AI Orchestration for Legal Work

How Unplex Connects Your Data, Tools, and Reasoning into One Intelligent Framework.

At Unplex, we started from a simple conviction: artificial intelligence will not replace lawyers — it will empower them. The future of legal work is not about substituting human judgment with automation, but about giving lawyers the means to delegate and orchestrate tasks with the same clarity and control that they apply in their own reasoning. To achieve that, technology must adapt to the way lawyers already work. It must integrate into their environment, understand their documents, and extend their capabilities — not demand that they adjust to its limitations.

Over the past year, our team has been building the foundations for this vision: an agentic framework designed for the legal profession. It is the product of three complementary ideas. First, that lawyers need to remain inside the tools they already use every day. Second, that AI must comprehend the structure and meaning of legal documents before it can make any reliable inference. And third, that the concept of “workflow building” — where users manually design automation flows — is deeply flawed when applied to legal work. Law is contextual, iterative, and judgment-driven. No drag-and-drop builder can capture that. The system itself must be capable of understanding the objective, defining the tasks, calling the right tools, and executing them independently while the lawyer remains in command.

To make this possible, we built the infrastructure that doesn’t yet exist for AI in law. On the surface, this includes the components that every lawyer can immediately recognize: a Microsoft Word Add-in for drafting, redlining, and anonymisation directly in the document; a native cloud integration layer that connects SharePoint, OneDrive, Outlook, Swisslex, Fedlex, Zefix and other sources; and a tabular review environment — what we call the Matrix — for parallel analysis of cases, contracts and correspondence. Together, these elements already transform how legal information flows through a firm. But the real breakthrough lies beneath them.

At the core of Unplex sits a document engine built to give AI genuine understanding of legal materials. Most models treat text as a flat sequence of tokens. Our engine reconstructs the internal structure of documents — headings, cross-references, definitions, clauses and their logical dependencies — so that the system can reason about their relationships. It knows that Article 12 refers to the same “Agreement” defined on page one, that an annex modifies an earlier clause, and that a termination right might depend on a temporal condition. This contextual understanding is what allows Unplex to move beyond generic language assistance to true legal reasoning.

Powering this comprehension is our ReAct Framework — short for “Reason and Act.” It combines two complementary processes: deliberate reasoning to interpret a problem, and goal-oriented action to resolve it. Every agent within Unplex follows this loop: it reads, it thinks, it decides, it executes, and it verifies. That logic is the same whether the agent is reviewing a contract, checking insurance coverage, or compiling a due-diligence report. By embedding this cognitive cycle directly into the architecture, Unplex ensures that AI behaves predictably and transparently across all tasks.

Rejecting the conventional workflow model meant rethinking how automation should look for legal professionals. In most business software, users are asked to map out steps — “if this, then that.” But legal work is not a production line. Every matter begins with uncertainty. The system must therefore construct its own to-do list: identify what needs to be done, which tools are required, and in which order. The Unplex Agentic Framework does exactly that. It draws on a library of roughly thirty integrated tools, ranging from connectors for cloud storage and third-party data sources to practical utilities such as PDF processing, mail dispatch, anonymization, and document comparison. The agents know when to use each tool; they chain them together autonomously and report back with explainable results. The lawyer doesn’t orchestrate the workflow — the framework does.

“True innovation in law doesn’t add more software. It connects what already exists, removes what’s unnecessary, and lets intelligence emerge from simplicity.”

This frontier approach also forced us to simplify. True sophistication hides complexity rather than exposing it. Over the last months we have redesigned the entire Unplex application, removed half of our screens, and reduced the interface to its purest form. What remains are three connected spaces — the Document module, the Chat, and the AI Studio — always visible, always synchronized, always within reach. The lawyer can open a contract, ask a question, trigger an analysis, and review the output in context, without switching windows or losing track of the reasoning path. The design mirrors the way legal thought flows: from document to idea to action.

The result is not another AI app. It is a foundation for what we call agentic lawyering — a way of working where lawyers can delegate mechanical tasks to intelligent systems while retaining full control over outcomes. The framework can read an entire case file, propose actions, fetch the relevant precedents, draft correspondence, and execute repetitive processes like anonymization or coverage checks — all while maintaining compliance with the strictest professional and data-protection standards. Every operation runs on infrastructure hosted in Switzerland or with trusted partners such as Microsoft, AWS or Swisscom, ensuring full data sovereignty and auditability.

This release marks a new chapter for Unplex. We are not building another tool to automate fragments of legal work; we are building the infrastructure for legal orchestration — the connective tissue that allows AI agents, documents, and human expertise to operate as one system. It is a quiet revolution: technology that doesn’t shout but listens, interprets, and acts.

In the coming weeks, we will begin rolling out the Unplex Agentic Framework to our design partners and enterprise clients. It represents the culmination of years of research and development, but also the starting point of a broader transformation — one where lawyers finally gain the digital leverage they need to focus on what matters most: thinking clearly, advising wisely, and shaping outcomes.

Dominic Rogger

CEO