# Harvey AI

Hacker Approved page: https://hackerapproved.com/p/harvey/

5 people recommended Harvey AI in Hacker News comments, 2 had mixed feelings and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to October 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 12 months, in 5 threads. It does not meet the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** More people criticize it than recommend it. Legal AI platform tailored to law firm work, with templates and features; the most common caveat is that critics call it a thin wrapper around general models with weak judgment and vendor lock-in.

Summary written by Claude from the comments below.

## What people warn about

- Thin wrapper around existing models (3 comments in the sample): "Structurally, another $5 billion will not give the Stonewall citation spine to the Harvey slop wrapper" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49841657)) "I’m yet to be convinced it (Harvey) is anything other than a a prompt and some streamlined Rag." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027497)) "all it does is wrap around models and have safety checks like this repo does" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50274216))
- Long history of poor quality (2 comments in the sample): "Harvey was never very good, or useful. It mostly exists so large law firms can say they do AI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147987)) "Harvey was never actually good." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48147858))

## Other legal AI tools people recommend

- [Astra for Law](https://hackerapproved.com/p/astra-for-law/): 10 recommend, 1 mixed, 19 criticize
- [Mike legal AI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/mike/): 8 recommend, 2 mixed, 6 criticize

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.harvey.ai/)

## The badge

A product earns the Hacker Approved badge when at least 10 people recommend it, recommenders outnumber critics at least 2 to 1 (mixed feelings count toward neither side), it was recommended in at least 4 of the 12 months and in at least 5 different threads, and no single thread supplies more than half of the people who recommend it. Health and money products are never badged.

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Harvey AI", https://hackerapproved.com/p/harvey/ (5 recommend, 2 mixed, 6 criticize; Hacker News comments, November 2025 to October 2026).

Counts updated 2 Nov 2026, with data through October 31, 2026.