Germany’s fifth largest law firm, Luther Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft, is set to roll out Bryter’s new AI suite Beamon AI across the firm, having been part of the early access program.
Beamon is a suite of AI assistants that is a standalone product, available independently of Bryter’s workflow platform. It includes Assist — a chat-based assistant that supports legal professionals; Draft — a Microsoft Word based drafting solution, including redlining and comparison of documents; and Extract — a diligence solution for high volume contract and document review. Extract was launched last year under the Bryter banner, but the launch of Beamon is intended to expand its capabilities and make it clear to the market that Bryter competes in the AI, not just the workflow arena.
Beamon will compete head-to-head with the likes of Harvey, Legora or Copilot. Speaking to Legal IT Insider, Bryter’s co-founder and CEO, Michael Grupp, explained: “Beamon AI is a point solution exactly like Copilot, Legora or Harvey but what’s special is that in the overlap with platform automation, you can do more things. Other companies have started to build workflow automation, but that’s where we started out.”
Bryter has built Luther a dedicated private cloud to satisfy stringent regulation in Germany and the firm will be rolling Beamon out to everyone in the firm in the next few weeks. There are already people using it following the testing process: across Luther’s eight different departments, all of the practice heads have been involved in testing the new product.
Luther has been using Bryter’s no-code automation platform in their legal technology team for the last five years but it is the lawyers that will be using Beamon, opening up the market far beyond Bryter’s legacy legal engineer customer base.
There will be many use cases where the tools converge, enabling lawyers to automate tasks from start to finish: AI handles the analysis; workflows handle the execution. Within a contract process, for example, generating an addendum may trigger an automated approval process that overlaps with Bryter’s out of the box templates for document generation.
Beamon so far offers out-of-the-box templates for claims processing; file-to-timeline converter; billing guidelines; commercial document reviewer; ISDA review; and administrative document (for public process/procedures eg PPP-Applications).
Other customers include international law firms like McDermott Will & Emery and Hausfeld, and in-house legal teams at global brands like Rakuten.
As an aside, it is interesting to note how much branding is important in the AI race. Within the mainstream tech arena, the last few weeks has seen Shopify, Duolingo and Box issue company statements saying that they are an AI-first company. That has significance beyond branding, but vendors far and wide are now keen to ensure that their public and internal persona matches market demand for AI solutions from trusted partners.