Knowledge in motion. Answers onward.

Your firm's knowledge, answering in Copilot and ChatGPT.

OnwardAI turns your documents, client and case files and know-how into a catalog that Copilot, ChatGPT and other AI apps answer from, with every answer cited to the page it came from. Your files stay where they are.

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Asked in Copilot

How did the court rule on the motion to dismiss in Smith v. Jones, and when?

The court denied the motion to dismiss on March 3, 2025, finding the complaint states a claim for breach of the warehouse lease.1 Jones filed an answer three weeks later, denying that any rent is owed.2

  1. Order on motion to dismiss, p. 2 00012 Smith v. Jones / Orders
  2. Answer, p. 1 00012 Smith v. Jones / Pleadings
An example. Copilot writes the answer from passages in the firm's own documents, and names each one.

Sensitive information is kept out

Your catalog holds the knowledge in your documents, not the sensitive numbers in them. Every document is checked before it enters, and the numbers below are never stored, searched or shown in any app.

  • Social Security numbers
  • Driver's license numbers
  • Payment card numbers
  • Bank account and routing numbers
  • Health information (ePHI)
  • Checked before it is kept

    Documents from your file servers and ProLaw are checked at your office, before anything is sent. Every document is checked again as your catalog reads it, whether it comes from Microsoft 365, Google, Dropbox, Clio or your own uploads.

  • Left out, or the numbers removed

    By default a document with any of these numbers is left out of the catalog entirely. If you would rather keep such documents, we can set your catalog to take out just the numbers and keep the rest searchable. Either way, the catalog shows which documents were affected and why.

  • Never in an answer

    Because the numbers never enter the catalog, Copilot, ChatGPT, Slack, Teams and your website can't quote them, and an AI search answer page that contains one can't be published.

  • Always on

    The check is part of the service for every plan. No one in your organization can turn it off, and documents that change later are checked again.

The check looks for these numbers in the ways they are written in everyday documents, and confirms them where it can (card and routing numbers must pass their check digits, for example). No automatic check can recognize every form, such as a diagnosis described in words, so keep folders that are mostly patient or personnel records out of the catalog.

Ask where you already work

One catalog answers in every place your people and clients ask questions. Nobody has to learn a new app.

  • Microsoft 365 Copilot and TeamsA Copilot agent and a Teams bot that answer from your catalog, in the tools your people already have open.
  • ChatGPTYour catalog inside ChatGPT for your team (Business, Enterprise or Edu), with sources and whole-case outlines.
  • Claude, Gemini and other AI appsAny app or agent that speaks the Model Context Protocol can search your catalog, with each person signed in.
  • SlackAnswers in channels and with a slash command.
  • Your websiteSearch and written answers on your own WordPress site through the connector plugin, plus a REST API for your own apps.

Answers from what you already have

Nothing has to be moved or rewritten. Connect the places your knowledge lives, and the catalog keeps up as they change.

Your catalog
Questions and answers, policies, procedures and pages your team writes and reviews. The most direct way to say exactly what you want answered.
OneDrive and SharePoint
Chosen folders, kept up to date as files are added, edited, moved and deleted.
Google Drive and Dropbox
My Drive, shared drives and Dropbox team folders, including Google Docs, Sheets and Slides.
Clio
Every matter you choose becomes a case folder, with its document folders inside it.
ProLaw on your own servers
The ProLaw Connector runs inside your network and sends the text of each matter's documents. The files never leave your servers.
Windows file servers
Shared folders on your own servers, read where they are. Each person only gets answers from files your folder permissions already let them open.
Social and YouTube
Posts and videos from your accounts, brought in on a schedule.

PDF (scans included, read with OCR), Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook messages and .eml e-mail with their attachments, older Word 97-2003 files, RTF, text, and pictures such as faxes and photos of whiteboards.

Up and running in three steps

  1. Choose a plan and sign in

    Your catalog is ready as soon as payment goes through, with two-factor sign-in, or Sign in with Microsoft for organizations on Microsoft 365.

