Harvey

The default move for a lot of legal teams right now is to paste a contract into ChatGPT and hope the answer holds up. Harvey is the opposite bet. Instead of a general chatbot you bend toward legal work, it's a platform built specifically for law firms, in-house teams and professional services, and it's priced and sold like enterprise software. The company recently announced a $550M raise at a $15.5B valuation, and its pitch is that legal teams should "own their intelligence" rather than rent it from a generic assistant.

What you get is a set of connected products rather than one chat box. Vault stores, organizes and bulk-analyzes legal documents. Knowledge handles research across legal, regulatory and tax questions. Agents are described as "purpose built" to execute complex legal work end to end. Spaces lets teams across different organizations collaborate in secure, shared workspaces, which matters if you're a firm working alongside a client's in-house counsel. There's also Contract Intelligence for reviews and negotiations, Horizon Scanning for tracking regulatory changes, Harvey Mobile, a Command Center for analytics and benchmarking, and a new Memory feature that carries your preferences across the product so responses match how you work. Harvey also says it plugs into the tools you already use and grounds answers in sources you trust.

The tradeoff is access and transparency. There's no public pricing page, and the site's main calls to action are "Login" and "Request a Demo," so you can't kick the tires the way you can with ChatGPT or Claude. The homepage is also heavy on product names and light on specifics: it doesn't say which models power it, which integrations are supported or how agents actually behave. If you're a firm or legal department that wants a dedicated, security-focused legal AI with collaboration and analytics layered on top, Harvey is one of the most serious options out there. If you're a solo practitioner who just wants faster first drafts, a general model is cheaper and quicker to start with.