Availability for recommendation features depends on your organization's subscription and setup.
The Opportunities workspace is where &AI surfaces newly filed patent litigation matters that may be worth pursuing. Instead of monitoring dockets manually, you can review incoming cases in one list, filter the list to the matters that fit your practice, inspect the intelligence &AI has gathered, and turn promising opportunities into active projects.
Use the Opportunities page when you want to answer questions like:
What new patent cases were filed that match our practice?
Which matters should I prioritize, dismiss, or revisit later?
Which cases appear to be a strong fit for me or for other attorneys on my team?
Which opportunities are ready to become projects?
Workspace layout
The main Opportunities page is a table-driven workspace. Each row represents one opportunity, and the table is designed for fast triage rather than deep case review. The page supports sorting, paging, column visibility controls, and a search field so you can move quickly through a large queue.
The workspace can include:
a search box for finding opportunities by party or case terms
filter controls for status, court, plaintiff firm, defendant firm, judge, company name, conflict status, and LinkedIn connections
a columns control so you can hide or show supporting table columns
row actions and bulk actions once you select one or more opportunities
an Add Opportunities menu for creating new opportunities manually
a settings shortcut that takes you to opportunity-related preferences
If your organization does not have access to recommendations, you can still use the workspace, but recommendation-heavy areas may show a subscription notice instead of full analysis.
Opportunity status lifecycle
Each opportunity can move through a simple lifecycle:
Discovered means &AI found the matter and it is ready for review.
Important means you or your team marked the opportunity as worth attention.
Converted means the opportunity is already linked to a project or has already become project work.
Dismissed means the opportunity has been intentionally hidden from the main working set.
Use these states to keep the list focused. Mark high-value opportunities as important, dismiss low-value opportunities, and restore dismissed opportunities if you need to revisit them later.
Search, filter, and shape the table
The fastest way to work through a long list is to narrow the table before opening a detail page.
Use the search box when you know a party name, case name, or other identifying term. Search is intended for quick narrowing, not for editing the underlying data.
Use filters when you need a more controlled view. Common filters include:
opportunity status
court
plaintiff firm
defendant firm
judge
company name
conflict status
LinkedIn connection presence
Use the columns control when you want to declutter the list or expose more review context. The list view is designed to be configurable so different users can prioritize different signals during triage.
Add opportunities manually
Not every useful matter has to wait for the normal discovery cycle. The Add Opportunities button opens two ways to create work intentionally.
Add by identifier
Choose By Identifier when you already know which case you want &AI to analyze.
The Analyze Opportunity modal lets you submit either:
a Case number, paired with a selected court
a PACER URL
Once you submit the identifier, &AI starts a background analysis flow that creates the opportunity if the case is valid and not already in the system. This is the right option when someone on your team hears about a matter before it appears in the normal queue.
Add by date range
Choose By Date Range when you want &AI to backfill or discover opportunities over a defined time window.
The Discover Opportunities modal lets you set:
a required start date
an optional end date
a maximum case limit
After you submit the date range, &AI starts discovery in the background so you can monitor the run and review the new matters when they appear.
Use bulk actions to triage faster
Once you select one or more rows, the toolbar changes to show bulk actions that operate on the selected set.
Depending on the current statuses of the selected rows, you can:
create project work from eligible opportunities
mark opportunities as important
unmark opportunities as important
dismiss active opportunities
restore dismissed opportunities
export the selected opportunities
Some actions are intentionally conditional. For example, Create Project is disabled if the selected opportunities are already linked to projects or if none of them has patents in suit. That guardrail helps prevent wasted clicks and tells you why conversion is blocked.
Export opportunities to Excel
Use Export from the bulk-selection toolbar when you need to share or review selected opportunities outside &AI.
The export modal lets you choose which columns to include. When the export finishes, &AI generates a downloadable file. The export is selection-based, so you must choose at least one opportunity before opening the modal.
Configure recommendations before relying on them
Recommendations become more useful when your organization and attorney preferences are configured well. The Opportunities workspace can show a subscription notice when recommendation content is unavailable, and it can also prompt users to complete recommendation settings if important setup is missing.
From settings, users can configure:
a practice overview describing expertise, preferred forums, and ideal matters
exclusion rules such as Schedule A, declaratory judgment, design patents, plant patents, ANDA or Hatch-Waxman matters, no-complaint matters (including matters where a complaint entry exists but the complaint document is still unavailable), and cases where defense counsel is already named
plaintiff and defendant lists used to prioritize or suppress certain companies
the fields included in generated conflicts-check emails
These settings materially affect the quality of recommendations and which matters stay visible in the working list, so they should be configured early.
Open a row when you are ready for deeper review
The list workspace is optimized for triage, but detailed evaluation happens on the opportunity detail page. Click any row to open the full detail view, where you can review:
case overview and complaint context
recommendation summaries for you and your team
plaintiff, defendant, and counsel details
relevant cases and LinkedIn connections
patent, product, and infringement-chart context
project-conversion actions
If you are still deciding whether a case is worth deeper review, start in the table. If you already know the case is promising, open the detail page and continue with the intelligence workflow.
Recommended triage workflow
For most teams, the Opportunities page works best as a repeating review loop:
Open the workspace and narrow the list with search and filters.
Mark obvious priorities as Important.
Dismiss matters that are clearly out of scope.
Open strong candidates in the detail page for recommendation and intelligence review.
Convert ready opportunities into projects.
Export selections when you need offline review or a shareable handoff.
This keeps the list actionable instead of turning into an unreviewed backlog.