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Platform overview
How workspaces, matters, legal work, knowledge, and governance fit together in 8rney
8rney is a legal workspace: a system for doing legal work and operating the team around it. It combines matter management, ambient agents, tasks and deadlines, documents, research, legal operations, and enterprise administration without mixing personal and organisation content.
The platform model#
Workspace
The tenancy boundary. A workspace owns its memberships, roles, settings, matters, clients, work items, documents, knowledge, integrations, and audit history.
Matter
The legal-work boundary. A matter connects participants, documents, tasks, research, deadlines, drafts, financials, and activity.
Work item
The execution unit. Tasks, deadlines, review requests, approvals, obligations, issues, and intake work share assignment, priority, workflow, and audit behaviour.
Agent Task
The delegation unit. Background agents store the instruction, autonomy, approvals, tool permissions, artifacts, live events, and audit trail.
Knowledge
The reusable layer. Research, precedents, clauses, templates, playbooks, and closeout material turn completed work into future leverage.
The lawyer's daily loop#
Start with My legal day
Review overdue work, upcoming deadlines, approvals, alerts, and recent matters before opening another system.
Open the matter
See the next deadline, assigned work, key documents, participants, and recent activity in one overview.
Do the work
Research an issue, draft or review a document, complete a task, or coordinate with another participant while keeping matter context attached.
Hand off background work
Delegate a larger task to 8rney from the web app, Desk, mobile, Slack, Teams, Gmail, Outlook, or a schedule while you continue other work.
Review and record the result
Complete the approval path, preserve the activity trail, and publish useful work product into the organisation's knowledge layer.
Product surfaces#
| Surface | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Web workspace | Complete consumer experience for matters, work, documents, legal operations, and organisation administration |
| Word Add-in | Draft, research, and redline inside Microsoft Word while retaining workspace and matter context |
| Mobile and desktop | Focused access to assigned work, matters, notifications, documents, and ambient agents |
| Slack, Teams, Gmail, and Outlook | Channel entry points for Agent Tasks, approvals, summaries, drafts, and artifacts |
| Developer platform | Permission-aware service accounts, API keys, webhooks, and integrations for enterprise workflows |
Workspace modes#
Personal workspaces prioritise an individual lawyer's clients, contacts, matters, and legal tools. Law-firm workspaces add engagement onboarding, conflicts, responsible lawyers, time and billing, collections, and client reporting. Legal-department workspaces add business intake, risk routing, outside-counsel management, spend controls, obligations, legal holds, and executive reporting.
Workspace navigation changes with the workspace mode and the user's permissions. Hiding a module does not replace server-side authorisation or delete its existing data.