AI governance software for law firms
Candor is AI governance software for U.S. law firms. It screens client details before they reach an AI tool, logs every AI use to its matter, flags citations that may need a second look, records the attorney’s sign-off, and keeps it all on an append-only record a malpractice carrier, a client or a court can read.
What AI governance software does for a law firm
Lawyers and staff already use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and the rest. Governance is not about stopping that. It is about being able to answer, matter by matter, four questions a carrier, a client or a court may ask: what went into the AI tool, what came out, who reviewed it, and whether the firm followed its own rules. Candor keeps that answer as the work happens, so nobody reconstructs it later.
What Candor covers
- Screening before AI. Client names, Social Security numbers, account and policy numbers, dates of birth and other identifiers are flagged before text leaves the building. Screened text is never stored.
- A per-matter AI use log. Tool, task, who, when and a data label, logged in one click from the browser panel inside the AI tool, or in the app.
- Citation checks. Cited cases and statutes are looked up in public court and statute records, and anything that may need a second look is flagged for the attorney.
- Attorney review and sign-off, recorded as its own entry. Nothing earlier is ever changed.
- Your firm’s AI rules, answered before each use; approved tools and a profile for every AI vendor; incidents recorded as facts; short training courses.
- Reports: a firm summary for any date range, a carrier renewal questionnaire, a per-matter report and one-page receipts for each use.
- A tamper-evident record. Every entry is hash-chained and append-only, so any change after the fact shows.
AI governance software for Clio, Filevine and other practice management systems
Candor connects to Clio, MyCase, Filevine, PracticePanther and Smokeball, so AI use is recorded against real matters instead of names somebody retypes. With Clio, a firm can also limit what each person sees to the matters their own Clio login can open, and add each AI use as a note on its Clio matter; those two currently work with Clio only.
Built from the side that reads the file
Most tools in this category come from legal technology or compliance. Candor was built from the claims side: the side that opens the file after something goes wrong and works out what can actually be shown. That is the test Candor is built to pass.
How Candor compares
Side by side with Intapp, Credo AI, Roval, Lenavix, Claire, AI data-loss prevention tools and tracking AI use by hand.
Pricing
A flat annual fee by attorney count, from $3,000 a year; staff seats are free. Every firm starts with a month free, no card needed. See pricing.
Questions firms ask
What is AI governance software for law firms?
Software that keeps a firm's use of AI tools accountable: it screens client information before it reaches an AI tool, records each AI use against the matter it was for, flags output that may need a second look, captures the reviewing attorney's sign-off, applies the firm's own AI rules, and produces a record the firm can show a malpractice carrier, a client or a court. Candor is AI governance software built for U.S. law firms.
What does Candor do?
Candor screens client details before text reaches an AI tool, logs every AI use to its matter from the browser panel or the app, flags citations that may need a second look against public court and statute records, records the attorney's sign-off, applies the firm's AI rules before each use, and keeps all of it on an append-only, tamper-evident record. Reports include a firm summary for a date range and a carrier renewal questionnaire.
What is AI governance software for firms that use Clio?
For a Clio firm, AI governance software should record AI use against real Clio matters rather than names typed by hand. Candor connects to Clio: each AI use is logged to its Clio matter, matter walls can limit what each person sees to the matters their own Clio login can open, and, if the firm turns it on, each use can be added as a note on the Clio matter. Candor also connects to MyCase, Filevine, PracticePanther and Smokeball; matter walls and Clio notes currently work with Clio only.
Does Candor work with Filevine?
Yes. Candor connects to Filevine to record AI use against the firm's real matters. Per-person matter walls and matter notes currently work with Clio only.
Which AI tools does Candor work with?
The browser panel works inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Perplexity, Grok, Meta AI, DeepSeek, Mistral Le Chat and Poe, and alongside Clio. Candor's own workspace runs on the firm's own AI account: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, xAI, DeepSeek or Perplexity.
How is Candor different from enterprise platforms like Intapp?
Enterprise platforms cover firm-wide compliance and operations and are sold through a sales process to larger firms. Candor does one thing: the record of how a firm's people use AI on client matters. It is self-serve, starts with a free month, and costs a flat annual fee set by attorney count.
Does Candor make a firm compliant?
No software can. Candor is not a law firm and does not give legal advice or decide whether a firm meets its professional obligations. It keeps the record the firm's own attorneys use to demonstrate what they did.
Where does Candor come from?
From claims work: the side that reads the file after something goes wrong and works out what can actually be shown. Candor was built so a law firm's AI use leaves a record worth reading.
How much does Candor cost?
A flat annual fee by attorney count, from $3,000 a year for a solo attorney to $20,000 for 31 to 60 attorneys; staff seats are free at every tier. Every firm starts with one month free, no card needed.