What does Harvey Agents actually do?
Most legal AI tools still behave like drafting assistants with a specialized vocabulary. They can answer a question, rewrite a clause, or summarize a document, but they still leave the workflow architecture to the lawyer. Harvey Agents is trying to move one level higher. Its public pitch is that agents can research, draft, and analyze, while the lawyer keeps final judgment. That distinction matters because legal teams are not just buying faster writing. They are buying relief from repetitive contract, diligence, research, and review loops that eat expensive professional time every week.
The strongest product signal is how Harvey structures the work. The three modes, ad hoc, pre-built, and custom, suggest a path from quick experiments to standardized internal practice. More than 500 ready-to-use agents reduces the time to first value, while custom agents let a firm or in-house team encode the way it already handles contracting, compliance, or review. That makes Harvey Agents feel less like a generic model wrapper and more like a legal workflow layer. The in-house page strengthens that impression with concrete jobs such as reviewing contracts against a preferred playbook, tracking obligations, analyzing regulations, and synthesizing public company filings.