A controlled AI workspace for matter teams handling pleadings, contracts, opinions, regulator correspondence, and privileged context.
For general counsel, matter teams, and outside counsel evaluating private AI for privileged and regulated legal work.
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Legal teams are under pressure to use AI, but most matter work cannot be treated as generic productivity text. Pleadings, opinions, regulator correspondence, contracts, witness materials, and settlement strategy all carry confidentiality and privilege concerns.
The right pattern is a controlled matter workspace where the record, questions, outputs, and audit trail remain inside a governed boundary. That lets the team benefit from AI without pushing privileged context into individual accounts.
Matter teams need to understand positions, counterparties, counsel, deadlines, filings, decisions, and prior advice. A folder search can retrieve files; it rarely tells the team how the pieces relate.
Steward links matter documents to people, entities, dates, decisions, and House Rules. The result is a workspace that can answer with citations and preserve the reasoning chain for later review.
In a demo, inspect how the system handles source-backed answers, workspace rules, exportability, and access boundaries. Ask where data is hosted, who can access it operationally, whether any third-party model provider receives the prompt, and how outputs are logged.
The legal buyer should also test practical questions: what changed between drafts, which positions have been taken before, what open issues remain, and what evidence supports a proposed answer.
| Criterion | Conventional pattern | Steward pattern |
|---|---|---|
| E-discovery and search | Useful for finding documents and responsive material. | Adds a matter memory layer for questions, decisions, and cited reasoning. |
| Drafting support | Often happens in personal AI tools or generic enterprise copilots. | Happens inside a matter workspace with rules, citations, and boundaries. |
| Matter continuity | Lives in partner memory, email, and document management systems. | Preserved as a connected record the whole permitted team can inspect. |
No. Steward is the private AI and matter memory layer. It can complement existing document systems where those systems remain the official repository.
Legal teams need to verify source material. A confident answer without source grounding is not enough for privileged or regulated work.
The product is designed around closed groups that may include internal and external counsel, with permissions scoped to the matter.
The live demo uses fictional records, so your team can inspect Steward's graph, vault, House Rules, citations, and team memory before sharing sensitive material or starting procurement.