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Smokeball Archie AI

AI assistant connected to Smokeball matter data for drafting, review, and questions.

Status
Active
Data statements
Published
Last checked
September 15, 2026
Price path
Contact sales
Firm size
Solo, 2-5, 6-20

Last observed 48 days ago. Records are treated as awaiting re-check after ninety days.

Editorial assessment

The only practice-management assistant here that publishes a firm-size scope, which makes it the easiest to screen.

This section is the CounselAtlas editorial desk’s own reading of the dated facts below. It is not a vendor statement, not a rating, and not a recommendation. Every product fact it rests on is recorded with a source in the record.

What it is

Smokeball's embedded AI assistant, sold inside the Smokeball practice-management platform. Unlike its two closest peers, it publishes a firm-size scope and a data-location statement.

What it is not

It is not a standalone tool and it does not work outside Smokeball. It is not a general assistant or a drafting product, and it does not replace a research subscription.

Who it tends to fit

  • Solo attorneys and small firms, which the vendor names explicitly
  • Firms handling family law or personal injury, which the vendor names
  • Firms that want the vendor to state a firm-size scope before they shortlist

Who it tends not to fit

  • Firms on a different practice-management platform
  • Firms outside the practice areas the vendor names
  • Firms that want a standalone AI product they can evaluate independently

What to ask before you buy

  1. Which Smokeball plan includes the assistant, and at what firm size does pricing change?
  2. How does the assistant handle documents that live outside Smokeball?
  3. Can I export my data and the assistant's output if I leave the platform?
  4. What is the difference between what the assistant drafts and what my staff still has to review?

Limits in the record

  • It is embedded in Smokeball, so the platform decision and the tool decision are the same decision.
  • The vendor names family law and personal injury, so fit outside those areas is not established by the checked source.

How it sits in Practice management AI

Of the three embedded practice-management assistants, this one publishes the most screening information: a firm-size scope and a data-location statement. That makes it the easiest of the three to rule in or out on paper, which is worth something when you are comparing platforms.

Reading the vendor’s wording

The vendor says its AI capabilities limit access to authorised users, authorised matters, and authorised firm environments, and that it does not provide customer data to third parties for AI model training.

How to evaluate it in a trial

  1. Confirm which Smokeball plan includes the assistant and how pricing changes with firm size.
  2. Test the assistant against a document that lives outside Smokeball to see how it handles the gap.
  3. Run one family or personal-injury matter through it, since those are the areas the vendor names.
  4. Ask what happens to the assistant's output and your data if you leave the platform.

What adopting it costs

The assistant is embedded in Smokeball, so adopting it means adopting Smokeball. Because the vendor publishes a data-location statement, the export and hosting questions are easier to answer up front than for its two peers.

Closest alternative

Manage AI (formerly Clio Duo) — The Clio-native equivalent. This one publishes a firm-size scope and a data-location statement; the other two embedded assistants do not.

The same kind of tool, so you can compare before you commit to one.

Tools in other categories that share a practice area with Smokeball Archie AI. Most firms need more than one product, so this is the rest of the workflow.

All Practice management AI tools →Alternatives page →Compare with Manage AI (formerly Clio Duo) →Compare with 8am IQ for MyCase →Back to the directory →

The record

Everything below is a dated observation from the vendor’s own published material. Each line links to the page it came from so you can confirm it yourself.

What we verified

Vendor
Smokeball. Observed September 15, 2026 · Vendor page ↗
Price path
Contact sales: No public price was located in the checked vendor source. Observed September 15, 2026 · Source ↗
What it does
Family law, Personal injury. Smokeball describes Archie as working inside a matter. Observed September 15, 2026 · Source ↗
Firm-size scope
Solo, 2-5, 6-20. The Archie product page presents firm-size navigation for solo lawyers, small firms, and mid-sized firms. Observed September 15, 2026 · Vendor page ↗
Connections
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook. Observed September 15, 2026 · Vendor page ↗
Data location
Smokeball states that its solutions are hosted on Amazon Web Services.. Observed September 15, 2026 · Source ↗
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