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Smokeball Archie
Smokeball · HQ US · founded 2013 · Last checked 2026-09-03
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AI matter assistant embedded in Smokeball, Word and Outlook; moved from RAG to agentic multi-step reasoning in July 2026 with a user-selectable model (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google).
Provisional entry: fewer than four governance facts are sourced yet. It is excluded from search indexes until verified.
- Category
- Practice management AI · matter assistant, agentic AI, drafting, Word and Outlook add-in, legal research via LawY/CoCounsel
- Built for
- Small firms & solos, Mid-sized firms
- Model providers (disclosed)
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google
- Data residency options
- UK, US, AU
- Pricing
- per-seat
- Markets
- US, AUSTRALIA, UK
- Last checked
- 03 Sept 2026
What the vendor documents
Recorded from the vendor's own trust, privacy and terms pages. "Not disclosed" means we found no public statement, not that the control is absent.
Accuracy evidence
No published accuracy or hallucination evaluation found as of 2026-09-03.
Related incidents
No incidents are recorded for this tool as of 2026-09-03.
Ownership · Private. Security page states customer data is not provided to third parties for AI training; own-model training not addressed. Cites AWS SOC reports rather than its own.
Sources
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SafeLegalAI Legal Tech Tools, "Smokeball Archie", safelegalai.com/tools/smokeball-archie (last checked 2026-09-03, accessed 2026-09-04). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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