Perplexity announced the launch of Computer for Counsel, a new AI product designed for lawyers and legal teams. Computer for Counsel connects the research databases, document repositories, contract tools, and matter-management systems lawyers use every day to Perplexity Computer.
The product is designed to handle legal workflow tasks such as research, document collection, contract triage, regulatory monitoring, citation review, and intake processing.
Perplexity said the goal is to help lawyers spend less time on administrative work and more time on judgment, strategy, and client counsel.
Computer for Counsel is powered by more than 20 frontier AI models. Perplexity said the system selects the best model for the task at hand, whether the work involves research, reasoning, contracts, or another legal workflow.
The platform can reason across the open web and premium sources that legal professionals already use.
The launch includes access to Midpage, an AI legal research and drafting platform for litigators that includes U.S. federal and state appellate case law, statutes, regulations, a proprietary citator, and source-linked answers.
Computer for Counsel also includes access to Deel’s compliance data, which supports answers related to employment law, worker classification, employer-of-record rules, contractor compliance, immigration, and cross-border payroll obligations.
LegalZoom’s custom contract template flow is also expected to be available through the platform, enabling users to create customer agreements, employment contracts, and NDAs.
Perplexity said outputs from Computer for Counsel link back to source material, including cases, statutes, regulations, filings, and internal documents, allowing attorneys to verify information before using it in a brief, memo, or client communication.
Computer for Counsel is also available inside Microsoft 365. It can draft documents in Word, retrieve files from SharePoint, and reference context from Outlook or Microsoft Teams conversations.
The product can also access Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, and more than 400 other files and tools through App Connectors.
Connectors for Computer for Counsel include Box, Carta, Clio, DeepJudge, Docusign, Ironclad, and NetDocuments.
Perplexity said the product can assemble relevant context from connected tools into legal briefs, memos, deal summaries, and other work products.
Current workflow examples include third-party NDA intake, regulatory monitoring, and case research with citation review.
For NDA intake, Computer can review third-party NDAs for red flags, complete entity and signatory information, prepare clean copies, and route documents for approval and signature through Docusign.
For regulatory monitoring, Computer can build dashboards for U.S. state privacy and adtech laws and cite relevant legal research sources.
For case research, Computer can review issues such as non-compete enforceability, summarize cases, flag unsettled law, and export citation-backed PDFs.
Perplexity said attorneys remain in control of judgment and strategy while Computer handles lower-value administrative work.
The company also said Perplexity Enterprise does not train on company data, and internal files accessed through App Connectors remain under the firm’s control.
Computer for Counsel is available today to Perplexity Enterprise and Max subscribers.
