General-purpose AI
Build your own way.
ChatGPT and Claude
Flexible assistants and agents you configure across tools and tasks.
YOUR TEAM OWNS
The legal process, its configuration and ongoing maintenance.
Alaro vs ChatGPT and Claude
ChatGPT and Claude can draft, analyse and take actions across tools. Alaro focuses that kind of delegation on recurring legal work, with an agreed playbook and a team maintaining the workflow.
A platform to use. Or work to hand over.
Use ChatGPT or Claude when you want a flexible AI assistant or agent you can configure for many kinds of work. Consider Alaro when you want a recurring legal workflow scoped and maintained for you. The distinction is legal workflow ownership and supervision, rather than whether an AI can take actions or complete several steps.
Managed AI paralegal
Hand over the work.
Alaro
An agreed recurring legal workflow, maintained and run for you.
YOUR TEAM OWNS
The playbook, approvals and decisions that require your judgement.
Where the responsibility sits.
Compare the work you are buying—and what your team still needs to own.
| Decision | ChatGPT and Claude | Alaro |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | General-purpose assistants and agents for many types of work. | An AI paralegal focused on agreed recurring legal workflows. |
| Actions across tools | Supported through agents, connected apps or computer use, depending on product and plan. | Access and permitted actions are agreed for each workflow and system. |
| Legal standards | Your organisation supplies the legal context, instructions and review process. | Alaro scopes precedents, positions, approval rules and escalation points with you. |
| Ongoing operation | Decide who tests changes, maintains instructions and handles failures. | Alaro maintains the agreed workflow with lawyer supervision. |
| Human decisions | Set permissions and review requirements appropriate to the work. | Your team approves exceptions and retains legal and commercial judgement. |
| Cost comparison | Include subscriptions or usage plus configuration, maintenance and reviewer time. | Compare the scoped workflow price and the internal effort that remains. |
Follow the work. See what changes.
From the first message to the final record. Explore how Alaro handles an agreed workflow—and the decisions that stay with you.
TRY THIS IN YOUR DEMO
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Start with an incomplete company name and a counterparty draft. Finish with the right entity, approved terms, authorised signatures and an executed copy.
Your precedents. Your approved positions. Your approval rules. Alaro checks the work against them and asks before going outside them.
Ask in your demo: what happens when a clause falls outside our playbook?
Hand over the work in the channel you already use. Alaro gathers the context and missing information needed to get started.
Ask in your demo: who follows up when an input is missing?
Connect the systems needed for the agreed workflow, from documents and approvals to signature and filing.
Ask in your demo: which handoffs are included in our scope?
When you need specialist legal review, ask Alaro to coordinate it. Your team keeps the decisions reserved to it.
Ask in your demo: which exceptions come back to us, and what legal support is included?
See the outstanding actions and ask about unsigned or renewing documents. The useful endpoint is a complete record, with anything unresolved made clear.
Ask in your demo: can we see the next action and who owns it?
What do ChatGPT and Claude offer?
OpenAI describes workspace agents that can run recurring workflows, use connected tools and operate within admin-defined permissions and approval gates. Claude offers connectors and computer use for completing tasks across applications. Availability and controls vary by plan and configuration. Both products go beyond chat and drafting; the relevant buying question is how your legal process will be designed, tested and operated.
Product references: OpenAI workspace agents, ChatGPT Work, Claude computer use, Claude Cowork computer-use guidance.
When to choose each
Consider ChatGPT and Claude if
- You want one adaptable assistant across legal and other business work.
- Your team wants to experiment with prompts, reusable instructions and connected tools.
- You have an owner for legal workflow design, output review and ongoing maintenance.
Consider Alaro if
- Recurring legal work is consuming time in follow-ups, approvals and handoffs.
- You want your business to delegate through email, Slack, Teams or WhatsApp.
- You want Alaro to maintain the agreed workflow while your team handles judgement calls.
Can you use both?
You can keep using ChatGPT or Claude for brainstorming, first-pass analysis or other approved tasks while delegating a defined recurring workflow to Alaro. Agree which environment may receive confidential information and avoid uploading the same material to additional tools without a reason. If your existing agents already meet your requirements, compare the remaining maintenance and supervision burden before adding another service.
How should you compare pricing?
Ask for current proposals against the same volume and scope. Alaro prices agreed workflows by the type and amount of work, with no per-seat or per-token charges in its published pricing description. Confirm the proposal for your requirements. Read how Alaro pricing works.
Include implementation, integrations, internal review time, maintenance and any separately scoped legal support. Define what counts as completed work, what happens if volume changes and who handles exceptions.
What should you check before sharing legal work?
- Which data can the service access, where is it processed and how long is it retained?
- What are the rules for model training, subprocessors and deletion?
- Which actions need approval, and can access be limited to the intended matter?
- Who reviews exceptions, and what legal support is actually included in the agreement?
Use Alaro’s Trust Centre and each provider’s current security documentation during procurement. Confirm the arrangements for your organisation and jurisdiction; the presence of an AI agent does not itself settle those questions.
Frequently asked questions
Can ChatGPT and Claude do more than draft legal documents?
Yes. Their current products include agentic capabilities and connections to tools. Whether a specific workflow works depends on the product, permissions, integrations and configuration.
Why consider Alaro if we already use ChatGPT or Claude?
Consider Alaro if you want an agreed recurring legal workflow maintained and run for you. Evaluate the internal work remaining after automation, including process updates, follow-ups and exception handling.
Can we build our own legal agent instead?
Yes. Compare the effort of designing, testing and maintaining it with the scoped Alaro service. Assign an owner for legal standards, access permissions, monitoring and incident recovery.
Is a general AI subscription cheaper than Alaro?
The subscription alone is not a like-for-like comparison. Include implementation, ongoing maintenance, review time and the amount of completed work. Ask for current pricing for the plans and workflow you need.
Does using Alaro mean we stop reviewing legal decisions?
No. Alaro works within agreed rules and escalates exceptions. Your team keeps responsibility for the legal and commercial decisions reserved to it.
Product sources
For an example of delegated legal work in practice, read the Dominus case study. To evaluate your own workflow, book a demo.
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In practice
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