For mediation & dispute resolution practices
Prep cases faster. Summarize positions accurately. Keep the mediation itself untouched.
Independent mediators and small ADR practices in family law, civil, commercial, and workplace mediation. Case preparation eats time; the mediation itself is the product. We reduce the prep time so more mediations happen per week.
Serving North America jurisdiction-specific requirements confirmed during scoping
Mediation is the legal-adjacent vertical where AI most clearly must stay outside the core work. The mediator's value is trust, neutrality, and the ability to read a room, none of which are AI-appropriate domains. What AI can legitimately do in this vertical is reduce the time the mediator spends on case preparation, document summary, memorandum drafting, and post-mediation documentation.
The operational load for independent mediators typically includes: reviewing position statements from both sides before a session (often 20-100 pages per side), preparing session agendas, drafting any mediator briefs or neutral evaluations, managing scheduling across parties and counsel, and post-session documentation including settlement memoranda when cases resolve. Most of this is front-and-back-of-session work that eats time the mediator could otherwise spend on more mediations.
AI-assisted workflows here focus on position-statement summarization with mediator review, document review triage for civil and commercial matters, scheduling coordination across multiple parties and counsel, drafted settlement memoranda for mediator approval, and session-prep materials assembly. Nothing AI-driven enters the mediation room. Nothing automates the mediator's judgment. Parties never interact with AI as part of the mediation process.
This page is not legal, regulatory, tax, or professional advice. Data handling and jurisdiction-specific requirements are documented in the engagement scope; no control or certification is implied. Read the scoped data-handling approach.
What we'd automate first
Where a carefully scoped workflow may earn its keep.
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60-70% less prep time
Pre-session review of position statements eating hours
Reading 50-200 pages of position statements before each mediation session consumes mediator time disproportionate to the session itself. AI-assisted summarization (mediator reviews to verify) cuts prep time 60-70% without losing essential points.
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Scheduling coordination across parties and counsel
Finding a session time that works for 4-8 people across 2-3 firms is manually expensive. Automated scheduling with constraint matching and proposal-round management speeds coordination.
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Settlement memoranda drafting after successful mediation
Settlement memoranda often need to be drafted the same day. First-draft assembly with mediator review (and counsel review before signing) speeds this step considerably.
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Billing for blocks of time that spanned preparation and session
Tracking time across prep, session, and post-session work is error-prone. Structured tracking improves billing accuracy.
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Intake questionnaire inconsistency
Different case types require different intake information. Structured intake that branches appropriately for family, civil, commercial, or workplace mediation captures the right information per case type.
Solo family law mediator: case prep and scheduling
A solo family-law mediator handling about 8-12 mediations per month was spending roughly 2-3 hours of prep per session reviewing position statements, plus significant time on scheduling coordination. We deployed position-statement summarization with mediator review plus scheduling automation. Prep time per session dropped to under an hour; scheduling time dropped to near zero. The mediator was able to accept 3-4 additional mediations per month from existing capacity.
Result: Prep time: 2-3 hrs → <1 hr per session; capacity +30-40%Rough numbers first
Estimate the opportunity in your own numbers.
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Common questions
Questions to resolve before implementation.
Will AI ever be in the mediation room?
No. Nothing automated is present during mediation sessions. AI supports prep and post-session work only.
How do you handle confidentiality of position statements?
The required data handling, vendors, access, review steps, and jurisdiction-specific obligations are identified during scoping and documented in writing. No certification, agreement, hosting model, or technical control should be assumed from this page.
Is this for solo mediators or larger ADR firms?
Both. Larger ADR firms often have administrative staff who benefit from the scheduling and billing automations; solos benefit most from prep-time compression.
Describe what is actually happening in this workflow.
Glen replies in writing with whether a Nano-Pilot fits or the honest answer is “not yet.”
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