Legal AI Development

Legal AI development built for your firm

Off-the-shelf legal AI tools do not know your matters, your precedents, or your jurisdiction. We build legal AI on your own data. That means case law research, contract review, and drafting that cite their sources. We built Lawep, a world-first legislative drafting system, and Inpro, which delivers legal advice at 85 percent lower cost.

Built on your own data
Citations on every answer
Private, secure deployment

Why Generic Legal AI Falls Short

Legal software products are built for the average firm, not yours:

It Does Not Know Your Matters

A generic tool has never read your precedents, your playbooks, or your past matters. It answers from public data, not your firm's knowledge.

It Cannot Cite Its Sources

Lawyers cannot act on an answer with no source. Generic chatbots make up plausible citations, which is worse than no answer at all.

It Does Not Fit Your Workflow

Off-the-shelf tools sit outside your document system and matter management. The work of copying in and out kills any time saved.

It Raises Confidentiality Risk

Sending privileged documents to a public model with no audit trail and no data governance is a risk most firms cannot take.

Legal AI Built on Your Own Knowledge

We build legal AI systems that read your data and show their work:

1

Case Law and Matter Research

Answers With Citations

  • Index your matter history, precedents, and filings into a private vector database
  • Connect to Westlaw or LexisNexis via API for external case law
  • Every answer includes the source. If it is not in your data, the system says so
  • Cut research from 8 to 12 hours per case down to about an hour
2

Contract Review and Analysis

Your Playbook, Applied Consistently

  • Reviews contracts against your firm's playbook and flags deviations
  • Extracts key terms, dates, obligations, and liability clauses
  • Routes high-risk clauses for partner review
  • Cut a 3 hour review down to about 30 minutes
3

Legal Drafting and Policy Research

First Drafts From Your Templates

  • Drafts from your templates and cites the cases and clauses behind each section
  • Follows local court rules and jurisdiction-specific formatting
  • Built the world-first legislative drafting system behind Lawep
  • Perfect for bills, acts, briefs, and standard agreements
4

Private and Secure Deployment

Privilege and Governance Protected

  • Deployment options: your cloud, on-premise, VPC isolated, or air-gapped
  • End-to-end encryption, role-based access control, and full audit logging
  • Your documents never train anyone else's model
  • Compliance: SOC 2 ready, GDPR compliant, client confidentiality preserved

THE EDGEFIRM DIFFERENCE

Unlike legal AI products (Harvey, Spellbook):

  • • Built for your exact matters and playbooks
  • • You own the code and infrastructure
  • • No per-seat licensing fees

Unlike large consultancies:

  • • 4 to 5 month delivery, not 18 to 24
  • • Fixed-price engagements
  • • Production code from day one

Unlike DIY tools:

  • • Proven RAG and drafting patterns
  • • Citation and evaluation frameworks
  • • Built for confidentiality from day one

Built on Production-Grade AI Infrastructure

Foundation Models

  • GPT-4 & GPT-4 Turbo
  • Claude 3.5 Sonnet
  • Llama 3.1 & Mistral
  • Azure OpenAI
  • AWS Bedrock

Retrieval & Knowledge

  • Pinecone
  • Weaviate
  • Qdrant
  • pgvector
  • Westlaw / LexisNexis APIs

Frameworks & Orchestration

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • Custom Python
  • Citation engines

Infrastructure & Security

  • Docker/Kubernetes
  • AWS/GCP/Azure
  • SSO (Okta, Azure AD)
  • End-to-end encryption
  • SOC 2 ready

Legal AI for Firms and Legal Teams

Legislative Drafting and Policy Research

Bills, Acts, and Policy at Speed

Challenges

  • • Drafting a bill takes legislators and researchers months of manual work
  • • Policy research spans decades of legislation and case law
  • • One missed precedent can undermine an entire act

Our Solutions

  • • AI trained on legislative history, case law, and policy frameworks
  • • Drafts bills and acts with constitutional and precedent checks
  • • Cites the source behind every clause

Typical Results

  • • Drafting time: months down to weeks
  • • 15 bills drafted through the platform in 6 months
  • • 8 jurisdictions using the system

Illustrative outcomes from comparable deployments. Actual results depend on your data, scope, and use case.

Lawep - World-First Legislative Drafting

"A world-first AI system for researching, drafting, and enacting policy and legislation, built on large language models and retrieval over legislative history."

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How We Deliver Legal AI in 4 to 5 Months

Month 1

Discovery and Data Preparation

  • Interview attorneys and document the highest-value use cases
  • Inventory matters, precedents, templates, and playbooks
  • Ingest documents into a private vector database
  • Build an evaluation set with ground-truth answers

Deliverable: Technical architecture, data readiness report, project roadmap

Month 2-3

Core System Development

  • Build the retrieval and citation engine
  • Implement drafting or review logic against your playbook
  • Create prompt templates and jurisdiction rules
  • Test accuracy against the evaluation set

Deliverable: MVP with citations and 80% plus accuracy on core tasks

Month 3-4

Integration and Interface

  • Connect to your document system and matter management
  • Build the interface in web, Teams, or your existing tools
  • Add access controls, audit logging, and PII handling
  • Run acceptance testing with a pilot group of attorneys

Deliverable: Production-ready system with all integrations

Month 4-5

Refinement and Launch

  • Improve accuracy based on pilot feedback
  • Handle edge cases and add error recovery
  • Document everything and train your team
  • Soft launch, then full rollout

Deliverable: Firm-wide legal AI system plus 30 days support

Transparent Pricing for Legal AI

Typical Investment Range

$75,000 - $175,000

Full project delivery in 4 to 5 months

Factors that affect pricing:

Data Complexity

Volume of matters and documents, quality, and update frequency

Use Case Sophistication

Simple research Q&A versus drafting versus multi-step review

User Scale

Number of attorneys, query volume, and response time needs

Deployment and Compliance

Cloud versus on-premise versus air-gapped, and confidentiality requirements

What's Included:

Data audit and preparation
Private vector database setup
Drafting or review logic on your playbook
Integration with your document system
Interface in web, Teams, or your tools
Admin dashboard and audit logging
Complete documentation and training
30 days post-launch support
Complete code ownership
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Common Questions About Legal AI Development

No. We build a custom legal AI system on your own data and hand you the code and infrastructure. There are no per-seat fees, and the system is shaped around your matters, playbooks, and jurisdiction rather than a generic average firm.

Confidentiality is built in from day one. Documents are encrypted at rest and in transit, access is role-based, and every query is logged for audit. You can deploy in your own cloud tenant, on-premise, or air-gapped, and your documents never train anyone else's model.

Yes. Every answer cites the exact source, whether that is one of your matters, a clause in a contract, or external case law via Westlaw or LexisNexis. If the answer is not in the available data, the system says so rather than inventing a citation.

Yes. We build drafting systems that work from your templates and cite the cases and clauses behind each section. This is the same capability behind Lawep, the world-first legislative drafting system we built for bills and acts.

Most legal AI projects run $75,000 to $175,000 and ship in 4 to 5 months at fixed price. The range depends on data volume, how sophisticated the task is, user scale, and your deployment and compliance needs.

Pair Legal AI With:

Custom LLM & RAG Development

The RAG and drafting foundation behind legal AI, applied to any domain.

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Intelligent Process Automation

Automate intake, document handling, and compliance workflows around the AI.

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Data Pipeline Engineering

Unify matter, document, and billing systems into clean, AI-ready data first.

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Industry: AI for Legal & Law Firms

The industry view, covering how firms, governments, and legal teams apply AI.

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AI Consulting

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