Documentation
Everything 8rney does,written down.
Runs, research, matters, canvas, playbooks, Drive, and Desk. The full guide, organised the way you actually work.
Start here
Workspace areas, data objects, and the model stack behind the legal agent.
The working loop
Chat, import, read, write. The four moves that make up almost every session.
Ask
Run controls, jurisdiction, citations, and how an answer is assembled.
Import
Drive, matter, canvas, and inline attachment paths.
Read
Extraction, OCR fallback, summarization, chunking, and indexing.
Write
Canvas editing, tracked changes, and playbook redlines.
What runs underneath
Retrieval, citations, parsing, embeddings, auth, and quotas.
Search
Workspace retrieval + Azure AI Search + web retrieval.
Citations
Structured source objects and authority-backed responses.
Parsing & OCR
PDF, DOCX, TXT/MD parsing with OCR fallback support.
Embeddings
OpenAI / Azure embeddings for semantic retrieval pipelines.
Auth and connectors
Sign-in, Google Drive retrieval, and workspace connectors.
Plans and limits
What each plan includes and how deep runs are metered.
Collaboration
Working as a team
Matter workspaces, linked research, a shared Drive, and bulk ingestion.
Matter Workspaces
Documents, analysis, research, and drafts per matter.
Research Linking
Attach research outputs to preserve context and citations.
Drive
One searchable store for personal and matter documents.
Ingestion Console
Queue, tags, status, and chunk visibility for bulk ingestion.
Walk through it once
- 01Your first agent run
- 02Working inside a matter
- 03Reviewing a contract in Canvas
- 04Build a Drive you can retrieve from
- 05Bulk Ingestion with 8rneyDocs
Bring your documents from where they already live
Connected sources go through the same extraction, OCR, and indexing pipeline as direct uploads.