Intapp, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an \u201cexpert AI coworker\u201d designed to run the business operations of a firm \u2014 from deal screening and conflicts clearance [\u2026]<\/p>\n
Intapp<\/a>, the publicly traded company whose software manages intake, conflicts, and deal workflows for law firms and other professional services firms, yesterday announced the general availability of Celeste, an agentic AI product it describes as an \u201cexpert AI coworker\u201d designed to run the business operations of a firm \u2014 from deal screening and conflicts clearance to business development and lateral hiring.<\/p>\n The launch, announced during a global broadcast event, comes roughly five months after Intapp first previewed Celeste at its annual product event in New York in February, where the company described it as a purpose-built agentic AI platform for professional firms in regulated industries.<\/p>\n Since then, Celeste has been in limited release with early-adopter firms, including the law firm BakerHostetler and the private equity firm Hg.<\/p>\n With Celeste, Intapp is targeting what it sees as a gap in legal AI. While most firms now have AI assistants on every desk, drafting and reviewing faster than ever, that AI is built for the individual practitioner. It speeds up the practice of law without speeding up the business behind it.<\/p>\n Intapp\u2019s answer to that gap is what it is branding \u201cFirm AI,\u201d a category it distinguishes from horizontal assistants (general-purpose tools for everyday tasks) and practice AI (tools that help produce the legal work product itself). Firm AI is aimed at the operational side of the firm, functions such as origination, intake, conflicts, pricing and hiring.<\/p>\n \u201cFirms will run several kinds of AI: horizontal assistants for everyday work, practice AI for the work product, and Firm AI for the business of the firm itself,\u201d said Thad Jampol, Intapp\u2019s co-founder and chief product officer, in a statement. \u201cThat last category is the hard one, and it\u2019s the one almost nobody is building.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen a conflicts team can clear 10 times the matters and a fund can screen 10 times the deals, that\u2019s not saved time \u2014 that\u2019s a new business model,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n (Jampol lays out more of his thinking on this in A Blueprint for Firm AI<\/a>, co-authored with Intapp\u2019s chairman and CEO John Hall<\/a>.)<\/p>\n According to Intapp, Celeste operates autonomously rather than waiting to be prompted, executing multi-step workflows designed as playbooks. It ships with a library of playbooks covering origination, business development, intake, conflicts, pricing, fundraising and lateral hiring, along with a no-code builder that lets firms create their own.<\/p>\n \u201cCeleste encodes the firm\u2019s own methods as playbooks \u2014 multi-step workflows that automate the firm\u2019s best practices,\u201d the company says.<\/p>\n The product is natively integrated with a firm\u2019s systems of record \u2014 which makes sense given that Intapp\u2019s applications already sit atop the intake, conflicts and relationship data of many large firms \u2014 andit\u00a0 can ingest the firm\u2019s documents and connect to outside data partners through open connectors.<\/p>\n On the governance front, Intapp says the same ethical walls, need-to-know restrictions, and audit requirements that apply to a firm\u2019s people apply equally to Celeste. Restricted information stays restricted regardless of who asks, and firms can produce a full record of every action the AI takes for clients and regulators.<\/p>\n Intapp had previously announced a partnership with Harvey<\/a>,\u00a0allowing Celeste to invoke Harvey\u2019s practice-of-law workflows while enforcing compliance and ethical wall standards. It similarly announced a partnership with Anthropic<\/a> to bring its Claude models into Intapp\u2019s governed environment.<\/p>\n For law firms specifically, Intapp says Celeste can surface relevant matters, partner experience, and prior pitch materials in response to an urgent client request in minutes rather than hours, and can run an end-to-end lateral hiring lifecycle, from candidate research and conflicts pre-screening through clearance preparation and onboarding.<\/p>\n At BakerHostetler, the focus so far has been on intake and conflicts. according to Katherine Lowry<\/a>, the firm\u2019s chief information officer and head of its IncuBaker innovation team.<\/p>\n \u201cWe believe that Celeste can have a very positive impact on our intake and conflicts process,\u201d she said in a statement provided by Intapp, adding that the firm\u2019s substantial lateral growth in recent years has brought a significant volume of new clients and complex engagements. \u201cWe believe that Celeste will help us operate more efficiently as we continue to grow.\u201d<\/p>\nFor the Business, Not the Practice, of Law<\/h3>\n
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