Built for legal teams the enterprise platforms won't serve
The operating system for a
small in-house legal team.
Ironclad and Harvey are built for Fortune 500 legal departments. LawDep is the one workspace for a growth company’s legal function — entities, contracts, IP, litigation, holds, filings and matters in a single system, with an AI copilot whose citations are verified against real law (US Code, CourtListener, eCFR) before you rely on them.
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- No credit card, no login
- Bring your own OpenRouter or MiniMax key
- Self-host on Railway in one click
- Citations verified against real law databases
Overview
Legal Operations Dashboard
Entities
10
8 jurisdictions
Contracts
23
10 active · 10 draft
Open cases
3
1 hearing this month
Holdings
1
Actively enforced
IP assets
4
1 renewal upcoming
Filings
90
tracked · none missed
Upcoming deadlines
Copilot suggests
2 filings are due in the next 30 days. Want me to generate a prep pack for each?
AI-generated — review with counsel.
Recent contracts
Built for the way modern legal teams actually work
The status quo
Legal departments are the last team still working in file folders.
Sales has a CRM. Engineering has GitHub. Finance has an ERP. Legal has a shared drive and institutional memory.
One drive per team, one truth per person
Contracts live in three SharePoint folders, one Notion, and someone's laptop. Nobody agrees on the current version.
The inbox is the case file
The status of a matter is threaded across 40 emails and a Slack DM. Onboarding a new lawyer means forwarding history.
Copy-paste from last year's contract
The MSA is a 47-page Word doc last touched during that acquisition. Every edit risks reopening a settled clause.
Nobody notices the renewal until it auto-renews
A contract auto-renewed at unfavorable rates, a filing deadline slipped, a trademark lapsed. The calendar was a spreadsheet.
The real tools won't take your money
Ironclad starts around $50k and wants a procurement cycle. Harvey targets AmLaw 100 firms. Your 2-person legal team gets a shared drive and a prayer.
Who it’s for
One system, any legal team that can’t buy enterprise.
If your legal function fits in a conference room, the Fortune-500 platforms won’t sell to you — and you shouldn’t pay their price anyway.
Fintech & NBFC
Multiple legal entities, RBI filings, compliance deadlines, vendor agreements. One register instead of a folder per entity.
Startup & scale-up
Founder-as-GC. NDAs and MSAs in-bound daily, cap table and IP you can't afford to let lapse. The one system that keeps it from becoming a fire.
B2B SaaS
A sales motion that runs on contracts. Playbook-enforced review, renewal tracking, vendor paper that stops getting renegotiated from scratch.
Series-B deep tech
IP is the balance sheet. Patents, trademarks, litigation exposure, and legal holds that actually survive an opposing counsel's motion.
The workspace
Twelve modules. One database. One copilot.
Every corporate legal object is a first-class citizen — not a row in someone’s spreadsheet. And every module is queryable by the AI copilot without you writing a single tool integration.
Entities & cap table
Registered offices, directors, KYC, shareholders. The corporate spine every other module hangs off.
24 fields per entity
Contracts
MSAs, SOWs, subscription agreements. Draft from templates, redline against your playbook, track renewals and terminations.
Playbook-aware review
Vendors & procurement
MSA hub for third-party spend. Standardises paper across the vendor stack so procurement stops re-negotiating from scratch.
MSA hub
Employment
Offer letters, contractor agreements and compliance checks — with jurisdiction-aware clauses for US, EU and India.
3 jurisdictions live
IP portfolio
Trademarks, patents, copyrights and their renewal calendars. Never let a mark lapse because a paralegal left.
Renewal automation
Litigation
Case files, filings, discovery documents, deadlines. Every matter as a first-class object, not a Google Doc.
First-class matters
Matters
The 17-stage matter lifecycle — intake, conflict check, negotiation, execution, closeout. Every stage logged, nothing jumps the queue.
17-stage lifecycle
Regulatory filings
GST, ROC, ESI, PF and any recurring filing. Cadence + custodian + last-filed status, tied to the calendar.
Recurring cadence
Legal holds
Issue, track and release preservation obligations. Custodians, scope, acknowledgement — the audit trail is built-in.
Full audit trail
Document intelligence
Upload any PDF or DOCX. It's parsed, chunked, embedded into pgvector, and instantly searchable by the copilot.
pgvector RAG
Template library
Your master paper, versioned in one place. Rendered with Jinja from Pydantic-validated inputs — no more copy-paste drift.
Jinja + Pydantic
AI chat copilotAI
One chat over everything. Draft an NDA, review a contract, research a trademark — and every legal citation it produces is verified against US Code, CourtListener and eCFR before it reaches you.
Citation-verified
Citation verification
No invented precedents. The copilot's case, statute and regulation citations are checked against real public legal databases, with a pass/review/fail verdict you can see.
Anti-hallucination
The copilot loop
An AI that uses your system, not a chatbot that pretends to.
The copilot has access to 88 tools bound directly to your database. When it drafts a contract, it's the same code path as the REST endpoint your app uses. No parallel universes.
- 01
You ask, in plain English
"Draft an NDA between Acme and Rivet Labs, 2-year term, non-compete carveout for research staff."
- 02
The agent picks the right tool
It reads the NDA template, pulls the party details from the entity table, and validates inputs with your playbook's Pydantic schema.
- 03
Sonnet 4.5 (or MiniMax M2.7) drafts the document
You choose the model at deploy time. Every clause is checked against your playbook; risky ones are flagged before you see the draft.
- 04
Citations are verified, not assumed
Every case, statute and regulation the copilot cites is checked against real legal databases — US Code, CourtListener, eCFR. A "fail" verdict means the cite couldn't be found; you see it before relying on it.
- 05
One click to persist
The contract is stored in the same database as everything else — searchable, renewable, and picked up by the compliance calendar automatically.
Free tools
Try the product before you sign up
Compliance calendar generator
Pick a jurisdiction and entity type — get the next statutory filing deadlines for RBI, MCA, GST, Income Tax, SEBI, HMRC, Delaware and GDPR. Computed from today, not a static PDF.
Generate yours freeWatch AI catch a fake case
A live demonstration of our citation verifier checking a real regulation and an invented court case against real legal databases — in real time.
See it catch a fakeThe engine room
Boring stack.
Interesting outputs.
A single Postgres with pgvector. A FastAPI service and an Arq worker sharing one codebase. LLMs routed through a wrapper so you can swap providers with an env var. All deployable on Railway in a single project.
Nothing exotic. Nothing that needs a platform team to keep alive.
Read the architecture docNext.js 15
App Router · React 19
FastAPI
Async Python 3.11
Arq worker
Redis-backed jobs
Postgres 16
pgvector for embeddings
OpenRouter
Sonnet 4.5 default
MiniMax M2.7
Anthropic-compat swap-in
Alembic
Every schema change is a migration
Railway
One command deploys all 5 services
Try it
Stop running a legal department out of a shared drive.
Click through a live demo workspace — no login, no credit card. Browse contracts, run an AI review, watch it flag an invented citation. When you’re ready, we’ll stand up a workspace for your team.
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