Harvey AMA
AI-powered legal assistant for professional workflows
Read the Harvey AMA β 2026-05-27 Β· r/legaltech
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How Hype Index is computed Β· prospect-to-user intent ratio over the 24-month window
What it is
Overview
Harvey is a generative AI platform built specifically for legal professionals. Founded in 2022 by Winston Weinberg (CEO) and Gabriel Pereyra (President), the company emerged from a cold-email to OpenAI leadership and has grown rapidly to an $11B valuation as of March 2026.
Key Features
- Legal Research β AI-assisted case law research with LexisNexis integration
- Contract Review β Automated analysis and redlining
- Brief Drafting β AI-generated first drafts with citations
- Vertical Workflows β Specialised templates (e.g., pharmaceutical antitrust defences)
- Ethical Walls & Governance β Firm-level data isolation and access controls
- APIs & MCP Support β Custom integrations via Model Context Protocol
Team Composition
Approximately 20% of Harveyβs staff are lawyers working alongside engineers β a deliberate approach to building domain-specific AI rather than adapting general-purpose tools.
r/legaltech AMA (December 2025)
Harveyβs cofounders conducted the third vendor AMA on r/legaltech in December 2025. The session ran over two hours and covered:
- Valuation: Weinberg stated βWe need to earn that valuation every dayβ
- Competition: Addressed positioning against LexisNexis, Westlaw, and emerging competitors
- Employee Criticism: Responded to anonymous claims about weak engagement and average technology
- Growth: Reported 81% increase in daily active users since 2023 launch
The AMA received mixed reception. The community appreciated the direct engagement but noted some questions received evasive answers.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Lead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 2025 | Series D | $300M | $3B | Sequoia |
| Jun 2025 | Series E | $300M | $5B | Kleiner Perkins, Coatue |
| Dec 2025 | Series F | $160M | $8B | Andreessen Horowitz |
| Mar 2026 | β | $200M | $11B | GIC, Sequoia |
Total raised: over $1.2 billion. Other investors include Coatue, Conviction Partners, Elad Gil, Evantic, and Kleiner Perkins.
Market Context
Harvey reports $190M ARR as of end-2025, with over 100,000 lawyers across 1,300 organisations using the platform. Clients include a majority of the AmLaw 100, over 500 in-house legal teams, and 50 asset management firms across 60 countries.
The legal tech market represents only ~3% of the $1 trillion total legal services sector. Harveyβs bet is on massive technology penetration growth, targeting the estimated 10 million global legal professionals.
Integrations
Platforms Harvey integrates with. Depth β where curated β reflects how native the connection is. Uncurated entries render without a depth dot.
- Aderant
- Axiom
- Box
- ElevenLabs
- FromCounsel
- Gyldendal Rettsdata
- Harbor
- iManage
- Intapp
- Ironclad
- LexisNexis
- McKinsey & Company
- Microsoft
- Microsoft 365 Copilot
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Microsoft Word
- NetDocuments
- PwC UK
- SCC
Deep β bi-directional API Medium β one-way sync / webhook Shallow β middleware / Zapier-class
Pricing
- Model
- custom
- Details
- Enterprise pricing. More affordable tiers reportedly in development.
Pricing signals come from vendor-published tiers and community procurement threads. B2B pricing is negotiated β see the Friends of the wiki pledge on why we accept ball-park pricing from practitioners.
Community ratings
Vendor details
- Founded
- 2022
- Company size
- scaleup
- Founder is a lawyer
- No
AMA on r/legaltech
2026-05-27 β Winston Weinberg (CEO) Β· Gabe Pereyra (President)
Round 2. Both co-founders returned six months after their first AMA. Live for ~2 hours. Revealed Harvey at ~$300m ARR (up from $190m at end of 2025). Gabe was blunt on whether Claude for Legal could replace Harvey: 'No.' Winston flagged IP/patent acquisitions as a watch area. Co-moderated by Melia Russell (Business Insider). Verbatim recap on rlegaltech.com.
- 2026-05Carrington Coleman β Harvey used to compress trial preparation time (vendor customer story)source β
- 2026-05Foley & Lardner β Firmwide Harvey rollout following a growing base of power userssource β
- 2026-04Slaughter and May β Firmwide rollout of Harvey's full platform across all practice areas after testing Harvey and Legorasource β
- 2026-03DLA Piper β Expanded Harvey partnership to 5,000 licenses across the firm's global footprintsource β
- 2026-03Macfarlanes β Built Macfarlanes Amplify, a client-facing tool on the Harvey APIsource β
- 2026-03McCann FitzGerald β First law firm in Ireland to deploy Harvey firmwidesource β
- 2026-03PΓ©rez-Llorca β Harvey licences for many of the firm's lawyers alongside Legorasource β
- 2026-02Ashurst β Firmwide Harvey rollout to all 2,000 lawyers (first global firm, 2024; re-confirmed in window)source β
- 2026-02Corrs Chambers Westgarth β Firmwide Harvey rollout at Australia's leading independent law firmsource β
- 2026-02Eversheds Sutherland β Harvey as general GenAI legal assistant; initial 350-lawyer cohort, full rollout from May 2026source β
- 2026-02Gleiss Lutz β Early Harvey adopter; uses Harvey Shared Spaces to collaborate with client Deutsche Telekomsource β
- 2026-02Stinson β Firmwide adoption of Harvey across practice areassource β
- 2026-01Burges Salmon β Harvey selected for targeted legal workflows within the Digital Enablement Programmesource β
- 2026-01King & Wood Mallesons β Moved from a six-week, 200+ lawyer pilot to broad Harvey adoptionsource β
- 2025-12CMS β Firmwide Harvey access expanded across 50 countries β the largest Harvey law-firm rolloutsource β
- 2025-11Cuatrecasas β Daily firmwide Harvey usage (80%+ of lawyers) across Spain, Portugal and Latin Americasource β
- 2025-09Clayton Utz β Firmwide adoption of Harvey as part of strategic AI investmentsource β
- 2025-09Reed Smith β Scaled GenAI across the firm with Harvey; 800+ monthly active userssource β
- 2025-08DarrowEverett β Adopted Harvey, the domain-specific AI platform for legal servicessource β
- 2025-08Latham & Watkins β Enterprise license for firmwide rollout of the Harvey platform across global officessource β
- 2025-08Olaniwun Ajayi β First law firm in West Africa to adopt Harveysource β
- 2025-08Willkie Farr & Gallagher β Global firmwide rollout of Harvey, integrated into Willkie's proprietary AI platformsource β
- 2025-07A&O Shearman β Co-developed agentic AI tools with Harvey for four practice areas, plus a revenue-sharing arrangementsource β
- 2025-07Gowling WLG β Harvey adopted across all practice areas in Canadasource β
- 2025-06O'Melveny β Listed among Harvey-adopting firms in LexisNexis-Harvey partnership coveragesource β
- 2025-06Paul, Weiss β First law firm to launch Harvey custom workflows using Workflow Buildersource β
- 2025-06Vinson & Elkins β Listed among Harvey-adopting firms in LexisNexis-Harvey partnership coveragesource β
- Winston WeinbergCEO & Co-founder lawyer-founded source β
- Gabe PereyraPresident & Co-foundersource β
- 806MTotal funding reported by the TLTF directory Β· founded 2022 Β· as crawled 2026-02-09source β
Round-by-round data (dates, round names, investors) is not in our source crawl β only the total is shown.
We haven't found any webinars offered by Harvey yet β see all legal tech webinars.
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