Briefpoint: Artificial Intelligence for Lawyers

Briefpoint’s Technology

As of this review, Briefpoint supports working with requests for admission, requests for production, and interrogatories. It supports both propounding and responding to discovery from opposing counsel.

Analyze Existing Documents

Whether you’re propounding or responding to discovery, Briefpoint’s process begins with uploading source documents in PDF format. Briefpoint takes these PDFs and converts them to image-only PDFs. While this seems counterintuitive (generally lawyers want searchable PDFs), Briefpoint starts with image-only PDFs because they have trained machine learning models on the appropriate layout for all federal and state pleadings. The model knows, for example, in a civil complaint in Texas state court, venue is located in a certain place on the first page, the plaintiffs another place, the defendants a third, and so on. The AI extracts that portion of the document for each relevant field, OCRs only that portion, and places the resulting text in the venue, plaintiff, defendant, etc. field.

Briefpoint’s model is also calibrated to handle situations where the court rules say “X”, but years of custom have attorneys submitting pleadings at variance with the rules. In Arizona, for example, the customs of pleading appearance differ from the rules, but the customs are so normal that they are the de facto rules. Briefpoint’s ability to accommodate these nuances gives you an idea of their commitment to getting it right to save attorneys time.

The Power of Briefpoint’s AI

Briefpoint uses several LLM models, including ChatGPT-5, GPT-4.1 Nano, o3, and Gemini 2.5 Flash. Briefpoint tuned these models to mimic attorney behavior. One example of their tuned models appears when propounding discovery. Apart from quick process and attractive time savings, Briefpoint understands that you need to ask pointed questions to avoid rote responses. That’s why Briefpoint trained its AI on 230,000 objections. Indeed, as the AI drafts discovery for you, it’s objecting and countering with itself in the background to sharpen your questions. With Briefpoint’s most recent revision, their AI objects 49x more like an attorney than GPT-4.

Briefpoint Eases Client Collaboration

In addition to drafting discovery, Briefpoint helps you collaborate with clients in responding to discovery. For example, after uploading interrogatories from opposing counsel, you can invoke the “send to client” feature so that the client can draft answers to the interrogatories you select. The fact that the client can draft responses that feed directly into the final document is impressive enough. But Briefpoint goes further. If you were talking the client through questions over the phone, you likely wouldn’t read the interrogatory verbatim. You’d summarize and simplify the question. Briefpoint does that work for you with its “simplify all” button that clarifies the question for a non-attorney.

Similarly, Briefpoint offers real-time Spanish language translation. The client can convert questions from English to Spanish, type their response in Spanish, and then you can have Briefpoint translate their response to English.

How to Use Briefpoint

Propounding Discovery

1. Upload your pleading (e.g., a complaint) as a PDF document to Briefpoint.
2. Briefpoint analyzes the document, parses individual allegations and claims, and drafts potential requests for admissions, interrogatories, and requests for production.
3. Download the completed discovery document(s) in Word format, with the appropriate jurisdiction-specific appearance and caption, and then edit, manipulate, and store these files in the same manner as any other Word document.

Responding to Discovery

1. Begin using Briefpoint by uploading PDF-formatted document(s).
2. Briefpoint analyzes the document and breaks it down into individual questions (e.g., each interrogatory) that you respond to with AI-drafted responses, firm-standardized pre-created responses, or writing a “bespoke response” within the Briefpoint web app.
3. Download a completed Microsoft Word document, again with jurisdiction-specific formatting, that you can edit, manipulate, and store in the same manner as any other Word document.

Visit Briefpoint’s discovery cheat-sheet page and select your jurisdiction to get an idea of potential time and cost savings.

For example, for Ohio, Briefpoint reports:

“Discovery responses cost firms $23,240, per year, per attorney. $23,240 estimate assumes an associate attorney salary of $150,000 (including benefits – or $83 an hour), 20 cases per year/per associate, 4 discovery sets per case, 30 questions per set, 3.5 hours spent responding to each set, and 1800 hours of billable hours per year.

Under these assumptions, you save $19,465 using Briefpoint, per year, per attorney.”

Autodoc

Briefpoint gave us a demo of Autodoc, a soon-to-be-released tool that greatly improves document production and ediscovery for smaller firms. Point Autodoc at a folder of documents and ask Briefpoint’s AI to identify documents relevant to a production request. Autodoc responds with what’s relevant, tells you if there is nothing relevant, or “finds a needle in a haystack.” In a demo for Lawyerist, Autodoc sifted through 1,000 pages in seconds to find 2 single-line entries relevant to a request. And the output that Autodoc generates cites to the Bates numbers in the request for production and production package.

Briefpoint believes Autodoc can replace Relativity for most cases with <10,000 documents, which covers >99% of civil litigation matters.

Briefpoint currently targets September for a public release of Autodoc.

Security Overview

Briefpoint uses industry best practices for in-transit and at-rest encryption (HTTPS and TLS). That data is siloed in your Briefpoint account. Briefpoint is SOC-2 certified and HIPAA compliant. They have automated backups and geographically redundant servers. Briefpoint relies on Microsoft Azure for server infrastructure, as well as identity and login management. Stripe handles payment processing, so Briefpoint never sees nor stores credit card details.

Most importantly, when considering AI tools for legal, nothing you upload is used to train Briefpoint or any third?party model.

Read all about their security and data controls at their Trust Center website.

Briefpoint speeds up the discovery creation and response processes. Civil litigation practices will benefit most from Briefpoint’s tools.