By Tom Saunders, RSGI
At the start of January, Litera announced a “record-breaking year for AI adoption among law firms and corporate legal customers worldwide”, with 10x growth since Q3 2025.
To recap on its AI capabilities, in October 2025, Litera formally launched Lito, a generative AI agent which sits across its suite of products, allowing users to easily compare and review documents or complete tasks like creating a post-closing timeline for an M&A transaction. Generative AI is integrated into several other Litera products such as its AI contract review software Kira and its cloud-based drafting capabilities in Litera One. The company has decided to make these generative AI-enabled features freely available to customers as part of its core offering, rather than charging additional fees.
Of Litera’s 15,000 customers, 7,000 currently have access to its generative-AI enabled cloud drafting tools, which are made available to Litera customers as they switch over to the cloud. This represents a 10x growth between Q3 2025 and today, and an increase of 1,000 customers with access to these features between December 2025 and January 2026. Kira’s generative AI features are available to all Kira customers and Lito is available to customers of Litera’s core products.
Instead of providing the number of monthly AI users it has, Litera shared earlier this month how many times various AI features are used in a month. Highlights include over 26,000 document summaries generated and over 20,000 AI-powered document comparisons.
The numbers show the headstart that incumbent legal technology platforms like Litera currently have on customers over new market entrants like Harvey, who just published an end of 2025 report claiming over 1000 total customers and Legora, who report over 600 customers. Reflecting on Litera’s different position in the market, CEO Avaneesh Marwaha comments, “We are a profitable business and we are not looking for Lito to be a growth lever.” However, like these two other businesses, Litera is feeling the pressure to drive AI adoption and keep the attention of its users. “Lito and Kira can do everything that is available in the market today”, Marwaha says. A major factor behind making the generative AI features freely available to Litera customers is to encourage widespread use of these capabilities. Another consideration has been cost, and Marwaha says: “The models are getting cheaper and we didn’t want to come out the gate with pricing and as we move to more efficient models, our costs go down. It made more sense to empower our users.”
To really get widespread generative AI adoption, Marwaha argues that more collaboration is key “[The data AI relies on] is client data and law firm data. We want to see a much more open ecosystem across the board,” he says. “One area I am really keen on is looking at the ecosystem and where we should be integrating.”
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