Transforming Legal AI: How Harvey Expanded Globally with Parallel's Solutions

Customer Background

Harvey is a pioneering AI platform focused on legal and professional services. As a leader in its industry, Harvey aims to provide innovative solutions that empower legal professionals. With a growing team and expanding operations, the company faced significant challenges in accessing specialized legal knowledge, particularly as it sought to penetrate new markets beyond common-law jurisdictions.

Challenge

As Harvey aimed to expand its services into civil-law countries across Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, it encountered a fundamental problem: the specialized legal knowledge required for their AI solutions was often not available in any searchable index. This lack of accessible data posed a significant bottleneck to their growth and service delivery.

Solution

To address this challenge, Harvey partnered with Parallel, utilizing their Search and Extract APIs to enhance web search capabilities across the platform. Parallel's public web index is uniquely designed to offer comprehensive coverage of legal domains, balancing breadth and depth to ensure that lawyers using Harvey have access to the most accurate and relevant data available from the public web.

Implementation

Parallel developed a specialized private index tailored to access hard-to-reach international legal sources, such as court rulings from Brazil, regulatory codes from Argentina, and committee resolutions from South Korea. This index was built using proprietary crawl, retrieval, and ranking infrastructure, specifically designed to handle the complexities of legal data that standard crawlers typically cannot manage. By doing so, Parallel enabled Harvey to focus on its core product while ensuring reliable access to previously inaccessible legal knowledge.

Results

The collaboration between Harvey and Parallel has resulted in the ability to crawl and index thousands of legal domains across 60+ countries. This expansion not only enhances the accuracy of the AI's legal data but also opens new addressable markets for Harvey. As Gabe Pereyra, President & Co-Founder of Harvey, stated, "One of the biggest bottlenecks to serving lawyers globally is access to authoritative legal data. Parallel is solving that for us at a scale we couldn't build in-house."

Conclusion

The partnership between Harvey and Parallel exemplifies how strategic collaborations can overcome significant industry challenges. By leveraging Parallel's advanced web search infrastructure, Harvey has successfully expanded its legal AI capabilities internationally, providing legal professionals with access to authoritative data that was previously invisible. This case study highlights the importance of innovative solutions in driving business growth and enhancing service delivery in the legal sector.