Harvey launches Intake artifact to bring legal requests into Claude

Keeping Legal in the loop where business teams already ask questions

According to Harvey, many business teams already bring their questions to Claude, including legal ones. When those questions receive a general answer instead of reaching the legal team, Legal loses visibility and control over the advice the business relies on.

The Harvey Intake artifact is meant to close that gap. Harvey describes it as a ready-to-use artifact in Claude that legal teams can share with the business, giving employees a place to ask legal questions, submit requests and track responses. The Claude for Legal release adds a gallery of such artifacts that legal teams can adapt and share across the business.

How the Intake artifact works

The artifact connects to Harvey through Harvey's MCP server. When a business user submits a question or request, the handling depends on the type of query:

• Routine questions are answered using Legal's guidance, playbooks and prior work in Harvey.
• Requests that need legal judgment are routed to a lawyer in Harvey, and the response is returned to the requester in Claude.
• Every request is logged in Intake, where Legal can set assignment rules, track progress and triage incoming work.

Requesters can also check status and follow up on their requests without leaving Claude.

A contract example

Harvey gives an example from sales. When a prospect returns a marked-up contract, the account executive submits it through the Harvey Intake artifact in Claude. The assigned lawyer reviews the changes in Harvey and sends the revised contract back to the account executive in Claude.

Legal can manage the request and the review in one place, according to Harvey, while the account executive can track progress and get the contract back without switching tools or chasing updates. Harvey says this keeps the deal moving with Legal's oversight.

Matt Zerweck, Head of In-House Product at Harvey, said in the announcement: "Business teams are already bringing their questions to Claude. Harvey meets them where they work, giving Legal the ability to set the rules, see what's being asked, and step in to manage risk."

What it means for legal and business teams

For legal departments, the pitch is control without forcing employees to change tools. Business users get help in an environment they already use, and every request lands in one place for the legal team to manage through to resolution.

Harvey also says legal teams can connect to Harvey inside other Claude Artifacts, bringing in the context they already keep in Harvey with no manual uploads. The company says it will keep building with Anthropic to bring legal guidance into the tools business teams already use, with the aim of faster answers for the business and more time for lawyers on work that needs their judgment.