The iManage platform is the governed foundation legal and knowledge organizations use to put their own knowledge to work in an agentic world. It brings AI natively into everyday workflows and delivers the iManage context fabric — a governed intelligence layer that connects your documents, people, matters, and work into a foundation that any approved AI can reason and act on. Access controls, ethical walls, and audits are enforced at every step, so your people stay in control while AI acts on knowledge they can trust.
The governed foundation for knowledge work in an agentic world.
Your content, communications, engagements, and expertise, all in one governed platform. AI only reasons on what's relevant and you stay in control.
Put the full potential of your knowledge to work
Ground your work in the iManage Context FabricTM— a governed intelligence layer that understands importance, informs strategy, and drives next steps. You stay in control of what AI can see, touch, and do.
See the Complete Story
Reveal the full picture of every matter and project — documents, communications, people, clients, and history — in one secure location.
Connect knowledge, in context
Enrich your knowledge with deeper context; reveal the relationships and connections across it; and layer in real-time activity and signals.
Get to AI value faster
Give every AI agent the right context to deliver stronger results, whether in the iManage platform or a connected AI tool, all within your permissions.
Matter context
Understand a matter in one question, not one day
Ask what's going on in a matter and get the story back: the parties, where it stands, what's significant, and how the documents relate.
✔ Get a snapshot of what matters most: the documents, parties, and key dates at a glance
✔ Understand why each document matters and its significance to the case, with the rationale
✔ Reveal how artifacts connect, opening the door to deeper analysis
Counterparty briefing
Get a full briefing before you take the call
Every meeting on your calendar comes with a briefing ready to go: the documents that matter, the parties involved, and the points worth your focus, each one traceable to a source document.
✔ Accelerate prep before each meeting whether it’s with the case team or opposing counsel
✔ Everything you need to know is at your fingertips; the strategy, relevant documents, and the key parties
✔ Jump directly to the source documents with every line traceable
Playbook analysis
Turn your best precedents into a living playbook
Build a playbook from your own contracts and precedents and hold every agreement to it by flagging deviations or missing clauses and revising them into alignment.
✔ Replace manual cross-referencing with a structured assessment
✔ Encode the judgment of your most experienced lawyers into every review
✔ Identify missing provisions, not just what differs from what's present
Tabular review
Evaluate multiple documents at once
Support large-scale document analysis during due diligence, portfolio reviews, and more. Ask questions and get cited, reliable answers.
✔ Surface insights for analysis across multiple documents from 50 to 50,000
✔ Keep your whole team in sync with in-line tagging and commenting
✔ Build a client-ready report with issues grouped and sources linked
Document comparison
See document differences at a glance
Quickly understand the difference between two documents or document versions with both detailed and summarized reports.
✔ Get a redline plus a plain-language summary of what changed
✔ Every line is linked to its edit and saved back to the matter
✔ Keep documents in the governed iManage environment when comparing
Security and governance
From AI deployed to AI governed
Move faster with AI without losing control of it. Decide what it can reach, monitor what your agents do, and keep content from fragmenting across tools, so security and governance hold as AI enters the work.
Connect to our 200+ legal tech partners
Deeply integrated with Microsoft 365 and connected through the iManage MCP Server, tools like Microsoft Copilot, Harvey, and Legora reason over your governed content.
Your secure foundation
Don’t just store your knowledge. Activate it.
FAQs
What is the iManage next-gen platform, and how does it work?
What is the iManage context fabric?
The context fabric has two halves. It unifies everything in the platform behind one API and one iManage MCP Server surface — documents, emails, matters, clients, people — so people and agents reach any resource the same way. And it enriches that content with understanding: what a document contains, what changed between versions, and the story of a matter. Two capabilities are available today: iManage AI Enrichment, which classifies documents and extracts details like agreement type, parties, jurisdiction, and governing law at the point of filing; and connected business context, which brings in related information from practice management, financial, and other systems to complete the picture of a matter.
How does the iManage platform benefit legal and knowledge workers?
Insights arrive where people already work, in tools like Microsoft Word and Outlook, so there's no need to switch context to find what they need. AI-native search answers questions in natural language with cited, defensible results from governed content. And because every answer is grounded in your own work product, professionals keep judgment and control while moving faster.
How does the next-gen platform fit within my current iManage experience?
It builds on the iManage Cloud you already run — no content migration, no new repositories, and no rip-and-replace. Capabilities like AI Enrichment and connected business context are available today, and the reimagined user experience becomes generally available in fall 2026. You gain a governed AI foundation on top of the platform your teams already use.
How can I see the iManage next-gen platform in action?
Book a demo to see the platform.