Follow me as I explore Chamelio, a legal intelligence platform built for in-house legal teams, to test how it performs on a real contract review and redlining task — and compare it with the new cool kid on the block: Claude Cowork's Legal Plugin.
I'll share my take on what I like about Chamelio, and where I think there's still room for improvement.
| Time | Chapter |
|---|---|
| 0:00 | Intro |
| 0:57 | Under the hood: what Chamelio is and who it's for |
| 1:44 | Fastest way to get value from the platform |
| 2:26 | The contract test: spotting risk + redlining |
| 3:11 | Hype check: Claude's legal plug-in |
| 4:24 | Claude contract review results |
| 5:15 | Chamelio vs Claude: redline etiquette and precision |
| 6:13 | GC perspective |
| 7:42 | Other Chamelio features: playbooks + repository insights |
| 9:05 | Verdict: what I like, what needs improvement, final take |
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00:00Hi, I'm Anna. And I am a lawyer that's trying to make sense of AI for the legal domain. Today, I'll be popping under the hood of Chameleon, a legal intelligence platform that is built for in-house legal teams. I'll start by showing you how to quickly get value from the platform if you don't know where to begin. Then, of course, I will do a proper hype check against Claude, especially the new legal plugin feature that was announced recently. Lastly, I'll share my honest opinion about who I think Chameleon is building for.
Speaker change: Honestly, I don't know if there is more
00:32hype around general purpose AI or legal AI now. It seems like hype is just flying everywhere. So, if you're curious about what Chameleon can do, but don't have the time to sit through a 30-minute demo, then this video is for you. Oh, and by the way, I am also building a legal AI assessment framework with lawyers around the world to help legal teams cut through the hype and evaluate tools properly. You can find more details in the comments below. Let's get started. Each product has a strong personality.
Speaker change: And with Chameleon, it starts with the name. So, the name Chameleon itself is
01:04quite interesting because it's not following the usual naming conventions for legal tech startups. It's not named after a really posh person. It's not a legal-related word. It's not even named after a mammal. It's named after a reptile that changes colors in different environments. The only reason I can think of why is perhaps because lawyers have to adapt to different stakeholders' needs inside an organization.
Speaker change: If you're a really busy lawyer that's opening up a legal intelligence platform
01:35for the first time, it can feel quite overwhelming because there just seems to be a lot of things going on in a very unfamiliar environment. So, the way that I would suggest you get started quickly is in word. So, today, I'm going to show you the lowest friction way to put a platform like Chameleon to work. I'm going to start with a partnership agreement template. And I'm deliberately picking a very spicy one with a one-sided indemnity and no liability cap
02:05for the company that I am representing. As you can see here, I am representing the referee in a partnership agreement that provides physiotherapy and rehabilitative services. And I chose this because I wanted to provide physio services as an alternative to my legal career at one point. Here is what I'm going to be testing Camille on. Number one, does it spot this risk? Number two, can it redline this contract precisely? Number three, does it explain the
02:36rationale? I will not be using a playbook because this is low friction, no setup. Please review. They are reasonable. So, this took probably less than 30 seconds. It did make the liability cap mutual. So, I'm going to go ahead and accept the suggestions.
Speaker change: But wait a second here, you might say.
Speaker change: How is this any different from what Claude can already do? So, in the spirit
03:06of exploration, we're going to see how Claude's legal plugin would complete the same task. On January 12th, 2026, Claude launched Co-work, which is described as Claude code for the rest of your work. Later on in February, it basically sent shockwaves in the legal industry when the legal plugin was launched. One of the core tasks that the legal plugin will allow you to do is review a contract. And that is the task that we will be trying out today and comparing
03:38it to Camille. There's a few things I want to share up front in order to run Co-work without too many usage limitations, I actually have to upgrade to the max plan, which is $100 a month. Then secondly, although Co-work is supposed to be a much more user-friendly version of Claude Code, you still have to use slash commands and also download the plugin. I was clicking around for a little bit on GitHub trying to navigate where you can download the marketplace
04:08plugin in order to then download the legal plugin. I can imagine that for someone who isn't technically savvy or have a lot of time to explore, they probably already got it at this point. But let's say now you have the legal plugin installed. I want to show you how I do the contract review. So I'll upload exactly the same contract that I did for my test with Kamelito. So after about, I would say 6 to 7 minutes, the contract review has been completed. I'm going to focus on the liability markup. Under
04:40section 7, Claude went in and deleted the entire previous clause and then inserted a new mutual clause. So it's technically correct. However, you would never do this because if you did, then the counterparty would just get a completely redlined contract full of deletion of their clauses and insertions of brand new clauses. And that would infuriate me if I was on the other side receiving this. You can see this comparison quite clearly if I just pull
05:11up the redlined contract from Kamelito. Instead of just deleting the entire subclause and then inserting a new one, Kamelito was a lot more precise in the edit. Kamelito's approach reflects an understanding of redline etiquette and how lawyers prefer to markup contracts. That was just a quick test, but I really encourage lawyers to explore all of these different tools. You'll be able to find out for yourself whether a
05:42horizontal tool like Claude is already good enough for the kind of work you want to do, or whether you want to invest in a platform like Camille, that really understands intuitively what a lawyer is looking for. As I was making this video, I kept seeing the same tape in the news and on LinkedIn that legal AI just has no mode against the Frontier Model Labs. And it's made me want to go straight to the buyers of these legal AI solutions to ask them what they think about it and why they're not just using
06:12a general purpose model now.
