8am Launches AI Tools to Fix Legal Data Gaps

8am has launched two new AI capabilities for legal firms, turning unsearchable case documents into instant insights.

8am, the professional business platform for legal and accounting firms, introduced 8am IQ Discovery Assistant and an upgraded 8am IQ Case Assistant on June 9, 2026. The new tools bring image-to-text OCR and broader AI-powered case search directly into 8am MyCase, addressing the problem of fragmented and inaccessible legal data.

This launch matters because legal professionals currently spend more than 50 hours per month manually searching for and reviewing documents. AI tools built for legal workflows are already proving results, with 61 percent of legal professionals using AI reporting multiple hours saved per week.

The Core Problem

Legal work depends heavily on information, but that information is often scattered. Case details end up buried in messages, financial records, and scanned documents that standard search tools cannot read.

More than 35 percent of documents uploaded to MyCase are image-based files or scanned PDFs. Until now, this left a significant portion of case data invisible to both search functions and AI analysis.