Mitratech Buys BotDojo to Put AI Agents to Work in Legal Software

Mitratech said on September 28 that it has acquired AI startup BotDojo to bring task-handling agents into the software legal teams use to manage their work. The goal is to give those agents access to the records behind an assignment, while keeping their actions subject to permissions and human review where judgment matters.

From stored records to assigned work

Mitratech is adding BotDojo’s agent technology to ARIES AI, its existing AI initiative. It plans to place agents inside its legal systems of record: software that holds information about matters, spending, documents and past work. That gives an agent a proposed route to the details needed to complete a task, rather than asking a user to supply them in a blank chat window.

The company describes agents prepared for specific jobs, including sorting incoming requests, reviewing invoices, turning around contracts and reporting on matters. Agents are meant to pick up assignments from queues, schedules and triggers, with a human handoff where judgment matters. Mitratech says they would return their work with supporting context attached, giving a reviewer more than a bare answer.

A connection in both directions

Mitratech also plans two-way support for Model Context Protocol, or MCP, a way for AI tools to connect to outside software. One direction would let external assistants use permitted context from Mitratech’s matter, spending and document systems. The other would let Mitratech agents reach tools a legal team already uses. The company expects that two-way support to be live in fall 2026; it is not presenting the full connection as available today.

That distinction matters for a team already using another AI assistant: Mitratech’s plan would not require every request to begin inside Mitratech. It would, however, put the company’s permissions between an outside tool and legal records. Mitratech describes allow, deny and require-approval controls, along with access grants that expire. Those are the safeguards it says will govern what users, agents and connected tools can see and do.

What the acquisition does not settle

Mitratech says it has more than 50 pre-built connectors and relationships with more than 12,000 legal teams worldwide. Those figures describe its potential reach, not how many teams use BotDojo-powered agents. The company says conference attendees in October will see live MCP connections, integrations and agent workflows. That demonstration should make the proposed handoffs more concrete, but it will not by itself show how agents perform across customers’ legal work.

The announcement calls BotDojo an acquisition but gives no purchase price or closing date. For legal teams, the more immediate open question is how much work an agent can complete before a person needs to step in. Mitratech’s design explicitly provides for that handoff; its announcement does not measure how often one will be needed.