Automatise is the Australian company behind Cicero, a litigation-focused private AI platform built for disputes, investigations, and evidence-heavy matters. The product positioning is much more specific than the current stub implies: public materials repeatedly describe Cicero as matter analysis software that detects witness contradictions, analyses pleadings against evidence, and builds first-draft chronologies from large document sets. This is not a general legal chatbot. The strongest corroboration comes from law-firm deployment evidence rather than review sites: McCabes announced a firm-wide pilot in September 2025, Maddocks reported moving Cicero into firm-wide production after an extended trial, and multiple other firms surfaced in vendor/news results as pilots or evaluations. TransPerfect Legal partnered with Automatise in August 2025 to extend AI-powered litigation support. AWS Marketplace lists Cicero with detailed security and integration language, including native iManage and Relativity integration plus deployment on AWS in an ISO 27001, ISO 42001, and SOC 2-certified environment. Pricing is not public in normal legaltech directory terms; AWS only points buyers to infrastructure estimation, so budget fit remains opaque. Community-review depth is thin, but the workflow proof is materially stronger than many vendors in this batch because real firms are publicly piloting or deploying it in disputes work.
Company Info
- Founded: 2019
- Team size: 11-50 employees
- HQ: Australia
- Sector: Software Development
What We Haven’t Verified
This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Automatise is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Automatise addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Litigation team building a case chronology across 50,000 documents, 30 depositions, and hundreds of exhibits does it in Excel or Word — no single platform connects facts, people, events, and evidence into a searchable timeline, so critical connections between a witness statement and a document are missed
When my litigation team receives 100,000 documents in discovery and the partner wants an early case assessment by Friday, I need to understand the key facts, players, and timeline before we've even started formal review — but right now the only option is throwing associate hours at it and hoping we surface the right documents
Senior associate preparing for a 3-week commercial fraud trial has 200,000 documents in the review platform but no way to automatically identify where Witness A's account of a meeting contradicts the email chain from that same day — the team manually cross-references depositions against contemporaneous documents, and a critical inconsistency in the opposing party's timeline only surfaces during cross-examination when it's too late to build the impeachment narrative
Disputes partner receives a new complex commercial case with 200,000+ documents and needs to understand the factual landscape within a week to advise the client on strategy and costs — but the team can't even get through initial review in that timeframe, so the first case assessment is based on the client's narrative rather than the evidence
Litigator has 200 pages of deposition transcripts and needs to extract the 15 key facts that matter for the motion — but reading and manually tagging each relevant passage takes an entire weekend, and there's no way to link those facts back to the specific transcript page when writing the brief
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Automatise
A disputes or investigations team receives a new matter with pleadings, witness statements, correspondence, transcripts, and large volumes of evidence and needs to understand the factual landscape quickly enough to advise the client, plan discovery, or prepare cross-examination.
After Automatise
After Cicero builds chronologies, extracts facts, and surfaces contradictions, litigators still move into brief drafting, witness prep, expert strategy, and formal review in adjacent systems such as iManage, Relativity, or firm work product tools.
Integrations & hand-offs
Evidence is uploaded into Cicero for chronology generation, contradiction detection, matter analysis, and fact-checking. Public materials say it integrates natively with iManage and Relativity, and can be deployed privately on AWS or within firm-controlled environments to satisfy data-sovereignty constraints.
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