Chris Cangero on DocStyle AI, MCP & the Future of Document Formatting | ILTACON 2026

From People in Legal 2026-10-22 · 00:14:03

Show by People in Legal - Andrew, Chantal, David, Grace, Jonathan, Roni, Tim

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴?At #ILTACON2026, David Woolstencroft sat down with Chris Cangero, co-founder of DocStyle, who has spent 25 years in legal tech. He grew up with Wang terminals in the family garage, and he and co-founder Adrian Bailey have now bootstrapped the business for almost 17 years.Their latest launch is DocStyle AI. It connects their mature document tools to the LLM of your choice through an MCP server. The interesting part is how they got there. Their first attempt was to build AI into the product. Three months in, they scrapped it and started over. Now the LLM handles the conversation, and DocStyle's deterministic tools do the precise work.The result: you can say "style this in our house template and add a table of contents using level one headings only" and it gets done. You don't need to know which button to press. In their internal benchmarks, it's 99.3% more token efficient than using an LLM on its own, and a full paper is coming soon.Chris's message to firms was clear: don't replace your word processing teams. Free them up for the documents only they can fix, and let lawyers handle the other 80% themselves, even at midnight.#LegalTech #ILTACON #PeopleInLegal #LegalAI #DocumentAutomation

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