We built Donna365 because founders should not be the workflow engine.
Donna365 was not built in a lab. It was built by a Microsoft delivery firm and a working family-law practice, around the way Australian firms actually run matters.
The Microsoft-native technology firm that designs and builds Donna365. Evocate has delivered cloud, licensing and managed services to Australian organisations since 2009, and brings the Microsoft 365, Azure and Dataverse engineering that Donna365 runs on.
Donna365 is built where Australian firms already work, because that is the environment Evocate has spent more than a decade delivering and governing.
The flagship family-law firm whose real matters shaped Donna365's first practice pack. Intake, property settlement, parenting arrangements, chronology work and court-driven deadlines were the operating pressure the product was designed around.
Family law concentrates every risk a small firm carries, which is why it is where Donna365 started. The Family Lawyer is the proving ground, not a hypothetical.
Donna365 is the product. Evocate builds it; The Family Lawyer proves it in live practice.
For nine months I watched the same pattern fail in practice: matters opening five different ways, AI running loose with nobody watching it, reporting rebuilt from scratch every fortnight, and principals working Sundays because they were the only thing holding the firm together.
So I built the assistant I wanted on my own worst weeks. Donna365 is to a principal what Jarvis is to Iron Man. She holds the whole matter in her head, drafts in your voice, watches every deadline, and hands you the next move before you go looking for it. She lives inside the Microsoft 365 your firm already runs on, so none of this means learning another tool.
Donna does not replace the lawyer. She gives the lawyer their evenings back. These days I do not open the firm in the morning wondering what is on fire. I open Donna, and she already knows.
A firm that depends on one person remembering everything has a cap. Donna365 makes the operating discipline live in the system, not in your head.
Lawyer-in-the-loop, matter-scoped retrieval and a complete review trail are product constraints, not afterthoughts.
Stages, owners and deadlines on every matter, surfaced where your firm already works (Teams and Outlook), not buried in another app.
Every external communication requires an explicit lawyer review and approval before it leaves Donna’s drafting surface. There is no auto-send mode, and no override.
Donna retrieves only what the requesting lawyer is permissioned to read in the matter. No cross-matter bleed. No internet retrieval. No training on customer matter content.
Donna actions (prompts, sources, outputs, reviewers and timestamps) are intended to be recorded in a matter-scoped review trail that can support governance and compliance review.
Launch-day buyers need more than confidence language. These signals anchor Donna365's product story in official Microsoft and AUSTRAC guidance, with clear boundaries around what the platform is designed to support.
Donna365 is designed around Outlook, Word, Teams, SharePoint, Dataverse and Entra ID, keeping matter work close to existing identity, permission and administration controls.
For Azure OpenAI and Foundry models sold by Azure, Microsoft documents that prompts, completions, embeddings and training data are not used to train foundation models without permission or instruction.
AUSTRAC states AML/CTF law extends from 1 July 2026 to certain services typically provided by lawyers, conveyancers, accountants and other tranche 2 entities.
Donna365 is designed to capture matter state, AI prompts, sources, outputs, reviewer decisions and timestamps so principals can see what happened without reconstructing work from inboxes.
Trust signals are based on official public sources and Donna365 product design commitments. Compliance remains the firm's responsibility.
Bring one real workflow and we will show how Donna365 can support matter work, governed AI, reporting and rollout inside Microsoft 365.
