Why Hancock.
Every Angle.

Harvey is one AI that routes your queries to different models. It is an expensive, sophisticated paralegal. When you submit a complex M&A question, it processes sequentially — research, then drafting, then review. One brain. One bottleneck. One very large invoice.

Hancock deploys a civilization. Research Lead coordinates specialist agents pulling precedent simultaneously. Legal Lead orchestrates drafting while Research is still working. Comms Lead prepares the client summary. These are parallel intelligences — the way a real legal team works.

Every senior partner knows the feeling of watching a $50M deal stall because one associate is the bottleneck. Hancock is the team you always deserved — not another tool that makes one person slightly faster.

The pricing wall. $288,000 before you've proven a single dollar of ROI. Twenty seats minimum even if only six partners use it. A pricing page that returns 404 — literally. Harvey designed their sales model for Harvey's revenue, not your firm's risk tolerance.

The knowledge lock-in. Harvey's institutional knowledge lives in firm-specific Vaults inside Harvey's Azure infrastructure. Your most sensitive M&A files, your custom workflows — they build switching costs, not value. Every pattern your firm discovers enriches Harvey's training data, not your civilization.

The agentic gap. Harvey's agentic workflows are "still maturing" — their own positioning. 25,000+ custom workflows are prompt templates with routing logic, not autonomous agent orchestration. When you need a multi-step pipeline to run without hand-holding, Harvey asks you to wait.

The transparency void. Harvey is a black box with a beautiful interface. You ask a question, you get an answer. What happened in between? Which sources? Which decisions? You have no idea — and no recourse if the answer is wrong. Lawyers are trained to interrogate reasoning. Harvey asks them to take conclusions on faith.

Every agent is named. Every agent has a specialization. Every agent has a history. This is not a directory — it is a legal team roster. You know who is doing your work.

Harvey runs on Microsoft Azure. Your client matters, your firm's institutional knowledge, your custom workflows — all of it lives in Harvey's infrastructure. They call it a "Vault." You don't own the vault. You rent space in theirs. Renewal leverage is structural.

Every Hancock deployment runs in isolated Docker containers on infrastructure you control. Your civilization is yours — your agents, your memory, your accumulated knowledge. When you leave, you take everything. There is no hostage situation at renewal.

Law firms are fiduciaries. Client confidentiality isn't a feature — it's the entire profession. We will sign a DPA, an NDA, and a data sovereignty agreement before your first login. Not after.

Harvey's institutional knowledge lives in firm-specific Vaults. Every firm rediscovers the same contract patterns, the same regulatory precedents, the same workflow solutions — in isolation. You pay premium price for a product that gets smarter for Harvey, not for you.

The Legal Guild is a cooperative knowledge commons. When a Hancock firm in Chicago optimizes an FCPA compliance workflow, that pattern propagates. When a London firm develops a novel cross-border restructuring approach, that intelligence compounds. Your files never leave your container. The wisdom does.

Harvey's pricing page returns 404. Their minimum is $288,000/year. They require 20 seats before you've proven a single dollar of ROI. We show our pricing. Right here. Without a form gate.

We don't cherry-pick. Here is a comprehensive comparison across every dimension that matters to a managing partner.

Harvey's moat is institutional knowledge lock-in at enterprise prices. Our moat is institutional knowledge ownership at human prices — and a cooperative commons that compounds exponentially with every new firm that joins.