Legal services
A law firm
Five lawyers, three versions of the same contract, and the good template sitting in the inbox of whoever drafted it two years ago.
The mess
The lease agreement exists in four files with similar names and nobody knows which one carries the termination clause the partner approved. Every new draft starts by copying the last one somebody remembers seeing, and the case law behind an argument won last year is still on the local disk of whoever wrote it.
What changes
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One place where the current template is the one that comes up first, with the older versions beside it instead of deleted
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Search for what the clause said, even when the file is named "contract final v3 REV"
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Each practice with its own folder and permissions, so employment cannot walk into corporate unless someone shares it
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The first draft comes out of the firm's own templates, not out of what a language model read on the internet
Where the mess lives
The judgment never gets filed
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A ten-person firm produces two things all day: documents that look like one another, and judgment about which of them is any good. The first gets filed. The second lives in three people's heads.
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The nine in the morning question: which is the good template for a services agreement? The answer is a file with a name that says nothing, in a shared folder last tidied when the previous assistant joined.
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The costlier symptom: two lawyers argue the same point along different lines because neither knew the other had already solved it.
What Vonzay does
Search by what the clause says
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Files enter the vault as they are. PDFs and DOCX are stored untouched and next to each one sits a text note with its content, which is what gets indexed. Uploading ten years of case files is not charged.
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Two searches run at once, one by meaning and one by literal term, and the results are fused. "Early termination without penalty" finds the document even when it reads "unilateral rescission with no compensation due".
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The department tree is built the way the firm is built: employment, corporate, criminal, compliance. The partner who runs a branch runs everything under it. A trainee sees exactly the matter they were assigned.
A concrete example
Draft the bylaw amendment for this client following the template we used on the last one, and tell me which clauses change because of last year's regulatory reform.
What the agent does
The agent works inside the corporate folder. It finds the two earlier amendments, opens the department's main note with the criteria the firm settled, drafts the document as a new file there and links every source it used.
You watch every search and every file it touches while it happens. The work is recorded with its date and its process, and the firm can see at any moment how much of its plan the month has used.
What we will not promise you
A shorter first draft, not less judgment
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The agent does not give an opinion and does not review on your behalf. It drafts on top of what your firm already wrote and shows where each piece came from.
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Two lawyers cannot edit the same note at the same time. If two people save over the same file, the last save wins. For matter-by-matter work that is enough; if your workflow needs simultaneous editing, that piece is missing today.
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We hold no third-party security certification. What we do have can be reviewed in detail, including the isolation between companies and the hash-chained log of every action the agent takes.
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