AI & MCP Integrations
Your knowledge. Securely extended to external AI.
Securely connect NetDocuments to external AI through Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard. Your content stays in place, and your permissions and ethical walls apply to every request.
Works with the tools legal teams already use
+ more coming
What is MCP
MCP connects external AI to your knowledge and work.
Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets external AI tools connect to the systems where your work lives. Think of it as a universal adapter: external AI tools that support MCP connect to NetDocuments the same way, through one secure door.
Start a question or task
Research, summarize, draft, or compare in the AI tool you already use.
The AI tool reaches NetDocuments
It connects through MCP using your NetDocuments sign in, not a shared account.
Your rules are checked first
Permissions, ethical walls, and data loss prevention (DLP) rules are applied before anything comes back.
Better work, grounded in yours
Answers and drafts pull securely from your institutional knowledge and past work, so what you get back is more accurate and more useful.
Use your documents inside external AI tools
No downloads, workarounds, or jumping between windows.
Save AI work to the right place
Output lands in the correct matter with full metadata, searchable from day one.
Security goes where your documents go
The same rules you set in NetDocuments apply in each connected tool. Nothing extra to manage.
Spend time on the legal work
Let AI handle the digging and busywork, with your organization’s knowledge behind it.
Why NetDocuments
The door is open to the AI ecosystem. What powers it is the difference.
MCP works the same everywhere. The context behind it doesn’t. When an external AI tool connects to NetDocuments, it doesn’t just get a pile of search results. It gets your organization’s knowledge, already organized and understood.
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AI tools at the surface
Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot agents, and a growing ecosystem connect through MCP, a single, governed channel to your content.
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NetDocuments-native apps on the same foundation
The NetDocuments Assistant, M365 surfaces, and no-code workflows sit on the same governed layer. Consistent rules, no special treatment.
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The Legal Context Graph powers every connection
A proprietary knowledge infrastructure that maps relationships across every matter, document, communication, and person, so AI answers with real institutional knowledge, not generic training data.
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Your data stays yours
Your proprietary documents and data are the foundation. Every AI connection is scoped to the authenticated user. Nothing leaves without your rules allowing it.
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Context, not just search results
The industry’s first Legal Context Graph gives AI the background a colleague would have: which matter a document belongs to, what came before it, and who worked on it.
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Security that lives with the documents
Your permissions, ethical walls, and DLP are enforced where the documents live, not rebuilt inside each AI tool. No second security model to maintain.
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Built once, used across your AI tools
Context isn’t rebuilt for each vendor. Each tool you connect draws on the same foundation, so every new connection makes your investment worth more.
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Your choice of AI, now and later
Run AI built for legal work, frontier models, or both. As our partner list grows, you can add tools without starting over.
The Legal Context Engineering Benchmark
We measured what better context is actually worth.
We kept the AI model the same and changed only the context it could reach. With the Legal Context Graph, correct answers cost far less, and accuracy held steady or got better.
48%
lower cost per correct answer
$940K
saved per year for a 2,000 person firm
3.5x
cheaper than a model upgrade for similar accuracy gains
+7.3%
more accurate while still spending 18% less
Two Integration Tiers
Choose the integration that fits your workflow.
ndConnect gives third-party AI tools secure access to NetDocuments content. Whether users select documents manually or let an AI agent retrieve them autonomously, data stays governed and protected.
All Customers
ndConnect
The standard integration path for all NetDocuments customers. Users log in, select the documents they want to share, and load them directly into any authorized partner application, with full security and governance intact.
All ND Customers
User-driven
Document Picker
ndmax enterprise
ndConnect Enterprise
The advanced tier for ndMAX Enterprise customers, powered by MCP. AI agents autonomously search and retrieve documents from NetDocuments on behalf of authenticated users, enabling deep research, precedent lookup, and intelligent document workflows at scale.
ndMAX Enterprise
Agent-driven
Powered by MCP
Building AI for legal teams?
“Our intelligent DMS is built to power the next generation of legal work. ndConnect extends our unique document and AI capabilities to third-party AI vendors, while keeping the full protection, findability, and productivity of their foundational platform.”
Dan Hauck
Chief Product Officer, NetDocuments
ndConnect Enterprise
Agent-ready. Powered by MCP.
With ndConnect Enterprise, AI agents connect directly to your NetDocuments repository through the Model Context Protocol — an open standard for agent-to-data connectivity. No custom integration code. No data leaving your governance perimeter.
Agent-driven document retrieval
Claude, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot Studio agents, and a growing ecosystem connect through MCP — a single, governed channel to your content.
Security-first access controls
User-scoped permissions and AI DLP rules enforced at every call with no configuration required.
Seamless connectivity to any MCP-compatible agent
Plug into Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot Studio, or whatever comes next through one governed standard.
Available on
Claude (via MCP)
ChatGPT (via MCP)
Perplexity (via MCP)
Copilot Studio (via MCP)
More AI platforms coming soon.
“Our intelligent DMS is built to power the next generation of legal work. ndConnect extends our unique document and AI capabilities to third-party AI vendors, while keeping the full protection, findability, and productivity of their foundational platform.”
Dan Hauck
Chief Product Officer, NetDocuments
See MCP working on your own documents
Talk to our team about securely extending NetDocuments to the external AI tools your teams use, and see how much better the answers get with real context behind them.
For technology partners
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MCP questions, answered
Still have questions? Talk to our team.
Through MCP, AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot can search NetDocuments, retrieve documents on demand, and ground their responses in real organizational content. That turns AI from a generalist assistant into something that reasons over the organization’s own matters, precedents, agreements, and institutional knowledge. Summaries reference the right document. Research pulls from the organization’s history. Drafting starts from real examples. The model becomes useful in a way that generic training data alone can’t match.
Documents stay in NetDocuments. When the AI tool needs context, the MCP server delivers the relevant content as text to that tool, scoped to the authenticated user. Nothing is bulk transferred, replicated, or stored in an outside AI data store by NetDocuments. What the AI vendor does with that content after delivery is governed by your organization’s enterprise agreement with that vendor, which is why MCP access is currently limited to Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot, platforms with enterprise grade data handling commitments.
Administrators do. MCP is opt in at the organization level through Security Center, and access is gated by organization controlled authentication on every call. Existing NetDocuments permissions, ethical walls, and DLP rules apply uniformly to every MCP connection, so the organization’s governance model travels with the content automatically without a parallel security model to maintain. Approved MCP partners today are Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot with more coming soon.
Once an administrator enables MCP through Security Center, users sign into Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot and authenticate through their NetDocuments credentials. From there, the AI tool can read the documents and content the user already has access to, no different than the user opening those documents directly. There’s no separate workflow to learn, no data migration step, and no second set of permissions to manage.
That’s the design intent. MCP is an open standard built specifically for connecting AI to enterprise systems. Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot are the MCP compatible platforms approved for NetDocuments today, and the list will grow as additional AI vendors adopt MCP and complete partner review. As workflows shift toward more autonomous agents, organizations can adopt new tools through the same governed connection rather than rebuilding the integration layer each time.