AI agent governance for legaltech.
Privilege, confidentiality, and the duty to supervise don't pause for automation. HiveKey scopes what an agent can reach across matters, blocks the actions it shouldn't take, and keeps a record you can stand behind.
You're putting an agent on document review, intake, or drafting — and the partners need to know client confidentiality and the duty of supervision still hold.
What an agent can reach here.
Privileged documents
Matter files and client communications an agent can read, summarize, or send.
Matter boundaries
Ethical walls between clients an agent must never cross.
Supervision
A record that shows a human stayed accountable for what the agent did.
A verdict on every action, before it runs.
Each call an agent makes gets decided in the path — allowed, blocked, or held for a human — and written to one trail.
docs_read → matter outside agent's scope block Crosses an ethical wall — blocked in the path.
summarize(assigned matter docs) allow In scope for this matter — allowed and logged.
mail_send → opposing counsel approve Outbound to an external party is held for a human.
One policy, applied to every agent.
Keep matters walled off
Scope each agent to the matters and clients it's assigned. Everything else is invisible — no accidental cross-matter access.
Hold the risky sends
Outbound email, filings, and external calls are gated — routed to a human before anything leaves.
A supervision record
Every action an agent took, attributable to the responsible person, on one trail you can produce.
The conversation we keep hearing.
Can the agent see another client's matter? We can't be sure.
If it emails the wrong party, that's a privilege problem.
We need to show a human supervised what the AI did.
Evidence for the audits you already face.
HiveKey produces the access, enforcement, and audit evidence these frameworks expect for AI agents. Not legal advice — a head start on the controls.
Put every agent your legal team runs under one policy.
See HiveKey scope, guard, and block a live action on your own agents — 30 minutes, no slides.