September 9, 2026

One plan, priced by the seat

Cedent used to be sold as a ladder of tiers. It isn’t any more. There is one plan, it includes every capability, and the only two questions are how many people at your firm use it and whether you pay monthly or annually.

Seats are priced so the first one carries the firm-wide work and the rest are cheaper: $249 a month for the first seat, $199 for each additional seat. On annual it’s $199 and $159 per seat per month. Matters and storage are unlimited.

Why the ladder went: the split priced the things a firm needs on day one — the People hub, matter access scoping, custom roles — as an upgrade, which put a paywall on exactly the features that make Cedent work for more than one person.

Settings → Plan is where all of it lives. It shows how many seats you’re using against how many you’re billed for, when the plan renews, and a link out to your invoices, receipts and payment method. Cancelling stops the next charge and you keep full access until the end of the period you’ve already paid for.

New firms start on a 14-day free trial. We take a card up front so nothing interrupts your work when the trial ends; nothing is charged before then, and the page tells you the exact date your first payment is due.

The Plan page is only visible to people at your firm who have billing permission.

Scratchpad — a place to write that isn't tied to a matter

Plenty of writing doesn’t belong to a case yet — a paragraph you’re reworking, a note to yourself, a passage you want tightened before it goes anywhere. Until now Cedent had nowhere to do that, so it happened somewhere else.

Scratchpad is in the left sidebar. It has two modes over the same note.

Write is a plain canvas. Select any passage and you get the quick four — Paraphrase, Shorten, Formalize, Plain language — with Expand, Reformat, Proofread, and Summarize a click further on. You can also just describe the change you want in your own words. Whatever you pick is applied in place, and Cedent says whether it changed the selection or the whole note before it does.

After a pass you’re not stuck choosing between accepting it silently or undoing it: a bar names what just happened and offers another round, and Compare puts the text as it stood before your first rewrite beside the text as it stands now.

Ask is a conversation about the same note. Anything useful comes back across with Insert into note.

When it’s ready to leave, copy it out (as formatted text, plain text, or Markdown), download it as a file, or use Save to matter — that drops it into that matter’s drafts for review, so nothing skips the approval step.

The agreements are published, and the product is held to them

Cedent’s agreements are published. The Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, the Data Processing Addendum and the AI and Professional Responsibility Addendum are effective September 9, 2026; the Acceptable Use Policy is effective September 1, 2026. Alongside them is the list of subprocessors that handle firm data.

The rule we worked to: a published document and the running product must not be able to disagree. That turned out to mean changing the product in a number of places, not just writing the documents.

The consents are recorded separately. Bundling the agreements, an attestation that you’re authorized to sign for your firm, and consent to a recurring charge into one “I agree” isn’t consent to any of them. Those are three decisions and they’re recorded as three — and the terms covering an individual’s own use are accepted by that person, at their own first sign-in, rather than by an administrator on their behalf.

Connecting an account tells you what it covers first. When you connect a calendar, Cedent says plainly that every event is read and classified, personal ones included. When you connect Microsoft files, it says the access covers your whole OneDrive and every SharePoint site you can reach, and that the narrowing to what you picked is Cedent’s own limit rather than something Microsoft enforces. You see the actual permissions being requested, and you can decline — declining is a real choice, not a wall.

The limits are published. The rate limits and size caps we apply are listed at /limits, and the page is generated from the same numbers the product enforces, so it can’t drift. There’s no daily cap on how much email Cedent takes in for you and none on how much AI work it does on your matters; the page says which things are unmetered as plainly as it lists the limits.

Filled court forms show their work. Every field Cedent fills can be opened to see the document the value came from, the attestation records what was on screen when you signed it rather than merely that you clicked, and a completeness check names any value no document in the matter supports.

Word and PDF exports come out in your firm's formatting

Attorneys told us Word exports didn’t look like their work. They were right, and the reason was worse than a styling choice: the formatting preset in Settings — “Court Filing — double-spaced, Times New Roman, 1″ margins” — was a dropdown that changed nothing. Exports came out in Word’s stock styling no matter what it said.

