
Tech development group, Curvestone, has announced the launch of Workflows, a new module for its WorkflowGPT genAI platform. Law firm Walker Morris is among its first adopters. In October they also inked a tech deal with Stephenson Harwood.
Curvestone’s new Workflows feature allows law firms to create custom AI processes ‘without coding, using pre-trained ‘bricks’ for specific legal tasks’, the UK-based company explained.
This ‘building block’ approach, as they describe it, enables law firms to deploy AI solutions across practice areas and includes the ability to handle: ‘rapid data extraction from extensive legal documents, facilitates interactive document Q&A with precise, referenced answers, and automates document comparison without manual redlining. It also provides contract risk detection, complete with severity levels and mitigation suggestions,’ they said.
All data is segregated and stored in a secure Azure environment with full lifecycle management. Client data belongs solely to them and is never used for training the models, the company stressed.
So, all well and good, and this covers many of the use cases we have come to expect from applying genAI to legal work. But, what is Walker Morris, which is based in Leeds, doing with the product?
The law firm said that it has been working closely with Curvestone to ‘leverage Workflows to transform their service agreement review process’.
Describing how they’ve done this, they explained: ‘The firm has encoded their legal expertise into a structured set of questions that can be automatically applied to client contracts.
‘When reviewing service agreements, Workflows analyses the documents against the firm’s established playbook, providing detailed answers with relevant extracts and in-context references. This automation has dramatically reduced the time taken to review service agreements, while maintaining the high standards of analysis their clients expect.
‘The system not only identifies the presence or absence of key clauses but also provides detailed justifications for its findings, allowing lawyers to quickly verify the analysis and provide more timely advice to clients.’
So, there you go. Another example of a law firm adopting genAI tools to make a difference.
Kevan Mahoney, Head of Innovation and Legal Tech Delivery at Walker Morris, said: ‘[The] Workflows module is a game-changer for how we approach AI in our firm. We’ve been testing its capabilities, and the potential is really exciting. As our lawyers became more familiar with AI, we realised that a simple chat interface wasn’t enough to support them anymore.
‘What sets this apart is the ability to embed our firm’s expertise and playbook directly into the tool – something that’s been missing from out-of-the-box solutions. Our lawyers can now access this knowledge through a simple interface, enabling them to analyse complex documents consistently and at scale. The ability to combine our legal expertise with powerful AI verification capabilities is exactly what we’ve been waiting for in the legal tech space.’
Well, there you go.
Dawid Robert Kotur, CEO of Curvestone, concluded: ‘While firms have been experimenting with AI assistants, the real breakthrough comes with the ability to create customisable, no-code AI processes. Workflows allows law firms to embed AI deeply into their core operations and extend its benefits directly to clients, and avoid the pitfalls of implementing multiple disconnected AI tools.’