Harvey
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AI-powered legal assistant platform for law firms to automate legal work and research
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How Harvey compares
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Cursor
Different focus
AI-powered code editor
Both use multiple AI models instead of just one, making them harder to copy, Gavin says. Harvey focuses on legal work; Cursor on coding.
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Both use multiple AI models instead of just one, making them harder to copy, Gavin says. Harvey focuses on legal work; Cursor on coding.
"Harvey has done an incredible job and legal has sort of taken off. I think they can see the future of how to be that abstraction layer and do the work."
Mentioned alongside Cursor and Grokbot as best examples of multi-model approaches today
"You saw Harvey, before it was acquired, Cursor lean so heavily into this — Harvey, Lora, all of them — because if you can go from just using one or two frontier models to using whatever's optimal, you're not a wrapper, you're way more de..."
Mentioned alongside Cursor and Lora as AI-native companies that adopted multi-model strategies
"By the time you're chucking in Harvey, you're adding two, three hundred million, right?"
Compared to Cursor and other app-layer companies; all app companies' revenues pale vs. infrastructure spend
Claude
Different focus
Anthropic's general AI assistant
Naval wondered if Claude handles legal work better than Harvey, since general models may do more with tool use.
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Naval wondered if Claude handles legal work better than Harvey, since general models may do more with tool use.
"All these legal guys like Harvey and whatever — wouldn't Claude just basic Llama or whatever do a better job than something trained specifically on legal, especially with tool use?"
Compared unfavorably to general models like Claude and Llama which may do better with tool use
"If you're not willing to outsource it to Harvey Lora who at least are focused solely on your thing"
Compared to Claude for legal work privacy concerns
What creators say
"Like I think if you're a Fortune 500 company right now, kind of a no-brainer to go with Harvey for everything related to legal."
More from Pat Grady →"Look at what's happening to Rogo, what's happening to Harvey, right? If you look in OpenAI, they're building vertical companies that are competing with that."
More from Jean-Denis Grèze →"When we look at like a Legora and a Harvey, I'm going to be unpopular. I think both will do very well."
More from Harry Stebbings →+6 more mentions from Harry
"We've seen Harvey and I think it's Ramp talk about the benefits that they've seen from building their own models."
"Are the Harvey investors mistaken to invest in Harvey if it's 10 billion not 90 billion?"
"The paradigmatic example is like a Harvey or something where they get all these law firms on board. So they then get access to their data and then their usage and then they train their own models."
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"Harvey's legal agent benchmark is up to 15%, whereas other models are down at between five and 13%."
More from John Coogan →+2 more mentions from John
"We might be gearing up for another application layer versus model layer debate. We saw this with the Harvey discourse earlier — people were sort of..."
"Our early enterprise partners that we've been working with are Microsoft, Notion, and Harvey."
"They started adding industry tools and workflow rules and memory and then they became harnesses. An example of that would be you saw a lot of that in the legal space, Harvey, Spellbook, I think it's called."
More from Greg Isenberg →+1 more mention from Greg
"You have startups — Harvey for legal, you have all the sales AI stuff — there's a ton of people building apps that focus on the AI ecosystem that a..."
"Folks like Harvey kind of maybe trying to take a similar approach from a legal perspective. There are a lot of these amazing domain-specific model approaches to things."
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"We know that companies like Harvey and Decagon are really fine-tuning models now."
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"Folks are running Harvey and Legora all day long. Like Harry's partner: she gets home, she's on the sofa running it all effing day long."
More from Jason Lemkin →+4 more mentions from Jason
"I'm a fan of both them and Harvey. The information did say Harvey's margins were now minus 50% because they had to move back. If the margins are go..."
"Jesus Christ, if 30% of my company leaves to go work for Harvey, I'm dead in the water."
"Harvey, Abridge, EliseAI, they are growing faster than any of the precedents ever have in their industry."
More from Alex Immerman →
"We've talked to some lawyers that use Harvey. Seems like a great product. We also had Lorra on the show just last week. Had a good time with them. Seems like a very competitive space."
More from Jordi Hays →"I'll call someone like Winston at Harvey. And Winston's ability to just not worry about the hundred flesh wounds that are inflicted on him at any given time and just think about the kind of end-state goal of where he's going to be 3 years from now..."
More from Gabe Stengel →"Harvey announced September 9th that they had their own proprietary legal AI model. It's called Tenant and they based it on Kimi K3."
More from Jason Calacanis →+2 more mentions from Jason
"You've got your contemporary Harvey and people — it's just a small company in the states. And then you also have Claude and other folks who also wa..."
"Ryan Peterson just posts on X Claude for legal seems to work just as well as Harvey"
"All these legal guys like Harvey and whatever — wouldn't Claude just basic Llama or whatever do a better job than something trained specifically on legal, especially with tool use?"
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