The Smokeball AI Hub

You know what’s wild lately? The way Microsoft Azure AI is slowly becoming the kind of quiet assistant every law firm didn’t know they needed. Like seriously imagine having a paralegal who never sleeps, never misses a detail and doesn’t get overwhelmed no matter how long your case files are. That’s what it feels like when you start using AI tools from Azure. I first got curious when a colleague mentioned how they were using Azure’s AI to help sort through discovery documents. At first I thought it was just another tech thing that sounds cool but adds more work. But the way it handled document tagging and finding repeated patterns blew my mind. We’re talking about scanning hundreds of pages in minutes and pulling out names, dates and even contract clauses that would normally take a whole afternoon. And then I looked into how Azure handles client intake. It can recognize text from scanned forms and auto-fill fields which saves so much time. Like instead of a client sitting for thirty minutes while someone manually types out what they already wrote on paper the whole thing gets done in minutes. It’s cleaner, more accurate and gives your team more time to focus on the case itself. What surprised me even more is how natural the AI feels when working in the background. It doesn’t feel like a robot in your face trying to take over your job. It feels more like a silent partner just making you sharper and faster. One day we were dealing with a rush case and needed to draft up a response quickly. Azure’s language tools kicked in and helped structure a solid outline that just needed a quick human review. It felt like I had an extra set of hands on my keyboard. Now full honesty here I’m also working on my Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate certification. It’s been really useful to learn how these tools actually work under the hood because it gives me more confidence when I explain it to my team. I found a really solid set of practice questions on a site called Pass4Future. Not gonna lie they helped me a lot with getting used to the real kind of scenarios I might face both in the exam and in the legal world. It’s not one of those random dumps either; it actually explains why answers are right or wrong which is super helpful. What I like about all this is that it fits into tools we already use. If you’re using Smokeball and trying to stay ahead of client needs then learning how Azure AI works is honestly worth your time. It won’t replace your legal mind but it will absolutely sharpen it. I’d love to hear if anyone else in this community has tried using AI in their day to day legal work? It feels like we’re just scratching the surface and there’s so much more to explore.

I have looked but have not been able to find anything to answers my question. Is there a way to have a “knowledge base” of non-matter materials that Archie can access while in a matter. For example, The United States Sentencing Guidelines are 620 pages long in the PDF version. I would rather not add this document to every matter, but I would love to be able to access it while using Archie for case specific questions. This would go for the US Code and state criminal laws. Is this already a thing and I am simply missing it? Thanks Jim

I am trying to get a summary of all the documents in a specified folder. However, I can't seem to get a prompt written that will do this. Am I not good at prompt writing or is this something that is not possible with Archie right now?

Is anyone else experiencing errors when using Archie? I have had several instances where I will ask Archie to create an outline of a document, usually an intake form, and the information that Archie provides is incorrect. For example, it will list the correct date of birth but the age will be off, an it has even gone so far as to add a date of death to a client who is very much alive. When reviewing specific documents, the information that it will return is sometimes wrong or missing important parts. When I ask about the specific section of the document, it will sometimes tell me that the section does not exist. This seems like it could be a great tool, but I’m currently second guessing everything that it tells me. Charles