Chancery: A Legal Intelligence Platform Built on Your Firm's Knowledge

Overview

Chancery is a legal intelligence platform designed to help law firms stop searching and start finding. It combines an embedded legal assistant, precedent intelligence, matter intelligence, and specialized practice area modules to streamline workflows. Currently, the platform launches with a focus on the Private Client practice area.

Benefits

Chancery leverages a firm's own knowledge base to provide three primary forms of intelligence. First, users can describe what they are looking for, and Chancery will locate the specific clause, letter, or draft that worked previously. This involves semantic search across the firm's entire precedent library to find documents that have been signed off or used to close deals. Second, every matter is assigned a structured record containing documents, correspondence, key dates, parties, and status. This ensures that when a solicitor opens a matter, they see the full picture, and when they leave the firm, the institutional knowledge remains accessible. Third, the Legal Assistant allows users to ask natural language questions about any document. Users can upload leases, trust deeds, or bundles of correspondence, and the assistant will read, cross-reference, and cite its sources. Crucially, this assistant is grounded in the firm's own files rather than generic training data. The platform also offers cross-matter search, which allows users to combine insights from matters and precedents in a single conversation, enabling them to compare clauses and query across the entire firm's accessible data.

Chancery targets specific inefficiencies identified in the legal sector. According to the Clio Legal Trends Report (2024), 63% of a lawyer's day is spent on non-billable work. Lawyers typically bill only 2.6 hours of an eight-hour day, with the remainder lost to administrative tasks like opening folders, scrolling through PDFs, recreating existing documents, and emailing colleagues for information. Chancery aims to eliminate this friction. When lawyers leave a firm, they take years of institutional memory with them. Chancery captures precedents, perfected clauses, and built-up shortcuts, ensuring new hires do not have to spend months rediscovering what already exists. While 60% of UK lawyers rank precedent repositories as their most important technology solution, few market solutions are purpose-built to solve this specific problem. Additionally, 83% of firms have yet to embed AI into their strategy, and 42% of clients prefer firms that are using or exploring AI.

Use Cases

Chancery is designed for mid-market firms, offering a solution that deploys in days rather than the months required by enterprise legal AI solutions that need dedicated transformation teams and minimum rollouts of twenty seats. The platform handles foundational intelligence while offering specialist modules for specific workflows. The current launch module is for Private Client. This module includes IHT400 automation, estate planning intelligence, and advisory research. The workflow operates on a 4-phase process with human-in-the-loop approval at every step. The system is deterministic, not generative. Calculations use a rules engine rather than AI to ensure exact mathematical results.

Additional practice area modules are on the roadmap and will be developed in partnership with firms. Early partners can shape these modules and receive priority access without a commitment. The platform allows firms to start with two solicitors or two hundred. The base platform includes generalist AI capabilities such as the legal assistant, intelligent summarization, cross-matter search, precedent analysis, firm-wide administration, and a monthly message allowance. The Private Client Module is an add-on that includes everything in the Base Platform plus practice-specific workflows, UK regulatory compliance, IHT400 population, automated relief calculations, and estate administration workflows.

Pricing

Chancery is designed for mid-market firms, offering a solution that deploys in days rather than the months required by enterprise legal AI solutions that need dedicated transformation teams and minimum rollouts of twenty seats. The model is a simple per-user monthly subscription with no platform fees. Firms can start with two solicitors or two hundred. The base platform includes generalist AI capabilities such as the legal assistant, intelligent summarization, cross-matter search, precedent analysis, firm-wide administration, and a monthly message allowance. The Private Client Module is an add-on that includes everything in the Base Platform plus practice-specific workflows, UK regulatory compliance, IHT400 population, automated relief calculations, and estate administration workflows.

Vibes

Chancery aims to ensure that every satisfactory precedent is findable, every matter is structured, and every answer is cited, allowing legal professionals to focus on legal work rather than administrative friction.

Additional Information

Chancery is designed for mid-market firms, offering a solution that deploys in days rather than the months required by enterprise legal AI solutions that need dedicated transformation teams and minimum rollouts of twenty seats. Additional practice area modules are on the roadmap and will be developed in partnership with firms. Early partners can shape these modules and receive priority access without a commitment.