Speaker change: I'm the Chief Legal Officer at Accessibility, a company that offers a suite of digital accessibility solutions. Legal team of three. We receive the same vendor agreements, master services agreements. Really one of the first things I did when I came on board at Accessibility was look for a suitable tool. Didn't look at general purpose systems at all. What's important to us is the additional layer of the legal user interface. Companies like Camille, they know who their audience is and they know what in-house lawyers want to see when they fire up their computers
06:44in the morning. It's the same language models. They may be two or three or five or 10 working at the same time. What really makes a difference is the way it's presented to the legal professional.
Speaker change: Can you give me an example that is like a very delightful experience where you feel like Camille really knows you as an in-house lawyer?
Speaker change: Camille enables you to set some custom notifications. If what a form is signed that diverges from our standard playbook, every morning I get a digest and that's very delightful for me. And as I said, less delightful for people on the other side. But before Camille, I would sort of had to chase to get these
07:15documents in our repository or have them sent to legal. And now Camille just does it automatically.
Speaker change: What do you think is something that you would like to see further improvement on?
Speaker change: I think integration with Google Docs is something that is probably, you know, missing. Lawyers we work with are Word in a in a lot of tech companies. If you ask a sales rep, they need to know what a Word document is.
Speaker change: Is there anything that you would like to share about that we haven't covered?
Speaker change: think it's a great product. They've got a great future ahead of them.
Speaker change: Once you get a quick win in on Kamelito,
07:45you can experiment with building out your own playbook, and Kamelito lets you do that in three ways. You can either build it from scratch, you can build it from a template, or you can do it based on your previous redlines. Based on how you negotiate contracts, how you apply the playbook rules, it can learn from your behavior and make new suggestions. So, you can see, for example, here, I have four different recommendations.
Speaker change: I like how it's not automatically incorporated into the playbook, and instead, it just shows up as recommended
08:16rules. Lastly, the repository lets you store all of the contracts and extract insights from them. An example of this is extracting the effective dates of those contracts. But, once you click on each cell, you are able to see what that clause is as an excerpt, and you can also further click on the source, and it will take you exactly to where it is in the original contract. So, you can do a real quick verification. So glad that this exists now for in-house teams,
08:48because I remember spending so much time before on these exercises, where we're just manually checking each contract to find a certain clause, and then copying and pasting that clause in Excel sheet, and I used to do that for hundreds of contracts.
Speaker change: All right, guys, I've done the homework for you. I've boarded to the platform, tried it out myself, compared it to Clyde's Co-Work, and spoke to an actual GC that's using Kamelito day in and day out. Here are two things I really like about
09:18Kamelito. First is the ease of verification, whether it is a redline, a draft comment, or a insight extracted from the repository. You can, with one simple click, verify it against the source document, and that builds so much trust. Secondly, it's a all-in-one solution for contracts, Because the founders are just obsessed with making contracting a lean, mean machine. What I think does have room for improvement is onboarding process. Right now, it is very hands-on
09:49and the founders are extremely responsive, almost too responsive, but I do hope there is more in-product guidance and materials that I can look at and read in my own time and learn how to use the product myself so the founders can also get a little bit more sleep. And we do that.
Speaker change: And we never sleep.
Speaker change: Literally.
Speaker change: Literally.
Speaker change: Overall, Kamelito is built for in-house teams that want to focus on contracting workflows as a highest impact use case. However, if your team
10:20is already in love with your current CLM solution and have very established workflows or if your core focus for optimization is not contract work, then Kamelito might not give you the highest ROI. Hope you found this video useful whether you are going tool shopping or just curious about what platforms that Kamelito has to offer. Do comment below and let me know which tool I should take a look at next. And in the meantime, hope you stay curious and healthy. I will see you in the next one. Bye.
10:50If you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe for more product deep dives. And stay tuned for part two of Kamelito under the hood where I will be talking to Alex Silberman, the founder, to ask him why a non-lawyer is building AI solution for lawyers, what he learned along the way, and his take on the future of legal work.