  2. Connect what you already have

    Write catalog entries, and on Enterprise Complete pick the OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox or Clio folders, your file server shares, or install the ProLaw Connector. Nothing has to move.

  3. Turn on the places people ask

    Copilot, Teams, ChatGPT, Slack, AI apps or your website. Each answer shows where it came from.

Made for law firms

Matters are folders, cases can be compared, every answer is cited to the page, and ethical walls follow your Microsoft 365 groups.

What did the settlement require in each case?

Smith v. Jones

Jones pays $18,000 in back rent in three monthly payments and repairs the loading dock by June 30.

Settlement agreement, p. 3

Hale v. Ortiz

Ortiz pays $42,500 in two instalments through an escrow agent; the first is released on April 1.

Settlement memorandum, p. 1

Brown v. Green

Nothing in this case's documents mentions a settlement.

An example. Each case answers only from its own documents.
  • A case in date order

    Ask for a case and get its documents from the complaint to the final order, with dates read from the documents themselves, or a detailed outline of what happened.

  • Compare cases side by side

    Ask one question of two to six cases at once. Each case answers only from its own documents, and a case with nothing on the question says so instead of borrowing from another.

  • Paralegal drafting

    After the research, a first draft: pleadings, motions, briefs, contracts, wills and letters, modelled on the firm's own documents from similar cases, marked as a draft, with gaps left as [placeholders] and no invented citations. In Copilot or ChatGPT, or as a Word file.

  • Cited to the page

    Answers point to the document and the page or slide: "Final Judgment, p. 4", "pp. 4–5".

More for law firms, including Clio and ProLaw

Find what your catalog doesn't know yet

Every unanswered question is a lead. The catalog gets better because people use it.

  1. See the questions people asked that your catalog couldn't answer.

  2. Send a question to the right expert on your team; they answer from their phone.

  3. Review the answer and publish it, so the next person gets it straight away.

Your documents stay yours

Built for firms that answer to clients, regulators and bar rules.

  • Files are never stored

    The Catalog Server reads documents where they are and keeps only their text, in memory. Nothing is written to its disk; remove a folder and its text is gone.

  • Only text leaves your network

    The ProLaw and File Server Connectors read documents inside your network and send just their text, over HTTPS, signed with a key that belongs to your organization alone. Nothing has to be opened in your firewall.

  • Every client kept apart

    Each organization has its own catalog, its own connection to the server and its own index. One organization's question can never reach another's documents.

How OnwardAI protects your documents

Plans

Billed monthly. Each plan includes everything listed under it.

Business

$99 a month

Choose Business
  • 5,000 questions a month
  • Up to 500 catalog entries
  • Search on your website, and a REST API
  • Written answers on your site (with your AI key)
  • Claude, Gemini and other AI apps
  • AI prompt security: Basic

Need more in a busy month? Add 1,000 questions for $25, or let it top up automatically.

Business Pro

$249 a month

Choose Business Pro
  • 25,000 questions a month
  • Up to 5,000 catalog entries
  • Search on your website, and a REST API
  • Written answers on your site (with your AI key)
  • Claude, Gemini and other AI apps
  • Slack
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams
  • ChatGPT for your team
  • Social and YouTube imports
  • Knowledge gaps and expert answers
  • Visible in AI search: answer pages for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI
  • AI prompt security: Standard, with hidden text and instructions to AI filtered out

Need more in a busy month? Add 5,000 questions for $79, or let it top up automatically.

Enterprise Complete

$599 a month

Everything included: every connection, your own document folders, a planned implementation and priority support.