It applies now, and there’s more control behind it. Settings → Document Generation gains a Fine-tune formatting panel: font, size, line spacing, margins on each side, justification, first-line indent and page numbers. Leave a field blank and it follows your preset; there’s a Reset to preset button when you want to start over.

Rebuilding the export fixed a run of defects you may have been working around:

• Headings came out oversized in a different typeface from the body. They now match the document.
• Words ran together — of:**ELENA ROSSI**, San Mateo**Case No.:**. Spaces are preserved.
• Section symbols and dashes were mangled. §§ 2103–2106 lost its en dash; em dashes became --. Both come through intact.
• Margins were fixed at 1.25″ regardless of your setting.
• Blockquotes were justified into stretched, gappy lines. They’re indented with a rule now.
• A stray blank line at the top of every document is gone.

PDF exports were moved onto the same settings, so the two exports of one draft no longer read as different documents — and page numbers, which were being drawn almost invisibly, now show up.

Two things worth knowing. If you’ve given Cedent one of your own filled templates, the template still wins — it already carries your styling, and these settings apply to documents Cedent formats itself. And for an unusual typeface, Word is faithful because it resolves the font on your own machine, while a PDF may substitute a near match.

Billing now shows approved and billed time, not just what's waiting

For everyone at your firm with access to billing: the page used to show only the entries still waiting on you. Approve a day’s work and it disappeared, which made it a review queue but not a record — awkward if what you actually wanted was to see what you’d worked on last Tuesday.

Now the page keeps everything. Four tabs across the top — Needs review, Approved, Billed, and All — with a count on each. It opens on Needs review, so reviewing works exactly as it did. Approved and billed entries are shown as a record rather than something to act on again.

The rest follows from that:

• Filter by one matter, or click a matter heading to narrow to it. Combined with a date, that answers “what did we do on the Doe matter that day?”
• Just mine, for firms where more than one person is recording time.
• Search across descriptions, matters, and people — it narrows the period you’re already looking at, for finding one line among the day’s entries.
• Every view has its own link. Bookmark a day, a matter, or a matter on a day, and it comes back the same way — including after a reload.

Time is grouped by day by default now, since that’s usually the question being asked. Matter and timekeeper are still a click away.

Stop a reply mid-answer, and tables that look like tables

Three things you told us about chat.

You can stop an answer now. While a reply is streaming, Send becomes Stop. Press it and the answer ends where it is.

What you’d already read stays. A stopped answer isn’t a failed one — it’s kept in the thread, marked as stopped, and Cedent still remembers it in the rest of the conversation. Throwing away an answer you’d just read to the halfway point would have been worse than one that ends early.

Edit prompt. A stopped answer offers Edit prompt, which puts your question back in the composer so you can adjust it and ask again. Nothing is deleted — the new answer is added to the thread rather than replacing anything.

Tables render as tables. If you asked for something comparative, the answer came back as rows of | characters. That’s fixed, both while the answer is streaming and when you come back to the thread later.

One thing Stop doesn’t do: it ends what Cedent writes back to you, but work already in flight behind the scenes may finish on its own. It bounds the answer, not the work.

Billing export now covers exactly the period you're viewing

Exporting from the billing page was doing more than it looked like it was doing. The date range you had selected was ignored: Export always took every approved entry across every matter you can see, for all time, and marked the lot as billed.

If you filtered to today and exported, you finalized your whole backlog.

Two changes. The export now matches what’s on screen — the same period, the same matter, the same person. And it asks first, naming what it’s about to do:

Export 34 entries? Your approved, attested, billable time from Aug 1 – Aug 19, 2026 on Marriage of Doe will be exported to CSV and marked billed.

If nothing in view qualifies, it tells you instead of handing you an empty file.

Entries already marked billed stay that way — this changes what Export does from here on. If your billed history looks wider than you expected, that’s the explanation, and those entries are still listed under the Billed tab.