Cobalt · AI-accelerated legal work
Legal work at AI speed. Reviewed by lawyers.
We've spent a decade building the AI that reads, structures and compares legal documents. Now we use it to deliver finished work (due diligence, deal knowledge and policy research), checked by real, human lawyers and researchers before it reaches you, at a price that makes sense.
- Supply Agreement, Walsh Distribution Change of control: consent required (§14.2) Reviewed
- Master Services Agreement Assignment restricted; 60-day notice (§9.1) Reviewed
- Distribution Agreement, Healthcare devices Exclusivity: Ontario, to 2027 (§3.4) Reviewed
Why us
Software got cheap. Judgment didn't.
AI can draft a contract in seconds, and be confidently wrong in the same breath. The value now is in knowing which answer is right, and standing behind it. Our platform does the reading at machine speed. Our lawyers and researchers check every deliverable before it reaches your draft.
What the AI does
- Parses and structures thousands of documents
- Finds and compares clauses across your precedent
- Drafts extracts, schedules and suggested language
What our people do
- Scope the matter with you, and agree the fee
- Verify every finding against its source
- Sign off the deliverable, ready for your draft
Current, cited, on the record
The modern, boring, thorough lawyer.
We're real, human lawyers and researchers. Every law and regulation in our platform is kept under full change control: each amendment is recorded, dated and kept, never overwritten. So we can answer the question most AI tools can't: what did the law say then, what does it say now, and which provisions changed in between.
- Point in time. Ask what changed for your business between any two dates, and get the answer provision by provision.
- No citation, no claim. Every finding is tied to the source text it came from. If we can't cite it, we don't say it.
- Kept current by people. Our lawyers track amendments as they're made, and review what the platform ingests.
- Amended Hours of work: excess weekly hours need employee agreement and Director approval Employment Standards Amendment Act (Hours of Work and Other Matters), 2004, S.O. 2004, c. 21
- Added New obligations for temporary help agencies and their clients Employment Standards Amendment Act (Temporary Help Agencies), 2009, S.O. 2009, c. 9
Illustrative example. In the platform, each change links to its enacting text, and every version is kept.
Services
Capability you can hire, not just license.
Due diligence
Diligence Monster
Due diligence delivered as a service: data extraction, organization and disclosure schedules, reviewed by our team and dropped straight into your draft.
Learn moreDeal knowledge
DealPrep
Custom knowledge libraries for commercial negotiation. Review by cluster instead of whole documents, build negotiation playbooks, and onboard deal teams from your own precedent.
Learn morePolicy & regulatory research
Policysaurus
Compare thousands of legal concepts across jurisdictions, and review dozens of laws and hundreds of case decisions, for the people who write rules and policy.
Learn moreM&A and transactions
Cobalt Lawyers
Acquisitions, divestitures, financings and commercial agreements, run by our lawyers with the diligence done on our own platform.
Learn moreHow we work
A model that starts at zero.
No licences, no seats, no committed spend before the work is real.
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Scope
We agree the matter, the deliverable and the fee with you, by the hour or by matter.
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Accelerate
Clausehound parses, structures and compares your documents against a decade of precedent.
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Review
Our lawyers and researchers verify every output. You get finished work, not a tool.
- No up-front or monthly cost. Pay only for matters actually run.
- Bill through your firm. Engage us as part of your team, and charge us out to your client.
- Realistic about budget. We work within your number, in the currency of the work's jurisdiction.
- 3.3k
- Focused due diligence or research task
- 8k
- Due diligence or research matter
- 32k
- Higher-volume or complex matter
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- Up-front or monthly cost
The platform
Built on Clausehound, our patented knowledge engine.
Clausehound turns scattered documents into a structured, searchable, comparable knowledge base. Originals stay intact; metadata does the work. It's what lets a small team review like a large one. Its clause taxonomy, versioning and analysis are protected by our patent, Clause Taxonomy System and Method for Structured Document Construction and Analysis, US Pat. No. 12,670,200.
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Gather
Parsing, taxonomy mapping and text clustering turn raw files into tagged, filterable data.
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Research
An AI workbench with annotation and vector comparison finds the right clause across massive volumes.
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Recommend
Drafting suggestions drawn from your own institutional knowledge, with quality control built in.
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Collaborate
Workflow tracking, metadata capture and playbooks keep a team drafting to one standard.
Integrations
Works where your work already is.
AI made integration the easy part. Clausehound speaks MCP, the open standard AI assistants use to connect to tools, so your assistant can query versioned law and your own precedent directly, and our deliverables land in the tools you already use.
- Claude and MCP agents Connect Clausehound as an MCP server to Claude or any MCP-compatible assistant or agent.
- Excel and Google Sheets Answers, abstracts and retention schedules filled straight into your spreadsheets.
- SharePoint, OneDrive and Google Drive Point your agent at your document libraries; Clausehound supplies the law and the precedent.
- Word Suggested language from your own precedent, ready to drop into a draft.
- Point-in-time law Every version of every statute we track, comparable between any two dates.
- API and exports GraphQL API, plus CSV, JSON and Excel exports of any analysis.
Cobalt has been an excellent partner for us. The client focus and support is outstanding. Their Drafting Sprints have been very effective for us, helping progress deals based on our timeline. It’s easy to recommend Cobalt.
We have been impressed with the commitment by Cobalt to providing a thoughtful response within a six hour service level, with their deal knowledge capture through their software platform, and with the speed at which their software and lawyers are able to collect our thinking and map from prior deals into future deals.
Book a call
Tell us about your matter.
We'll scope it with you and give you a number before any work starts.
