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AI Automation for Law Firms

If You Bill by the Hour, Saving Time Costs You Money.

Every supplier selling automation to law firms avoids this sentence, and every partner works it out in the first ten minutes. If the work is chargeable and you do it in half the time, you have just halved the invoice. That does not make automation pointless here — it makes it narrow. There are three places where the arithmetic genuinely works, and an honest supplier should be able to name them before asking you for anything.

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Where the arithmetic worksThree places
Legal analysisNot ours
The Numbers First

Not the chargeable work. These three.

Take an hour out of chargeable work and the saving belongs to your client. Take an hour out of these and it belongs to you.

  • Non-chargeable adminNobody was ever paying for it
  • Fixed-fee and capped mattersWhere speed is margin, directly
  • Time you write off anywayRecorded, then quietly reduced
  • Work that never got billed at allThe overrun nobody put on the bill
  • Matter opening and file setupBefore anything chargeable starts
  • Enquiries that arrive out of hoursRevenue, not cost, if answered

The last row is the one worth arguing about, because it is the only one that adds revenue rather than protecting margin. An enquiry that arrives at eight on a Friday and gets a considered acknowledgement before Monday is a matter you may otherwise never have heard about again. That build has nothing to do with efficiency and it is usually the one we would do first.

Straight Talk

We do not read contracts. We assemble and organise.

A great deal of what is marketed to firms right now is contract review and due diligence — a model reading documents and telling you what they mean. We do not sell that, and the reason is not modesty. We are not lawyers, so we cannot evaluate whether the thing read the clause correctly, and a supplier who cannot check their own output has no business putting it near your matters.

What we can build is everything structural around the documents. Assembling a first draft from your own precedent bank, so nobody starts at a blank page. Indexing and bundling so a file is navigable. Extracting dates and parties into a matter record. Flagging that a document referenced in a schedule is not in the folder. None of that is an opinion about meaning; all of it is work somebody currently does by hand at an hour nobody enjoys.

On confidentiality and privilege the position is short, because our main AI automation page sets it out properly and repeating it here would help nobody: it is a data decision made deliberately and made first, and for some firms it ends with a model running on infrastructure you control. What we will not do is treat that as a box to tick after the demo.

And drafts stay drafts. Anything this produces is a starting point that a qualified person reads, edits and signs. The claim is that nobody starts from nothing — smaller than the market makes it, and one we can actually stand behind.

  • No legal analysis, ever — It needs a qualified lawyer, so we will not sell it.
  • Assembly and organisation, yes — Bundles, indexes, first drafts from your precedents.
  • Out-of-hours capture adds revenue — The only build here that grows the top line.
  • Data decision first — Made deliberately, not after the demo.
  • Nothing here is conduct advice — We name no regulator and cite no rule.
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A supplier who cannot check their own output has no business putting it near your matters.

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Ghalib Ashrafi Founder & Digital Strategist · 12+ years across search, social & web

What we build for a firm

Six builds, and the first one is the only one that adds revenue rather than protecting margin.

01

Out-of-Hours Enquiry Capture

A considered acknowledgement, the right questions asked, and the matter in front of somebody on Monday morning. The only build on this list that adds revenue rather than protecting margin.

02

Drafts From Your Own Precedents

Assembled from the bank your firm has already built and approved, so the starting point is yours rather than a model’s idea of one. It stays a draft and a qualified person writes the version that goes out.

03

Bundling and Indexing

A file somebody can navigate — paginated, indexed, cross-referenced, with a flag when a document named in a schedule is not actually in the folder. Structural work, no opinion about meaning.

04

Matter Opening Without the Afternoon

Parties, dates and references pulled into the matter record from what the client already sent, so the file exists before anybody spends chargeable time creating it.

05

Fixed-Fee Work, Made Faster

Where the fee is agreed, speed is margin and the arithmetic is finally on your side. This is where most firms find the largest genuine return, and it is worth mapping which of your work qualifies.

06

Client Status Updates

“Where has my matter got to” answered from what is genuinely true, without interrupting the fee earner. Reduces the calls that generate no fee and irritate everybody.

ThreePlaces the arithmetic works
NeverLegal analysis we sell
DraftsWhat assembly produces
FirstWhen the data decision is made

What clients say

Real clients, quoted in their own words — published with their permission.

More of them, in full, on our reviews page.

