LONDON, 13th October 2026. Avvoka today opened early access to headless templating - an addition to its integration with AI drafting assistants Harvey, Legora, Claude and Copilot. AI assistants could already find a firm's templates, draft and edit documents from them and export the result. Now, they can also build and automate the templates themselves from within the assistant, work that has always previously needed a person in Avvoka's editor. 

Key points

• Avvoka provides the template creation and automation platform that underpins legal drafting at scale.

• The company recently announced integrations with Claude, Harvey, Legora and Microsoft Copilot, so lawyers can use Avvoka from the assistant where they already draft.

• This new functionality extends the integration, allowing users to automate the templates they draft from inside the assistant too.

• A lawyer or knowledge manager gives the assistant a Word document or an existing template and describes how it should work in the assistant. The AI then does the set-up and returns a working draft in Avvoka, in real-time, for a person to review and publish, instead of the team building it by hand in Avvoka's editor.

• Early access for Claude and Copilot is now open with Harvey and Legora to follow.

Avvoka provides the template creation and automation platform that underpins a firm’s legal drafting operations. Templates are the foundation: they turn a firm's approved wording into documents that are consistent every time. Avvoka recently announced integrations with Claude and Microsoft 365 Copilot and partnerships with Harvey and Legora, so lawyers can use those templates from the assistant where they already draft.

A general AI assistant will typically draft from every document it has ingested. Connected to Avvoka, it drafts from a firm's best work - codified in the templates the firm has approved, so the same request produces the same document each time whilst carrying the firm's best judgement and house style. Lawyers stay in the assistant they already use.

Headless templating extends that integration to the templates themselves. Users can now create the templates they draft from inside the assistant too, so a knowledge manager or lawyer can turn a document into an automated template without leaving their AI tool. More of a firm's documents get automated, and more of its best work is ready to draft from.

A lawyer or knowledge manager can now give the assistant a Word document or an existing template and describe how it should work. The assistant sets up the questions and the logic behind them, placing each question in the text and tying it to the clauses it controls, including conditions, repeating sections and calculated values. It tests its work against sample answers and saves it as a draft for the team to review and publish. The version the firm's lawyers are using does not change until they do.

A firm that has automated one template to its standards can reuse it as the pattern for the next. A team can ask the assistant to build its retail lease to match its commercial lease, with the same question names and conditional structure, or hand over a standard mutual NDA as a Word file and ask for the non-solicit clause to appear only on US deals. Each time, the assistant lists what it built so the team can check it.

Avvoka calls this approach headless: a firm's drafting capabilities work from inside the tools its lawyers already use.. Headless templating extends that from using templates to building them, so every assistant that drafts from a firm's Avvoka library has more, and more consistent, templates to draw on.

"The more templates a firm has, the more value it gets from automation and from AI, because every document starts from the firm's own approved work," said Katya Hansom, Head of Product & Design. "What limits that has always been the time it takes to build them. Now a knowledge manager or a lawyer can hand the assistant a document, say how it should work and get a working draft back to review. More people can create templates, so more of the firm's work gets automated. The lawyer still decides what the template says and when it goes live."

Avvoka is used by almost a quarter of the Am Law 100. Its platform has produced millions of documents for firms across the world. 

Availability. Headless templating is in early access for Avvoka customers already using the integration in Claude.  It sits alongside the integration's existing drafting tools, and further assistants will follow. More about Avvoka's integrations can be found at avvoka.com/headless-drafting.

About Avvoka

Avvoka is the ingestion and automation layer for a firm's best work. Executed deals and AI-assisted drafting go in as inputs; governed, reusable documents come out. By combining proven deterministic drafting automation with AI as an input it puts to work, Avvoka helps firms and in-house teams draft from their own standards, hold every draft to them and turn their best work into an advantage that grows stronger with every deal. Avvoka works with law firms and in-house legal teams across the UK, US, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australia and is headquartered in London. Learn more at avvoka.com.

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