Drafting & Automation
Syncly
Syncly is an integration platform as a service (‘Zapier for Legal’) purpose-built for law firms and corporate legal departments to connect, sync, and govern the movement of legal data between systems. Sydney-headquartered, founded 2021. Core capability: connector-based workflows enabling secure document and data synchronization between DMS (iManage Cloud/On-Prem, NetDocuments, SharePoint), CLM, billing systems, and AI tools. Official DMS connector for Thomson Reuters CoCounsel — enables firms to connect their iManage, NetDocuments, HighQ, and SharePoint repositories to CoCounsel for AI-powered document analysis. Seed funding from Stuart Barr (former Chief Product & Strategy Officer at HighQ), who joined Syncly’s board as Investor Director. SOC 2 Type II certified (achieved via Apollo Secure). ~20 employees, 1,083 LinkedIn followers. Featured in Legal IT Insider guest post (‘integration is a secret weapon’). Listed on LegalTechTalk and Engineer.Legal. No G2/Capterra reviews (Capterra listing appears to be a different Syncly product). No Reddit presence. No named law firm clients publicly disclosed. Pricing not published — enterprise/demo-based model.
Capabilities
Spans 1 product area: Workflow Automation.
Workflow Coverage
Based on published feature listings, this tool maps to 2 workflow areas:
- Document Drafting & Automation — Templates
- Firm Operations & Growth
Workflow mappings derived from published feature lists. Not independently verified.
Company Info
- Founded: 2020
- Team size: 1-10 employees
- HQ: United States
- Sector: Revenue Management
What We Haven’t Verified
This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Syncly is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Syncly addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Firm uses separate tools for intake, documents, billing, and e-signatures that don't talk to each other — opening a new matter means entering the same client info 4 times across systems that should but don't share data
On-premise DMS built for mapped drives and Outlook plugins can't keep up — remote attorneys need cloud access, Office 365 integration keeps breaking, and the IT admin who understood the server config just retired
Large firm needs Power BI dashboards to track partner profitability, realization rates, and matter economics — but the data lives in Elite 3E and extracting it for reporting requires specialised skills that most firms don't have in-house
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Syncly
Law firm IT/innovation team needs to connect their DMS to a new AI tool (e.g., CoCounsel) or sync data between billing system and matter management → traditionally requires custom API development or manual data movement
After Syncly
After Syncly connectors established → documents flow automatically between systems → attorneys access AI tools with DMS content without manual uploads → data governance policies enforced on movement → audit trail maintained
Integrations & hand-offs
Source systems (iManage, NetDocuments, HighQ, SharePoint) → Syncly (connector/sync) → Target systems (CoCounsel, CLM, billing, analytics). Syncly acts as middleware — doesn't store documents permanently, governs the flow.
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