Contract lifecycle management provider Juro announced today (28 August) that it has signed a partnership with contract review and AI agent startup Wordsmith. Through the collaboration, Juro’s 550+ clients will gain access to Wordsmith as part of their core workflows and Wordsmith’s clients will be able to leverage Juro’s tools via a model context protocol (MCP) integration.
MCP is an open standard created by Anthropic last year that enables developers to build two-way connections between their data sources and AI tools.
While Juro has many inbound integrations already, this is the first MCP integration for 2016-founded company, and speaking to Legal IT Insider, CEO and co-founder Richard Mabey said: “There are two significant things about MCP. One is that the extent to which you can control products is greater than via a traditional integration: with MCP you can control the entirety of the product from a different interface.”
Juro is piloting a connection with ChatGPT and while this is not yet publicly released, Mabey said by way of illustration: “You can put what you need in ChatGPT and get a contract from Juro.”
Mabey says that the second thing that’s significant is the openness of MCP, commenting: “In legal tech and tech generally, a lot of companies have a strategy that you do all your work in their platform. We’re agnostic on where you want to work. If you want to work in Word or Salesforce or another legal tech tool that’s complementary or adjacent, we’re trying to be agnostic and MCP facilitates that.”
He adds: “There’s so much convergence now in legal tech tools we don’t mind if you want to work in Juro or Salesforce, it’s just about how we can help you.”
In-house teams are increasingly using large language models such as Claude or ChatGPT under an enterprise license and it will be interesting to see what comes out of the ChatGPT pilot, with further announcements from Juro expected in this space.
MCP is a fast-developing area in legal. At Rio Tinto, digital transformation lead Christopher de Waas in June announced that the mining corporation had successfully tested an integration between ChatGPT Enterprise and iManage using MCP. iManage subsequently announced support for MCP, enabling compatible AI applications to connect to its Cloud without vendor-specific integrations.