Robin AI vs. Harvey: The Clear Winner for Businesses

Luminance have developed a proprietary Large Language Model (LLM) as described on their website to power their Legal AI tools. However, rapid developments in the capabilities of model performance of generative AI leaders like Anthropic mean that enterprises will seek solutions like Robin AI that will provide them access to the latest, most advanced models.

As example, Robin AI was involved in the testing of Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5, one of the most powerful Large Language Models in the world. This LLM is now leveraged in Robin AI Reports, a comprehensive tool for enterprises that enables you to extract and synthesise thousands of legal documents simultaneously.

At Robin, we partnered with Anthropic back in 2022 as the launch partner in the legal vertical - a decision that was easy to make given the world-class expertise of the Anthropic team, and the focus of their business on security, trust and reliability - all critical components to building Legal AI tools suited to major global enterprises.

Robin AI’s team have access to the latest models, and are actively involved in testing new models with the Anthropic team and collaborating with them closely to fine-tune models for the requirements of legal professionals. Robin AI’s team do this work by leveraging an expansive legal document and contracts data set, and deep legal and AI research & development expertise, headed up by Dr Carina Negreanu, former research scientist at Microsoft, and our CTO and Founder, Dr James Clough, a former machine learning research scientist at Imperial College London.

Robin AI’s journey began in 2019 and the focus was on developing proprietary machine learning models that would enable lawyers to achieve greater efficiencies in contract review and contract search tasks. In 2022, we were able to develop our first Legal AI Assistant, by combining the power of Anthropic’s large language models, fine-tuned for legal specific tasks, and the proprietary machine learning models that Robin AI had been developing since 2019.

The result? More robust, powerful solutions for our global clients that optimize legal workflows, providing high levels of accuracy across a range of contract-related tasks and a user-friendly experience that created immediate value for enterprise teams.

We understand the rapid evolution of the generative AI landscape - although we are two years into the public accessibility of generative AI tools, there is a wealth of development that is yet to come, and we will always enable our customers to have immediate access to the best and most powerful models that are available, delivering higher accuracy, faster speed and more relevant support for legal-specific tasks.

Robin AI has always adopted a “human-in-the-loop” model that centres on the putting the power of Legal AI into the hands of legal professionals, providing a combined approach that yields the most accurate and robust results. Unlike Luminance who announced plans in November 2023 to launch a fully “autopilot” version of contract review, the Robin AI team instead strongly believes in partnering legal professionals with best-in-class technology, enabling the legal professionals to keep control over the outputs from Legal AI.

In fact, Robin AI is a pioneer of AI-powered managed services. We have a team of over 100 legal professionals who leverage our own Legal AI technology to deliver a contract review service that sees routine contracts like NDAs and Supplier Agreements marked up in record speeds - with clients often seeing turnaround times for fast stream services in as little as 2 hours. This both gives us an opportunity to provide more flexible offerings to clients, whilst also being at the coal-face of learning about how to further develop our applications to better suit the needs of legal professionals.

The deep expertise of our legal team is one of Robin AI’s many superpowers - we have legal professionals who are leveraging our Legal AI Assistant every single day - and they are actively involved in the development and testing of all elements of Robin AI’s platform.

• We provide AI-powered services for some of the world’s biggest legal departments, including Pfizer, UBS and KPMG.
• Our customers can leverage different parts of our product suite to best meet their internal requirements, and to support their AI strategic initiatives. This often looks like a combination of using Robin AI’s services, and Robin AI’s software to support different tasks and priorities.
• With legal teams across our offices and hubs around the world from New York, London, Belfast, Singapore and Melbourne we can provide 24/7 global coverage to meet the requirements of our enterprise customers.

Our comprehensive suite covers everything from pre-execution analysis to post-execution management, report generation and more, offering a versatile, flexible and scalable approach for businesses.

A common challenge when buying legal technology projects is a slow implementation process that is misaligned with the requirements of busy legal departments. To effect change in your enterprise, you need to partner with businesses that can offer fast time to value, and intuitive tools that are user-friendly and simple to adopt.

It’s why at Robin AI we are laser focused on how we can get value to our customers on day 1.

• Robin’s Legal AI Assistant is available as an add-in for Microsoft Word. Not only does this provide high-quality support for editing contracts, it also enables users to generate Reports about their contracts to streamline alignment with other stakeholders in contract negotiations. These Reports can be fully customised to your requirements, and provide a clean, digestible overview of the key terms and obligations for stakeholders. Within a matter of minutes, legal teams can be up and running with world-class Legal AI tools to drive efficiency and productivity in their day-to-day workflow.
• Reports can also be leveraged across huge contract data sets - including both Word and PDF documents - to enable legal teams to quickly identify, extract, synthesise and summarise obligations across thousands of documents at once. This is critical for audits, compliance, due diligence and for stressful circumstances like incident response where legal teams might need to identify all relevant contract obligations immediately in the event of a data breach or cyber attack, for example.
• Robin AI also offers a 30-day free trial period of our AI-powered managed contract review services to enable legal departments to see for themselves the quality of the work, the responsiveness of the team and the accuracy in the markups. Our AI-powered services will provide markups aligned with your in-house playbooks and positions, help your team to save hundreds of hours of work each month through our flexible services.

Robin AI’s teams are well-versed in the challenges of change management across global enterprises and have a dedicated team that will support these hurdles - from helping to educate your teams about the applications of Legal AI, to helping with evaluations of Legal AI tools enabling you to create a robust read-out for your leadership teams about the return on investment.

Whilst it’s important for enterprises to achieve fast results from Legal AI tools, considerations around data security and architecture are also critical. Luminance and Robin AI both have the same SOC2 and ISO20071 certifications - table stakes requirements for working with the world’s largest enterprises.

However, Robin AI’s deep partnership with AWS has enabled our team to develop a private ecosystem for our customers. We deploy our own private instance of Anthropic’s Large Language Models within an AWS product called Bedrock. This enables us to provide the guarantee that our customer’s data will never be used to train Anthropic’s large language model, and it also affords customers with additional security and reliability guarantees.

The deep partnership with AWS also provides a route for customers to partner with Robin AI via the AWS marketplace. For customers leveraging AWS products, this can be an attractive proposition as it provides a seamless experience to start your partnership with Robin AI.