Lateral
Lateral
Lateral

The Place for Everything a Matter Needs

Unify matters and teams in a single environment, with access permissions. Replace scattered inboxes, folders and processes with a workspace that remembers everything the firm has done.

Lateral
Lateral

Everything in One Place

A workspace holds a matter whole: the documents, the correspondence, the decisions, the people who touched it. It stays open while the work is live and keeps its shape after the work closes, so a matter remains legible years later.

Every workspace a firm creates becomes part of a working record that can be opened again the next time a similar question arrives. The direction is a practice where the whole history of the firm sits one click from the matter in front of you.

Build on Your Knowledge

A library is what the firm knows, held where the work happens. Clauses, positions, precedent, house standards, the judgement senior lawyers carry in their heads. Each matter adds to it, so the library grows denser and more particular to the firm with every month of use.

Over time it becomes the firm's most durable asset.

Lateral
Lateral

Work Smarter

A process is a piece of legal work described once and run whenever it is needed. Disclosure review, NDA turnaround, diligence on a target, onboarding a new client. The firm sets how it does the work, and from that point the work follows that shape at any volume, on any matter, in any team.

Each run leaves a trace, so the process sharpens with use and the firm's standard rises with it.

Underneath All of it, One Graph

Every file that enters is placed in context: which matter, which client, which deal, which people. Automatically.

The Graph

Documents, people, matters, dates, and how they relate. Connected on arrival, not filed after the fact. Every part of the platform reads from the same map, within the permissions each person has.

Collective Knowledge

One lawyer's precedent becomes the firm's precedent. The clause negotiated in 2019 is available to whoever needs it in 2026, without knowing who wrote it or where it went. Institutional memory, held by the institution.

Never From Zero

Open a new matter and the relevant history is already there. Prior deals with the same counterparty. The clause the firm has always insisted on. The position taken last time. Work begins from what the firm knows.

Three Things Firms Come to us With

Every file that enters is placed in context: which matter, which client, which deal, which people. Automatically.

“We know an enormous amount. We just cannot get to it.”

A firm with everything filed properly, still losing days assembling what it already knows. They did not arrive with a use case. They arrived with a feeling that all this should be more reachable. What we do. Build a library with them, one piece at a time: red flag reports, due diligence sets, the positions the firm takes and why. Not a dump of everything. A curated account of how this firm does the job.

Libraries

“We do this every month, and we cannot bill for it.”

Workflows

“Our clients should be able to see this themselves.”

Client-Facing Work

“We know an enormous amount. We just cannot get to it.”

A firm with everything filed properly, still losing days assembling what it already knows. They did not arrive with a use case. They arrived with a feeling that all this should be more reachable. What we do. Build a library with them, one piece at a time: red flag reports, due diligence sets, the positions the firm takes and why. Not a dump of everything. A curated account of how this firm does the job.

Libraries

“We do this every month, and we cannot bill for it.”

A standardised piece of work that repeats. Several lawyers, several days a month, for a client, unbilled. Necessary, unglamorous, a loss every cycle. What we do. The routine parts run on their own: material arrives, the review runs, the output is prepared. A lawyer comes in for the judgement and the sign-off. Work that was a cost becomes work the firm can price.

Workflows

“Our clients should be able to see this themselves.”

Firms running client portals and phase reporting on tools built for exactly that, and hitting the edges of them. Every change is a project. Every client wants it slightly differently. What we do. Client-facing workspaces on the same platform as the work. Live tables a client can read. Forms that feed answers back into the matter. Access by role, so the boundary is a setting, not a separate system.

Client-Facing Work

The Firm's Memory, Kept

Privacy, security and responsible AI are embedded in everything we do, with end-to-end encryption and robust security controls to safeguard your data.

ISO 27001

ISO 27001 certified information security management.

GDPR

Fully compliant with GDPR data protection standards.

NO TRAINING ON DATA

Nothing uploaded trains a model. Ours or anyone's.

CLIENTS STAY SEPARATE

Each firm's memory is isolated.

SELF-HOSTING AVAILABLE

Run it in your own enviroment.

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