Pen Meets AI: INQ and Filevine Team Up
INQ Group AB (publ) (‘INQ’, formerly Anoto Group AB) and Filevine have announced a strategic technology partnership to integrate digital handwriting with AI-powered legal workflows. Under the agreement, INQ is the exclusive supplier of digital writing technology to Filevine, combining INQ’s handwriting expertise with Filevine’s LOIS platform to modernise how legal professionals capture information.
This exclusivity extends within the legal technology sector, subject to continuing volume commitments. The initial order comprises 2,000 custom-branded INQ digital pens, along with notebooks, software and associated technology.
Filevine is integrating INQ’s digital handwriting technology into LOIS using newly developed INQ SDKs and firmware. The integration is designed to make handwritten information captured naturally on paper part of Filevine’s digital and AI-driven workflows.
Filevine intends to distribute the custom-branded INQ pens and notebooks to its customer base as an integrated part of its product offering. This partnership marks a significant milestone for both companies: it provides Filevine’s community of more than 100,000 legal professionals with new handwriting-to-workflow capabilities, while significantly accelerating INQ’s expansion into the US enterprise market.
The collaboration has involved substantial joint technical development to optimise INQ’s technology for Filevine’s use case, including new firmware and SDK capabilities. The resulting platform combines physical handwriting capture with Filevine’s software and AI capabilities, allowing information created with pen and paper to be incorporated directly into modern legal workflows.
‘This partnership is an important commercial validation of the INQ platform and of our enterprise strategy as we start to open the US market,’ said Jonathan Faiman, CEO of INQ Group AB. ‘Filevine has built the most innovative technology platform in the legal industry, and integrating INQ directly into LOIS demonstrates what becomes possible when natural handwriting is connected seamlessly to AI. It also demonstrates that INQ is not simply a digital pen: it is a platform that allows enterprise partners to build handwriting into their own applications, workflows and customer propositions at scale. We expect to announce further significant enterprise transactions in the coming months.’
‘Pen and paper remain an enduring form factor in the practice of law for client meetings, depositions, case mapping, proceedings and more. Our goal is to give legal professionals faster and more natural ways to capture, understand and act on information,’ said Michael Anderson, Chief Product Officer of Filevine. ‘By integrating INQ’s digital handwriting technology with LOIS, we can connect the simplicity and familiarity of pen and paper with the power of AI-driven legal workflows in the context layer of a legal matter. We believe this can remove friction from the way legal professionals work and make valuable information immediately more useful within Filevine.’
About INQ Group AB
INQ Group AB (publ), formerly Anoto Group AB, is a Swedish technology company specialising in digital writing solutions that connect natural handwriting with digital and AI-powered workflows.
About Filevine
Filevine is the AI operating platform for legal work. Its Legal Operating Intelligence System (LOIS) goes beyond disconnected, read-only tools to reason across legal information, verify sources, draft work product and take action directly within the system of record.
