The cloud legal AI alternative.

They are real, capable, and well-engineered. They are not what this page is arguing against.

• Spellbook. Around $149–$199 per seat per month for the Professional and Enterprise tiers, with Enterprise starting at 10 seats. A 5-lawyer firm: roughly $5,000–$12,000/year.
• Harvey. Indicative pricing in the range of $40,000/year for ten users; some published estimates put the per-lawyer cost at $1,000–$1,200/month with twenty-seat minimums. Enterprise contracts only.
• Legora. Around $3,000 per user per year, ten-seat minimum, $30,000 annual contract minimum.
• CoCounsel. Roughly $225+ per seat per month, sold through Thomson Reuters sales motion.
• Muet. $390 per device per year. One device, one license, one annual invoice. No minimum, no contract, no procurement.

• Spellbook. Firm-wide playbooks, clause libraries, and high-volume contract drafting inside Word. If the firm draft hundreds of NDAs a month, this is the tool.
• Harvey. Multi-document review at scale (Vault handles 100,000-document repositories), configurable workflows, and the SSO/audit-log/IP-allowlist set an AmLaw IT team expects.
• Legora. Structured tabular extraction across thousands of documents at once. M&A diligence and portfolio review.
• CoCounsel. Integrated legal research inside the Westlaw ecosystem. If the firm already lives in Westlaw, the integration is real value.

Muet doesn’t try to be any of these. It’s a different shape of tool for a different shape of work.

• Pre-engagement pitches and rainmaking correspondence before a matter is opened.
• Off-the-record calls and internal notes the partner is working through.
• Internal investigations the partner is personally running.
• Sensitive HR and partner-track matters they don’t want associates touching.
• Recruitment correspondence and lateral-hire negotiations.
• Equity, succession, and partnership disputes.
• Board work for outside organisations the partner sits on.
• Communications with their own counsel.

Right now this work either gets pasted into a personal ChatGPT account, or it doesn’t use AI at all. Muet is what fits there: on the partner’s laptop, alongside the firm tools, for the work the firm tools were never going to handle.

• No third party sees the document. Processing happens on the lawyer’s Mac. No vendor in the loop for the work itself.
• No DPA, no sub-processor list. Because there’s no processor relationship, there’s nothing to negotiate. Useful when the work involves a corporate client whose security team would otherwise need weeks to clear a new vendor.
• Works offline. Plane, tunnel, regulated facility, weak Wi-Fi: the work continues.
• Costs $390 per Mac per year. One-line software expense, no procurement cycle, no seat negotiations.
• Sits next to whatever else you use. Most lawyers run several tools. Muet handles the work the others can’t.

• Solo and 2–9 lawyer firms. Often Muet alone, because the price-to-privacy ratio is hard to beat and the firm doesn’t have the deal volume to justify Spellbook or the procurement weight to deploy Harvey.
• Mid-size firms (10–100 lawyers). Often Muet alongside Spellbook: Spellbook for the contract drafting workflow, Muet for everything else partners handle that the matter system never touches.
• AmLaw and large in-house teams. Muet on partner laptops alongside the existing Harvey, Legora, or CoCounsel deployment. The firm tools handle matter work; Muet handles the personal-laptop work the firm tools were never going to see.
• Civil-law EU practices. Muet often as the only AI tool, because secret professionnel and §203 StGB make cloud-based options legally awkward in a way they aren’t in the US.
• In-house counsel. Muet for investigations, NDAs, and pre-deal work. Whatever cloud tool the company has bought is rarely cleared for those.