Introducing Drafts: When Cursor Opened My Eyes to the Future of Legal Work

Today, we're thrilled to announce Drafts, a feature that brings the document-editing experience you're familiar with into Andri, enhanced with AI capabilities specifically designed for legal work. But this isn't just about a new feature—it's about a fundamental shift in how legal professionals will work in the coming years.

The Cursor Moment: How Developer Tools Predicted Legal AI's Evolution

As a developer, I still remember the first time I used Cursor—an AI-powered code editor. It wasn't just another tool; it was a revelation. Watching the AI understand my codebase, suggest improvements, fix bugs, and help me navigate complex codebases didn't just save time—it transformed how I thought about my work.

That experience with Cursor was my lightbulb moment. I saw how a recursive, agentic AI workflow fundamentally changed what was possible in software development. The AI wasn't just answering questions—it was actively collaborating with me throughout the entire development process.

That moment created a clear vision: legal professionals deserve that same transformative experience. Not just AI that answers questions, but AI that works alongside you as you craft documents, build arguments, and refine your legal thinking.

Drafts: Bringing the Lightbulb Moment to Legal Professionals

Drafts is our answer to that vision. It's a Microsoft Word-like experience built directly into Andri that maintains all the AI-powered capabilities you've come to expect, while adding a whole new dimension of document creation and refinement.

We built Drafts to create that same lightbulb moment for lawyers that I experienced with Cursor. It's about showing legal professionals where their industry is heading—a future where AI doesn't just provide information but actively collaborates in document creation, editing, and refinement.

The interface is intentionally familiar. We didn't want to reinvent document editing—we wanted to enhance it with AI capabilities specifically tuned for legal work:

Seamless Transition: Simply click "Continue in Drafts" at the bottom of any Andri answer to bring that content into a full-featured document editor
Context-Aware Editing: Highlight any text and ask Andri to expand, summarise, refine, or completely rework it
Document structure: Request tables of contents, section numbering, or restructuring with simple prompts
Case-Specific intelligence: Drafts maintains access to your case files, allowing you to request that specific evidence, precedents, or arguments be integrated into your document

Breaking the Copy-Paste Loop

Perhaps most importantly, Drafts eliminates the inefficient workflow that has plagued legal AI adoption: the constant copying and pasting between an AI interface and document editors.

One of the biggest barriers to productivity has been the context-switching between AI tools and traditional document editors. You'd get a great answer from an AI, copy it to Word, make some changes, realise you need more information, go back to the AI, and repeat. Drafts breaks that cycle by bringing everything into one integrated experience.

This integration means your entire workflow becomes more fluid. Need to refine a paragraph? Highlight it and ask. Want to incorporate a specific case citation? Just request it. Need to completely restructure a section? Andri can handle that too—all without leaving your document.

Evolving Beyond Legacy Workflows

The past year has seen exponential growth in AI capabilities, but the legal industry's workflows haven't evolved at the same pace. Traditional document creation processes—writing drafts in Word, sending emails for review, manual revision tracking—were designed for a pre-AI world.

Just as software development was transformed by integrated development environments that brought testing, compilation, and code editing together, legal work is now being transformed by platforms that integrate research, writing, and refinement. Drafts represents this next evolutionary step, maintaining the familiar aspects of document creation while seamlessly incorporating AI capabilities.

We're not trying to replace Microsoft Word entirely. We're creating the most frictionless handoff possible between AI-powered legal research and document creation. Drafts is just the beginning of this journey—we're building toward a future where the boundary between getting answers from AI and incorporating them into your work disappears completely.

Over the coming months, we'll continue expanding Drafts' capabilities, adding features like collaborative editing, advanced formatting options, and deeper integration with traditional document workflows. Our goal is to create the best possible environment for legal writing, whether you're drafting a brief, preparing a contract, or composing client correspondence.

The Future of Legal Work Is Collaborative AI

Drafts is more than just a convenient feature—it's a glimpse into how legal professionals will work in the coming years. By bringing together document editing and AI assistance in one seamless experience, we're enabling a more efficient, creative, and powerful approach to legal writing.

What we're really building is a co-pilot for legal work. Drafts turns Andri from a question-answering system into a collaborative partner in document creation. It maintains all the jurisdiction-specific knowledge and case analysis capabilities that make Andri powerful, while adding the ability to refine and perfect documents together.

Drafts is available today for all Andri users. To get started, simply ask Andri a question as you normally would, then click "Continue in Drafts" at the bottom of the response. Experience firsthand how the integration of AI and document editing can transform your legal workflow.

Visit Andri.ai to try Drafts today and get a glimpse of the future of legal work.