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AI for mid-market law firms.

Custom AI systems for 20-150 attorney firms where partner time is the product, and half of it is lost to admin. Fixed fee, working prototype before you pay, code owned by your firm at handoff.

Audience20-150 attorneys
Revenue range$8M-$50M
Cycle7-10 day prototype, 4-6 week build
Recent evidence$1.4M unbilled time recovered, Q1
I · The pattern

"Partner time is the product, and half of it is lost to admin."

The mid-market law firm has a peculiar problem. It is large enough to feel the cost of partner-hour leakage in painful absolute terms, and small enough that an in-house innovation team is not going to fix it. The Big Law innovation playbook, with three-person Knowledge Management teams and a Director of Practice Innovation, does not translate to 50 attorneys.

What translates is a custom AI system, commissioned to your firm's matter taxonomy, time-keeper templates, document management structure, and billing rules. Built in 4-6 weeks, on a fixed fee, inside your own Azure or AWS tenant, owned by your firm at handoff. That is what we do.

Across forty engagements with mid-market firms, we have seen the same five points of leakage often enough that we know the shape of the problem before the diagnosis call. Below, the patterns. Then the systems we typically build to remove them.

II · Five patterns we see in 8 of 10 firms

What is bleeding your firm, this month.

Pattern recognition · forty firms audited

Each pattern below comes with a dollarized recovery range, calibrated against firms in the $8M-$50M revenue band.

01Unbilled partner time, every month, every firm.Recovery range: $400K-$2M annually. Partners writing time descriptions on Friday afternoon for work done Monday-Wednesday. Reconstructions are vague, conservative, or skipped. Captured-but-uninvoiced is half the problem; unwritten is the other half. Custom matter-aware time capture solves both.01Of five
02Associate ramp is a two-year drag on the P&L.Recovery range: 6-12 months of effective ramp time per associate. Institutional knowledge lives in partner heads and dead memo databases. A custom RAG system over the firm's matter archive turns a year-one associate into a year-three contributor for retrieval-heavy tasks (research, prior-work review, client-history lookups).02Of five
03Intake leakage at the front door.Recovery range: 8-22% of qualified leads. The phone rings, the form fills, the email comes in. By the time a partner sees it, the prospect has called two other firms. We build the AI intake layer that triages, qualifies, schedules, and hands off, with the firm's voice, in the firm's matter language, before the prospect leaves the page.03Of five
04Document review and matter summarization, manually, every week.Recovery range: 200-400 partner hours per quarter. Discovery review, deposition summarization, contract redlines, policy comparisons. The custom-AI version is not Spellbook or Harvey generic; it is trained on your firm's clauses, your judges, your opposing counsel patterns. Built once, used on every matter that fits.04Of five
05Knowledge evaporates when partners retire or laterals leave.Recovery range: 15-30% of historical institutional value, preserved. Twenty years of memos, briefs, and matter archives, archived and forgotten because nobody had time to ingest them. We build the retrieval layer with permissions intact, so the firm keeps what it paid for and the next lateral hire benefits from your last decade of work.05Of five
III · What we build, in this industry

Five system shapes.

Drawn from real engagements

Each shape is a 4-6 week build, fixed-fee, on your data, in your tenant. Specifics vary by firm.

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Matter-aware time capture & billing reconstruction

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Associate-hours research RAG (iManage, NetDocuments)

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AI intake triage & conflict-clearance

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Discovery review & matter summarization

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Knowledge ingestion with permissions intact

Evidence · Q1 engagement

$1.4M of unbilled partner time, recovered in a single quarter at a 47-attorney litigation firm.

7-week build. Fixed fee. Inside the firm's own Azure tenant. Owned by the firm at handoff.

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IV · The diagnostic, free

Run your firm's number.

12 questions, 2 minutes

The Billable-Hour Recovery Diagnostic produces a personalized leakage figure on screen, plus a 3-page peer-benchmarked report.

The Billable-Hour Recovery Diagnostic.

Your firm's annual unbilled-time leakage in dollars, plus a peer-benchmarked rank against forty audited firms. No follow-up call unless you book one.

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Free · 2 minutes
Personalized $ figure
3-page peer-ranked report
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V · Frequently asked

Common questions.

Q1What size law firms do you work with?20-150 attorneys, typically billing $8M-$50M. We do not work with AmLaw 100 firms (they have in-house innovation teams) or solos under 15 attorneys.SizingFAQ
Q2How is this different from Harvey, Spellbook, or CoCounsel?Off-the-shelf tools are trained on the average firm. Your firm is not the average. Custom AI is commissioned to your matter taxonomy, your time-keeper templates, your iManage structure, and your billing rules. The leakage we recover is the leakage off-the-shelf does not see.VendorsFAQ
Q3What does an engagement cost?$45K-$180K fixed-fee, scoped against the constraint identified in the diagnosis call. We build a working prototype on real firm data within 7-10 days at no cost. Payment begins after the prototype works.PricingFAQ
Q4Where does the AI run? On our data?Inside your firm's own cloud tenant (Azure, AWS, or Google) under NDA. Code is owned by your firm at handoff. Client data does not leave your environment.SecurityFAQ
Q5Do you replace associates or paralegals?No. Across all engagements to date, zero associates or paralegals have been replaced. The pattern is consistent: firms reclaim partner hours and ramp associates faster, then choose to grow rather than shrink.TeamFAQ
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