Release Notes
Thread Experience Update
Assistant now plans complex, multi-step requests before running them, checks in with you at key decision points, and lets you track multiple tasks in parallel.
What’s New
Harvey now lets you hand off complex, multi-step legal work and move on to other priorities. In Assistant, you can now describe the full objective of your task and Harvey takes it from there — presenting a multi-step plan, finding relevant materials, checking in with you at key decision points, and delivering a finished work product.
- Run multiple tasks in parallel. Start several workstreams at once and track each from the Active Threads Panel on the home screen.
- Review before work begins. For complex requests, ask Assistant for a structured plan (Plan Mode). You can approve, edit, or skip before it starts.
- Stay oriented while it works. A live Progress Tracker shows what the agent is doing now and what's coming up next.
- Get pulled in only when needed. If Harvey hits an ambiguous decision point, it will ask a clarifying question rather than guess.
- Get notified via email. You can select Notify Me to receive an email when the task is completed.
- Come back to finished work. Review outputs — including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files — and the sources behind them in the Context Panel when the task is complete.
Why it Matters
Complex requests, like reviewing a full data room or building a research deck, used to require staying in the thread and directing Assistant step by step. Now you can hand off the full task, check the plan before Assistant commits to an approach, and step away while it runs. This cuts down on rework from misaligned assumptions and lets you run several workstreams in parallel instead of one at a time.
How to Use
You can find more information and step-by-step guidance in our Working on Complex Tasks in Assistant article.