide, real-time
Optimal teamskills · cost · availability
Utilisationbalanced & fair
Mobilisationfaster matter start
Click to expand ▾
In the Studio

Build your own

Any governed workflow the firm needs — composed in the Studio, on the Fabric.
Inside this utility
Composeagencies + dashboards
Groundon the Fabric graph
Governsandbox · gates · audit
Publishreusable utility
Click to expand ▾
Open the full Conflicts explainer the complete relationship-aware conflicts deep-dive
Deployment

Deploy it where you need it.

The same governed platform, delivered against your estate, your controls and your operating model.

Cloud

LegalFab-hosted, single-tenant, in your region.

Private cloud / VPC

Your cloud account, private connectivity.

On-premises

Inside the firm; read-in-place to sources.

Air-gapped

Agent-based, outbound-only for isolated estates.

Managed
Managed Service / BPO

Run as a managed service or embedded in a legal BPO / ALSP — outcome- or per-matter pricing, with LegalFab operating the agencies to a guaranteed margin.

Trust & governance

Governed & certified by construction.

Security and compliance are woven through every layer — and independently certified. Built for FCA-regulated risk and compliance.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022
Information security · certified
SOC 2 Type II
Trust services · certified
FCA-aligned
Risk & compliance architecture
Resolve in place

Records never leave source systems.

Lawyer-gated

Judgement stays with fee-earners.

Ethical walls

Enforced across every system.

Tamper-evident audit

Complete data lineage, audit-ready.

Everything, working together

The whole machine.

Your systems stay in place and are discovered and resolved into one governed knowledge state. Agencies, built in the Studio, ground on it and run — with lawyers at the gates. Utilities ship on top, across the client & matter lifecycle. And every matter flows back, so the whole firm compounds.

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discover · ground · rungoverned enrichmentagentslawyer gates
The connected law firm of the future

One knowledge fabric.
Every stage of the lifecycle.

Connect the firm. Understand it. Build how it works. Let governed agents do the work — across the client and matter lifecycle, from first contact to final bill, and let every matter compound. Compliance is one utility; the same platform produces the rest, and any you build.

Connect the firm
Understand it
Build how it works
Compound every matter
ISO 27001:2022
Certified
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
FCA-aligned
Compliance
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