Legal AI glossary

Agentic AI

AI that plans and carries out a sequence of steps, using tools, to reach a goal rather than answering in a single reply.

Last updated 28 October 2026

What Agentic AI means

An agentic AI system breaks a task into steps and takes them itself: it might search a law library, open a document, read a clause, compare it with a provision and draft a note, deciding what to do next from what it found.

The term describes how a system works, not how good it is. More steps mean more places a mistake can enter, so in legal work the useful question is whether you can see each step and check it.

In Consilena

Consilena’s agents search, read, draft, compare and verify, and every step is recorded in the work trace with its time and cost, so you can see what was done before relying on the result.

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What is Agentic AI?

AI that plans and carries out a sequence of steps, using tools, to reach a goal rather than answering in a single reply.

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