Product updates
Add a Google Doc to a brief, and have it reviewed
Pick a doc once in Google’s own picker. A PDF copy goes into the brief, and the review notes you confirm go back into the doc as comments and suggested changes.
If you keep your submissions or a draft advice in Google Docs, you can now bring it into a brief without downloading it first. In a brief, open Add documents and choose From Google Docs, next to Add folder, then pick the doc once in Google’s own picker.
Barrister AI saves a PDF copy of the doc into the brief, stored like any document you upload, so you can use it in the brief like any other file. Adding it costs the same as uploading that PDF yourself. The copy is the doc as it is when you add it: later changes in Google Docs are not copied.
Have it reviewed in the same window
Once the doc is in, you can have it reviewed without picking it again. You see every note first, labelled by how serious it is, with some marked check this, and you tick the ones you want. Only those are added to your Google Doc, from your own Google account, as comments and suggested changes, each starting "[Barrister AI". Changes go in as suggestions, not direct edits, so you can accept or reject each one. Where a suggested change cannot be made safely, it is not made and the window tells you.
A review is charged like other AI work in Briefs, from your research credit, and the cost shows before you start. A review that fails or does not finish is not charged, and adding the notes to the doc is free. You need a plan with the Briefs tools and edit access to the doc.
What Barrister AI can see
Google asks you to allow access to the doc you pick, and only that doc: the permission does not reach the rest of your Google Drive. Barrister AI does not keep your Google sign-in after you close the window, and you can remove its access at any time in your Google Account’s third-party connections. The Google Docs section of our privacy policy sets out the detail.
Typing something like "review my Google Doc" in a brief’s question box brings up a card pointing you to the option, and in Research a short note sends you to Briefs. It is on the website now. The iPhone app and the Junior app are coming later.