Legora vs Parachute (2026)

The aOS brings DMS integrations, document ingestion and content sources into the agent's context, along with third party legal services and MCP connectors. A NetDocuments MCP connection has been announced. Work is delivered through Word and Outlook add ins and through the Portal that clients use.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/aos and legora.com/newsroomread 2026-09-06

From any chat, Parachute's AI works inside Clio Manage and Smokeball once a firm authorizes each connection.

It searches and creates matters, runs conflict checks across every matter a person or company appears on, creates and updates contacts, logs billable time, adds notes, tasks and calendar events, and saves finished documents to the linked matter, and a meeting's notes and attendance time can be filed the same way.

In InfoTrack, still in beta, it gathers the details for a title, company or insolvency search, asks the user to confirm and places the order on the firm's own account. NetDocuments and OneDrive feed matters, precedents and reviews and take finished work back.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/integrations/clio and help.goparachute.ai/integrations/infotrackread 2026-10-12

The agentic harness handles tool routing and control flow, and it assigns specialist sub agents to work in parallel on legal work with many steps, end to end. The Agent plans and executes, then reviews its work against the goal, looping back as needed before it delivers. Workflows let lawyers compose processes in natural language or a visual builder, chaining steps such as Tabular Review, research, translation and drafting.

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Deep analysis takes a contract through five stages in two to three minutes. It checks the document against standard requirements, extracts every party's obligations, tests it against the firm's knowledge base, rates each risk High, Medium or Low, and runs any custom stages the firm adds.

Tabular review runs each column's question across every document in parallel, the AI makes large edits across a document in one pass or produces several documents from one precedent in a single request, and in chat it chains steps such as finding a Clio matter, asking which one is right and linking it. A firm cannot build multistep workflows of its own.

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The Agent works proactively, monitoring the user's email, documents and projects and acting the moment something needs attention, and Monitors is a named product for watching sources. Users start work from the web app, the mobile app, the Portal or the Word and Outlook add ins. There are no schedules or webhooks.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/agentread 2026-09-06

Work reaches Parachute without anyone opening the app. A notetaker booked ahead of a Teams, Meet or Zoom call joins on schedule, and when the meeting ends Parachute writes the file note and transcript into a new thread.

An email forwarded from a firm address to a user's own Parachute inbox becomes a thread with up to 10 attachments, and the Today briefing, built when a lawyer first opens it each day, keeps adding new email that needs a reply. Lawyers also reach it from the web app, the Word add in, the desktop app and a Slack bot that answers when mentioned. Drafting and actions in practice systems still wait for a lawyer to ask.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/meeting-notetaker and help.goparachute.ai/features/email-to-threadread 2026-10-12

Firm playbooks, precedent libraries and clause banks are layered into every agent action, along with negotiated positions and full matter history. Firm wide search runs across the DMS and knowledge bases, and legal research is jurisdiction aware, grounded in real sources and cited in a structured way.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/aosread 2026-09-06

Every thread draws on two knowledge bases, the organization's own, with policies, playbooks, prior advice, contracts and structured company information uploaded as PDF, DOCX, TXT or URLs, and a global one of regulations and frameworks that Parachute curates, with the firm's content taking priority.

A structured library of Acts and Regulations across all nine Australian jurisdictions opens section by section, and admins choose which Acts the AI may cite and whether it searches the web, with overrides per thread. Answers carry clickable citations back to the document, the section of the Act or the web page, and conflict detection checks new drafts against the firm's existing policies.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/knowledge-base and help.goparachute.ai/features/legislation-search; help.goparachute.ai/features/search-configurationread 2026-10-12

Memory management is one of the agentic harness's functions, and the aOS picks up where the last round left off within a matter, which carries work across sessions. There is no memory layer with its own scope or lifetime, and no surface for users to manage one. Skills are assets the customer writes, and matter history sits with the firm's knowledge.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/aos and legora.com/product/agentread 2026-09-06

Personal memory keeps each user's working preferences, such as a sign off, paragraph length or how advice is set apart, and applies them in chat, email drafting and documents.

