Harvey
A generative AI platform built for lawyers and in-house legal teams. It drafts and reviews documents, answers legal and regulatory research questions, bulk-analyses large document sets in secure Vaults, and runs multi-step agent workflows for tasks such as due diligence and contract review.
● Use Cases
- →Reviewing hundreds of contracts in a due diligence data room
- →Drafting first-pass advice memos and correspondence
- →Summarising case law and legislation on a legal question
- →Comparing contract clauses against a firm's standard positions
- →Tracking regulatory changes relevant to a client's sector
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About Harvey
What is Harvey?
A generative AI platform built for lawyers and in-house legal teams. It drafts and reviews documents, answers legal and regulatory research questions, bulk-analyses large document sets in secure Vaults, and runs multi-step agent workflows for tasks such as due diligence and contract review. Harvey is an AI legal tool that assists with document review, contract analysis, legal research, drafting, and compliance monitoring.
Harvey opened a Sydney office in 2025, offers workspaces hosted in Australian cloud regions, and its knowledge sources include Australian legislation, case law and regulatory material. That matters for firms bound by solicitors' conduct rules on client confidentiality, because an Australian-hosted workspace keeps storage and model processing onshore; ask your account team how to set this up. Solicitors remain responsible for supervising AI-assisted work and checking every citation before advice goes out. Confirm your firm's data processing terms, and how client information is handled under the Privacy Act 1988, before loading matter files.
How Australian Businesses Use Harvey
Law firms and in-house legal teams use AI tools to review contracts faster, research case law, draft standard documents, check for compliance gaps, and answer internal policy questions — significantly reducing billable hours on routine legal work.
Key Features
- ✓Assistant drafts, reviews and answers legal research questions in a chat interface
- ✓Vaults store and bulk-analyse large document sets such as data rooms
- ✓Workflow agents run multi-step tasks like diligence reports and contract review
- ✓Knowledge sources include Australian legislation, case law and regulatory material
- ✓Australian-hosted workspaces keep application infrastructure and model processing onshore
Best For
- →Mid-sized and large law firms handling high document volumes
- →In-house legal teams in regulated sectors needing onshore hosting
- →Transaction teams running due diligence across hundreds of contracts
Pros & Cons of Harvey
✓ Strengths
- +Built specifically for legal work rather than adapted from a general chatbot
- +Australian hosting option supports data sovereignty requirements
- +Vaults handle bulk review of large document sets
- +Includes Australian legislative and case law sources
- +Agent workflows cover multi-step tasks like diligence reports
⚠ Limitations
- –Enterprise-only, so out of reach for most sole practitioners and small firms
- –No public pricing makes budgeting and comparison harder
- –Outputs still need careful lawyer review and citation checking
- –Rollout and training take real effort to get value
Pricing
Sold to law firms and corporate legal departments under enterprise agreements. There is no self-serve plan or public price list; pricing is negotiated per organisation based on seats and products. Contact the sales team through harvey.ai for a quote.
Details checked against the vendor's website in October 2026. Pricing changes often, so confirm current plans at harvey.ai.
Data Residency & Privacy in Australia
Harvey offers workspaces hosted in Australian Microsoft Azure regions, introduced in mid-2025. In an Australian workspace, application infrastructure and AI model processing stay within Australia, and data does not flow to the United States or Europe. Existing customers can ask their customer success manager to migrate. Confirm in your agreement that client matter data is not used to train models, and record the hosting region in your firm's privacy and confidentiality register.
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Getting Started with Harvey in Australia
Harvey is available directly at harvey.ai. Start with lower-risk document review tasks (NDAs, standard agreements) before using AI for complex contracts. Always have a qualified lawyer review AI-generated legal documents. Establish a clear policy on which tasks require human sign-off.
Outside help is most useful when the tool has to connect to existing systems, handle personal information, or be rolled out to a whole team. AI Lab Australia works with businesses across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide on that setup.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Harvey
Does Harvey store data in Australia?
Yes, if your workspace is set up in Harvey's Australian region. Harvey runs Australian workspaces on Azure regions in Australia, keeping both storage and AI model processing onshore. Workspaces are not moved automatically, so firms on an older workspace need to request migration through their customer success manager and confirm the change in writing.
Can a small Australian law firm buy Harvey?
Harvey is sold under enterprise agreements negotiated with each organisation, with no self-serve sign-up. That puts it out of reach for many sole practitioners and small practices. Smaller firms often look at tools with published plans instead, such as Lexis+ AI or Spellbook, and compare their hosting and confidentiality terms.
Does Harvey cover Australian law?
Harvey's knowledge sources include Australian legislation, case law and regulatory material, and it opened a Sydney office in 2025 to support local customers. Practitioners still need to verify every authority it cites, because the duty to supervise AI-assisted work and avoid misleading the court sits with the solicitor, not the software.
Is Harvey suitable for confidential client matters?
Harvey is designed for confidential legal work, and an Australian-hosted workspace helps with client expectations about data location. Before loading matter files, check your engagement terms, any client restrictions on AI use, your law society's guidance on generative AI, and how personal information in documents is handled under the Australian Privacy Principles.
Ready to Implement Harvey?
AI Lab Australia helps Australian businesses choose, set up and connect tools like Harvey to the systems they already run, with privacy and data handling sorted before rollout.