NetDocuments CPO Dan Hauck on the Company’s Redesigned Platform, the Legal Context Graph, and Building an Agentic DMS

NetDocuments has rolled out a completely redesigned user experience, a new Microsoft 365 add-in replacing legacy desktop integrations, and real-time co-authoring, Chief Product Officer Dan Hauck said on the LawNext podcast recorded live at the company's Inspire conference in Orlando in October. Hauck detailed the legal context graph NetDocuments launched earlier this year, which continuously maps relationships among every matter, document, communication and person across a firm's repository and, he said, can dramatically reduce token consumption costs, alongside general availability of tabular review, new document generation and redlining in the NetDocuments assistant, interactive HTML reports, and a beta MCP connector with Legora that joins existing connectors to Claude, ChatGPT and Copilot. Hauck said customers can switch freely between the old and new experiences with no forced migration, and the M365 add-in lets lawyers work across Windows, Mac and mobile devices.

As NetDocuments https://www.netdocuments.com/ rolls out a completely redesigned user experience, a new Microsoft 365 integration, and real-time co-authoring, LawNext host Bob Ambrogi speaks with Chief Product Officer Dan Hauck https://www.linkedin.com/in/danhauck/ in an episode recorded live at the company’s Inspire conference in Orlando in October. Hauck, who last appeared on the show in 2022 https://www.lawnext.com/2022/11/lawnext-podcast-dan-hauck-chief-product-officer-at-netdocuments-on-the-companys-product-strategy-and-roadmap.html , explains how the company rethought its interface for an agent-ready world, why customers can switch freely between the old and new experiences with no forced migration, and how the new M365 add-in replaces legacy desktop integrations so lawyers can work across Windows, Mac and mobile devices. This is the second of three episodes we recorded at Inspire. Last week, we posted Bob’s interview with Josh Baxter https://www.lawnext.com/2026/10/lawnext-podcast-netdocs-ceo-josh-baxter-on-why-the-dms-is-becoming-the-law-firms-intelligence-layer.html , CEO of NetDocuments. Hauck also digs into the legal context graph, the proprietary knowledge infrastructure the company launched earlier this year that continuously maps the relationships among every matter, document, communication and person across a firm’s entire document repository. He explains how it works, how it helps agents perform better, and how it can dramatically reduce the cost of token consumption. He also walks through other NetDocuments’ announcements, including the general availability of tabular review, new document generation and redlining in the NetDocuments assistant, interactive HTML reports, and a beta MCP connector with Legora that joins existing connectors to Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and others. A former litigator who founded ThreadKM before NetDocuments acquired it, Hauck draws parallels between today’s AI shift and the early days of technology-assisted review in e-discovery, when lawyers first learned to pair human judgment with machine speed. He discusses why NetDocuments keeps investing in its own interface even as MCP lets users reach their documents from other AI platforms, how smaller and midsized firms can benefit from the context graph without dedicated knowledge management staff, and what an agentic DMS might look like in daily practice. Listen here: Watch here: Thank You To Our Sponsors This episode of LawNext is generously made possible by our sponsors. We appreciate their support and hope you will check them out. - Paradigm https://joinparadigm.com/ , home to the practice management platforms PracticePanther https://www.practicepanther.com/ , Bill4Time https://www.bill4time.com/ , MerusCase https://meruscase.com/ and LollyLaw https://www.lollylaw.com/ ; the e-payments platform Headnote https://headnote.com/ ; and the legal accounting software TrustBooks https://trustbooks.com/ . - Briefpoint https://rebrand.ly/briefpoint-lawnext-podcast , eliminating routine discovery response and request drafting tasks so you can focus on drafting what matters or just make it home for dinner . - Ajax https://rebrand.ly/AJAX-LNP , the AI timekeeper lawyers want to use. If you enjoy listening to LawNext, please leave us a review wherever you listen to podcasts.