Most software companies show you a feature on the day it is ready and never mention the four that did not make it. We would rather work the other way round.

Labs is where the unfinished things live. You can reach it from the sidebar, and anyone with an account can read what is in there, what it is meant to do, and how far along it is. You do not need a subscription to look.

Why it is open

We ask you to trust us with your drafts, your matters and your clients' documents. That trust is easier to give when you can see how we work, including the parts that are not going well.

There is a practical reason too. When we describe an idea early, advocates tell us it is wrong early, which is considerably cheaper for everyone than finding out after launch. Several things in Labs right now are shaped by exactly that kind of reply.

We are also not going to pretend the roadmap is a straight line. We try things. Some of them are better than what we expected and some are worse, and saying so as we go seems more useful to you than an announcement written after the fact.

What is in there

Judgment drafting, for the bench and for anyone who needs to see how a judgment is put together. Maya Chat, which is a conversation with your own documents rather than a form you fill in. AI steno, which is dictation that understands legal vocabulary instead of fighting it.

None of these are finished. Some of them will not be.

If you subscribe, this is partly yours

Reading Labs needs an account. Running an experiment needs a live subscription.

That split is not a paywall so much as an acknowledgement. Subscribers fund the work in Labs, so they get to use it first and their reaction carries the most weight when we decide what happens to it. We have changed direction on things in there because a handful of subscribing advocates told us the idea did not survive contact with how they actually practise. That is the relationship we want: you are closer to the work than we are, and we would rather be corrected by you early than be polite about it and ship the wrong thing.

The AI usage counts against your plan the same way everything else does, so an experiment costs you what a finished tool would. Nothing in Labs is metered differently to make it feel free.

How things leave

Three ways, and we will say which one.

Some graduate. They move out of Labs into the main product and become things you can rely on.

Some retire. We say what we tried, why it did not work, and take it down. MAYA lite retired last week and we wrote up why.

Some stay. Occasionally we build something that works and is still contentious, usually because the law around it is unsettled. Those live in Labs indefinitely, and we record what would have to change for the answer to change.

What this asks of you

Nothing, if you would rather ignore it. Labs is opt in by walking in, and nothing in there will ever change how the rest of your account behaves.

If you do go in and something is obviously wrong for how you practise, tell us. That is the whole reason it is not hidden.