Introducing Genius Mode

Ask any partner what slows their practice down and they won't say the legal work. They'll say closing sets, billing summaries, board minutes, case chronologies. The operational assembly that sits between finishing the real work and actually delivering it to the client. Every firm has associates spending hours on it. No one has a good answer for it.

Genius Mode is our answer.

What Is Genius Mode? 

Genius Mode is a new capability within August’s Assistant that handles multi-step, multi-document tasks end to end. You describe what you need. August reads across your documents, selects the right tools, and delivers your time entries, your pitch materials, your closing set, or whatever the instruction calls for. 

The difference from what Assistant already does: Genius Mode chains together multiple actions in sequence. It doesn't just draft a single document or answer a single question. It reads a full set of inputs, decides what needs to be produced, and assembles everything, flagging open issues along the way. Every output traces back to your source documents, and every draft is marked for attorney review.

See It in Action 

In this demo, we give Genius Mode a calendar, a day's worth of emails, and meeting notes, and ask it to generate time entries for the day.

Once you toggle on Genius mode, August reads across all three sources, cross-references them, and delivers a formatted Excel spreadsheet with detailed narrative descriptions for each entry, ready to drop straight into your billing system.

No manual reconstruction. No end-of-day scramble. One instruction, and your time entries are done.

And that's the same capability at work whether you're assembling a closing set from a deal folder, putting together pitch materials from a BD call transcript, or drafting client updates on new regulatory changes. You give the instruction. Genius Mode reads your documents, chains the right steps together, and delivers first-pass work products across formats for your review. 

Built for How Your Already Work 

Genius Mode works where you already do. Your time entries land in Excel. Your pitch materials in PowerPoint. Your closing set in Word. Genius Mode delivers into the formats you already use.

For firms that compete on personalized client service, the last thing you need is another system to manage. That’s why August is built to fit into your existing workflow. The work shouldn’t have to fit around it.

Why This Matters

Until now, legal AI has mostly meant one thing: help with research, drafting, or document review. And while these are super important tasks, there’s significant work that continues to bog law firms down: closing binders, billing summaries, board minutes, checklist assembly from deal folders. These aren't legal tasks in the traditional sense, but they're essential to running a practice, and they're eating hours that should be billable.

No one's built for this category of work because it crosses too many boundaries: document assembly, data entry, project coordination. Genius Mode is purpose-built for exactly that.

Available Now

Open Assistant, switch to Genius Mode, and try it with the task that's been sitting on your list all week.

Not on August yet? Get started here.