Legal AI platform
Equip your team.
Harvey
A legal AI platform for research, document analysis and work orchestration.
YOUR TEAM OWNS
Platform adoption, your standards and how work is reviewed.
Alaro vs Harvey
Harvey gives legal teams a platform for research, analysis and agentic workflows. Alaro takes on agreed recurring legal work as an AI paralegal, using your playbook and existing systems.
A platform to use. Or work to hand over.
Choose Harvey when you want a legal AI platform your team can use to research, analyse documents and orchestrate work. Consider Alaro when you want to delegate an agreed recurring workflow, including the follow-through, to an AI paralegal maintained by Alaro. Both can support multi-step work; compare the operating responsibility and scope you are buying.
Managed AI paralegal
Hand over the work.
Alaro
An agreed recurring legal workflow, maintained and run for you.
YOUR TEAM OWNS
The playbook, approvals and decisions that require your judgement.
Where the responsibility sits.
Compare the work you are buying—and what your team still needs to own.
| Decision | Harvey | Alaro |
|---|---|---|
| What you buy | A legal AI platform with research, review and workflow capabilities. | An agreed recurring workflow carried out by an AI paralegal. |
| How work moves | Your team can coordinate people and agents through task templates and shared matters. | Delegate through email or messaging; Alaro gathers context and progresses the agreed steps. |
| Human control | Your team decides how to assign work and review deliverables. | Your team defines positions, approval rules and exceptions; Alaro escalates judgement calls. |
| Systems and handoffs | Evaluate the connectors, add-ins and orchestration available for your use case. | System access, approvals, signature routing and filing are scoped before work starts. |
| Ongoing operation | Confirm implementation, workflow ownership and support in your proposal. | Alaro maintains the agreed workflow with lawyer supervision. |
| Best evaluation | Test research quality, document analysis and matter collaboration. | Test completion of a recurring matter, including follow-ups and the exception path. |
Follow the work. See what changes.
From the first message to the final record. Explore how Alaro handles an agreed workflow—and the decisions that stay with you.
TRY THIS IN YOUR DEMO
A supplier agreement. From intake to signature.
Start with the draft, approved positions and a deadline. Finish with the signed copy filed, approvals recorded and unresolved points assigned.
Your precedents. Your approved positions. Your approval rules. Alaro checks the work against them and asks before going outside them.
Ask in your demo: what happens when a clause falls outside our playbook?
Hand over the work in the channel you already use. Alaro gathers the context and missing information needed to get started.
Ask in your demo: who follows up when an input is missing?
Connect the systems needed for the agreed workflow, from documents and approvals to signature and filing.
Ask in your demo: which handoffs are included in our scope?
When you need specialist legal review, ask Alaro to coordinate it. Your team keeps the decisions reserved to it.
Ask in your demo: which exceptions come back to us, and what legal support is included?
See the outstanding actions and ask about unsigned or renewing documents. The useful endpoint is a complete record, with anything unresolved made clear.
Ask in your demo: can we see the next action and who owns it?
What does Harvey offer?
Harvey describes a platform covering agents, document analysis, research and shared workspaces. Its Legal Work Orchestration product supports reusable task templates, assignments to people or agents, notifications and task management from email. Vault supports large-scale document review.
Product references: Harvey platform, Harvey Legal Work Orchestration, Harvey Vault.
When to choose each
Consider Harvey if
- Your lawyers need a common platform for research and document analysis.
- You want to organise matters around shared workspaces, tasks and agents.
- You have a team ready to own platform adoption and agree how outputs are reviewed.
Consider Alaro if
- Recurring legal work is consuming time in follow-ups, approvals and handoffs.
- You want your business to delegate through email, Slack, Teams or WhatsApp.
- You want Alaro to maintain the agreed workflow while your team handles judgement calls.
Can you use both?
A team could use Harvey for a research-intensive matter or a large document review while delegating a defined stream of routine agreements to Alaro. Set clear ownership so both systems do not send instructions or make changes on the same matter. The useful boundary is the work each owns, rather than the name of the underlying AI model.
How should you compare pricing?
Ask for current proposals against the same volume and scope. Alaro prices agreed workflows by the type and amount of work, with no per-seat or per-token charges in its published pricing description. Confirm the proposal for your requirements. Read how Alaro pricing works.
Include implementation, integrations, internal review time, maintenance and any separately scoped legal support. Define what counts as completed work, what happens if volume changes and who handles exceptions.
What should you check before sharing legal work?
- Which data can the service access, where is it processed and how long is it retained?
- What are the rules for model training, subprocessors and deletion?
- Which actions need approval, and can access be limited to the intended matter?
- Who reviews exceptions, and what legal support is actually included in the agreement?
Use Alaro’s Trust Centre and each provider’s current security documentation during procurement. Confirm the arrangements for your organisation and jurisdiction; the presence of an AI agent does not itself settle those questions.
Frequently asked questions
Is Alaro an alternative to Harvey?
Yes, for teams evaluating how to handle recurring legal work. Harvey is a legal AI platform; Alaro offers an AI paralegal for agreed workflows. They overlap in tasks, but the service scope and operating model differ.
Does Harvey only draft documents?
No. Harvey also offers document analysis, research, agents and Legal Work Orchestration. Evaluate those current capabilities against your actual workflow.
Can I use Alaro and Harvey together?
Yes, with distinct responsibilities. For example, your team could use Harvey for research and document analysis while Alaro handles an agreed recurring contract workflow.
Which is better for a small in-house legal team?
The better fit depends on the bottleneck. Test a platform if your team needs research and analysis capacity; test a managed workflow if the burden is repeated follow-ups, approvals and completion.
Does Alaro remove the need for legal judgement?
No. Your team sets the playbook and makes judgement calls. Alaro progresses the agreed routine work and escalates exceptions.
Product sources
For an example of delegated legal work in practice, read the Dominus case study. To evaluate your own workflow, book a demo.
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In practice
See what delegation looks like.
How Dominus went from three contracts to 27 people across seven departments.
Read the Dominus story