The power of LLMs with the authority of Brightflag’s ELM: The Latest AI innovation

When ChatGPT launched three years ago, it changed everything. Overnight, people had entirely new expectations of what technology could do and how naturally they could interact with it.

Brightflag responded quickly. We launched Ask Brightflag, bringing natural language queries to legal spend management and freeing legal teams from the constraints of traditional reporting. It was a meaningful step forward.

A lot has changed since then. The pace of AI innovation has never been faster, and with it, expectations have shifted. Legal teams aren’t just open to AI, they’re choosing it first. At Brightflag, we’re embracing that shift.

Today, we’re announcing the next generation of Ask Brightflag. This new iteration combines the power of large language models with the authoritative data that lives inside Brightflag: your system of record for matters, vendors, and spend. And we’re starting where we believe it will have the greatest impact, within invoice review.

What’s new

Ask Brightflag is now available directly within the invoice review workflow. Instead of navigating away to get context, you can open a query window from inside the invoice and ask questions against the live data in your Brightflag system of record.

Questions like:

• “Give me a summary of this invoice.”
• “What’s the biggest driver of spend, and how is it resourced?”
• “How does this invoice compare to others on the same matter?”
• “Are there billing guideline violations I should be addressing?”

Answers come back in context, immediately, without leaving the page.

From there, Ask Brightflag can draft a message to outside counsel based on what it found. You refine it, you send it. The distance between spotting an issue and acting on it gets a lot shorter.

See it in action

The best way to understand what this looks like in practice is to watch it. The demo below walks through Ask Brightflag inside the invoice review workflow.

Why did we start with invoice review?

Invoice review is one of the most common workflows across in-house legal departments. It’s also where billing guideline violations surface, where resourcing patterns become visible, and where early intervention has the clearest financial impact.

It’s the right place to start because the data already exists. Brightflag has been classifying and structuring invoice data, every line item, every matter, every vendor, for over a decade. Ask Brightflag draws on that governed data to produce answers that are specific to your matters, vendors, and spend.

That distinction matters. An AI workspace sitting on top of unstructured or poorly governed data produces unreliable answers. What makes this useful is the system of record underneath it.

Want to see it in practice?

Brightflag is running a live prompting session — an actual demonstration of how to use Ask Brightflag to surface insights into matters, vendors, and spend. Register here.