Document management system

I personally wouldn't be using offshore team members to log into those systems.

Next up, you talk a lot about practice management systems and recently about how you wouldn't recommend standalone DMS systems like Stanford Tax.

Sidebar, Stanford is not a DMS.

I don't know what that means.

We are a Carbon firm and working towards retiring SmartVault.

I thought that was, like, something from the olden days.

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I think the other thing that's interesting, probably slightly tangential to the MCP piece is, that we are seeing a rise in one of our tools around security policy around whether things can be exposed to AI or not.

And it's a really interesting point because, you know, there is a level even within a well-governed DMS where I'm allowed to see certain things and you would expect me to see things because that's why you go to a knowledge worker or knowledge lawyer, whoever, because they have collective knowledge of this type of work.

But they are trusted, for example, to look at documents, read documents and utilize those in a good way.

But we are seeing quite a lot of clients asking to close data to not be exposed to AI.

Moving forward, Alex, I wanted to get your take on the open versus closed debate.

Where do we sit on this one right now?

I have always, and Maddy can correct me for the APAC region, but I've always seen the kind of APAC and to quite a degree Europe having a... well-structured DMS where they're basically sort of saying, okay, this is not totally open.

There are other regions where things have traditionally been very, very open, like North America, and that's when, say, for example, North America starts to move from open to closed, there's a big knowledge problem that happens.

And we're focused on this complex world where it can handle legal tasks and work end-to-end.

So what's our next focus? phase to your question is we're doubling down on what client chose us for and actually scaling that so we know why they choose us and why they love us so we're going pretty much large on that expanding on our existing products strengthening search keyword search and most importantly connecting across all the fragmented systems and softwares where data is being stored whether that's you know local document repositories, DMS on the cloud, DMS on-prem, and everything else between that.

So to that end, we are really looking into compounding the assets and new code as the platform where we strongly believe that this can live, evolve, and grow with the law firm.

That's great.

I mean, the biggest one being like ethical walls, you know, so it'd be great to just be able to take, you know, Claude or chat GPT, right.

And point it at your finance data, but, That's going to create issues.

Same goes with your DMS.

And so that's, I think, one of the things that slows us down in a good way.

The roadmap points to cloud and secure infrastructure as that nervous system.

The cloud connects the digital supply chain on one end to what they call EDMS, an electronic document management system, on the other.

The cloud ensures that the data moving between the AI, the robotic processes, and the quality control systems is absolutely pristine and secure at all times.

It enables what the graphic calls data integrity and enablement.

You have to be there, bro.

And this time, like it's a festival that's coming up about EDMs.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, EDMs gotta be there because those are the things.

It will be fun, bro, I tell you that.

Okay, okay, okay.