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Avvoka, the legal drafting software company today launches Curate, a new standalone product that turns a law firm's best transaction documents into a gold-standard template from which it can begin drafting. Curate employs AI to review a firm's prior deal documents and surface the strongest version of each clause, no matter where they’re located across the documents. A lawyer then selects the best position that the firm stands behind, and the fallbacks, clause by clause. Every draft can then start from that standard that evolves, reinforcing a firm's competitive edge. Curate has been designed in conjunction with leading AM Law 100 and global firms, which have had access to Curate in private beta. The company's wider waitlist opens up in September 2026, with general availability soon after.
Curate: how Curate revolutionises legal template creation
Currently, firms use months of knowledge management and partner time to build an approved template, it’s typically very slow and costly and as a result few are created and the benefits of standardisation are only realised across a handful of document types.
Yet much of a law firm's most valuable work is the judgement in the deals it has already done: the clauses it has negotiated and the positions it has refined over years. The strongest version of a clause often sits in a closed matter, a document management system or a lawyer's own files, so the next matter starts from the last document rather than the best. The firm effectively pays twice for work it already owns.
Until now, legal teams have had no reliable way to capture that work as a standard they can draft from - outside of manual, human work. Curate provides one. A lawyer uploads prior transaction documents, Curate reads every clause across them, identifies the strongest version of each and flags where and why they differ. The lawyer then approves the wording the firm will stand behind, clause by clause. The result is a single template, built from the firm's own work and approved by a lawyer. As the template is built from the firm's own deals, it belongs to the firm, which can keep the template up-to-date as the firm starts to draft new agreements. Therefore, the standard reflects the firm's positions as they evolve, rather than at a fixed point in time.
A Curate template can stand alone as a bracketed, footnoted Word document or feed into a document automation or AI solution. A lawyer can draft from it directly, run it through Avvoka’s automation, or reach it from the AI assistants a firm already uses. Avvoka’s connectors with Claude, Microsoft’s Copilot and most recently with Harvey let those tools draft from the firm’s curated template, with Avvoka as the single source of truth - the drafting infrastructure. In this way, Avvoka enables a firm to scale its differentiating factors and competitive advantage.
"A firm's edge has never been how fast it can draft. It’s the judgement inside its best work, built up over years of market leading deals and negotiated positions.” said David Howorth, Co-founder of Avvoka. “That judgement has always lived in the firm. Curate is the first time a firm can put it to work on every matter. What you end up with is a knowledge asset that gets sharper and scales with every deal."
Conan Hines, Global Head of Innovation and Knowledge, Fried Frank says, "Firms have always known the value buried in their deal history and have never had a practical way to extract it. Turning that into a living, lawyer-approved standard is the best possible problem to solve for and doing it well could reshape how firms think about their precedents entirely."
Eliot Benzecrit, Co-founder of Avvoka says, “Curate is the product of listening to our clients’ drafting challenges for most of the last decade. AI is part of the solution - it’s made drafting faster, but not necessarily better. With Curate, we can use AI to read a firm's deals and surface the strongest version of every clause, then feed it back into automation and AI tools. What's different – and crucial – is that a human decides on the positions a firm stands behind. That means the pen stays with the lawyer and the firm’s IP – it's voice, approach, judgement – is retained, not diluted.”
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About Avvoka
Avvoka is a document automation platform for law firms and in-house legal teams. It turns the judgement in a firm's best work into templates that drive quality drafting at scale: Curate turns a firm's signed deals into one clean template a lawyer approves clause by clause; Automate scales it to thousands of bespoke documents, through to signature. Founded in 2016 by former Magic Circle lawyers Eliot Benzecrit and David Howorth, Avvoka works with almost a quarter of the Am Law 100, including A&O Shearman, Fenwick, Fried Frank and Ropes & Gray and with in-house teams including Warner Bros. Discovery. Almost entirely bootstrapped for its first decade, the company received a £14m investment led by Valhalla Ventures in March 2026. Learn more at avvoka.com.
About Curate by Avvoka
Curate is a new product line built by Avvoka, whose document automation software is now used by 25% of the Am Law 100. Curate is currently in private beta with design-partner firms now and will be generally available from Autumn 2026. Live demonstrations run throughout ILTACON 2026 in Nashville at the Avvoka booth (454), where the team walks firms through a template built from their own documents. For firms not in Nashville, Avvoka is running a wider online demonstration in mid-September 2026. More about Curate can be found at avvoka.com/curate.