"Have we done this before?" Every lawyer has asked that question. You know the answer exists, but finding it can take hours. Digging through folders, guessing keywords, or sending interruption emails slows everything down.
What you really want is simple: one place to ask a question or type a query and immediately see the firm’s most relevant work. A system that can say: “Show me the agreements that match this scenario and highlight the parts that matter.”
That is exactly what the Find Answers AI Workflow delivers. Instead of starting from a blank page or guessing the right keywords, it lets you ask practical, work-driven questions and immediately surface the most relevant documents along with the key insights. Hours of searching become instant answers, so you can focus on advising your client instead of hunting for information.
Why It Matters
A law firm’s greatest assets are their people and the work they create - a vast wealth of documents. Among them: emails that capture advice and answers to complex questions, thoroughly researched memos, and carefully negotiated contracts. All of that adds up to an enormous reservoir of knowledge, but it’s scattered across systems and folders in ways that are hard to tap into when it counts.
The result: lawyers are disconnected from their own best work, spend too much time hunting for prior work with hit-and-miss search, or they give up and rebuild from scratch.
Find Answers AI Workflow changes that: Lawyers describe what they’re looking for in natural language and apply structured filters where needed. The workflow does the heavy lifting of finding, filtering, and organizing the results.
How Find Answers Works
Find Answers is built on DeepJudge Knowledge Search, a unified index that connects your firm’s documents, clauses, and metadata across systems and understands their content and context. This index is more than searchable files; it forms the foundation for AI Workflows that understand your query, assemble the right material, and present it clearly.
Here’s how it works:
First, you describe what you’re looking for:
- The type of document you want to find (e.g. NDAs or specific agreements).
- Any key context, such as industry, clause, parties, author, or scenario.
- Optionally, what you’d like done with the results, like extracting provisions or comparing documents.
DeepJudge then brings multiple AI capabilities together to:
- Interpret your request: Find Answers separates what defines the right set of documents from what processing or formatting you’ve requested.
- Locate potential matches: It then searches the unified index for documents that satisfy your criteria, using both metadata and AI-powered retrieval that understands variations in language and structure.
- Iterate and Refine: Next, it explores different search strategies and filter combinations, continually refining the query and ranking the results by how closely they match your criteria.
- Process the results: Depending on your instruction, it may extract specific provisions, compare language across documents, or summarize how each agreement meets your criteria.
By default, the workflow returns both a formulated answer and the underlying documents it relied on. The entire process completes in moments. Because Find Answers runs on DeepJudge’s retrieval-first architecture, it doesn’t require a separate database or manual tagging project. It uses the documents your firm already has, enriched, connected, and made searchable at the level lawyers actually think in.
The Bigger Picture
People are used to tools like ChatGPT, and when they imagine a similar experience inside their firm, the first thing they expect is instant access to the firm’s knowledge and insights. The challenge is that general AI does not know the firm’s history, documents, or know-how.
Find Answers makes it possible. It finds the right context from across the firm and delivers it directly to AI Workflows. Lawyers start from proven precedents, associates learn from the strongest past work, and clients get solutions built on experience rather than from scratch.
It is no surprise that Find Answers is one of the most requested AI workflows. This shows what becomes possible when AI Workflows are grounded in a complete view of your firm’s knowledge.
You may still think “we’ve done this before” - you’ll just finally see exactly where, and how…in seconds.