:Harvey:’s New Drafting Tools Meet You Where You Work
Use Harvey to generate new and edit existing documents — whether you’re working directly in Word or the Harvey web app.
Aug 26, 2025
Harvey Team
In a legal workflow, drafting isn’t confined to a single tool or point in time. It’s an iterative process that happens across tools, platforms, and stages of thought. Whether you’re revising a motion, outlining a new agreement from scratch, or editing existing contract language, the more you can minimize context switching and friction, the more effective and efficient your drafting process will be.
That’s why Harvey’s newest drafting capabilities are built to meet attorneys where they work — accessible in-app for the generation of new work product, and integrated directly into Word for seamless editing.
How Harvey Supports Drafting, Wherever You’re Working
Two tools make it possible to draft any way you want with Harvey, supporting your end-to-end drafting workflow:
- Draft Editor: Our new in-app draft editor makes it easy to generate new outputs from scratch. Text editing capabilities allow you to collaborate with Harvey to refine and quickly generate a first draft. With assistant, redlining, formatting, and export capabilities, you can seamlessly iterate your output within Harvey, and then transition work from Harvey into Word when needed.
- Word Add-In: Access the power of Harvey directly in Microsoft Word, using either Ask or Edit mode to help you draft. You can ask questions about clauses, definitions, or policies, and generate both clause-specific and document-wide edits assisted by Harvey. It’s also now possible to pull in precedents and other institutional knowledge from Vault and run playbooks against documents to inform your drafting and review.
Let’s dig deeper into each of these releases and how they power more seamless drafting.
Generate New Drafts With Draft Editor
In Harvey’s Unified Assistant, Draft and Assist are now merged into one experience. This makes it possible to create drafts, ask follow-up questions about your draft, make edits to your draft directly from the chat, or even create drafts off your Vault review tables. Our new Draft Editor allows you to manually edit all drafts in Harvey and switch between manual tweaks and AI-powered edits.
In Practice: Using Draft Editor to Draft From Scratch
To start drafting, upload any reference documents that you want Harvey to consider. For example, if you’re looking to generate a non-disclosure agreement (NDA), you might upload a precedent NDA and your client’s confidentiality policy along with your prompt.
Harvey then produces a mutual NDA, and you can click anywhere on the preview to open Draft Editor. From there, you can write direct revisions to the draft, get further assistance from Harvey by asking a query in the Assist panel, or highlight text to describe the edits you want to make to that section.
At Harvey, our own legal team is already finding value in the ability to edit drafts directly in Harvey. “Now, I can stay in Harvey longer — I can draft, edit, and revise without needing to move my work out of the platform,” said John LaBarre, General Counsel at Harvey. “I’m incredibly excited about how this will positively impact my team’s day-to-day work, and equally excited about how this makes Harvey even more useful for our customers.”
Edit Existing Drafts With Assistant in Word Add-In
A study found that 90% of legal professionals use Word every day, which is why we brought key Harvey functionality directly into the app with the Word Add-In. Ask mode brings Harvey’s Assistant into Word to help with ideation and analysis. You can ask questions about highlighted text or the full document so you can clarify terms, understand risk, or explore alternatives without breaking your workflow.
Edit mode lets you revise full documents with Harvey’s help — whether you're tightening language, adapting tone for external audiences, or aligning clauses to internal precedent. You can make changes anywhere in the document using natural language prompts, and Harvey will suggest edits you can review and apply as redlines.
Tip: When using Harvey’s Assistant in the Word Add-In, we recommend starting with Ask mode and querying until you receive suggestions that reflect the changes you’re looking to make. Then, switch to Edit mode to make document-wide edits and implement the suggested changes.
In Practice: Reviewing and Editing in Word Add-In
Let’s walk through an example. Say you’re reviewing a service agreement and want to strengthen the Service Level Agreement (SLA) section to better protect your client. You can first ask, “Review the SLA section and suggest revisions to make it more favorable to the client.”
Harvey suggests clarifying the uptime guarantee, adding more detailed reporting requirements, and specifying that all maintenance windows must be pre-approved by the client. You might then ask Harvey to “Add language specifying remedies if the service provider fails to meet the uptime guarantee, such as service credits or termination rights.” After Harvey suggests the language, you can easily switch to Edit mode to implement the changes, or continue querying to get more specific suggestions.
Powerful Drafting, Where and When You Need It
These new drafting capabilities in Harvey help you stay in flow, reduce friction in the drafting process, and produce high-quality work product faster — without changing how or where you work.
Curious how else Harvey can help your team operate more effectively and efficiently? Request a demo and unlock professional-class AI for your firm or legal team.