Harvey launches 500 legal AI agents & builder tool
Wed, 6th May 2026 (Today)
Harvey has launched more than 500 legal AI agents on its platform and opened early access to its Agent Builder tool.
The agents are designed for common legal workflows across major practice areas, while Agent Builder lets firms adapt those tools to their own processes, knowledge and ways of working.
The launch reflects a broader shift in legal technology as firms look beyond general-purpose AI assistants towards software that can handle more complete tasks. Legal teams have already created more than 25,000 custom agents on Harvey's platform.
Harvey says its customer base now includes more than 100,000 lawyers across 1,500 organisations in more than 60 countries, spanning law firms, in-house legal teams and other professional services users.
Legal workflows
The pre-built agents are intended to give firms ready-made tools for routine legal work, while Agent Builder offers a way to create more tailored versions based on a firm's own approach. Customers can choose between immediate use and a more customised rollout.
New agents are being added as lawyers and customers identify further use cases. All agents run on Harvey's existing secure platform.
Chief executive Winston Weinberg described the launch as part of a wider change in how the legal sector is using AI.
"The legal industry is now well past AI as an assistant and officially in the era of legal agents," said Winston Weinberg, chief executive of Harvey.
"We wanted every organisation globally to be able to chart its own path with agents in Harvey, so we have a deep bench of off-the-shelf agents to choose from and an intuitive agent builder that makes the process of building highly sophisticated agents seamless for law firms and in-house teams alike," he said.
Law firm use
One law firm user, Clayton Utz, said the software is being applied to more involved legal tasks rather than narrower question-and-answer work.
"Harvey agents enable us to complete larger and more complex use cases that AI tools couldn't handle previously. They're a genuinely different kind of tool - more like digital colleagues who can perform delegated work. Our lawyers can collaborate with agents, applying human creativity in designing solutions, making judgment calls, verifying and accepting accountability for output, and using their ability to build trusted client relationships," said Simon Newcomb, partner and head of AI at Clayton Utz.
His comments reflect a central claim emerging in the legal AI market: that specialist tools built around legal workflows may be better suited to document-heavy and process-driven work than broader horizontal AI products.
Harvey also said its agents are developed with input from legal practitioners rather than generalist technical teams, an approach intended to align the tools more closely with the realities of legal practice.
"Our agents aren't designed by prompt engineers. They're designed by lawyers who've done the work these agents handle," said Anique Drumright, chief product officer at Harvey.
"Now every legal team can do the same: take what makes their practice distinctive and turn it into agents that scale," she said.
The launch adds to growing competition in legal AI, where vendors are trying to distinguish themselves with software tailored to specialist work such as contract analysis, due diligence, compliance and litigation. For firms, the appeal lies in reducing repetitive work while keeping lawyers in control of judgment, client advice and responsibility for final output.
Harvey said the newly launched agents span every major practice area and are intended to let customers adopt AI in stages, starting with standard tools and then moving to custom agents built around firm-specific processes.
That approach may help firms test AI on narrow tasks before extending it to more complex work. It also addresses a common concern in the legal sector, where firms often want technology to reflect their own precedents, internal knowledge and review processes rather than relying on generic tools.
Backed by investors including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, OpenAI Startup Fund, Coatue, Andreessen Horowitz, GIC and EQT, Harvey has become one of the better-known companies focused on AI for legal and professional services. More agents will continue to be added as customers identify emerging use cases.