Parachute saves a preference when a user states one in chat and shows a notice with a link, and users can add memories, rewrite them with AI, delete them, or switch saving and applying off. Tone of voice settings hold up to three email tones and a document voice, and each matter carries standing instructions for every draft on it. Memory never holds client or matter facts, and each chat starts fresh, so earlier conversations are not recalled.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/memory and help.goparachute.ai/features/tone-of-voiceread 2026-10-12

The Agent builds a plan, shares it with the user and refines it as the work evolves. It then delivers work product into the project workspace ready for review and approval, and Legora keeps the user in control where judgment is required. Workflows carry role based permissions, and the harness enforces guardrails.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/agent and legora.com/product/workflowsread 2026-09-06

Any document can go to expert verification, legal or cybersecurity, priced per request. It routes to the business's connected law firm, whose lawyers claim it from a queue and review it in the editor with comments and suggestions the client sees live, or to a pool of verified professionals, and the client rates each review. AI suggestions in the editor land as tracked changes a person accepts or rejects one at a time, InfoTrack orders and Clio matter links wait for the user to confirm, and Today drafts replies that the lawyer sends from Outlook.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/expert-verification and help.goparachute.ai/for-law-firms/verification-workflowread 2026-10-12

Certifications include SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, with a public trust center at security.legora.com. Customers get SSO on all common protocols, with SAML 2.0 on request, set their own data retention and manage encryption keys through BYOK. Ethical walls isolate matters from one another, and no Legora engineer touches customer data without the customer's written approval.

SourceLegora, legora.com/security, legora.com/legal/security-measures and legora.com/product/aosread 2026-09-06

Compass Assurance Services certifies Parachute to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 under certificate 8818-4353-01, covering the SaaS platform for legal research, drafting and review, and security practices follow SOC 2 controls with no SOC 2 report. Members see their own threads, Admins manage people, settings and billing and can open all work, and an Expert role handles verification at law firms.

Matters are private by default and shared per person as viewer or editor, removed members lose access at once, and the Enterprise plan adds SSO and SAML, while the Word add in signs in with Microsoft 365. Each organization's data is logically isolated and encrypted in transit and at rest.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/security and help.goparachute.ai/account/team-managementread 2026-10-12

Full audit trails give complete visibility into every tool call, file access and agent action. Every AI output can be traced back to the source data and prompt that produced it, so the reasoning and sources can be reviewed. Data Governance tools show who accessed data and when, and logs are kept for at least twelve months.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/aos and legora.com/securityread 2026-09-06

Every change the AI makes to a document lands in a trace a user can scroll, and clicking an entry jumps to the block it changed. Each tabular review cell shows the reasoning behind its answer and a citation that opens the source with the quote highlighted, AI redlines carry Parachute's name as tracked changes, and documents keep every version. Admins can open every thread and document in the organization and see credit use broken down by mode. Firms get no workspace audit log of user and AI activity to review or export.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/release-notes/smarter-document-edits and help.goparachute.ai/features/tabular-reviewread 2026-10-12

Through the enterprise security package, customers control where their data is stored and for how long, with tiered storage and technical teams based in the EU and the US. Hosting is on Azure, replicated across locations, and an EU variant of the security terms carries its own list of sub processors approved in advance, which implies a second set of regions. There is no on premises or customer cloud option.

SourceLegora, legora.com/security and legora.com/legal/security-measuresread 2026-09-06

Customer data is stored in Sydney, and storage in other regions is on the roadmap, so a firm in the UK, US or Canada keeps its data in Australia for now. AI inference runs in the United States by default. Firms that need inference to stay in Australia can have their instance switched to Australian region infrastructure on Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI in Sydney, at some cost in speed or model choice, and knowledge base embeddings already run in Sydney on Azure OpenAI. Parachute runs only as its own hosted service.

