Introducing Lightspeed: Because Legal Teams Shouldn’t Have to Wait

The daily reality of legal research

If you work in legal, you know the feeling. You start your morning with a research question that should take minutes. You open one tool to search case law, another to track regulatory changes, and a third to compile everything into something your team can actually use. Before you know it, an hour has passed and you still don’t have a clear answer.

This is the reality for thousands of legal professionals. Not because the information doesn’t exist, but because the tools weren’t designed to keep up with the way modern legal teams work. Searches take too long. Monitoring alerts arrive late. Collaboration means sending files back and forth. The work gets done, but it takes longer than it should, and the experience is frustrating.

We’ve been listening to these stories for months and we decided to do something about it.

What we built, and why

Today, we’re introducing Lightspeed: a ground-up rebuild of Workspaces and Monitors, the two features at the heart of how teams use Moonlit every day.

This isn’t an incremental update. We rebuilt the entire foundation because the old architecture couldn’t deliver the speed and scale our customers need. The result is a platform that feels fundamentally different to use.

• Workspaces are now the central hub where your team organizes research, shares findings and builds on each other’s work in real time. No more exporting, emailing, or duplicating effort. Everything lives in one place and everyone on your team can see it.

  
  

• Monitors have been redesigned to run in the background, refreshing daily and alerting you the moment something relevant changes. Set up a monitor once and it keeps working for you, scanning across 12 million+ legal documents so you don’t have to.

Speed you can feel

We named this release Lightspeed for a reason. Across the board, everything is 25 times faster than before. Searches that used to take seconds now return results almost instantly. Monitors that processed overnight now refresh throughout the day. The difference isn’t subtle. It’s the kind of speed that changes how you work.

Behind the scenes, we moved to background processing, which means Moonlit does the heavy lifting while you focus on your analysis. No more staring at loading screens. No more waiting for results before you can move to your next task.

See it in action

We put together a short walkthrough to show you what the new experience looks like in practice. In under three minutes, you’ll see how Workspaces and Monitors work together to make legal research faster and more collaborative.

Why this matters now

The legal industry is moving faster than ever. Regulatory changes are accelerating. The volume of case law is growing. Clients expect faster turnaround. In this environment, the tools you use aren’t just a convenience. They’re a competitive advantage.

Lightspeed is designed for this reality. It’s built to help legal teams keep pace with the speed of their work, not the other way around. Whether you’re a solo practitioner tracking a niche regulatory area or a large firm coordinating research across multiple matters, the experience is the same: fast, reliable, and collaborative.

Getting started

Lightspeed is available to all Moonlit users starting today. If you already use Workspaces or Monitors, you’ll notice the changes as soon as you log in. Everything has been migrated automatically, so there’s nothing you need to do to get started.

If you’re new to Moonlit, there’s never been a better time to explore what the platform can do for your team.

We built Lightspeed because we believe legal professionals deserve tools that match the importance of their work. This release is a big step in that direction, and it’s only the beginning.