For the work you can’t paste in.

• Reads the document. PDF, Word, Excel, scanned exhibits. Layout, tables, footnotes, embedded images.
• Answers questions. “What’s the indemnification cap?” “Where does the non-compete end?” “Did the witness contradict the prior deposition?” Cited back to the page.
• Writes tracked-change redlines. You ask in plain language. Muet writes the redline back into the DOCX. Open in Word, accept or reject.
• Redacts PII in one pass. Names, addresses, account numbers, identifiers, returned as a redline you can approve.
• Translates contracts and exhibits. Between languages, without sending the document to DeepL or Google Translate.
• Summarises long records. Depositions, productions, expert reports, regulatory filings.

• Privileged communications, attorney work product, and litigation strategy.
• Pre-engagement pitches and rainmaking correspondence before a matter is opened.
• Internal investigations the partner is personally running.
• Sensitive HR and partner-track matters that don’t belong in the matter system.
• Pre-deal data rooms, target memos, and term-sheet drafting.
• Civil-law work under secret professionnel or §203 StGB where cloud-based options are legally awkward.
• Family, criminal, estate, and disputes work for solos and small firms.
• Anything where the corporate client’s security questionnaire would otherwise need filling out.

• Solo and 2–9 lawyer firms. Often Muet alone: one annual price, no deployment, no procurement, no cloud risk.
• Mid-size firms. Muet alongside Spellbook or a similar drafting tool: Spellbook for contract throughput, Muet for everything personal partners handle outside the matter system.
• AmLaw and large in-house teams. Muet on partner laptops alongside Harvey, Legora, or CoCounsel. The firm tools handle matter-team work; Muet handles the work the firm tools were never going to see.
• Civil-law EU firms. Muet often as the only AI tool, because the cloud-based options, even with a DPA, sit uncomfortably with non-waivable confidentiality duties.
• In-house counsel. For investigations, NDAs, and pre-deal work that the corporate cloud tool isn’t cleared for.

That doesn’t satisfy every duty in 512 on its own. You still owe competence and supervision. But the disclosure analysis that requires informed client consent stops being part of the question. The same logic applies to GDPR Art. 28 (processor relationship), Schrems II (cross-border transfer), CNB’s September 2024 guidance on secret professionnel, §203 StGB in Germany, and the SRA Code in the UK.

The Op. 512 plain-language guide walks through the analysis in detail.

For comparison, a 5-lawyer firm spending the same year on the cloud alternatives:

• Muet: $1,950
• Claude Team: $1,200
• Spellbook: $5,340
• CoCounsel: ~$13,500
• Harvey: enterprise contracts only, ~$40,000+

Most firms run more than one of these. Muet is meant to be the cheapest line item, the one that handles the work the others don’t.