Topic: Agentic Workflow

Today we dive into the rapid evolution of Harvey, a legal AI leader that has scaled from a two-person startup to a 500-employee powerhouse serving over 1,000 top law firms and Fortune 500 companies in just three years. We examine founder Gabe Pereyra’s vision of legal documents as "unstructured code," which allows the company to treat complex litigation and mergers like distributed software systems. We highlight how Harvey moves beyond simple chatbots by building agentic workflows and a specialized legal IDE that leverages reinforcement learning to handle professional reasoning. Furthermore, we explore their unique "Forward Deployed Engineer" model, which emphasizes deep integration and heavy delivery over lightweight SaaS. Our analysis reveals that the next frontier for AI lies in transforming organizational productivity at scale, rather than just providing marginal gains for individual users.