Attendance notes
Turn dictation or an authorised meeting into a consistent note covering attendees, instructions, advice, decisions, and next actions.
One governed AI operating model across the firm.
Give departments one control model for speech, matter knowledge, drafting, and review while each practice team keeps the templates and handoffs its work requires.
Firm-wide AI fails
when context fragments.
Legal work moves between calls, dictation, correspondence, document packs, precedents, and review. Point tools leave fee-earners rebuilding the same context at every step.
Speech and notes sit outside the working matter.
Important instructions are retyped or reconstructed before the team can advise, draft, or delegate.
Document answers lose their path back to source.
Unsupported summaries are difficult to supervise when a fee-earner needs the exact passage behind a date, clause, or fact.
Generic AI hides the professional approval boundary.
Legal teams need visible proposals, permissions, and review, with every change presented for a clear decision.
From source material to supervised legal work
Keep the original record close, structure what matters, and make every generated output a reviewable draft.
Capture or upload
Dictate, record an authorised meeting, or add the matter documents the team already holds.
Structure and verify
Correct transcripts and extract defined fields into cited Tables that keep answers connected to source.
Draft and approve
Prepare notes, correspondence, and document changes for an authorised fee-earner to review and accept.
Templates for legal work across the firm
Start with a clear firm-approved structure, bring in the relevant matter context, and keep every generated document open to review.
Matter chronologies
Structure dates, events, parties, and supporting references into a chronology that remains connected to the underlying documents.
Client letters and advice notes
Prepare a first draft on the firm’s format using approved matter context, with the responsible fee earner retaining final approval.
One legal workspace,
three connected products.
Capture and structure
Turn existing legal inputs into a working record.
Legal dictation 
Meeting transcription 
Cited extraction 
Matter search Draft and govern
Keep outputs visible and reviewable before use.
Firm templates 
Proposed changes 
Human approval 
Workspace permissions Legal productivity under professional control
Ardela supports the work around legal decisions, while qualified professionals provide legal advice and remain authoritative on every output.
Source-grounded review
Pillars connects extracted answers to uploaded source so a reviewer can inspect the underlying passage.
Workspace and matter controls
Roles, permission keys, sharing grants, and database row-level security limit access to sensitive work.
Approval remains explicit
Clara proposes rewrites and redlines; an authorised person decides whether to accept each change.
Legal questions,
answered.
What can legal teams use Ardela for?
Legal teams can use Ardela for dictation, meeting transcription, attendance notes, source-cited document extraction, matter search, template-based drafting, summaries, and approval-gated document review. The qualified professional remains responsible for advice and final work.
Is Ardela a legal AI assistant or practice management system?
Ardela combines Voice, Clara, and Pillars with clients, matters, tasks, deadlines, documents, and reporting. Its distinctive role is the work inside the matter: capture, structured knowledge, drafting, and review. Firms may evaluate it as a focused workspace or alongside another practice-management system.
Can different practice areas use their own workflows?
Yes. Departments can use the templates, extraction fields, and workflows suited to their work while sharing firm-wide permissions, security controls, and approval conventions.
Where are recordings and documents hosted?
Recordings and documents are hosted in the UK by default. Some named sub-processors for transcription and generation operate outside the UK, so firms can review current processing locations, terms, and safeguards during procurement.
Does Ardela replace professional legal judgment?
Ardela organises source material and prepares drafts for review. The supervising professional provides legal advice, determines strategy, and remains responsible for the work.
Map one workflow across the firm.
Bring a representative handoff between fee-earners, support staff, and supervisors, then verify its permissions, source trail, and approval points together.