About
We build for the
profession we came from.
PracticeAssistant is built by a team of practising lawyers, knowledge officers and senior engineers who spent decades inside the institutions our customers run.
Built from inside the profession
Practising lawyers, knowledge officers, senior engineers — building the tool they wished they had been given.
Origin
A workbench, because nothing else was.
PracticeAssistant began as a hypothesis: that the prevailing pattern of legal AI — consumer-style chat windows asked to answer hard questions — was the wrong abstraction for serious work. Serious work happens in workbenches: surfaces designed for slow thought, recorded action, and explicit handoff.
We left the firms we worked at to build it. We built it the way we wished we had been given it.
Principles
What we believe.
Software prepares, suggests, structures. Authorship — and the responsibility that comes with it — is non-negotiable.
Where the model is unsure, the interface says so. We do not bury doubt under confident prose.
Every action is logged. The record exists by default, not on request.
Out of the box, we ask for approval before publication. Tenants can loosen — but the decision is theirs and it is recorded.
Your matter data is yours. We do not feed it to anyone's model.
Team
A small team. Senior throughout.
We are a small team — deliberately. Every engineer has shipped infrastructure used by regulated institutions. Every lawyer on our team has held line responsibility for live matters. Our advisors include former general counsel of multinational corporations and senior partners of major firms.
We will name names publicly when our public attestations are in place. In private, we will introduce you to anyone you wish to speak with.
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