Purpose-built for litigators
OurFirm.aiLitigation only
ClioPractice management
Comparison
OurFirm.ai vs. Clio
OurFirm.ai is the litigation work engine, drafting, verifying, and building judge intelligence; Clio is the practice-management system that runs the firm around that work.
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Choose OurFirm.ai for the litigation work itself: court-ready drafting, citation verification, docket search, and judge behavioral profiles that a practice-management tool does not produce.
Choose Clio if
Clio may fit better as your firm's system of record for matters, billing, intake, and calendaring, and it pairs naturally with OurFirm.ai for the actual litigation work.
Updated August 2026
The full breakdown
OurFirm.ai vs. Clio, side by side.
| Capability | OurFirm.ai | Clio |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose-built for litigators | Litigation only | Practice management |
| Breadth beyond litigation (transactional, corporate) | Litigation scope only | Firm operations, all practice types |
| Underlying AI model | Multi-model + legal fine-tuning | Clio Duo assistant |
| Court-ready documents (not just drafts) | Court-ready output | Template document automation |
| Judge AI / predictive judicial modeling | Judge behavioral profiles | Not offered |
| Multi-agent execution | Multi-agent swarm | Not offered |
| Legal research quality | Nationwide caselaw + semantic search | vLex / Fastcase research |
| Semantic docket search (PACER + NYSCEF) | PACER + NYSCEF, direct pull | Not offered |
| Discovery & document review | Matrix document review | Not offered |
| Deposition & litigation support | Outlines + objection prep | Not offered |
| Citation verification (hallucination prevention) | Every cite verified | No cite-check pipeline |
| Enterprise-grade security architecture | Enterprise-grade security | Practice-grade security |
| No model training on client data (contractual) | Contractual no-train | Policy-based |
| Pricing / access model | Flat fee + usage · month-to-month | Per-user subscription tiers |
Breadth beyond litigation (transactional, corporate)
OurFirm.aiLitigation scope only
ClioFirm operations, all practice types
Underlying AI model
OurFirm.aiMulti-model + legal fine-tuning
ClioClio Duo assistant
Court-ready documents (not just drafts)
OurFirm.aiCourt-ready output
ClioTemplate document automation
Judge AI / predictive judicial modeling
OurFirm.aiJudge behavioral profiles
ClioNot offered
Multi-agent execution
OurFirm.aiMulti-agent swarm
ClioNot offered
Legal research quality
OurFirm.aiNationwide caselaw + semantic search
CliovLex / Fastcase research
Semantic docket search (PACER + NYSCEF)
OurFirm.aiPACER + NYSCEF, direct pull
ClioNot offered
Discovery & document review
OurFirm.aiMatrix document review
ClioNot offered
Deposition & litigation support
OurFirm.aiOutlines + objection prep
ClioNot offered
Citation verification (hallucination prevention)
OurFirm.aiEvery cite verified
ClioNo cite-check pipeline
Enterprise-grade security architecture
OurFirm.aiEnterprise-grade security
ClioPractice-grade security
No model training on client data (contractual)
OurFirm.aiContractual no-train
ClioPolicy-based
Pricing / access model
OurFirm.aiFlat fee + usage · month-to-month
ClioPer-user subscription tiers
Scoring reflects publicly documented, litigation-specific capabilities as of the date shown. Cells marked for review are OurFirm.ai's read of Clio's public materials, not statements from Clio. Clio is a practice-management platform, so capabilities that are about running a firm rather than producing litigation work product are scored against that different purpose, not treated as failures.
Where OurFirm.ai wins
What you get that Clio doesn't.
Court-ready drafting, not document automation
OurFirm.ai drafts motions, briefs, and discovery to a governing standard from your record. Clio's document tools populate templates and manage matters; they do not produce litigation work product argued to a court.
Citation verification before filing
Check My Cites confirms every authority is a real case, an accurate quote, and still good law before you file. Clio does not publish a citation-verification pipeline for litigation drafts.
Judge behavioral profiles
OurFirm.ai builds behavioral profiles on judges from opinions, transcripts, and docket entries. Clio publishes no equivalent judicial dataset.
Complementary, not competing
Clio runs the business of the firm; OurFirm.ai does the litigation work. Many firms keep Clio as their system of record and add OurFirm.ai for drafting, research, and verification.
Built by a litigator
Why litigators need their own AI
If you are weighing OurFirm.ai against Clio, the difference that matters most is who it was built for. OurFirm.ai produces work product ready for a judge and a filing deadline, not general legal text you have to reshape for the courtroom.
General legal AI platforms and general-purpose models are built for breadth: many practice areas, many use cases, one tool for everyone. Litigation is different. It runs on the record, the docket, the rules of a specific court, and the tendencies of a specific judge.
OurFirm.ai was built by a trial attorney to work the way litigators actually work. That experience is embedded directly into how the platform drafts, researches, and verifies, so the output reflects courtroom reality rather than generic legal text.
What is OurFirm.ai?
OurFirm.ai is an AI litigation platform for trial lawyers. It combines partner-level drafting, citation verification, discovery review, and judge intelligence in one workflow, grounded in your case file and the rules of your jurisdiction.
Andrew Mancilla
Founder & CEO
OurFirm.ai's founder and CEO, Andrew Mancilla, is a trial attorney with 15 years of experience across criminal, civil, and appellate litigation, admitted in New York, New Jersey, California, and federal courts.
He built OurFirm.ai to solve the problems he faced firsthand in the courtroom. That experience is embedded directly into the platform's drafting, research, and verification workflows.
Where Clio may fit better
We're not for every practice.
- Firms whose primary need is practice management: matter tracking, time and billing, intake, and calendaring across every practice type.
- Teams that want firm-wide legal research through Clio's vLex and Fastcase and do not need litigation-specific drafting, docket search, or judge intelligence.
Proof
Chosen over the alternatives
These are trial lawyers who evaluated the same general-purpose tools you are weighing now, and chose a platform built for the courtroom.
“This is the first tool that actually thinks like a litigator. Everything else just gives you a pile of cases and wishes you luck.”
Frank Ciardi
Law Office of Frank Ciardi
FAQ
Common questions.
How does OurFirm.ai compare to Clio?
They solve different problems. Clio is practice-management software for matters, billing, and intake, with the Clio Duo assistant and vLex and Fastcase research. OurFirm.ai is a litigation work engine that drafts court-ready documents, verifies citations, searches dockets, and builds judge behavioral profiles. Most firms use both.
Does Clio draft litigation documents or verify citations?
Based on Clio's public materials, it offers template-based document automation and legal research, not a litigation drafting engine or a citation-verification pipeline that confirms a cite is real, accurately quoted, and still good law. OurFirm.ai provides both.
Can I use OurFirm.ai alongside Clio?
Yes. Clio can remain your system of record for matters, billing, and intake while OurFirm.ai handles the litigation work: drafting, research, docket search, citation verification, and judge intelligence. OurFirm.ai is month-to-month, so you can add it without disrupting your Clio setup.
Security & compliance
Enterprise-grade security, without the enterprise overhead
Being purpose-built for client matters does not mean trading away security. OurFirm.ai runs the same controls the largest firms require, and client documents are never used to train AI models. That is a contractual commitment, not a setting you have to find and switch on.
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