The Brief: May 2026
Welcome back to The Brief. This month's updates expand what you can do with Harvey — from more powerful document review, to richer customization, and a more capable mobile experience. Here's what's new.
Analyze, Review, and Deliver Quality Results With Greater Flexibility
Get from question to polished deliverable faster with more powerful models, smarter document review, and new output formats.
Create and Edit PowerPoint and Excel Files
Go from analysis to deliverable without leaving Assistant. Harvey can now generate and edit polished PowerPoint presentations and Excel files directly from your research and insights. Learn more.
Create and Edit PDF Files in Assistant
Create, edit, and work with PDF files entirely within Harvey, eliminating the need to switch between tools when drafting agreements and memos. Learn more.
Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 Now Available in Harvey
Opus 4.7 and GPT-5.5 are now available in Harvey's model selector across Assistant, Vault, and Agent Builder, giving you access to the latest models for complex reasoning tasks. Learn more.
Playbooks Revamp: Agentic Review
Review contracts faster and more thoroughly with concept-driven analysis, lighter redlining, template-based playbook creation, and improved NDA extraction. Learn more.
Improved Redline Detection on PDFs
Automatically detect and extract redlines from uploaded PDFs, reducing manual effort and improving accuracy during contract reviews. Learn more.
Enhanced Image Understanding
Quickly analyze charts, diagrams, tables, and other visuals embedded in documents or images in Assistant, without needing to add manual descriptions. Learn more.
Conditional Columns in Review Tables
Build smarter review workflows by referencing responses from existing columns as context for new ones — enabling conditional follow-up logic, targeted entity summaries, and more precise transactional extraction. Learn more.
Comments in Review Tables
Keep feedback structured and in context by adding, viewing, and managing comments directly on individual review table cells. Learn more.
Extract File Context for Column Generation
Generate more targeted review table columns by using uploaded files as context. Harvey draws on your actual documents to produce relevant analysis across your entire review set. Learn more.
Add Manual Input Columns to Review Tables
Enrich document review with custom context by manually creating columns that Harvey can analyze alongside automated review results. Learn more.
Exportable Vault File Log
Export a complete, structured log of all files in a Vault, including metadata, to support compliance reviews, audits, and due diligence workflows. Learn more.
Export to Vault as Destination
Export outputs directly to a Vault without manual file management, keeping your work organized and accessible in one place. Learn more.
Edit and In-Document Citations in Harvey for Word
Verify every suggestion at a glance with direct citations to answers and edits across source material and the active document within Harvey for Word. Learn more.
Harvey Law Schools: Preparing for Legal Work Course
Students in Harvey’s Law School Program can now access a new Harvey Academy course designed to help them practice how to use Harvey responsibly and effectively across transactional, litigation, in-house, and public interest work. Learn more.
Create More Customized Resources With Ease
Build, manage, and monitor usage for your team’s custom agents and prompts that are better tailored to your practice with tools to make creation, discovery, and performance more intuitive.
Edit Word Files in Custom Agents
Create, populate, and update Word documents directly within Workflow agents to standardize and streamline document production. Learn more.
Magic Builder in Workflow Builder
Build and refine block-based workflow agents through a back-and-forth conversation with Harvey, making it faster to iterate on custom Workflow agents. Learn more.
Workspace Agents Export
Improve governance and oversight over custom Workflow agents with new export tools, filtering, and enhanced metadata. Learn more.
Library: All Tab
Find the right resource faster with a new "All" tab in the Library that brings prompts, agents, playbooks, and examples into a single unified view. Learn more.
Collaborate and Monitor Usage with Greater Control
Share work more securely, manage your team more efficiently, and keep clients and external partners appropriately connected.
Guest Accounts
Securely bring external partners — clients, outside counsel, or advisors — into your Harvey workspace through a Shared Space, without requiring them to become full Harvey customers. Learn more.
New Share Modal
Unify sharing and understand access more easily across Harvey with a redesigned Sharing modal that includes clearer permissions and improved recipient search. Learn more.
Space Analytics
Understand and monitor usage analytics to understand collaboration in a Space, with aggregated metrics across activity, resources, and engagement over time. Learn more.
External Collaboration Management
Gain better visibility into Shared Spaces with a new governance and audit layer for Shared Spaces, so that you can better view and manage access across all Spaces. Learn more.
SCIM (System for Cross-Domain Identity Management)
Reduce manual admin work and keep access controls up-to-date by automatically syncing users, roles, and groups from your identity provider into Harvey. Learn more.
Admin Analytics Dashboard Improvements
Track adoption more easily with a redesigned analytics dashboard that surfaces richer engagement data, trend views, and executive-ready reporting. Learn more.
Tap Into More Comprehensive Data Coverage
Research with confidence across more jurisdictions and sources, with expanded coverage and tighter integration between research and drafting.
Shaped Web Search
Ensure quality web results with configurable controls for selecting preferred sources, so you can get more relevant insights immediately. Learn more.
70+ New Legal Research Sources
Access over 70 newly added data sources in Harvey, providing broader global coverage for your practice. Learn more.
Wolters Kluwer APAC
Conduct Australian and New Zealand legal research using authoritative Wolters Kluwer content, without leaving the platform. Learn more here and here.
Lovdata Knowledge Source
Research across Norwegian legal and get results grounded in Lovdata insights. Learn more.
Additional Knowledge Sources in Harvey for Word
Bring firm-specific and jurisdictional research directly into your document workflow, so you never have to leave your document to find what you need. Learn more.
Work With More Flexibility on Mobile
Do more from your phone with additional features that improve the Harvey experience while you’re on the go.
Model Selector on Mobile
Choose the right AI model for each task directly in Mobile, giving you full flexibility wherever you work. Learn more.
Library on Mobile
Discover your team's shared prompts on the go to keep work moving with the Library tab now accessible on Mobile. Learn more.
Custom Writing Styles on Mobile
Apply your saved custom writing styles, so outputs stay consistent and tailored wherever you're working. Learn more.
Deep Analysis on Mobile
Run complex, multi-step research queries and receive structured, report-style insights directly from your phone. Learn more.
That’s all for May. 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.
