Artefax is the first specialist AI agent for transactional lawyers that remembers what you need, anticipates what's coming, works while you're busy, accumulates mastery over time, and converges on your style. After you install the Artefax desktop app, it quietly organizes your deal materials into a structured matter map packed with rich context cues. Within minutes of connecting to your projects, Artefax spins up a living matter-centric workspace that's always current, always ready for questions, and always finding new ways to make itself useful.

  • Connects to your existing folders, files, and deal correspondence.
  • Leaves source materials in place and works from its own matter map.
  • Uses your approved LLM providers, with models swappable at any time.
  • All AI output includes auditable rationale and verifiable citations to sources.
  • Enforces lawyer approval before AI recommendations are applied.
  • Starts with deep domain knowledge and builds mastery over time.

Built for serious deal work.

Transactional law is its own discipline, with concerns and challenges unlike other practice areas. Deal lawyers manage evolving documents, negotiation turns, stakeholders, positions, approvals, deadlines, and closing mechanics. Artefax is specialist infrastructure built by and for experienced deal lawyers. We understand the work because we do the work. That’s why Artefax is focused on real-world problems faced by real lawyers: rejoining a dormant matter, getting an expert colleague up to speed, handing off to a junior lawyer, etc.

Effortless memory.

Playbooks go stale because no one wants to build them, maintain them, or consult them while working. Artefax turns your ordinary daily activities into a living memory of how you work. Preferred positions. Drafting style. Negotiation tactics. Artefax pays careful attention to your habits and decisions, and learns to mirror and complement your style. When Artefax has questions, it just asks for your input until it’s able to converge on what you want..

Models change. Intelligence endures.

State-of-the-art models change from week to week. Artefax is built so the model can be swapped out without losing the transaction-specific intelligence around it: document structure, issue taxonomy, review workflows, source citations, decision history, and lawyer- or organization-specific memory.

Comparison of Claude for Legal, Perplexity for Legal, and Artefax.
CapabilityClaude for LegalPerplexity for LegalArtefax
General legal AI
General legal chatIncludedIncludedNot included
Caselaw & black letter researchIncludedIncludedNot included
Contract drafting & editingIncludedIncludedIncluded
Skills, MCP, and toolsIncludedIncludedIncluded
Transactional matter infrastructure
Purpose-built for deal folders and correspondenceNot includedNot includedIncluded
Deep transactional domain knowledgeNot includedNot includedIncluded
Tracks document versions and negotiation turnsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Review and export workflow
Live deal status reportsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Live matter work plans and task listsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Change requests against deal documentsNot includedNot includedIncluded
Zero risk of source file corruption or lossNot includedNot includedIncluded
Model and memory posture
Runs on any approved LLM providerNot includedNot includedIncluded
Runs any approved AI modelNot includedNot includedIncluded
Retains matter intelligence across model & provider changesNot includedNot includedIncluded
Accumulates lawyer and organization-specific deal memoryNot includedNot includedIncluded

Beta program.

Unlike other legal AI solutions, Artefax doesn’t require organizational transformation or protracted enterprise sales pitches. Any lawyer with an API key from an approved AI provider (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc.) can install Artefax and get to work.

  • Only your approved AI provider sees your sensitive data.
  • Zero commitment. Pay only for your AI provider usage.

Artefax is currently in closed beta.