LexSteward
Every feature, honestly labeled

Everything LexSteward does — and exactly where each part stands.

A feature list with no status labels is an overclaim. Here’s the whole platform across the five outcome pillars, and an honest status on every line: what’s live today, what activates with your account, what’s in preview, and what’s on the roadmap.

Live Usable today by a real firm.
Activates with your account Built; switches on once the firm connects its account or a connector.
Preview Demo-grade, rolling out, or tier-gated. Not live for everyone yet.
Roadmap Planned or spec-only; not built yet.
Pillar
Status

Get Found

Marketing and acquisition — be the firm clients find on Google and in AI search.

  • Live

    Practice-area pages

    Owned, AI-optimized pages for each practice area and jurisdiction, with clean structured data.

    Fifteen practice-area pages, each with its own JSON-LD so search and answer engines can read and recommend your firm.

  • Live

    Legal calculators

    Client-side benefit and cost estimators that turn a visitor into a lead.

    Twenty-six-plus calculators; they compute in the visitor’s browser with zero data retention — only the contact request the visitor chooses to send leaves the page.

  • Live

    AEO Audit tool

    A free AI-visibility audit with scored, prioritized fixes — no account needed.

    Enter your public firm details and get a scored, explained audit of how AI search sees you.

  • Live

    AI intake form

    A conversational, branching intake that qualifies a lead and relays it to the firm.

    Config-driven flow; the only network call is the lead relay.

  • Live

    Templates & precedents

    Engagement, retainer, and demand-letter templates ready to use.

  • Live

    Comparison pages

    Honest, sourced cost-and-feature comparisons versus other practice-management systems.

    Category-based, sourced, and non-disparaging.

  • Preview

    Marketing control center

    Firm-side control of your pages, copy, and offers.

    Routers exist but it is demo-grade and not yet in the main dashboard.

  • Roadmap

    SEO / Get-Found control center

    AEO monitoring, local SEO, a content loop, and the review flywheel in one place.

    Spec written; not built yet.

  • Roadmap

    Local presence (GBP / NAP / reviews)

    Local citation and review automation for your Google Business Profile.

    Modules exist but there is no UI yet; activates with a Google connector once shipped.

  • Preview

    Partner / referral system

    A firm network with referral tracking.

    The model is built; the marketplace is building.

Run Every Case

The operating system of record — intake to resolution, plus firm admin.

  • Live

    Matters lifecycle

    The system of record for matters — stages, parties, and key dates.

  • Live

    Contacts / CRM

    An address book with a relationship and conflict graph.

  • Live

    Calendar / docket

    Month, week, and agenda views with events and reminders.

    Live; rule-derived deadline cascades are in Preview (see the deadline / rules engine).

  • Live

    Tasks & workflows

    A task board with a configurable workflow engine and approval queue.

  • Live

    Documents / DMS

    Encrypted document storage with version history, filed to the matter.

    Live; e-signature is on the roadmap (see E-signature / RON).

  • Live

    Time tracking

    Manual and timer-based time entry with narratives.

    Live; AI-proposed draft time entries are in Preview.

  • Live

    Billing (earned-fee)

    Invoices, expenses, payments, and pre-bills — earned-fee only.

    Earned-fee billing only; explicitly not a trust ledger (see Trust / IOLTA accounting).

  • Live

    Reporting & analytics

    Revenue, realization, A/R aging, and conversion KPIs.

  • Live

    Data import / migration

    Guided CSV import with field mapping and a dry-run preview.

    Live; direct adapters for other systems are on the roadmap.

  • Live

    Practice Hub

    Per-practice-area coverage with a verification queue.

  • Live

    Practice Primer / pack generator

    Auto-drafts a practice pack for attorney verification before go-live.

  • Live

    Document automation / forms

    Learn a form once, confirm the field map, and auto-fill it on any matter.

    Refuses to recreate mandatory official forms.

  • Live

    Practice intelligence feeds

    Monitors secondary legal sources into a review queue.

    Items stay labeled unverified until an attorney reviews them.

  • Preview

    Deadline / rules engine

    Rule-based deadline calculation with an attorney-verification pipeline.

    The engine is built, but no jurisdiction is attorney-verified or shipped yet — it does not emit confident dates until counsel signs off.

  • Preview

    Shared verified library

    Verified, content-free pack scaffolds shared across firms.

    Behind a UPL / E&O sign-off gate before real-firm go-live.

  • Preview

    Trust / IOLTA accounting

    A trust-ledger engine with three-way reconciliation.

    Flag off; activates per jurisdiction after CPA and bar review.

  • Preview

    Litigation readiness

    UTBMS/LEDES e-billing and e-discovery support.

    Flags off; synthetic data only today.

  • Roadmap

    Physical-doc orchestration

    Reads an inbound notice, extracts dates, and proposes a deadline cascade.

    Extraction is built; vendor wiring pending.

  • Roadmap

    E-signature / RON

    E-signature and remote online notarization.

    Behind the NY SB 1780 gate.

  • Roadmap

    Voice / call capture

    Turns a call into a conflict-screened lead and dictation into a draft time entry.

    Twilio / A2P gated.

