Lawrence Experience · Cycle 9 · 9–22 July 2026

Sprint 9

Editor 1.0, Templates & Durable Agents

Numbers locked at midnight, Tue 21 Jul
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Welcome, Dave

Dave Aitken joins Lawrence Experience this sprint

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Sprint goals

Agent Platform (M4 + M3), document editor hardening, forms into the template library, Tasks M2 and Automations scoping

93 points landed

Landed points by sprint

~77
S6
~76
S7
102
S8
93
S9

Sustainable band is 70 to 100. S8 includes Sprint 7's merge wave; S9 locked at midnight Tue.

26
issues in Prod
32
issues in Dev
91
pts one merge away
280 210 140 70 0 Jul 9 Jul 21 git-validated 93 committed scope completed

Linear's completed snapshot lags trunk. Landed is validated against develop/main.

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Quarter context

Where this lands on the Q3 roadmap

Table Stakes

Better Doc Editor Agentic Forms Better Precedent Library Agentic Tasks / Key Dates Global Lawrence M&A demo preparation

Wow Factor

Skills Automations / Triggers Global Agents / Agent Platform ConvUX (approvals, Q&A, memory, planning) Agentic Tasks
Agent Platform Memory Legal data Knowledge Playbooks Cross-scopes Templates
worked this sprint this quarter
LEX slice of the Q3 roadmap. Full picture in Product Council.
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Goal

Forms became templates

Delivered
  • Firm-scoped form catalogue and assignments, managed like any other template
  • Forms tab in the template library with search, categories and jurisdictions
  • Fill form now routes through Lawrence chat, and only the firm's assigned forms can be filled
  • Full undo/redo on filled forms

The new fill shell is landing in pieces: redesigned toolbar, pages rail and a Fill form action on the Forms tab are in. Still in review: field cards, canvas overlay states, and the low-confidence review gate.

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Goal

The document editor reaches 1.0

ooxml v1.0.0 shipped · legal-work ready
  • The ooxml package family is stable at 1.0: the Word constructs legal documents use now parse, render and round-trip
  • Real-document fidelity: paragraph borders and legacy rules, Word-parity list numbering, Word's own behaviour on Enter after a heading
  • Track changes hardened: multi-step edits like list toggles stay tracked, and block-level changes round-trip as real Word revisions
  • New documents inherit the firm's blank-template house style No more blue headers!
  • Find & replace everywhere, from the toolbar or from Lawrence, correct under track changes

In review: agent edits (headings, lists, formatting) landing as reviewable tracked block changes.

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Goal

Durable agents reached prod

Agent framework core
landed Sprint 8
M4 · Durable & background execution
Deployed to prod this sprint
M3 · Full Lawrence 2 on TS
In build · skills migration in review · tools migration tech plan ready
M2 · Generalise beyond matters
Sequenced after M4 and M3 · unlocks Global Lawrence
What this unlocks
  • Agent runs survive deploys and restarts
  • Work continues after the lawyer closes the tab
  • Every trigger and run lands in a ledger: the substrate for Automations
  • Matter chat can already run on it behind a flag
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Chat polish

Streaming that reads like typing

No pacingidle
Defaultidle
Adaptiveidle
Dumping chunks is instant but unreadable. A fixed pace reads well but falls behind. Adaptive tracks the stream: smooth and on time. Default is now Adaptive for everyone.
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Around the edges

Also this sprint

Cross-squad · Dom, BOS mattertemplates:// shipped by BOS on our VFS framework. The operating model we want: teams owning a domain model own its VFS adapter, we build the framework.
Automations PRD in progress: scoping ahead of a build decision
Template library polish: search, categories, editor exit, page-break control
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Next sprint

Direction · pending sprint planning

Table Stakes · shipping to Woodstock

Document editor

The reliability and regression harness on top of v1.0, protecting Word parity

Forms

Land the in-flight work: fill shell and confidence review gate

Wow Factor

Agent Platform

Migrate Lawrence 2 onto the platform: tools, context and prompt, skills, thread and message persistence. Wrapping up M4 and M3.

Carrying over (in review at recording time)

Docx tracked-changes tail Form fill shell Skills on TS framework Stream reattach

29 issues sat in review at the midnight lock. Wednesday's merges land in the final report.

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Thank you

Full report → Notion Cycle 9 → Linear
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