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.
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 puts Omni at the center. Founder and CEO AJ Shankar told LawSites 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 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.