— Our Proprietary Methodology —

The Visibility Framework™, applied in Law Firms

The method doesn’t change by market. What it’s pointed at does.

Step 01

Audit The Hours

Where time actually goes, task by task, scored on volume, repetition and the cost of getting it wrong. Ends in a ranked blueprint with estimated hours saved — yours to keep either way.

Step 02

Design The Guardrails

Before any building: what the agent may touch, where a human must approve, what happens when it is unsure, and which data is never allowed near a third-party model.

Step 03

Build & Evaluate

One workflow at a time, in your accounts, scored against real examples from your business before it touches live work. Shipped early so it meets reality while it is still cheap to change.

Step 04

Run & Improve

Monitored for cost, failures and quality drift. Models change, your business changes, and an automation nobody tends becomes a liability rather than an asset.

Honest, No-Nonsense Commitment

If the audit concludes that a task is not worth automating, we will tell you and refund the difference rather than build it anyway. And if a workflow we built does not hit the outcome we agreed in the blueprint, we keep working on it at no extra cost until it does or we take it out.

Investment

AI Automation pricing for Law Firms, in GBP

Quoted in pounds after the data conversation, because in this sector that conversation decides what is buildable at all. Nothing on this page is legal or professional conduct advice, we name no regulator, and we do not sell contract review or due diligence.

Enquiry Capture

The build that adds revenue.

£2,500 – £5,000
  • Out-of-hours acknowledgement and question set
  • Routed to the right person by matter type
  • No matter substance required to work
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Firm-Wide

Several practice groups, or a local model.

£14,000+
  • Per-group workflows with shared standards
  • Local model deployment where nothing may leave
  • Evaluated against your own matters before going live
  • Optional: combine all 4 services for full-funnel growth
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Every plan is scoped around your market — start with a free first look and we’ll recommend what fits, priced in GBP.

What you’re actually committing to

Most agencies keep this in a contract you only see after the sales call. We would rather you knew now, because it is the question everyone asks second — right after the price.

  • The audit is credited, not sunkPay for the audit, and the full amount comes off the build if you proceed. If you don’t, the blueprint is still yours to hand to anyone else.
  • A fixed build price after the auditQuoted once we know what we are building. If it takes longer than we estimated, that is our risk — the price only moves if you change the scope.
  • You own everythingAccounts, API keys, workflows, prompts, evaluation sets, logs and documentation — all in your name from day one, and still yours if we never work together again.
  • Running costs are yours and visibleAPI usage is billed by the provider directly to you. We never resell tokens or mark up usage, and you see the real number.
  • The retainer is month to month30 days’ notice, no exit fee. Stop it and your automations keep running — you are simply maintaining them yourself.
  • Human approval is the defaultAnything customer-facing or irreversible needs a person until the evaluation data justifies otherwise, and that decision is yours to make, not ours.

These are the terms as they appear in the agreement itself — nothing here is softened for the website. The full wording lives in our terms and conditions, and you get the agreement to read before anything is signed or invoiced.

Law Firms AI Automation questions, answered

If we bill hourly, does automation not just cut our own fees? +
On chargeable work, yes — and any supplier who does not say so is hoping you will not do the arithmetic. It pays in three places: non-chargeable admin, fixed-fee and capped matters where speed is margin, and time you were writing off anyway. Mapping which of your work falls into those three is the first useful conversation.
No. We are not lawyers, so we cannot evaluate whether a model read a clause correctly, and we will not sell output we cannot check. Document assembly, bundling, indexing and extracting dates and parties are structural work we can stand behind. Reading a document for meaning is not.
Usually out-of-hours enquiry capture, because it is the only one that adds revenue rather than protecting margin. An enquiry arriving at eight on a Friday that gets a considered acknowledgement before Monday is a matter you might otherwise never have heard about again.
It will assemble a first draft from your own precedent bank, so the starting point is your firm’s rather than a model’s idea of one, and a qualified person writes the version that goes out. The honest claim is that nobody starts from a blank page — smaller than the market makes it and one we can defend.
It is a data decision, it gets made deliberately and it gets made first — where information goes, what is contracted not to be trained on, and whether a model needs to run on infrastructure you control. Our main AI automation page sets that out properly rather than this page repeating it.
That page is about which hours to target across any firm that sells time. This one is about the billing model deciding whether automation pays you at all — an argument that is specific to hourly work and awkward enough that most suppliers skip it.
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