# Everlaw Launches Omni and Opens Its Evidence to Other AI

> Everlaw unveiled Omni, an agent that works its own tools, but its CEO says the bigger story is letting Claude, Harvey and Legora reach the evidence.

By The Circle Desk | Market Signals | Published 2026-11-02
Source: https://legaltechcircle.com/insights/everlaw-omni-mcp-evidence-layer/

Everlaw used its annual Summit in San Francisco in late October to
launch Omni, an agentic investigation suite, along with a review
automation tool called Workflows and a Word add-in. The [company's
October 28 release](https://www.everlaw.com/press/release/everlaw-omni-and-workflows-agentic-intelligence-review-automation/)
puts Omni at the center. Founder and CEO AJ Shankar told
[LawSites](https://www.lawnext.com/2026/10/at-its-annual-summit-everlaw-unveils-omni-its-agentic-ai-suite-but-ceo-says-customers-are-even-more-excited-about-opening-its-platform-to-other-ai-tools.html)
that customers were more excited about something else: opening Everlaw
to the AI tools they already use.

That split is worth paying attention to. One half of the news is a
vendor building its own agent. The other half is a vendor accepting
that lawyers will do much of their thinking in Claude, ChatGPT,
Copilot, Harvey or Legora, and deciding to be the place those tools go
to get the evidence.

## What Everlaw Launched

Omni has three parts. It absorbs Deep Dive, the question answering
tool Everlaw made generally available after last year's Summit, so
there is no separate Deep Dive screen anymore. It adds the Omni Agent,
which answers plain language questions by running Everlaw's own
features, such as entity extraction, structured search, clustering and
communication analysis, on the user's behalf. And it adds Case Memory,
which pulls facts out of complaints, depositions and other matter
documents into a central fact library that feeds Storybuilder.

In a demo for LawSites on the public Mallinckrodt opioid litigation
data set, Shankar moved from asking who the main custodians were to a
draft deposition outline for one of them. The outline came with a
caution that counsel should verify exhibit completeness, dates and
privilege before use. Shankar said that in Everlaw's internal tests
against a known data set, the agent found about twice as many relevant
facts as Deep Dive alone. That is the company's own evaluation, not an
outside benchmark.

The release says Bracewell, Vorys, Cole, Scott & Kissane and other Am
Law firms are using Omni in early access. Omni is expected to be
generally available in early 2027 as a premium offering, with pricing
still to come. For now it answers questions; Shankar said it will
later take actions inside Everlaw, such as preparing a production.

Workflows is not an AI product. It gives review managers a drag and
drop canvas to route documents, create assignments, apply codes and
insert human approval gates, and Everlaw says it arrives in November
at no extra cost. Everlaw for Word links Bates citations in a draft
back to source documents and is available now to Storybuilder
customers, outside GovCloud.

## Why the Connectors May Matter More

Everlaw calls the integration strategy Everlaw Everywhere, and it has
been building for months. The Claude connector went live in May. In
August, at ILTACON, the company announced integrations with Thomson
Reuters CoCounsel Legal, Harvey, Google's Gemini Enterprise for Legal
and Microsoft 365 Copilot, as [eDiscovery Today
reported](https://ediscoverytoday.com/2026/08/25/with-four-new-legal-ai-partnerships-and-integrations-everlaw-establishes-itself-as-the-evidence-layer-for-litigation-and-investigations/)
at the time. All of them rely on the Model Context Protocol, the
connector standard that lets an outside AI tool call another system's
search and analysis.

> "Omni is great. I think it's going to be clearly the best agent tool in our field. But the very clear daylight between what we're doing and what other folks in our field are doing on Everlaw Everywhere is probably the bigger news." AJ Shankar, Everlaw, to LawSites

Shankar told LawSites that MCP usage is more than doubling every
month, that usage of just the Claude and ChatGPT connectors went from
a few thousand in June to an estimated 280,000 or so in October, and
that the Harvey and Legora connectors were due to launch later in
October. He also said 80% of Everlaw customers have deployed a
horizontal AI tool. These are company figures shared in an interview,
and none of them have been independently checked.

The business choice is the striking part. Everlaw charges nothing for
the connectors, to users or to the AI companies that plug in. The bet
is that the platform holding the evidence, the permissions and the
audit trail keeps the customer, whichever chat window the lawyer
prefers this year.

## What Buyers Should Check

For litigation support leaders, the open questions are practical.
Shankar said a user's Everlaw permissions follow them into outside
tools, that activity through the connectors lands in Everlaw's audit
log, and that partners are vetted and do not keep copies of documents,
though they may keep the work product their tools create. That last
point deserves a close read of each partner's terms, since work
product built from privileged material is still sensitive.

Cost is the other question. Omni will be a premium add on with no
published price yet, while the connectors are free. Firms already
paying for Harvey, Legora or Copilot seats may find they get much of
the benefit without buying Omni at all, which is presumably part of
why Everlaw is giving the connectors away.

## Common Questions

**What is Everlaw Omni?**

It is Everlaw's agentic investigation suite, combining the Omni Agent,
Deep Dive and Case Memory. It answers questions about a matter by
using Everlaw's own tools and cites the source documents.

**When can firms buy it?**

Everlaw expects general availability in early 2027 as a premium
offering. Pricing has not been announced. Several Am Law firms are
using it through early access now.

**Which outside AI tools connect to Everlaw?**

Per LawSites, Claude, ChatGPT Enterprise and Microsoft 365 Copilot are
available, Harvey and Legora were due to launch later in October,
CoCounsel Legal is expected this fall, and Gemini Enterprise was in
private preview as of August.

**Partly Real.** Workflows and Everlaw for Word are shipping, and the
free connector strategy is a real and unusual bet in a market where
most vendors want to own the interface. Omni itself is early access
with no price, and the usage and accuracy numbers so far come only
from Everlaw.

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