Litera
Legal drafting, comparison and contract review, now unified around the Lito AI agent
Overview
Litera is a Chicago-based legal technology company, majority-owned by Hg, selling document comparison, proofing, drafting tools, Kira contract review and Foundation law-firm CRM. Since July 2026 it has relaunched the suite around Lito, an AI agent embedded in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Smaller firms can buy the Practice Base and Practice Pro tiers through an online store; larger deployments are quoted.
Pricing
Pricing shown for reference only. These figures reflect RECATOOLS research as of 14 Oct 2026 and may be out of date or incomplete. This is not financial or purchasing advice — always confirm the current price on the provider’s official website before making any decision.
- Lito, the Legal AI agent
- Compare in Word, Outlook, web, Google Workspace and Windows desktop
- One-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many comparison
- Comparison summaries
- Everything in Practice Base
- Definition and cross-reference review
- Document proofing and repair
- Tables of authorities and citation checking
- Kira contract review
- Foundation and Foundation 365 CRM
- Lito across the Litera platform
Use cases
What you can produce with Litera
- Deterministic redlines of documents and emails in Word, Outlook, the web, Google Workspace and Windows
- Lito, an AI agent across drafting, comparison, contract review and firm knowledge
- Proofing and repair of cross-references, defined terms, numbering and formatting
- Tables of authorities and citation checks
- Kira contract review and clause extraction for due diligence
- Foundation client-relationship and firm intelligence, including search from ChatGPT
- Metadata cleaning of outgoing emails and attachments with Metadact
Litera's strength is the deterministic tooling lawyers already rely on: a rules-based comparison engine running ten million redlines a month, proofing and repair, and Kira for contract review, now tied together by the Lito agent inside Word, Outlook and Google Workspace. The July 2026 relaunch makes the platform pitch explicit, and Lito comes at no extra cost with the core products.
Prices are not published, even in the online store, and most adoption figures are Litera's own. It is a Microsoft 365-centred, English-first suite. Strong for mid-size and large firms standardising on one vendor; small firms should get a quote for Practice Base first.
What we found
Litera is a Chicago-based legal software company, majority-owned by private equity firm Hg since 2019 and still listed in Hg's portfolio, which dates the business to 1995. It grew through more than twenty acquisitions, among them Kira Systems for AI contract review, Foundation for law-firm CRM and Clocktimizer for matter analytics. Litera says it serves more than 15,000 customers and over one million daily users, including 99% of the Am Law 100; an earlier version of this page put daily users at two million, which Litera's own figures do not support.
The big change is Lito, an AI agent Litera announced in July 2025 and formally launched that October, free to customers of its core drafting products and Kira. In July 2026 Litera relaunched the whole company around it: one agent, embedded in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, spanning drafting, comparison, contract review, firm knowledge and client development. Litera says 70% of active platform accounts already use Lito. In September 2026 it added a plugin that brings Foundation's firm search into ChatGPT.
Litera's argument against AI start-ups is that its comparison and proofing engines are rules-based rather than probabilistic, so a redline does not hallucinate. It processes ten million comparisons a month and claims its comparison engine is used by 72% of the legal market. Those are the company's numbers; no outside audit of them was found.
For smaller firms Litera now sells Practice Base, which covers comparison plus Lito, and Practice Pro, which adds proofing, document repair, defined-term and cross-reference checks and tables of authorities, through an online store, though no price is shown publicly. Larger deployments are quoted by sales. Litera cites ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2. Its new president, appointed in October 2026, is credited with a customer-first turnaround of client sentiment, a hint that service had been a weak spot. Best for firms already working in Word and Outlook that want comparison, proofing and an AI agent from one supplier.
Compiled by RECATOOLS from public sources: vendor documentation and pricing, code repositories and published reporting.
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