Relativity develops claiR conversational AI for RelativityOne matter data

Relativity has developed claiR, a conversational AI system that works on customers' data already stored in RelativityOne, according to Artificial Lawyer. LawNext reported that Relativity announced it. Both reported the announcement on 12 August 2026. Relativity says claiR can reason across millions of documents, the metadata and the connections between them. A&O Shearman, Foley & Lardner and K&L Gates are testing claiR. LawNext reported that Relativity is launching it through its Advanced Access program, the pre-release track it uses to refine features with customers. Artificial Lawyer reported general availability in 2027; LawNext reported sometime early next year. Relativity expects to include claiR in RelativityOne at no additional cost once it is generally available. LawNext reported that claiR builds on aiR Assist, which was made generally available at RelFest London in June 2026. Relativity's answer, as reported by LawNext, is that claiR extends aiR Assist from indexed document sets to the full depth of a matter. LawNext said Relativity has kept aiR for Case Strategy as a separately priced add-on. Phil Saunders, CEO of Relativity, said: "Conversational AI is now how people everywhere expect to work, and with claiR, for the first time, the full richness of a matter's data is directly in lawyers' hands, rather than something they wait on technical legal data teams to surface." Chris Brown, who became president of Relativity in July, said: "Nothing is exported or sampled, the answer comes from the record itself, right where the data lives."