Welcome to Onit's November 2025 Release Overview Announcement. This document provides a summary of our quarterly release, highlighting new products and features.
For technical release notes (including bug fixes and minor enhancements), click the link under each product.
NOTE: Product distribution and feature release plans may shift during the release period; please check in often for news and updates. Full Technical Release Notes may not be available until the week of the release.
Release Overview
Onit's November 2025 release includes:
Ask Unity is an AI-powered data exploration tool designed to revolutionize how legal operations teams interact with their legal data. Unlike traditional dashboards or static reports, Ask Unity allows users to ask questions in plain English and receive intelligent, data-driven responses in real-time. The tool supports a variety of use cases, from quick ad hoc queries to more complex financial analysis.
What sets Ask Unity apart is its ability to not only answer questions but also generate AI-powered visualizations—including pie charts, bar charts, line graphs, and more—that can be downloaded and embedded into executive presentations.
Features include:
- Faster Insights: Ask a question, get a real-time answer—instantly.
- Self-Service for All: Democratizes data access across legal, finance, and leadership roles.
- AI-Powered Visuals: Generate charts and graphs on the fly, ready to drop into presentation decks.
- Decision-Making at Speed: Drive smarter, more strategic actions with less effort.
- Natural Language Querying: Ask questions in plain English.
- Downloadable Results: Exports for presentations and audits.
- Future Expansion: Initial release supports spend data queries. Upcoming enhancements will enable Ask Unity to handle matter data and more.
Note: The current beta release of Ask Unity focuses on spend data only. Future iterations will expand the assistant's capabilities to support matter data and other legal operations datasets within Unity.
Full Ask Unity release notes coming soon.
SimpleLSR provides legal teams with a lightweight, reliable intake-and-triage solution that captures structured requests, streamlines assignment, and surfaces status/aging.
Offers out‑of‑the‑box (OOTB) standardized intake for common legal requests (NDA, contract review/generation/change, vendor privacy, marketing/comms review, policy questions, general legal questions, signatory/authority).
Features include:
- Consistent request capture via standard forms for common request types.
- Fast triage & assignment with an Admin dashboard and simple queue management.
- Execution visibility for legal (what’s on my plate, due dates, priorities).
- Requester transparency (business portal for submission history & status).
- In‑record collaboration (activity feed with comments).
- Add participants (legal can add coworkers for visibility/input).
Full SimpleLSR release notes coming soon.
Unity e-Billing will help corporate legal departments control and manage their legal spending effectively and efficiently, offering tools for matter budgeting, accrual capture, vendor performance comparison, and fee arrangement management.
Unity e-Billing will support migration from SimpleLegal and provide an out-of-the-box, configurable solution, streamlining legal operations, reducing costs, and enhancing reporting to provide immediate organizational value.
Initial Features include:
- Default permissions for the system
- Budgets
- Accruals
- Documents and attachments for file storage
- Reporting
Full Unity e-Billing release notes coming soon.
Client Self-Service Vendor Onboarding
Vendor onboarding can be inconsistent and time-consuming across clients, leading to inefficiencies and potential issues; the Client Self Service Vendor Onboarding feature introduces a standardized, client-initiated workflow within the Vendor App for beginning the process of onboarding outside counsel vendors.
By enabling clients to kick off vendor onboarding directly, this feature ensures consistency across organizations, reduces administrative friction, and improves the vendor data quality from the start.
Clients will access the onboarding workflow in the existing Vendor App, enter required information about the outside counsel vendor, and trigger internal Onit workflows for provisioning.
Features include:
- Client-Initiated Onboarding Workflow
- Clients access a guided onboarding form within the Vendor App within their existing OnitX ELM product.
- Pertinent vendor details are collected including address details, contact information, tax ID, and spend data.
- Standardized Vendor Request Intake form, ensures uniform information capture across all clients.
- Reduces back-and-forth communication and data gaps.
- Submissions from clients are automatically routed into a standardized onboarding workflow.
- Clients access to real-time updates on their request status (e.g., Vendor Setup Requested, In Process, Active); reducing the need for follow-up emails or support inquiries.
- Audit & Reporting
- Full activity tracking for all vendor onboarding submissions.
- Exportable logs for compliance and operational insights.
Full BillingPoint release notes coming soon.
This release enhances Spend Agent with clearer AI summaries, budget and accrual awareness, bulk billing guideline updates, and a dedicated dashboard for cost savings metrics.
It reduces invoice cycle time, improves dispute transparency for outside counsel, and gives in-house legal teams better controls with clear vendor-level modes (Auto, Sentry, Off) and auditability.
Full Spend Agent release notes coming soon.
Rate Card
Legal Departments routinely negotiate rates at the timekeeper (TK) classification level (e.g., Partner, Associate, Paralegal). However, during rate review they must compare negotiated classification rates to each individual timekeeper submitted by a vendor. This manual comparison is a significant bottleneck and a consistent pain point for legal departments.
The Timekeeper Rate Cards feature introduces the ability for vendors to submit standardized rate cards to be used in automatic comparison and approval of individual timekeeper rates. Rate cards reduce the repetitive work of reviewing each timekeeper individually, while still leveraging the Timekeeper Rate Review process.
This feature improves efficiency, ensures greater consistency in approved rates, and provides flexibility to support exception scenarios when necessary.
Full OnitX ELM release notes coming soon.
Duplicate Invoice & Line Item Checks
Duplicate invoices and line items that go missed result in overpayments and compliance issues. To simplify invoice review and improve vendor accountability, SimpleLegal will run validation checks at the invoice and line item level against historical data to flag potential duplications based on matching criteria, such as invoice amount/currency, worked dates, and timekeeper name, to enable reviewers to take quicker action.
Accruals on Matter
To give users better insight into expected spend for a specific matters, accruals will be displayed on the matter details page instead of solely being grouped by vendor, which can be less useful when a vendor is working across multiple matters.
Full SimpleLegal release notes coming soon.
Deletion and Disablement of staff users in eBilling.Space
Previously, eBilling.Space offered only minimal self-service features when it comes to user management. Now, staff users can be disabled and then cannot login anymore. They can also be deleted if there is no activity data or blocked if activity data is present.
Full BusyLamp eBilling.Space release notes coming soon.
Tag Template Automation
Applying tags to uploaded documents can be time-consuming for contract administrators. To streamline the process, they will be able to associate templates with predefined sets of tags to specific folders in the repository so that they are automatically applied to uploaded documents and extract the relevant data. The templates can be tailored to specific document types or other business needs.
Reprocessing Tags
To minimize manual rework and simplify the tagging workflow, users can now initiate AI tag reprocessing on documents without having to re-upload the files. This is helpful in cases when auto-tagging previously failed or when auto-tagging on a document needs to be refreshed. The reprocessing action can be applied to individual documents or to entire folders.
Extract AI Tags
As part of the migration to enhanced AI, ContractWorks is moving existing customers to the self-service tag modal solution and updating the list of Extract AI tags.
Full ContractWorks release notes coming soon.
Redlining
OnitX CLMs ReviewAI playbook leverages prompt-based generative AI to automatically review and redline contracts, accelerating negotiations while reducing manual effort.
Full OnitX CLM/ReviewAI release notes coming soon.
Ability to reindex an app without losing the current index.
By creating a temporary index while the app is being reindexed, users can continue searching data while the new index is being created.
Authentication Formlets Update
Bug Fix: Show-If formlets break on create_launch_url when "Authentication Required" is used.
Full Apptitude release notes coming soon.