A receipt for outgoings and an advice about an outgoings cap share almost no words, but they belong to the same matter. Search that only looks at wording misses that. We match documents on matter number, client, parties and dates first, and on wording second. Here is what that involves, in plain terms.
Your lawyers do not change how they save files. The linking happens afterwards, automatically, and a paralegal or admin spends a few minutes a week on the exceptions. If a file has not been linked yet, the search says so rather than guessing.
For IT staff: the system runs in Azure Australia East or AWS Sydney inside the client's own subscription, uses the Microsoft Graph and practice management APIs read-only, stores document metadata and search indexes in a standard database, and calls hosted models under enterprise agreements with training and retention disabled. Happy to walk through the architecture on a call.