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Sandstone vs Legora: An Agentic Front Door, or an Operating System for In-House Legal?
Legora is a collaborative AI workspace — research, document and tabular review, and drafting over Microsoft 365 — and in October 2026 it launched Intake, a Slack front door where the Legora Agent picks up each request. Intake gets a request in the door. Sandstone is built around what happens next: deterministic workflows legal builds itself, institutional knowledge about every counterparty, and deep two-way integrations with the systems the business already works in, so every front door leads into the same process.
Sandstone vs Legora
| Capability | Sandstone |  |
|---|---|---|
| Primary focus | AI-native operating system for in-house legal work | Collaborative AI workspace for legal research, review, and drafting |
| Who it was built for | In-house legal departments serving a business | Law firms first, expanding toward in-house |
| Intake | Intake from every front door the business already uses, routed into a defined workflow with an owner: channel monitoring and private DMs in Slack and Microsoft Teams, email, and two-way sync with Coupa, Zip, Jira, Asana, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and existing CLMs | Intake (launched October 2026) in Slack via @mention, with the Legora Agent working each request; Teams, email, and MCP announced |
| Experience for the business | Status previews in Slack and Teams let requesters track progress without chasing legal, and repeat questions are answered from your playbooks in the channel they asked in | The agent asks for missing details in the Slack thread and prepares work for lawyer review |
| Workflows and approvals | Deterministic workflows legal builds itself without engineers, with an approval gate at each step, so the same request takes the same path every time | Open-ended agentic execution from Skills, configured with Legora's legal engineers |
| CLM replacement | Extends your CLM beyond contracts or replaces it: intake, workflow, approvals, signature, and repository in one system | Not a CLM; connects to your contract repository and signature tools |
| Playbooks and negotiation | Built from your contracts and precedent, carrying every concession and rejected position across negotiation turns, with accepted and rejected positions feeding back into the playbook | Configured positions with fallbacks, applied in a single review pass |
| Institutional knowledge | Knowledge captured across teams and tools — contracts, policies, decisions, and rules — plus a map of every counterparty and stakeholder and how those relationships change over time | Firm data and team Skills combined with public legal sources |
| Enterprise integrations | Deep integrations with Coupa, Zip, Ironclad, ServiceNow, Jira, Asana, Workday, and Salesforce: two-way sync, commenting back, filters, and metadata comparison | 30+ integrations, centered on documents, contract repositories, and signature |
| Governance and permissions | Permission-aware access mapped across every connected integration, with workspaces scoped to teams so workflows and knowledge reach only the right people | Platform and Microsoft 365 controls |
| Repository and system of record | Full repository and system of record with metadata extraction, contracts connected to matters, counterparties, and obligations | Workspaces that draw on your contract repository rather than replacing it |
| Reporting and insights | Customizable reports and insights: cycle time, risk exposure, capacity, and deviation rates across the function | Mostly usage analytics |
| Collaboration model | Legal works a request together, with comments and drafts staying behind the scenes until you choose to involve the business or a counterparty | Shared AI workspace where team members work in the same session |
| Acting back in source systems | Comments, @mentions, and record updates back in Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Coupa, Zip, Ironclad, and Salesforce under a shared team identity | Replies in the Slack thread; most work happens inside the Legora workspace |
| Scope of work covered | The whole in-house queue: commercial, employment, privacy, procurement, policy, disputes, and corporate | Strongest on contracts, research, and document review |
| Language and jurisdiction coverage | Multi-language, with EU and other regional data residency options | Multi-language, with European data residency options |
| Best fit for | Fortune 1000 and large enterprise in-house teams whose bottleneck is the volume and variety of inbound legal work, and who want to extend their CLM beyond contracts or replace it | Firms and large teams doing multi-jurisdictional research and document review |
Based on publicly available information as of October 2026, including Legora's Intake launch. Names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. If anything here is inaccurate or out of date, contact us and we'll update it.
“Sandstone is thinking steps ahead of the market.”
“The legal team of the future goes from a knowledge base to a judgement maker.”
“We're going from hours and days to minutes using Sandstone.”
“The dashboard in Sandstone gets me most excited in a way that no other legal tooling has.”
“Sandstone acts like an additional team member, handling the initial intake and routine redlining so I can focus on strategic decisions.”
“Sandstone didn't just automate our work; it gave our past data a voice in our future negotiations.”
“We aren't just working faster; we're finally able to manage our department with the strategic precision the business expects.”
“The biggest leap with Sandstone was its ability to orchestrate in one place all the context, all the input, all the sources.”
Frequently asked questions
Intake gets a request in the door. What matters is what happens next: whether the request follows your process every time, draws on what your team already knows about that counterparty, and syncs back into the system it came from. Sandstone was built around that loop — deterministic workflows your team builds and changes without engineers, an institutional knowledge layer, and two-way integrations with Slack, Teams, Coupa, Zip, Jira, Salesforce, and your CLM. In Legora, intake is the newest addition to a collaborative research and review workspace.
Yes, and the difference is what's being collaborated on. In Sandstone the unit is the request: legal works it together, with internal comments and drafts separable from what the requester sees, then brings in a business stakeholder or outside counsel deliberately. A shared AI workspace collaborates on the document or session in front of you. Both are useful; only one of them is organized around the request from the moment the business asks.
Sandstone works across languages, so multi-jurisdictional teams aren't limited to English. If data residency is a hard requirement for you, raise it early and we'll be specific about what we can commit to rather than answer it in the abstract.
Sandstone does basic research, grounded in your own playbooks, precedent, and prior decisions. It isn't built to replace Westlaw or Lexis, and teams with heavy case law and statutory research needs generally run a dedicated research platform alongside it.
Requests, context, and history live in Sandstone whether the work is done internally or sent out, so instructing outside counsel starts from the full record rather than a reconstruction. Replies come back into your systems under a shared team identity.