  • Roadmap

    Attorney continuity deadlines

    CLE, bar, and pro-hac-vice deadlines with break-glass coverage.

    A business / scope decision.

  • Live

    Roles / RBAC + ethical walls

    Custom roles, per-matter access, supervision, and an access map.

  • Live

    Team & onboarding

    Invite staff, assign roles, and follow guided onboarding.

    Live; offboarding automation is in Preview.

  • Live

    Settings / firm config

    Firm profile, packs, rates, numbering, and custom fields.

    Live; advanced config is in Preview.

  • Live

    Scheduled automation

    Opt-in background jobs for reminders and alerts.

  • Roadmap

    Governance control centers

    Recovery, governance, access/walls, audit, compliance, finance, client-experience, and growth control centers.

    Specs written; which are built is being confirmed.

  • Preview Enterprise

    Enterprise suite

    An in-house front door, proposals, account-based marketing, and outside-counsel review.

    Surfaces are live; the workflows are building. Enterprise tier.

Ward Runs It With You

Your in-boundary AI chief of staff — it proposes, you approve.

  • Live

    Ward / chief of staff

    One in-boundary assistant across the firm — it proposes, you approve.

    The core assistant is live; advanced action surfaces are in Preview.

  • Live

    Case-file RAG

    Grounded, cited Q&A and summaries over a matter’s documents.

  • Live

    Smart AI routing

    Routes each task to the right model, escalating to a frontier model only for complex work.

    The “no surprise AI bills” story.

  • Preview

    Matter intelligence / doc-set analysis

    Cross-matter status and risk with structured extraction.

    Matter-level AI is live; cross-matter analysis is building.

  • Roadmap

    Ward grounding & citation layer

    Every answer shows its sources — “show your work.”

    Spec written.

  • Roadmap

    Proactive obligation view

    A continuous, forward-looking view of your obligations.

    Spec written.

  • Preview

    Confidential AI

    A privilege ledger with in-boundary redaction.

    Flag off.

  • Roadmap

    Comms track-changes + voice learning

    Diffs Ward’s draft against your edits and learns your firm’s voice.

    Spec written.

Your Clients Love It

A firm-branded client experience that markets itself.

  • Preview

    Client portal (web)

    A firm-branded portal for status, documents, and invoices.

    The web surfaces are live and rolling out.

  • Live

    Two-brand client surfaces

    Your client sees your firm’s brand; LexSteward stays invisible.

  • Preview

    Client-Ward mode

    A scoped client-facing assistant — Full, Limited, or Off — that never gives legal advice.

    Off by default; the firm controls the mode.

  • Activates with your account

    Payment links / no-login pay

    A passwordless pay link so clients can pay by card.

    Built; activates with the firm’s payment account.

  • Roadmap

    Client SMS / two-way texting

    Status and reminders with inbound replies filed to the matter.

    Behind an A2P provider + DPA gate.

Private by Default

In-boundary AI, isolation, and ownership — privilege-grade by default.

  • Live

    In-boundary AI

    Client data never hits a public LLM; frontier work runs under a BAA.

    The sharpest wedge; aligned to the /trust boundary — a frontier model is opt-in and off by default.

  • Live

    Per-firm encryption (AES-GCM)

    PII and content encrypted with a per-firm key.

    Live; the customer-managed-key (CMK) go-live gate is still open.

  • Live

    Data residency at signup

    An immutable region set at signup — US or Canada, region-pinned and fail-closed.

    The region is pinned at signup and enforced in-app; physical in-region storage all the way down to backups is on the roadmap (rides the residency go-live gate).

  • Live

    Multi-tenant isolation

    Every query is firm-scoped.

    Live; a database row-level-security backstop is planned.

  • Live

    Export / ownership

    Export everything anytime, across every module. No lock-in.

    On-demand export is live; scheduled self-export delivered to your own storage activates with the backup/DR gate.

  • Live

    Backup & recovery

    Continuous backup, an immutable copy, and tested restore and rollback.

  • Live

    Audit trail

    An append-only log of material changes.

  • Live

    Vendor pass-through (BYO)

    Connect your own vendor accounts; DPA and residency checks fail closed.

    The framework is live; specific adapters vary.

  • Preview

    Device trust / remote sign-out

    See known devices and revoke a session mid-use.

    Design complete; wiring in progress.

  • Preview Sovereign

    Sovereign / BYO-KMS / zero-knowledge

    You hold the key — single-tenant, on-prem, or air-gapped.

    Design-only today; the Sovereign tier, not live. The “zero-knowledge / technically unable to read” claim is reserved to this tier.

  • Roadmap

    SOC 2 / HIPAA / PIPEDA

    Third-party security and compliance certifications.

    Referenced as roadmap; not yet obtained.

  • Roadmap

    Assisted redaction / de-identification

    Mask PII before sharing or sending to AI, and harden intake de-identification.

    Spec written.

LexSteward is a legal-technology platform, not a law firm, and does not provide legal services or advice. Security and compliance certifications referenced as roadmap items are not yet obtained. Sovereignty and data-residency guarantees depend on the chosen deployment configuration and are confirmed during procurement. See how our AI works.