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Research, briefings, and product intelligence

Original research on the structural shift from outsourced legal services to supervised AI agents. Weekly market intelligence, white papers, product deep dives, and competitive analysis.

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THE INTAKE — WEEKLY BRIEFING

This week in legal AI — 22 May 2026

OpenAI reveals plans for "Codex for Legal," entering the legal AI vertical one week after Anthropic's Claude for Legal launch. Musk loses his OpenAI trial in under two hours — the governance question remains. Harvey launches Command Center and partners with DeepJudge. iManage opens its document platform to AI agents via MCP. And AI quietly dismantles Big Law's junior associate training pipeline.

01 — Research

White papers and market analysis

Long-form research on the economics, architecture, and competitive dynamics of AI in enterprise legal. Each piece is written to inform purchasing decisions and strategic planning.

Agentic services and the restructuring of enterprise legal work

A category definition. Why autonomous agents under human supervision represent a structural shift in how legal work gets delivered, and what this means for the enterprise legal leaders deciding whether to adopt.

White paper

Inexpensive work, expensive resources

The legal industry has spent a decade trying to reprice routine work. From Atrium's $75M collapse to today's AI-native law firms — the billing model keeps changing, but the structural inefficiency hasn't.

Market analysis

What changes when you replace your ALSP with agents

A practical guide for legal teams already outsourcing routine work to an ALSP. What stays the same, what changes operationally, and why the economics shift in your favour.

Practical guide

The GC's guide to evaluating agentic legal services

A framework for enterprise legal leaders assessing whether autonomous agents belong in their team's operating model, and how to evaluate providers without getting lost in the hype.

Evaluation framework

Buy vs build: should your legal team build its own AI agents?

Foundation models are available to everyone. Developer tools are better than ever. So why would an enterprise legal team buy an agentic legal service when they could build one themselves? An honest accounting of what it actually takes.

THE INTAKE — MARKET GUIDE

10 best AI agents for in-house legal teams

The chatbot era is over. In 2026, the question isn't whether AI can answer a legal question — it's whether AI can do the work. A survey of the ten most significant AI agent platforms for enterprise in-house legal.

Market guide

02 — The Intake

Weekly briefings

Published every Thursday. The structural developments in legal AI that matter for enterprise legal teams — funding rounds, regulatory shifts, product launches, and the questions they raise. Subscribe on Substack to receive it by email.

THE INTAKE — WEEKLY BRIEFING

This week in legal AI — 22 May 2026

OpenAI reveals plans for "Codex for Legal," entering the legal AI vertical one week after Anthropic's Claude for Legal launch. Musk loses his OpenAI trial in under two hours — the governance question remains. Harvey launches Command Center and partners with DeepJudge. iManage opens its document platform to AI agents via MCP. And AI quietly dismantles Big Law's junior associate training pipeline.

22 May 2026

THE INTAKE — WEEKLY BRIEFING

This week in legal AI — 15 May 2026

Anthropic goes all-in on legal with 20+ MCP connectors and 12 practice-area plugins — Freshfields, Quinn Emanuel and Holland & Knight live in production. Carta acquires Avantia Law and launches Carta Law. The EU AI Act Omnibus deal finally clears, moving the high-risk deadline to December 2027. Connecticut signs comprehensive AI regulation. Oregon's largest AI-hallucination fine: $110,000.

15 May 2026

THE INTAKE — WEEKLY BRIEFING

This week in legal AI — 8 May 2026

Harvey publishes the first open-source benchmark for legal AI agents — 1,200 tasks across 24 practice areas, backed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral and DeepMind. Enter, a São Paulo startup, becomes Latin America's first AI unicorn at $1.2B. Slaughter and May completes the Magic Circle sweep. The DOJ picks a side in the Colorado AI Act fight.

03 — Product

Product deep dives

Technical overviews, security documentation, and detailed explanations of how the platform works. Written for the people evaluating, buying, and implementing.

PRODUCT RELEASES

What's new at Flank

A monthly log of what shipped on the platform — new capabilities, improvements, and the infrastructure work behind them.

Release notes

PRODUCT DEEP DIVE

The legal front door

A single point of intake for every request from the business. The agent picks up the work, resolves what it can, and routes the rest — all inside your existing email.

Product deep dive

PRODUCT DEEP DIVE

The supervision experience

What legal teams actually do — and don't do — when they supervise Flank. The risk-based approval workflow, confidence scoring, and the curve from day-one line-by-line review to exception-based supervision by month three.

Product deep dive

SECURITY OVERVIEW

The work never leaves your building

Enterprise-grade security for supervised legal AI. Single-tenant infrastructure, SOC 2 Type II certified, built for the most security-conscious legal teams in the world.

04 — Competitive intelligence

Comparisons

Honest, detailed comparisons with other platforms in the market. What they do, what we do, and where the real differences are.

Harvey vs Flank

Harvey is the leading AI platform for legal professionals. Flank is an agentic legal service with an embedded front door. They solve different problems, come from different budgets, and are architecturally complementary.

Competitive comparison

Where MikeOSS falls short

A code-level gap analysis of the open source legal AI assistant against what an enterprise-grade legal AI platform actually has to do. Thirteen gaps across architecture, multi-tenancy, security, and operations — each citing a specific file or architectural decision in the public repository.

Technical analysis

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Flank

Insource legal work to supervised agents

Enterprise legal teams use Flank to handle high-volume contracting end-to-end — NDAs, MSA redlines, procurement, triage. Agents that know your templates, terms, and escalation rules.

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