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What an AI-native firm actually looks like on the inside.

The architecture of an AI-native law firm: firm, client and matter levels, a master matter table, and a quality control agent.

Joey IrwinCo-founder, Legal & Product

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t Kyra, many people ask us, what an AI-native firm actually looks like on the inside. So here's the architecture, roughly how the machine is wired. This is just how we've built Kyra Law, I'm sure others are approaching it differently...

For us, it's a hierarchy with three levels: the firm, the client, the matter.

A hierarchy with three levels
  1. 01

    The firm

    Shared across the whole practice: the admin engine, a precedent library and a research library.

  2. 02

    The client

    A living context file that never stops growing.

  3. 03

    The matter

    Seeded from the client context, with a Matter Agent working inside it.

01

The firm

At the firm level sits everything shared across the whole practice. The admin engine: onboarding, KYC, compliance, billing, pricing. A precedent library: a large, searchable bank of best-in-class documents the system can navigate and cherry-pick from. And a research library, where deep research on important recurring questions is done once and kept, rather than redone from scratch every time it comes up.

02

The client

Below that sits the client. Every client has a living context file that never stops growing. Every call, every email, every piece of work we do for them gets added to it. Over time the system builds a genuinely deep picture of that client, their business, their playbook, their red lines, the way they like to work. Any lawyer picking up work for that client starts with all of it, instead of reconstructing it from memory or a handover call.

03

The matter

Below the client sits the matter. A matter is seeded from the client context and everything around it, call notes, the email chain, Slack. A Matter Agent works inside it: finding the right precedents, running deep research, executing the plans a lawyer builds and approves. And the documents themselves live under the matter, with the agent working inside them, editing, redlining, while the lawyer chats with it directly in the draft.

In our opinion, we have two fundamental pillars:

04

Pillar one: the Master Matter Table

The first is the 'Master Matter Table'. Every matter we've ever run writes to it, a rich record of what the matter was, what we did, what we learned, what the pitfalls were, which documents we used. Before starting anything new, the agent searches it: have we done something like this before? What worked? What bit us last time? When the matter closes, it writes back. But the learning isn't only end-of-matter.

Every time a lawyer interacts with the platform, corrects an agent, accepts a change, rejects one, pushes back on a draft, that feeds the loop too. The system is watching how its work is received and adjusting, constantly. The firm's experience stops living in individual lawyers' heads and becomes something the whole system can draw on, every time.

05

Pillar two: the Quality Control Agent

The second is the Quality Control Agent. Before any piece of work is finished, it goes back through the machine, fresh models, loaded with the full context of the matter and the client, specifically hunting for gaps, errors, contradictions, anything not tight enough. It's a second, third, fourth pass that a traditional firm can't run on every document, because human hours don't scale that way.

Context compounds. The more work we do, the smarter we get.

The thread running through it

The thread running through all of it is context, and context compounds. The more work we do, the smarter we get.

Originally posted on LinkedIn.

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