Choose Enterprise Complete
  • Unlimited questions
  • Unlimited catalog entries
  • Search on your website, and a REST API
  • Written answers on your site (with your AI key)
  • Claude, Gemini and other AI apps
  • Slack
  • Microsoft 365 Copilot and Teams
  • ChatGPT for your team
  • Social and YouTube imports
  • Knowledge gaps and expert answers
  • Visible in AI search: answer pages for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI
  • Compare cases side by side
  • Documents in OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, Clio, IT Glue and ConnectWise
  • AI prompt security: Strict, with a security audit trail and alerts
  • Windows file servers, answering with your own folder permissions
  • Up to 50 connected folders
  • Ethical walls by Microsoft 365 group

For law firms

Law Firm

$599 per license, a month

  • 5% off with 2 licenses
  • 10% off with 3–4 licenses
  • 20% off with 5 or more licenses

$599 a month

  • Everything in Enterprise Complete
  • Paralegal drafting: first drafts of pleadings, motions, briefs, contracts and letters, modelled on the firm's own filings
  • ProLaw on your own servers: your matters and documents, answered in Copilot and your other apps
  • One license per person who signs in, in Copilot, Teams and your other apps, each with their own Microsoft account
  • Strict AI prompt security
  • 1 license: $599 a month
  • 2 licenses: $1,138.10 a month
  • 3 licenses: $1,617.30 a month
  • 5 licenses: $2,396 a month

Add or remove licenses at any time from your control panel.

Enterprise Complete includes a planned implementation and priority support: see how it works

A question is one search or answer, from your website, Copilot, ChatGPT, Teams, Slack or an AI app; opening a document it found doesn't count. Your control panel shows how much of the month you have used, and we email you at 80%.

Written answers on your website, in Slack and in Teams use your own Anthropic or OpenAI key, billed by them. Copilot, ChatGPT and other AI apps use the subscription you already have.

Questions

Where do the answers come from?

From your catalog and the folders you connect, and nothing else unless you turn on web answers. Each answer lists its sources, down to the page.

Do our documents get copied to your servers?

No files are stored. The Catalog Server keeps the text of the folders you choose in memory, to search it. For ProLaw on your own servers, only the text is sent; the files stay inside your network.

Could someone find Social Security numbers or patient information in our catalog?

No. Every document is checked before it is kept, and Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, payment card and bank account numbers and health information (ePHI) are never stored, searched or shown. By default a document that contains them is left out; we can instead take out just the numbers. The check catches these numbers as they are usually written, not every possible form, so keep folders of patient or personnel records out of the catalog.

Which AI writes the answers?

In Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude and other AI apps, the app you are using writes the answer from the passages your catalog returns. On your website and in Slack and Teams, written answers use your own Anthropic or OpenAI key; without one, people get the matching passages.

Can some people be kept away from some matters?

Yes. On Enterprise Complete, matter access rules say which Microsoft 365 groups or people may see each matter or folder. Everyone else never sees it, in any app.

We run ProLaw on our own servers. What does IT need to do?

Install the ProLaw Connector on the ProLaw server and give it read access to the ProLaw database and document folder. It only makes outbound HTTPS calls, so there are no firewall openings or DNS records to add.

Our documents are on our own file server. Does that work?

Yes, on Enterprise Complete. Your IT installs the File Server Connector on a computer at your office and picks the shared folders. Only the text is sent, and answers follow the same folder permissions your staff already have: if someone can't open a file, they don't get answers from it.

Can AI search engines find and quote us?

Yes, on Business Pro and Enterprise Complete. Visible in AI search turns your public information into answer pages that ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews and Copilot can find and cite. Only documents you mark public are used, you approve every page before it goes live, and you can keep AI training crawlers out.

What happens if we use up our questions?

Your control panel shows a bar of the month's questions, and we email you at 80% and 100%. Add an extra pack at any time, charged to your card on file, or turn on automatic top-up so your catalog never stops answering. If you do run out, the catalog pauses until the 1st or until you add questions; your content is never touched.

Can we try it first?

Ask for a walkthrough on the contact page. We will show a catalog answering real questions, with its sources, before you choose a plan.

See your own documents answer.

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