DeepJudge

What it is

DeepJudge is AI search across everything a law firm already knows — the DMS, email archives, the intranet, SharePoint and OneDrive, HighQ, client portals — without moving a single file. A background crawler indexes in place and mirrors each source system’s access permissions and ethical walls, so a query returns what that specific lawyer is cleared to see. The founders came out of Google Research in Zurich; Yannic Kilcher is CTO. The bet is that a firm’s own work product is the moat, and that the retrieval layer over it is a different product from the assistant that drafts on top of it.

Read DeepJudge as the legal-specific answer to horizontal enterprise search. Glean indexes your Slack and your Salesforce. DeepJudge indexes your matters, and it knows a matter has a client, a responsible partner, a closing date, and a wall around it. That distinction is the whole product, and it is the gap legal knowledge management programs keep falling into.

Why it shows up in Legal Ops stacks

• It is the knowledge layer under the assistant, not a rival to it. DeepJudge announced a partnership with Harvey on 2026-05-20 and a Thomson Reuters integration that reached GA in June 2026 inside the CoCounsel web app, Westlaw Advantage and the Practical Law Dynamic Tool Set. If you are choosing between DeepJudge and Harvey, you have mis-scoped the decision. Firms buy both, and the Harvey integration writes work product back into the DeepJudge index.
• SuperSearch is the cross-matter mode, and it is the reason to buy. Launched 2026-03-24, it answers questions across matters rather than inside one: which deal structures the firm has actually closed on, whether regulatory advice stayed consistent across years of client work, what language opposing counsel accepted last time. Holland & Knight, Gunderson Dettmer, Cozen O’Connor, ArentFox Schiff, CMS Switzerland and Schoenherr ran the early-access program.
• Agent Skills turn a KM precedent into a repeatable run. DeepJudge ships reusable practice modules — instructions, validated templates, supporting files, firm-specific knowledge — that a team builds and adapts inside the product. That is the KM function’s actual job description, expressed as something an agent executes rather than a memo nobody reads.

Pricing

DeepJudge publishes no price. There is no pricing page — the URL 404s as of 2026-08-09 — and every route ends at a demo request. Any per-seat DeepJudge number you find online is a guess.

What is known about the shape: Sacra describes the licensing as a subscription tied to user count and document volume on annual enterprise contracts. That is third-party reporting, not a vendor-published figure, and ooligo has no verified number. The stated buyer band starts at firms of 20 lawyers and scales past 500, which matters commercially — Glean will not quote under 100 seats, so DeepJudge sells into a floor the horizontal vendors abandoned.

Budget against the two line items it sits beside: Glean at roughly $40-50 per user/month plus about $15 per user/month for the AI add-on, and iManage Insight+, licensed separately from Work and where most firms’ knowledge-search spend already goes. Pin three things before signature — whether the meter is seats or documents and which one throttles first, how many connectors are in base, and whether SuperSearch and AI Workflows are included or priced as modules.

Best for

Knowledge management and innovation leads at 20-to-500+ lawyer firms already running iManage or NetDocuments, with a document estate too large to curate by hand, who want retrieval that respects ethical walls without a migration project. Also the right pick for a DACH or Swiss firm: the company is Zurich-based, hosts in its cloud or yours or on-prem, and CMS Switzerland, Homburger, Lenz & Staehelin and Schoenherr are in-region reference accounts.

Alternatives and when to pick them

• iManage — pick when you want fewer vendors and the DMS incumbent’s own search is close enough. Insight+ is already on the price list and nothing leaves the platform. What you give up is cross-repository reach: email archives, the intranet and client portals sit outside it.
• Glean — pick when the search problem is firm-wide rather than legal, and the corpus is tickets, wikis and Slack as much as matters. Under 100 seats Glean will not quote you, and it has no native model of a matter or an ethical wall.
• Legora — the fastest-growing entrant in the segment and the one most likely to show up in the same evaluation: past $100M ARR in April 2026, 18 months after its first $1M, 800 law firms and legal teams, $5.6B valuation. Pick Legora when you want the assistant and the knowledge layer from one vendor and will accept shallower repository coverage to get it.

Watch-outs

• Permission mirroring reproduces whatever your DMS already gets wrong. DeepJudge inherits source-system access control, so a mis-filed matter or a stale ethical wall becomes a search result in front of the wrong partner. Guard: audit permissions and filing hygiene on two practice groups before the pilot, and make the pilot’s exit criterion “zero cross-wall retrievals,” not “the associates liked it.”
• It does not draft. DeepJudge retrieves, summarizes and runs workflows over your own material; the redline and the memo still come from Harvey, CoCounsel or Word-native tooling. Guard: put the assistant seat in the same business case, or the project reads as a search upgrade and loses to “we already pay for iManage.”
• Verify the residency and no-train claims in your own paper. The vendor states SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, no training on customer data, and a choice of public cloud, private cloud or on-prem with your own model. Guard: get residency and the no-train commitment into the MSA rather than accepting the security page, especially for EU-hosted privileged material.
• The company is young relative to its reference logos. The $41.2M Series A closed in November 2025, led by Felicis at about a $300M valuation with seed lead Coatue participating; headcount was around 80 in May 2026. The 500%+ year-over-year revenue growth figure is vendor-reported. Guard: negotiate a 12-month initial term instead of 36, and name your solutions architect in the contract.