NetDocuments (Lehi, UT) launched an AI-focused legal platform using a “context graph” to connect documents, matters, and firm knowledge, aiming to improve legal search, workflows, and AI-assisted legal work.
Lehi, Utah — May 14, 2026
Lehi-based legal software company NetDocuments has introduced a redesigned version of its platform centered on what it calls a “legal context graph,” a system designed to connect documents, matters, communications, and institutional knowledge across a law firm’s records.
The company says the platform continuously maps relationships between legal documents and related activity while maintaining existing security permissions and ethical walls. A private preview opened this week.
The update reflects a broader shift in legal technology toward AI-assisted workflows. Gartner has named "context engineering" a strategic priority for AI leaders. Foundation Capital has called context graphs the next defining shift in enterprise AI, arguing the value lies not in who owns the data but in who can explain why decisions were made. Without that foundation, AI hallucinates, duplicates work, or misses the precedent that matters most. With it, AI becomes meaningfully more useful.
Rather than relying only on documents uploaded into a single AI session, NetDocuments says its system allows AI tools to work from a firm’s broader repository of institutional knowledge.
According to the company, lawyers opening a matter in the new interface can automatically see summaries, timelines, related precedents, key parties, and prior work connected to the matter. The platform also surfaces lawyers inside the firm who have handled similar work previously.
NetDocuments said the system was developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services and Elastic to process and organize large volumes of legal data.
The company is also positioning the platform as infrastructure for AI agents used inside and outside its software ecosystem, including integrations through its ndConnect framework with tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude.
Among the features highlighted in the launch:
CEO Josh Baxter said the company’s goal was to create a system capable of understanding relationships across legal data rather than simply storing files.
“Legal data is fundamentally different," he said. "It is language, not fields, and unlocking its meaning requires understanding it as a connected whole — every matter, every document, every communication, at firm scale. That kind of context has never been engineered into a legal platform before. It is what we have built, and it is the foundation lawyers and AI agents both need.”
The new platform will operate alongside NetDocuments’ existing interface, allowing firms to transition gradually rather than migrate all users at once.
NetDocuments, headquartered in Lehi, UT, with offices in Australia, the UK, Mexico and Brazil, is a software company producing cloud-based content and productivity tools for law firms, corporate legal teams, and compliance departments. Founded in 1999, NetDocuments' platform is used by over 7,000 law firms, corporate legal departments, and public sector organizations.
The company says that broader availability of the redesigned platform is expected in the coming months following the private preview phase. Demo videos covering the matter overview, contextual search, and agentic workflows, along with a deep dive on the architecture and the legal context behind it, are available here.
Interested parties may join a waitlist or register for a June 9 webinar to see the new platform in action.