The Brief: April 2026
Welcome back to The Brief. This month's updates expand what Harvey can analyze, give you more ways to customize how it works for you, and make it easier to find the right tools and sources when you need them.
Do More Work in Harvey Without Switching Tools
Streamline legal processes and tailor Harvey to reflect how your team works with better automation, new integrations, and expanded editing capabilities.
Edit Word Files in Assistant
Edit contracts, memos, and transaction documents in Microsoft Word format directly in Assistant, preserving original formatting, structure, and document context throughout. Learn more here.
Batch Document Editing
Edit multiple documents at once with a single prompt, such as for batch-updating form agreements, template sets, or versioned documents across a deal. Learn more here.
Folder Uploads and One-Way Sync
Sync folders from your preferred document management system to Vault so your diligence materials, deal documents, and knowledge repositories stay current without manual re-uploads. Learn more here.
Knowledge Sources and Review Tables in Words to Workflows
Quickly build Workflow agents that reference the right context by simply describing the knowledge sources or review tables you want to embed. Learn more here and here.
Custom Writing Styles
Tailor Harvey's outputs to match your writing style, organizational tone, and local preferences, ensuring memos require less manual editing. Learn more here
Box Integration
Access files and contracts stored in Box directly in Harvey across Assistant, Vault, and Workflow agents without interrupting your flow. Learn more here.
Improved Magic Prompt
Quickly improve your prompts with smarter, more targeted suggestions for improving query quality. Learn more here.
Leverage and Understand Harvey’s Deeper Reasoning Capabilities
Get more thorough answers, improved citations, and expanded document intelligence across the platform.
GPT-5.4 Now Available in Harvey
Access OpenAI's latest model across Assistant, Vault, and Agent Builder to power complex legal analysis. Learn more here.
Review Table Cell Improvements
Validate Harvey's reasoning with confidence with transparent reasoning, sentence-level citations, stronger formatting adherence (e.g. bold text, bulleted lists), and improved response quality in review tables. Learn more here.
Ask Over Review Improvements
Receive more accurate, granular results when asking Harvey questions about cell-level details, like flags, in a review table. Learn more here.
Improved Spreadsheet Rendering
Analyze CSV and Excel files more efficiently with native file viewing so you can easily work with financial data, contract details, and other structured spreadsheets. Learn more here.
Multi-Color Flagging for Review Tables
Capture risk nuances and escalate critical issues more effectively by applying multiple flag colors within a single review table. Learn more here.
Find What You Need and Get Started Faster in Harvey
Easily navigate Harvey’s interface and access the guidance you need to get immediate value out of the platform.
Library Refresh
Find the right starting point faster with a redesigned Library experience that consolidates key prompts and Workflow agents in one place. Learn more here.
Vault Page Redesign
Navigate across multiple projects or matters without losing track on a redesigned Vault page that allows you to add descriptions for your vaults, star and filter your queries, and more. Learn more here.
New in Harvey Academy
Onboard and get up to speed with organized, product-focused learning paths and videos designed to build deeper Harvey expertise. Learn more here.
Support for Harvey Guide on Mobile
Get instant, cited answers from Harvey's Help Center on mobile so you can quickly navigate and troubleshoot on the go. Learn more here.
Manage Access, Retention, and Visibility with Greater Precision
Easily manage user permissions and how usage is tracked across your workspace with more flexible controls.
Usage and Query History APIs v2
Get deeper, more granular visibility into activity across Harvey with expanded Usage and Workspace History Export APIs so you can run audits and understand adoption across practice groups. Learn more here.
Simplified Sharing in Agent Builder
Share custom Workflow agents across practice groups with clearer, more granular access controls. Learn more here.
View As Collaborator
Verify access and permissions before sharing by previewing Shared Spaces from a collaborator's perspective. Learn more here.
Client Matter-Level Vault Retention
Configure how long Vaults are retained for each individual matter, giving admins more flexible control to meet specific client or regulatory requirements. Learn more here.
Expanded Knowledge Sources
Access a broader set of legal data sources, with simplified configurations for your team.
120+ New Legal Research Sources
Tap into an expanded set of global data sources when answering questions and drafting work product. Learn details on the specific sources covered here, here, here, and here.
Changes to Knowledge Sources Configuration
Public knowledge sources are enabled by default, so users can get higher quality answers and admins can reduce manual workspace setup. Learn more here.
Australia and India Knowledge Source Consolidation
Quickly research comprehensive sets of Australian and Indian legal data sources with consolidated knowledge sources. Learn more here.
That’s all for April. Try one of these features today or reach out to your Harvey team to learn more. If you’re not a Harvey customer, get in touch for a demo.
