Reframe
Reframe Ontology

The central system for legal knowledge, across attorney and AI teams.

The Reframe Ontology encodes the data, the logic, and the action of your firm, so every answer and every draft is grounded in what your firm already knows, and every step is governed inside your own tenant.

Reframe Ontology One system, four layers, your tenant. The technical spine of AI-native legal intelligence.

The layered system

One system for legal knowledge, built in four layers.

From the data your firm generates down to the language that models it, the Reframe Ontology is a single coherent system. Every layer runs inside your own tenant, under one security and governance model.

ONE GOVERNED SYSTEM PIPELINES, FUNCTIONS, WRITE-BACK Data, Logic and Action Services GRANULAR CONTROLS, QUERY TIME Security and Governance RUNTIME Ontology Engine DEFINE, VERSION, EVOLVE Ontology Language and Toolchain YOUR TENANT

A common model, from source to reasoning.

The Ontology Language models the components of legal work. The Ontology Engine orchestrates that work at firm scale. The Ontology Toolchain treats the graph as your firm's backend. Security and governance wrap every layer, so an attorney and an agent operate under the same controls.

Layer 1Language and Toolchain

The primitives that model objects, logic, actions, and the workforce.

Layer 2Ontology Engine

The runtime that keeps one unified reality in sync at firm scale.

Layer 3Security and Governance

Granular controls across data, logic, and action, enforced at query time.

Layer 4Data, Logic and Action Services

The firm's sources and the work built on top of them.


Layer 1, Ontology Language

Model the components of legal work.

A language for the firm: encode what it knows, capture how it reasons, model the actions it takes, and govern the hybrid workforce that runs them.

Encode the knowledge of the firm

Unify the fragmented sources that hold your firm's memory, the document management system, email, contract stores, deal rooms, court filings, and systems of record, into coherent objects, properties, and links: matters, clients, counterparties, documents, clauses, obligations, deadlines, and precedent.

Capture the logic of the firm

Continuously encode the reasoning your attorneys apply, the playbooks, negotiated positions, fallback language, and precedent, and let it evolve as your practice does.

Model the actions of the firm

Represent legal work as first-class actions, draft, redline, compare, summarize, and file, and define how they run, from a single edit to multi-step, governed workflows that write back to your systems.

Govern the attorney and agent workforce

Orchestrate security and governance across a hybrid workforce, enforcing granular controls across data, logic, and action at once, whether the actor is an attorney or an agent.

Objects

The nouns of the firm

MatterClientCounterpartyDocumentClauseObligationDeadlinePrecedent
Properties

What each object holds

statusexecuted_ongoverning_lawtriggerdue_byresponsible_partner
Links

How they relate

HOLDS_MATTERCOUNTERPARTY_OFCONTAINS_CLAUSEAMENDSDUE_BY

Layer 2, Ontology Engine

Orchestrate legal work at firm scale.

One consistent, permission aware model, kept in sync as your firm works. Millions of reads and writes coordinated across the systems you already run, with one source of truth.

DMS iManage DMS NetDocuments SITES SharePoint MAIL AND FILES Microsoft 365 DRAFT AND FILE Word plugin WRITE BACK Systems of record ONTOLOGY One source of truth READS WRITES
Reads into the graph Writes back to your systems

One unified reality

Every matter, every document, one consistent and permission aware model, kept in sync as your firm works. Millions of reads and writes, one source of truth.

Activate your existing infrastructure

Reframe coordinates reads and writes across the systems you already run, iManage, NetDocuments, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and email, without ripping anything out.

Operate in sync

Continuous synchronization means what changes in your systems is reflected in the graph, and what the graph concludes flows back to where the work happens, with low latency.


Layer 1, Ontology Toolchain

Treat the Ontology as your firm's backend.

Every Reframe capability is an application on the same graph. So are the tools your practice groups build, and the AI you bring, ours or yours.

Build on your knowledge

Every Reframe capability, Secure AI Chat, Enterprise Search, the Word plugin, and Agent Workflows, is an application on the same graph.

A tool factory for humans and agents

Define tools that query any object, call any model or playbook, or execute any governed action, available to attorneys and agents alike.

Connect any AI, ours or yours

An open, governed connector layer exposes your ontology to external agents and your own models as tools, under the same access controls that govern Reframe's own agents.

Turn expertise into shared infrastructure

Practice groups compose reusable tools and playbooks that encode their expertise directly into the graph, so the next team inherits it and every matter that closes makes the firm smarter.

The key differentiator

Connect any AI, ours or yours, to one governed graph.

External agents and your own models read objects, query the graph, and execute predefined actions, under the exact same access controls that govern Reframe's own agents. Your agent ecosystem grows without your security model fragmenting.

One security ring
GOVERNED CONNECTIVITY REFRAME TOOL Secure AI Chat REFRAME TOOL Enterprise Search REFRAME TOOL Word plugin REFRAME TOOL Agent Workflows EXTERNAL Your models EXTERNAL Third party agents ONTOLOGY Context Graph YOUR TENANT GOVERNED CONNECTOR LAYER ACCESS CONTROL
Reframe native tools Your models and third party agents All under one access model, every action audited

Grounded retrieval

Ontology-aware retrieval, not keyword search.

Most tools match the words on the page. Reframe matches meaning, then follows the structure of the graph, so an answer arrives with the related matters, clauses, and obligations already in hand.

Tier 1

Matches words

keyword search

Finds documents that contain the terms you typed. Fast, but blind to synonyms, and it cannot tell you how anything relates.

recall on exact terms only
Tier 2

Matches meaning

semantic search

Embeddings surface passages that mean the same thing, even in different words. Better recall, but still a flat list of text with no structure behind it.

meaning, without relationships
Tier 3

Matches meaning and structure

ontology-aware retrieval

Reframe resolves the query to objects in the graph, then traverses the links, so the answer arrives grounded to the source and carries the related matters, clauses, counterparties, and deadlines with it.

grounded, related, permission aware
One engagement, three pillars

The Ontology, the Enclave, and the tooling, one system.

The short form of the platform: what holds the knowledge, what keeps it yours, and what puts it to work.

The software

The Ontology.

One queryable model of everything your firm knows. Matters, clients, counterparties, documents, clauses, deadlines, and precedent, with the relationships between them, grounded to the source and permission aware.

The deployment

The Secure Enclave.

A dedicated, isolated environment in your own Azure tenant. Your keys, your network, access control at query time, aligned to SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, NIST AI RMF, the EU AI Act, and the ABA Model Rules.

The surface

Connected AI Tooling.

Every AI tool, ours and yours, plugs into the same graph through an open, governed connector layer. Chat, Search, the Word plugin, Agent Workflows, plus your own models and third party agents. Grounded and audited.

The Ontology holds the knowledge. The Enclave keeps it yours. The tooling puts it to work.

Get started

Ground every answer in what your firm already knows.

From the first briefing to a live, production-grade Ontology inside your own tenant. Start with an Assessment, or ask us to walk your team through the system.