No two in-house lawyers work the same way. Every lawyer has a different threshold for risk, a different working style, a different way of presenting to the board.

Most AI tools don't know which one you are. So every session, you re-explain yourself. Add more context. Try again. File that prompt away so you can use it next time. Next session, you start from scratch again.

The real cost is that it never gets better. Every session, you're back to square one.

What Implicit Memories does

Wordsmith's Implicit Memories changes that. It watches how you work across conversations, not what you say, but what you do. How you restructure outputs. What you always flag. What you consistently remove. Over time it builds a picture of how you think, and starts reflecting that back to you automatically. Not because you configured anything. Just because you kept working.

The more you use Wordsmith, the better it gets for you specifically. Over time it starts to feel less like a tool you operate and more like a colleague who already knows how you work.

In practice, it picks up on things like:

• You always reformat the output into a table before using it - Wordsmith starts doing that

• You always remove the preamble before sending anything - Wordsmith stops including it

• You always add a plain English summary at the top - Wordsmith starts including one automatically

• You consistently push back on unlimited liability clauses - Wordsmith starts flagging them proactively

You never had to say any of that explicitly. Wordsmith noticed.

The impact for in-house teams

For in-house legal teams specifically, this matters more than it might seem. Unlike law firms, which serve multiple clients and standardise their approach accordingly, in-house legal teams exist to serve one business. How they work, what they prioritise and what good looks like is shaped entirely by that one context, and that knowledge tends to live in the heads of the people doing the work, not in a manual.

Most tools ignore that. They're built for the average user, which means they're not quite right for anyone.

Wordsmith is built to fit the way you work. Not the other way around. Implicit Memories is a significant part of what makes that possible, a tool that gets better the more you use it, adapting to your judgment rather than asking you to adapt to it.

Two types of memory

Implicit Memories work across two axes. The first is personal: memories formed from your individual conversations with Wordsmith, capturing your preferences, working style and risk thresholds. The second is at a repository level: patterns formed across multiple users interacting with a specific repository, so Wordsmith understands how your team collectively works with a particular set of documents.

The second type matters because your contract repository isn't just storage; it's years of how your team has approached the same counterparties, the same clause types, the same risks. Wordsmith learns from that history, so the next time someone opens a contract with a supplier you've dealt with before, it already knows the context.

A note on privacy and control

Wordsmith learns gradually: picking up patterns that repeat across conversations, not one-off requests. You can view everything it has learned about you and delete it at any time. Nothing is shared across organisations. It only learns from your interactions, not your documents.

See it in action

Implicit Memories is live for all Wordsmith customers today. If you are not yet using Wordsmith, book a demo and we will show you how it works in the context of your team's workflows.

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