Thomson Reuters unveiled its next major leap forward -- agentic AI systems, beginning with the launch of CoCounsel for tax, audit, and accounting professionals. While today's most advanced AI assistants can generate results when prompted, agentic AI goes beyond simply responding under a pre-defined sequence of actions. It plans, reasons, acts, and even reacts -- operating inside real workflows to complete complex, multi-step assignments with the transparency, precision, and accountability professionals require.
Unlike generic AI, Thomson Reuters agents are refined by legal and tax, audit, and accounting experts to reason in alignment with professional standards and best practices, while ensuring that human expertise remains in the loop to guide judgment, validate outputs, and make final decisions. This evolution is underway at Thomson Reuters, and it's redefining what professional-grade AI can -- and should -- do for professionals. "We're delivering systems that don't just assist but operate inside the workflows professionals use every day.
The AI understands the goal, breaks it into steps, takes action, and knows when to escalate for human input -- all with human oversight built in to ensure accountability and trust." The Thomson Reuters agentic platform has been in development for over a year, accelerated by its acquisition of Materia, the AI copilot startup specializing in agentic systems for tax and accounting. Its foundation is already live across products being used by some of the largest accounting firms in the United States. These new systems are being embedded into legal, tax, risk, and compliance platforms -- all tailored to high-stakes environments where accuracy and trust are non-negotiable.
What sets the Thomson Reuters approach apart is the deeply embedded nature of agents. Rather than build standalone agentic tools, Thomson Reuters is re-architecting core product experiences. This approach involves drawing from the most critical features and content across platforms such as Checkpoint, Westlaw, and Practical Law, exposing their market-leading capabilities as tools for agents to use -- enabling them to act and reason within already accepted industry best practices -- and supercharging them with generative AI.
The rollout of agentic systems continues this year with expanded capabilities across legal, risk and trade, and compliance domains -- including intelligent workflows for intelligent drafting, employment policy generation,osition analysis, and compliance risk assessments. Many of these experiences already exist within CoCounsel, Westlaw, and Practically Law, but are now being upgraded with full agentic orchestration, where agents not only generate output but plan, execute, and adapt across tools in real time. These systems are: Built for goal-based execution across multi-step legal and compliance tasks; Designed with task-specific tool orchestration to engage both Thomson Reuters and third-party platforms; Governed by human-in-the-loop oversight for safety, accuracy, and accountability; Powered by transparent reasoning and traceable sourcing; Refined with custom LLMs trained by in-house legal, tax, and compliance experts.
The debut of its agentic intelligence is the latest milestone in Thomson Reuters ongoing evolution into a global technology powerhouse.
