Harvey rolls out 500 legal AI agents

The prebuilt agents, the provider said in a statement, cover common legal workflows out of the box, while Agent Builder lets firms further tailor these agents into custom agents grounded in their own knowledge, processes, and ways of working.

The combination of ready-to-use agents, built for and by lawyers and tested against evaluation benchmarks for accuracy and relevance, and robust customisation options within Agent Builder, “means that Harvey can support any legal organisation’s agentic needs”, it said.

“Whether legal teams are seeking convenience with out-of-the-box use cases or greater flexibility with developing their own text-based agents, they can use Harvey’s platform to streamline existing processes and promote more sophisticated agent adoption.”

The news follows global SaaS company Ansarada integrating with Harvey, as reported earlier this month, Axiom rolling out Harvey for in-house teams in April, Corrs doing so in February, and the platform entering leading Australian law schools UTS and the University of Sydney in January.

Speaking about the rollout, Harvey chief executive Winston Weinberg said the legal profession “is now well past AI as an assistant and officially in the era of legal agents”.

“We wanted every organisation globally to be able to chart its own path with agents in Harvey, so we have a deep bench of off-the-shelf agents to choose from and an intuitive agent builder that makes the process of building highly sophisticated agents seamless for law firms and in-house teams alike,” he said.

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The provider’s chief product officer, Anique Drumright, said: “Our agents aren’t designed by prompt engineers. They’re designed by lawyers who’ve done the work these agents handle.

“Now every legal team can do the same: take what makes their practice distinctive and turn it into agents that scale.”

Clayton Utz partner and head of AI, Simon Newcomb, noted that Harvey agents enable the BigLaw firm, which onboarded Harvey in September, to complete larger and more complex use cases that AI tools couldn’t handle previously.

“They’re a genuinely different kind of tool – more like digital colleagues who can perform delegated work,” he said.

“Our lawyers can collaborate with agents applying human creativity in designing solutions, making judgment calls, verifying and accepting accountability for output and using their ability to build trusted client relationships.”