Productivity tools for professionals since 2008
Novaplex is a UK software company. Our productivity tools help professionals work faster, stay on brand and reduce risk, from drafting and comparing to cleaning, checking and printing, built into the Microsoft Office Suite.
Since 2008 we’ve worked with law firms, accountancy firms and corporates to make everyday work in the Microsoft Office Suite faster, more consistent and lower risk. From Template Studio to Compare, Metaminder, Transform and DocsIQ, every product is built for the way professional teams work.
Built for professional services
Law firms, accountancy firms and corporate legal teams rely on our software for documents that carry risk and reputation.
Inside the tools you already use
Everything works in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook, with your document management system.
Software and services together
Our team designs templates, implements, trains and supports, so you work with the people who know your setup.
Leadership team
Decades of experience inside law firms, financial services and legal technology, now focused on your documents.
Michelle Langton
CEO and Founder
Michelle spent the early part of her career inside three of the City’s big law firms: Nabarro, Allen & Overy and Herbert Smith. That is where Novaplex came from. Document production is where brand, compliance and wasted effort all collide, and she had watched firms quietly lose on all three.
Before founding Novaplex she worked as a consultant across professional services and the public sector, including an IT review for an NHS Trust, a large property company and many other businesses, improving processes and quality.
Matthew Mulder
Technology & Innovation
Matthew knows the inside of a Word document better than almost anyone. Eighteen years as enterprise architect at Workshare, then principal engineer at Litera, then Novaplex, a career spent automating Office applications and wrestling with binary and Open XML formats. He holds three patents in document security and collaborative editing, builds testable WPF front ends on .NET Core, and has integrated with most of the document management systems you’ve heard of: SharePoint, iManage, NetDocuments, WorldDox, OpenText.
His stated position on technology choices is that the right tool for the job wins, whatever it happens to be. C# to Node.js, no religion about it.
Sarah Lafis
Commercial
Sarah sells software to legal and professional services teams across EMEA, and has done since long before anyone called it legal tech. Eight years at DocsCorp as senior account manager, then sales leadership at Litera and Tessaract, then Novaplex, first as Sales Director EMEA and now running commercial as a whole. She works direct and through channel, and knows which one a given market actually wants.
Before all of that she spent ten years as editor in chief of a cycling magazine, which turns out to be excellent training for explaining technical things to people who care deeply about them.
Based in Stockholm.
Paul Darby
Sales Engineering
Paul’s job is the demo that survives contact with reality. He leads sales engineering at Novaplex after a decade doing the same at DocsCorp, Litera and Tessaract, including a stint as global head of pre-sales. Before that he was consulting on document and content management at Phoenix and Calvis. Earlier still, sixteen years at NatWest running desktop services, which means he has seen enterprise IT from the inside as well as from the sell side.
Useful consequence: he can tell you what a rollout will actually cost the people who have to live with it.
Stephen Edwards
Client Services & Delivery
Stephen has run client services and delivery at Novaplex since 2013. He came from Capita, where he spent a decade as an EDRMS and business consultant helping public sector organisations move from paper to properly managed digital records, and three years before that in training and policy.
PRINCE2 certified, but the actual skill is stakeholder management: knowing who needs to be in the room, and what they need to hear before they’ll say yes.
Secure, certified and well connected
ISO 27001:2022 certified
Novaplex holds ISO 27001:2022 certification for information security management. Certificate No: 512672026.
Partners and integrations
We work with Microsoft, iManage, NetDocuments and Epona, so our products fit into the systems your firm already runs. We also provide integrations with CRM, SQL and many other systems to support data-driven document workflows.
Talk to the Novaplex team
Ask us about any product, or arrange a demo built around your firm’s documents.