ThoughtRiver Founder Tim Pullan Forms Tech Consultancy
Tim Pullan, an early legal AI pioneer who created ThoughtRiver – but left the contract review company last year, has formed a tech consultancy with fellow legal tech expert Dom Conte, who previously worked at Avail.
As the new venture explained: ‘At Purple, we believe every legal team should have the tools they actually want. Based in London, our team of ex-lawyers and legal tech founders partners with law firms and in-house teams to turn ideas into real, usable tech – no jargon, no fuss. Whether it’s a smarter workflow, agent-powered document analysis, a custom dashboard, or something entirely new, we help you design it, build it, and make it work for you.’
You can find more about Purple here.
P.S. which reminds me, hey – ThoughtRiver, how are things?
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Juro, the contract automation platform, has launched Review Agent – an agentic AI product that can review and redline contracts automatically by utilising custom playbooks. It builds upon earlier AI features the company has developed, (see interview below).
Didn’t Juro already do AI-driven contract review? Or is this a whole new thing?
‘Yes – you can review first-party drafts in editor with a co-pilot (AI Assistant), and also extract data points from third party docs to trigger workflows (AI Extract).
What’s new here is:
You can review and redline third-party docs – not only does AI review the doc to find elements, but based on your custom playbook it then redlines it for you
For max flexibility not just for legal teams but for business teams, you can review wherever you want – Slack, Word, Teams, & in Juro
Anyone can get their contract reviewed vs legal’s guardrails – without needing legal
Review agent also gives reasoning for its redlines which you can feed back on.’
When you say agent, what does this mean here?
‘By agents we mean AI that can act autonomously – for example, AI Assistant acts as a copilot and makes recommendations & suggestions. Review agent goes several steps further:
Creates a new version of the doc in Word, based on your prompt in Slack
Identifies which kind of contract it is (i.e. NDA, MSA, SOW)
Finds the relevant playbook from your playbook hub in Juro
Proactively redlines the Word doc against that playbook, offering reasoning, which you can accept or reject (individually or collectively)
Summarises the areas where the contract deviated from the playbook and sends you a summary in Slack
It does all this automatically from your initial (single) request in Slack.’
Richard Mabey, CEO and co-founder of Juro, added: ‘Review Agent gives you the best of both worlds: the speed and autonomy of agentic contract review, and the safety and visibility of Juro’s workflows and intelligent repository. It’s a huge leap forward in how businesses agree contracts faster.’
You can find more about Juro here.
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Litera has rolled out enhancements to Litera One, its AI-powered platform integrated with Microsoft 365. By uniting the cloud version of Litera Create-Content, Foundation Insights, and a brand-new workflow, Precedent (in Beta) in Litera One for Word, firms and inhouse teams now can ‘turn knowledge into accessible, improvable, and usable content in the moment, so lawyers can draft with confidence and consistency’, they said.
Lawyers can now access matter, client, and contact insights directly within their inbox, turning Outlook into a true legal productivity hub. The new integrations with Litera Foundation and Peppermint CRM improve responsiveness and client service by removing toggling and context-switching. Additionally, the new Clean workflow (formerly Metadact) is now in the cloud and accessible from the new Outlook, enabling one-click metadata cleaning for attachments to protect sensitive information across devices, including Mac computers.
You find more info here about Litera One.
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Epiq has launched an agentic AI platform, which is part of the Epiq Service Cloud. It provides a ‘unified and scalable framework for connecting and orchestrating multiple Epiq-made and third-party agentic AI technologies tailored for legal workflows’.
More about Epiq Service Cloud here.
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CLM solution Summize has announced its fifth consecutive year of 100% ARR growth. Summize grew its US ARR by 215% and increased its global employee headcount by 49% in its latest fiscal year (ending June 2025). In the last 12 months, the company has achieved key milestones in customer success, product development, team expansion, and widespread industry recognition for its innovative approach. Congrats to them.
More about them here.
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ACTFORE, a provider of AI-powered breach response and data mining solutions, has received the first recognized data mining patent for precision unstructured data extraction and automated breach response workflows, they announced.
The technology allows law firms and insurers to quickly and accurately extract sensitive data (such as PII and health information) from massive unstructured datasets, delivering results that are regulatory-ready, consistent, and defensible in hours instead of weeks.
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And that’s all folks. Have a great weekend, and if you are also on holiday then have a doubly good weekend!
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Legal Innovators Conferences in New York and London – Both In November ’25
If you’d like to stay ahead of the legal AI curve….then come along to Legal Innovators New York, Nov 19 + 20, where the brightest minds will be sharing their insights on where we are now and where we are heading.
And also, Legal Innovators UK – Nov 4 + 5 + 6
Both events, as always, are organised by the awesome Cosmonauts team!
Please get in contact with them if you’d like to take part.
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