No goals page was written this sprint: the cycle opened with Sprint 5's extension to the "Hacking Law Firm" demo on Fri 29 May; the rest was a release-readiness push — polish, bug bashing — and the deepest planning corpus of any sprint yet.
Sprint 6 ran in three acts: the Sprint 5 demo tail landed in the first 48 hours and the demo ran Friday 29 May; the bulk of the cycle was a release-readiness push — email-draft integrity, a canvas & docking rework, citation-highlight recovery, forms quality, a rebuilt matter overview; and throughout, the squad produced 15+ planning artifacts covering Forms 2.0, legal-data partnerships, matter memory, testing & load capacity, and the Lawrence 2.0 infrastructure roadmap.
Engineering delivery: 37 issues / 69 pts landed by Linear status — ~41 issues / ~77 pts once validated against git — inside the sustainable 70–100 pt band, with two days of demo crunch and a deliberate tilt toward planning. Demo/hackathon/spike content tickets are excluded from these totals (see Sprint health).
The polish has a destination: releasing Lawrence 2 as the default chat experience for every user on v3. It currently sits behind a feature flag — not all lawyers have access yet, and the legacy chat experience is still live alongside it. This sprint's email, canvas, citations and forms work is what stands between the flag and the flip.
🎬 The Hacking Law Firm demo (Fri 29 May) went well. For how it landed and what happens next with the firm, get in touch with Sedona.
Agent form-editing end-to-end, forms-in-canvas, fill-form cards and citation fixes landed on the wire; the demo ran Friday 29 May.
Email-draft integrity fixed at the root, canvas & docking Phases 1–3, citation-highlight recovery, forms quality, matter overview rebuilt.
15+ artifacts: Forms 2.0, OpenLaws & legal data, matter memory, testing strategy, load & capacity, compliant evals, the Lawrence 2.0 roadmap.
14 content tickets (66 pts) — the LCO spike family, hackathon QA and demo personas — are excluded from the totals below: real, finished work, but research/content output that would inflate the engineering velocity read. It appears on the drawing board instead. That leaves 83 issues / 121 pointed pts in scope.
Burndown note: Linear's completed-scope line jumped 53 → 132 over the final two days — mostly a retroactive ticket-housekeeping wave, not a deploy crunch. Hygiene: the canvas docking stack (LEX-478/424/477/480, 8 pts) hit trunk 9 Jun via the Graphite merge queue but the tickets still read In Review — hence the 69 vs ~77 gap. 17 deployed issues carry no estimate, so landed points understate landed work; 49 of 97 issues were unpointed overall.
Two-week cycle. The Hacking Law Firm demo ran Fri May 29, two days in; the cycle then shifted to release polish and planning, with the canvas docking stack landing Jun 9, the evening before close.
The form-fill backbone from Sprint 5 got its last pieces in the final 48 hours before the demo:
The through-line: getting Lawrence 2 ready to be switched on as the default chat for all v3 users.
Jaime rebuilt the matter surface around Lawrence: the matter overview card, a new matter pill, a Lawrence summary card on the overview, de-sprung panel/sidebar animations, consistent shell padding and gutters, and flag-gated pinning infrastructure. Untracked under LEX, but it reshaped the context every other polish item sits in.
The empty-email-draft family of bugs fixed at the root rather than patched.
Files, PDFs and content drafts open in the canvas, with Lawrence docking instead of floating over fullscreen.
The demo's citation backbone hardened for everyday use.
Accuracy and admin tooling caught up with the demo push.
Search across threads shipped; the Lawrence bar got its rough edges filed off.
Adjacent ship worth a line: Personalise Lawrence (AI Capabilities) — flag-gated personalisation settings UI landed on v3.
What "thinking through next stages" actually produced — 15+ artifacts in 14 days. Each links to the Notion source.
| Theme | Artifacts |
|---|---|
| Forms next act | Forms 2.0 Proposal · Phase 1 — Rich Form Ingestion design · Phase 3 — Agentic Filling (Interface B) (all 29 May) · Options for Completing: Forms and Skills (3 Jun — capacity & review strategy) |
| Legal data | OpenLaws Integration brainstorm + Vendor Brief (29 May) · Free Law Project Data Services Agreement redline (LEX-416, in review) · US/UK legal data tools in build (LEX-511/512) · CourtListener partnership (LEX-386) |
| Memory & personalisation | Matter Memory draft PRD + M2 Tech Plan + memory-candidate detection research plan (8–9 Jun) |
| Quality & scale readiness | Lawrence Testing Strategy (1 Jun) · Load Test & Capacity Plan for Broad Rollout (6 Jun) · Compliant Evals PRD (29 May) |
| Product & platform direction | Lawrence 2.0 — Next Steps and Strategies (9 Jun): proactivity (triggers + background execution), durable streams, agentic form filling, Global/Anywhere Lawrence, agent-API generalisation, framework/chat-agent untangling · Proactive End-to-End Work Delivery proposal · Lawrence Design Principles (7 Jun) |
| Closed planning tickets | Matter-level threads FE + BE tech plans (LEX-338/339) · context-window management research spike (LEX-341) · confidence calibration v0 (LEX-450) · LCO generation spike family (plan → notebook → report shipped; PRD in progress) · Structured Vision Doc in review (LEX-259) |
Untracked-by-design personal work, surfaced for visibility — no retroactive tickets.
Matter-tab performance (data caching, parallelised fetches, hover prefetch in review) · ingestion hardening (8 PRs: CVE bumps, retry-loop fixes) · v3 mailroom auto-deploy · the org-wide agentic coding knowledge base project · deployment-staleness alerts and plugin/infra work.
| Area | What | Ref |
|---|---|---|
| Autosave dirty baseline fixed at the root — no more phantom drafts or empty-body sends; recipients persist | LEX-468 | |
| Draft body survives close/reopen from a previous thread | LEX-458 | |
| Canvas | Canvas misbehaving when tabbing between floating threads; form modal close-button overlap | LEX-423 · #11058 |
| Citations | Missed PDF highlights recovered (gapped text anchors); tabular citation highlights | #10799 · #10923 |
| Forms | Checkbox-group label mis-binding when AcroForm order differs from visual order | LEX-466 |
| Forms | Multi-upload no longer shows stale PDFs | #10895 |
| Bar | Tooltip reappearing after minimise; font-change behaviour | LEX-425 · LEX-453 |
| Chat | Backslash formatting in chat; web-search results stripped of control characters | #10579 · agents #628 |
Cycle 7 runs Jun 11–24. The likely shape, from the planning corpus: Lawrence 2 default rollout readiness (load test, capacity, legacy-chat deprecation path), forms-processing service + Forms 2.0 phases, OpenLaws / legal data tools, matter memory M1, the proactivity & infrastructure roadmap from Next Steps and Strategies, and the Georgia Divorce demo storyline.