Everyday Mode
Everyday is the default mode — the one active when you open the AI Assistant and the right tool for most of the day. It gives you a fast, direct answer without asking you to wait for a research pass or a full investigation. Ask a question, get an answer in seconds. No citations to thread, no thinking panel to follow — just text you can use.
What Everyday is for
Everyday handles the work that makes up most of a legal day:
- Drafting. Generate a first draft of a clause, a contract section, a letter, or a policy from your instructions or matter context.
- Summarizing. Paste in a document or point it at a matter file and get a clean summary — key terms, obligations, risks, parties.
- Rewording. Tighten a paragraph, translate legalese into plain language, or recast something for a different audience.
- Quick questions. Settle a point of law, clarify a term, or get a fast read on a standard legal concept.
- Follow-ups. After an Agent or Deep Research reply, drop into Everyday for quick clarifying questions — the answer comes back fast and the earlier work stays in the chat as context.
How it works
Everyday answers in a single, direct pass. There is no planning step, no lead-running, and no citation-gathering phase — it reads your question, draws on your matter context and its legal knowledge, and replies. That is what makes it fast.
Citations. None. Everyday is designed to hand you text you can use immediately — copy it into an email, a draft, or a message without stripping anything out. If the question requires cited authority, that is a signal to switch to Agent or Deep Research.
Speed. Seconds — comparable to a fast web search.
Matter-aware by default
When you're inside a Matter, Everyday already has every document in that matter's library. Ask about your documents directly — "summarize the indemnification section in the MSA" — and it answers from your actual files, not from general knowledge alone.
When not to use Everyday
- The answer needs to be cite-backed. If the output is going to a partner, a client, or a court and requires verified citations, use Agent — it validates case law against source and threads citations inline.
- The question turns on case law. Everyday doesn't validate citations. For questions where the answer depends on specific holdings, Agent is the better fit.
- You need a memo-quality write-up. For a thorough, structured analysis of a statute, regulation, or multi-part legal question, Deep Research produces a more substantial result in a single pass.
Using Everyday with the other modes
Everyday works naturally alongside Agent and Deep Research in the same session:
- Triage in Everyday, escalate to Agent. Use Everyday to orient yourself on a new matter or get a fast read, then switch to Agent when the question requires cited authority.
- Follow up a Deep Research report in Everyday. Once a Deep Research report is in the chat, drop into Everyday for quick clarifying questions — they come back fast, and the report stays visible as reference.
- Cover notes after an Agent memo. Let Agent produce the cited memo, then switch back to Everyday to draft the email, client update, or summary that goes with it.
Switching modes does not rewrite anything already in the chat — it changes how the next message is handled. See Switching Modes & Sessions.
Example uses
- "Draft a mutual NDA for a software development engagement between two U.S. companies."
- "Summarize the key risks to the buyer in this purchase agreement."
- "Rewrite this paragraph in plain language for a non-lawyer client."
- "What is the mailbox rule and when does it apply?"
- "What are the elements of a breach of contract claim in Texas?"
Working with the answer
Any Everyday reply can be downloaded as PDF or Word (DOCX), saved with Save this output to Notes in My Desk, or copied straight out.