What the Assistant is
The Assistant is the day-to-day operator in Legal Intelligence: an AI system pre-configured with the workflows, processes, and guidelines litigation practice runs on. It runs locally as part of the solution.
The Assistant runs the day-to-day work; the Analyzer handles structural case reasoning when work shifts from procedure to analysis.
What's pre-configured
The Assistant comes pre-configured for the spine of litigation work, from intake through preparation.
Case intake.
Initial scoping, jurisdiction, posture, and party scoping routed to the firm's conflicts system before substantive engagement.
File organization.
Operating within the firm's existing folder and drive structure, layering organization rather than imposing a new tree.
Deadline tracking.
Court dates, statute-of-limitations and service deadlines, filing windows tied to case events, internal deadlines and dependencies.
Drafting support.
Structured first drafts of internal case memos, motions and supporting briefs, demand letters, and correspondence. Citations trace to the case record; legal-authority citations remain the attorney's research and verification responsibility. Starting points, not finished work product. The attorney edits, signs, and owns the output.
Review preparation.
Witness prep books, deposition outlines, and hearing prep, each keyed to the structured case model and produced as separate artifacts rather than a single generic "review packet." Prep artifacts orient witnesses to the case structure and known record; the attorney directs preparation.
Each workflow is a written process the Assistant follows under attorney supervision: readable, reviewable, replaceable.
Productive on day one
A generic AI assistant will answer almost anything a lawyer asks it. The quality of the answer depends on how the lawyer phrased the request. Every lawyer at the firm rebuilds the same instructions for the same task, and the discipline the work requires comes from the lawyer at the keyboard, every time.
Some legal AI vendors close that gap by sending their engineers into the firm's offices to write those instructions for the firm. The product itself is a general-purpose assistant; the part that fits the firm is built by hand, on site, on a separate engagement. Associates wait months before they can use the system on a real matter. Outside personnel work alongside the firm's case materials during the configuration period. When the engineer rotates off, the configuration becomes the firm's to maintain.
Kacti AI is built the other way around. The litigation workflows the Assistant follows are written into the product before it arrives. Treat the Assistant as a practice manual the firm can hand to a new associate: the steps for case intake, file organization, deadline tracking, drafting, and review preparation are already written down, in the order the work runs.
The result for the firm: associates can use the Assistant on real matters the day the firm turns it on, on the workflows it comes pre-configured with. Tailoring to the firm's own naming conventions, drafting preferences, and review steps happens through a guided conversation the firm fits between matters. No outside engineers in your offices. No multi-month setup engagement before the work begins.
How the Assistant fits your firm
The firm tells the Assistant how it works: practice areas, case types, naming conventions, drafting preferences, and review steps. The conversation runs in short sessions a busy firm fits between matters, with the partner or practice manager who knows how cases actually move through the firm. No separate setup window.
What the firm tells the Assistant is written down as a short set of practice notes the Assistant follows alongside the workflows it comes pre-configured with. Where the firm's practice differs, the practice notes are what the Assistant follows.
Over time, refinements surface as the firm uses the Assistant: a recurring edit a partner makes to drafts, a step the firm adds to review. The Assistant proposes adjustments based on what the work shows; the firm reviews and approves before anything changes. None of this observation leaves the firm's machine.
No outside engineers in your offices. No engagement contract for setup. Fitting the Assistant to the firm is part of using it, not a project that runs before the work begins.
Talk to the founder
Best-fit conversations are with litigation teams whose workflows match the patterns the Assistant ships with, or who have specific patterns worth modeling.
Conversations are with the founder directly.