
Josef
AI-powered platform that enables legal and compliance teams to automate contracts, streamline workflows, and deliver instant answers to policy and regulatory questions.
- Pricing
- Enterprise contract
- Built for
- In-house legal teams
- Funding
- Seed
- Team size
- 51-200
- Founded
- 2017
- Industry
- Software Development
Use cases
Contract draftingClient intake / triageKnowledge managementCompliance monitoringDocument summarization
Practice areas
Corporate / M&AEmployment / laborPrivacy & data protectionRegulatory
Company
Josef (joseflegal.com) is a company that provides an AI-powered platform designed for legal and compliance teams. The platform enables users to automate contracts, streamline intake workflows, and answer legal and compliance questions on demand using AI. Josef offers tools that allow anyone in an organization to create self-service digital legal tools, such as Q&A bots and document automation solutions.
Josef does offer AI products, notably "Josef Q," an AI-powered tool that turns policies and regulations into digital Q&A tools. This product helps businesses answer frequently asked questions quickly and accurately in accessible language. The primary target audience for Josef's AI products includes legal and compliance teams within organizations, as well as legal professionals seeking to automate and scale their services.
Use cases in depth
Josef offers a legal automation platform with the following main features and functions:
1. AI Q&A (Josef Q): Converts legal policies and playbooks into easy-to-use, on-demand Q&A tools, allowing business users to get answers quickly without repeatedly asking legal teams.
2. Contract Automation: Automates the drafting of high-volume contracts (e.g., NDAs, MSAs) using a rich document editor, enabling teams like Sales to generate documents independently.
3. Workflow Automation: Transforms legal processes such as intake, approvals, and triage with a no-code workflow designer, integrating with existing business technology.
4. Integrations: Connects with tools like SharePoint, Slack, and Teams for seamless workflow across business platforms.
5. Security: SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant, ensuring data protection.
6. Use Cases: Supports legal intake & triage, contract/document automation, policy Q&A, and workflow/process automation for various departments (Sales, Marketing, HR, Legal, Procurement, Information Security).
7. Customer Segments: Serves in-house legal teams, large and small law firms, legal aid organizations, and universities.
8. Support & Resources: Offers training, onboarding, support, case studies, guides, and eBooks.
These features help legal and compliance teams automate repetitive tasks, scale support, and improve efficiency across organizations.
Practice area fit
Josef Legal primarily supports the following legal practice areas: Corporate (including in-house legal teams), Employment/labor (HR), Privacy & data protection, Regulatory/compliance, and Contract management. The platform is used by in-house legal teams, law firms (large and small), legal aid organizations, and universities, with a focus on automating high-volume, repeatable legal tasks.
Key features and functions of Josef Legal:
- AI Q&A: Automates responses to common legal and compliance questions using company policies and playbooks.
- Contract automation: Enables automated drafting of contracts (e.g., NDAs, MSAs) with a document editor, allowing business teams to self-serve.
- Workflow automation: Transforms legal intake, approvals, and other processes with a no-code workflow designer.
- Integrations: Connects with tools like SharePoint, Slack, and Teams.
- Security: SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.
- Use cases: Supports sales (contract drafting), marketing (compliance Q&A), HR (employment contracts, onboarding), procurement (vendor onboarding, contract approvals), legal (policy Q&A, intake forms), and information security (policy updates, incident response).
- No-code platform: Allows legal teams to build and deploy tools without coding skills.
- Training, onboarding, and support are provided for users.
Security & compliance
Josef (joseflegal.com) is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant. There is no mention of ISO 27001, HIPAA, or CCPA compliance on their website.
Data handling
Josef explicitly states the following about data handling:
- Data is encrypted at rest (AES-256) and in transit (TLS 1.3). Josef controls server-side encryption keys and audits access.
- Data residency options are available in the US, Europe, UK, and Australia.
- Josef is SOC 2 Type II certified and GDPR compliant.
- Personal information is retained only as long as there is a legitimate business need; when no longer needed, it is securely deleted or anonymized.
- Information is stored on cloud-based servers, and Josef enters into data processing agreements with vendors.
- There is no explicit mention of "No data retention," "Client data not used for training," "On-prem deployment," "Private cloud," or "Customer-managed encryption keys" on the main, security, or privacy policy pages.
- Josef does not sell or trade personal information and only discloses it to third parties as required for service delivery or by law.
For more details, see Josef’s Security and Privacy Policy pages.