Aderant, the Atlanta-based legal business management software company, unveiled Agent Center at its Momentum Global 2026 conference on May 12, shipping three production AI agents that automate law firm financial and operational workflows.
Three Agents, Three Revenue-Critical Workflows
The initial release targets processes that are both labor-intensive and directly tied to firm revenue. A Collections Agent automates and prioritizes collections workflows based on payment risk. An Appeals Agent identifies e-billing rejections and drafts data-informed responses to help firms recover revenue. A Talent Evaluation Agent aggregates matter-level feedback to produce structured evaluation insights across hundreds of attorneys.
“When you’re billing a client and something gets challenged, then you have to submit an appeal. It’s a very manual process, but it’s really important because it’s about money,” CEO Chris Cartrett said during a pre-conference briefing. “Now we’re able to bring automation into that by the leveraging of these agents.”
Lisa Erickson, SVP of product management and AI, described the initial agents as “operational workflow agents,” a category she distinguished from simpler automation or system-level agents. On talent evaluation specifically, Erickson noted the scale problem: “Just imagine if I’m doing evals on 500 people. It takes that very manual process and it culls it down to seconds and minutes,” she told Legal IT Insider.
Platform Architecture and Roadmap
Agent Center is built on Aderant’s Stridyn platform and powered by the company’s MADDI AI layer. The approach keeps humans in the loop on approvals while agents learn and improve over time, according to Erickson.
The roadmap calls for 13 to 15 total agents, with a further 10 planned for release after the conference. Aderant says it already has 12 AI products in market, with another 14 scheduled for delivery by year-end. More than 275 firms have adopted Expert Sierra, the company’s cloud-enabled practice management platform, with 23% in the Am Law 200.
Vertical Agents as Competitive Strategy
Aderant’s approach reflects a growing pattern in enterprise software: vertical-specific agent deployment rather than horizontal agent platforms. While companies like Glean and Microsoft build general-purpose agent frameworks, legal technology vendors are embedding agents directly into domain workflows where they can access firm-specific data and processes without additional integration.
Cartrett credited AI coding tools with accelerating Agent Center’s development, citing Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor. “Literally 95% of the code that they were able to create and 100% of the automated testing over the top of that was able to be enhanced literally via AI,” he told LawNext.
Aderant operates as a business unit of Roper Technologies (Nasdaq: ROP).