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A workflow library holds the firm's own workflows beside Legora's collection of prebuilt ones, each a complete working workflow a customer selects and runs. Seven prebuilt workflows are named, covering internal compliance review, supplier agreement analysis, timeline creation, court case analysis and translation, employment agreement review, lease red flag report and S-1 risk factors drafting.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/workflowsread 2026-09-06

Drafting can start from more than 100 prebuilt templates whose conditional logic adapts the document to the organization's industry, size and jurisdictions, and a tabular review can start from a prebuilt column pack such as a standard contract review. Firms add their own Word templates and precedents beside them, keep saved prompts in a library that is private to one user or shared across the workspace, and choose built in or firm file note formats for meeting notes. Workstreams come preset as Business, Regulatory, HR and Corporate Affairs.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/platform and help.goparachute.ai/features/tabular-reviewread 2026-10-12

A Large Language Models layer sits beneath an agentic harness that handles model selection, and Legora says Agent Pro uses the most powerful frontier models. Legora therefore routes across more than one model on its side, with no selector for customers or admins.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/aos and legora.com/blog/consumption-based-pricingread 2026-09-06

Parachute runs on large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google and decides which model handles each request. Users choose a depth instead, Paralegal at 1 credit for quick questions and light drafting, Lawyer at 3 for detailed review and research, or Senior Associate at 15 for complex analysis, or let Auto pick the mode, and the Enterprise plan adds priority model access at busy times. Users and admins choose depth, never the model, and cannot bring their own provider account.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/privacy-policy and help.goparachute.ai/features/ai-modesread 2026-10-12

The platform is reached through the web app and desktop app or, if specifically agreed in the Order Form, through APIs offered by Legora. Legora has also announced that it runs inside Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise for Legal for approved mutual customers, an outside assistant calling the platform. The API exists only by contract with no public reference, and no SDK or MCP server exposes Legora.

SourceLegora, legora.com/legal/security-measures and legora.com/newsroomread 2026-09-06

Parachute is used through its web app, the Word add in on Windows, Mac and the web, which admins can roll out across a Microsoft 365 tenant, the Windows and macOS desktop app, a Slack bot and a per user email inbox. Every connection comes from Parachute's own integration catalog, which grows on customer request, and developers have no public API, SDK or MCP server for building on Parachute or calling it from other tools.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai and goparachute.ai/integrationsread 2026-10-12

Legora tells customers to iterate on Workflows based on their own testing and team feedback, and the Agent reviews its own output against the goal before delivering. Neither is a test harness, a set of test cases or a release gate for customers, and there is no evaluation dashboard. Consumption dashboards on Agent Pro track spend, not quality.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/workflows and legora.com/product/agentread 2026-09-06

Expert verification and deep analysis check the documents Parachute produces, a tabular review cell or a whole column can be run again when an answer looks wrong, and clients rate each expert review so the network keeps its quality. Firms cannot run their own test questions against the AI before changing a template, the knowledge base or a mode.

SourceParachute, help.goparachute.ai/features/document-review and help.goparachute.ai/features/expert-verificationread 2026-10-12

Every tool the Agent uses on its own sits inside Legora, among them search, drafting, redlining and review, plus Tabular Review and Legal Research. Results land in Legora's own surfaces, such as the project workspace, the Editor, the mobile app and the Word and Outlook add ins. The Agent, aOS and Workflows offer no browser, desktop or computer control.

SourceLegora, legora.com/product/agent and legora.com/product/aosread 2026-09-06

The notetaker joins Teams, Meet and Zoom calls as a bot under the firm's own name and logo, or records on the lawyer's computer without joining, and the Windows and macOS desktop app also captures in person meetings through the microphone with a live transcript. For a jurisdiction outside the five it supports, Parachute can search the web. The AI does not operate websites or other applications for the user.

SourceParachute, goparachute.ai/notetaker and help.goparachute.ai/features/meeting-notetakerread 2026-10-12