The future of legal work.
The first AI system that completes legal work end to end. Clava reads each matter, plans the work and does it, so your team can take on ten times as much. Your lawyers approve every piece.
One system that runs the matter, from the first document to sign-off.
Open a matter and add the papers. Clava reads them, writes the first pass, plans what is left and staffs Associates to do it. You review the result as you would a trainee’s work: every point cited to the page, and nothing sent until you approve it.
A legal assistant
- StartsWhen a lawyer types a question
- ReadsThe documents attached to that question
- ProducesOne answer
- Next stepThe lawyer, again
- DecidesThe lawyer
Clava Running on Project Kestrel
- StartsWhen the documents arrive on the matter
- ReadsEvery document on the file, and the UK legislation and case law it raises
- ProducesThe overview, issues, chronology, key dates, drafts and requests, each cited to its page
- Next stepAssociates research, draft, review and mark up in Word
- DecidesThe lawyer, on an approval card with the reasons, the points for and against, and the sources
How Clava works
Plan, route, delegate, decide, learn.
Follow one share purchase, Project Kestrel, from the data room to sign-off.
Clava reads the whole file, then plans the matter.
Add the data room and Clava reads every page that day. It writes the first pass: the issues ranked, a chronology with every event cited, the key dates. Then it sets out the work left, with an owner and a due date for each task.
Each task goes to the model best suited to it.
Reading a 64 page SPA, researching indirect change of control and marking up a draft need different strengths. The router picks a model for each task, so long reading, research and drafting each get the right one.
Associates do the work, from research to marked up draft.
Staff an Associate to the matter as you would a junior, on as many matters as you like at once. It researches the point, drafts or marks up in Word, and cites every statement to the page or provision it relies on. You can follow each step as it works.
Nothing leaves Clava until a lawyer approves it.
Each piece comes back on an approval card: the issue, why it matters, the points for and against, and the sources. Approve, edit or reject it. Every decision is recorded with who made it and when.
Every correction makes the whole firm better.
When a lawyer edits the work, Clava drafts the lesson as a firm position. Once a partner approves it, every open and future matter applies it, and cites it.
One team, doing the work of ten.
Clava gives your team specialist Associates. Each one works from a blueprint written by legal professionals: the steps a careful solicitor takes on that kind of work, the checks they make, and what the finished work should look like.
Your lawyers choose the work, the Associates do it, and a lawyer approves every piece. So one team can take on what used to need ten.
- 5,000
- blueprints
- 38
- areas of practice
The agentic harnessHow Clava runs a firm’s legal workRead more
Lawyers across the UK have already started. This is what the latest surveys of the profession found.
- 61%
- of UK lawyers now use generative AI in their work, up from 46% in January 2025.LexisNexis, September 2025
- 56%
- of lawyers using AI put the time it saves into more billable work.LexisNexis, September 2025
- 5 hours
- a week that professionals expect AI to save them within the next year.Thomson Reuters, Future of Professionals 2025
Every point of law, cited to its source.
13,000+
judgments, alongside the UK statute book and official guidance, all held in the UK.
The legal libraryProject Kestrel · Associate · ResearchDoes the sale of Calder Foods trigger Corrin Health’s change of control right?
Yes. Clause 12.3 defines control by reference to section 1124 of the Corporation Tax Act 2010, which counts control held through “that or any other body corporate”.1 Read as a reasonable person with the parties’ background knowledge would read it,2 the clause catches a sale of the parent, Calder Foods.
1Corporation Tax Act 2010, s 1124(2)(a)Legislation
by means of the holding of shares or the possession of voting power in relation to that or any other body corporate, or
2Arnold v Britton [2015] UKSC 36, para 15Judgment
When interpreting a written contract, the court is concerned to identify the intention of the parties by reference to “what a reasonable person having all the background knowledge which would have been available to the parties would have understood them to be using the language in the contract to mean” …
- UK Supreme Court
- UK Public General Acts
- Court of Session, Inner House
- Acts of the Scottish Parliament
- Court of Session, Outer House
- UK statutory instruments
- High Court of Justiciary, Appeal Court
- Scottish statutory instruments
- Sheriff Appeal Court
- Official guidance and practice notes
- Upper Tribunal for Scotland
Our vision
A small firm that can take on the work of a much larger one.
Founder
Lawyers bring judgement, experience and the trust of their clients. Most of the rest of a matter is reading, checking and drafting, and that is where most of the week goes. We are building the layer that does that work: it plans each matter, gives every piece to the Associate best suited to it, checks each citation against its source and puts the finished work in front of the lawyer who owns it.
Clava started in Inverness, built by a paralegal for the firms that cannot hire a floor of trainees. Every decision is still made by a lawyer, every point is cited to its source and every client document stays in the UK.