“Lawyer here: Harvey was never very good, or useful. It mostly exists so large law firms can say they do AI.”
On Hacker News · May 15, 2026
Self-described lawyer about 
Harvey
Said in “Claude for Legal”
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“I believe that [...] this startup will win by having the UX that is best focused on lawyers and addresses lawyers' compliance concerns.”
in “Most AI startups are doomed” · 2 voices
“That benchmark in the report clearly shows that there is not much added value or moat in the custom training of Harvey.”
in “AI Market Clarity”
“When I asked Harvey and Legora the same research question they were basically the same answers.”
in “Harvey vs Legora” · 3 voices
HarveyMixed“Harvey missed the ask one time when I was trying to get it to revise/add a little to a paragraph and it gave me 3 very long paragraphs.”open
LegoraValues“I think it makes me 30% more efficient generally, but if I am writing briefs or summaries of documents it's much higher”open
