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2026 Superintelligence Rankings: Every Firm Now Above Average, Several Above Measurement

The new guide recognises excellence in fields created shortly after the entries arrived.

By The Unbillable Rankings Desk · · 3 min read

A long row of identical gold statuettes, each wearing a first-place ribbon
Illustrative image. A long row of identical gold statuettes, each wearing a first-place ribbon

The legal profession has achieved universal technological distinction, according to the 2026 Superintelligence Rankings published by Generally Regarded.

Every participating firm is now either a Leader, a Visionary, an Emerging Visionary or a Leader Whose Vision Is Commercially Sensitive.

None is using the same software as everyone else. Several have supplied screenshots showing that they have changed its name.

The guide retains the established market divisions: the NA10, or North American Top 10, and mid law, which comprises everybody else, irrespective of revenue, headcount or whether the building has the firm’s name on it. The UK edition covers the Super Sisters: seven enormous firms, all named after men, assessed for their distinctively people-centred approach to replacing people.

This year introduces eight superintelligence categories.

New ranking2026 leaderThe assessors’ finding
Artificial General PartnershipPemberton RookIts model can chair eleven committees simultaneously, reconcile every viewpoint and conclude that further discussion is required. Assessed as indistinguishable from leadership.
Partner-Deference IntelligenceWetherby DoddThe system changes a legally correct answer when told which partner asked. In blind testing it agreed with senior equity 100 per cent of the time, including on two contradictory instructions.
Superhuman Commercial ReasoningBellwether VossProduces a convincing eleven-page explanation of why a nine-second task still costs $14,000. The explanation itself is billed separately.
Autonomous Thought LeadershipFrobisher DaneGenerates twelve white papers a week from the same four observations. A landmark report announcing that change is accelerating was updated to confirm that it continues to do so.
Cross-Silo ConsciousnessHargreaves CrakeIts agents know every practice group exists while respecting each group’s wish to proceed as though the others do not. Achieved the highest possible score for confidential collaboration.
Multimodal GravitasAinsworth CleggCan communicate the absence of a decision through text, speech, film, an interactive globe and a partner photographed on stairs.
Predictive PrestigeAlderwick MarchIts forecasting model places it inside the NA10 with 114 per cent confidence. The firm remains eleventh. The discrepancy has been attributed to insufficient ambition in the real-world data.
Posthumous Rainmaking IntelligenceWetherby DoddA deceased partner continues to claim work originated after his funeral. Judges praised the model’s ability to maintain commercial relationships without either party being available.

The overall Beyond Human distinction goes to Bletchley Frost, which employs an AI Director of Culture and has become the first firm able to ignore staff feedback continuously, including during bank holidays.

The methodology has been strengthened. Firms are no longer asked merely whether their technology is exceptional. They must explain how exceptional it is, nominate three people willing to say so and provide a photograph of someone senior next to something digital.

Client outcomes are not assessed. The publisher says this would favour firms whose clients had experienced some.

Submissions are scored by a proprietary system trained on previous award submissions. Its most important breakthrough has been recognising the word “transformative” even when it appears fourteen times in the same paragraph.

Several firms received additional credit for submitting the paragraph as a video.

Alderwick March has welcomed its category win while querying why predictive prestige does not affect its actual position. Generally Regarded has offered the firm a specially licensed NA10 Adjacent badge, suitable for use at a size where the final word becomes less prominent.

The firm has ordered 4,800.

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