For solo & small-firm law offices
Qualify prospects before you meet them. Draft boilerplate in minutes. Bill the hours you actually worked.
Solo practitioners and 2-10 attorney firms across general practice, business, estate, and civil litigation. The operational ceiling is almost always administrative, not legal. We raise the ceiling.
Serving North America jurisdiction-specific requirements confirmed during scoping
Small and solo law practices live with a particular math problem. The attorneys are the revenue. Every minute an attorney spends qualifying a prospect who isn't a match, drafting a document from scratch that could be assembled from a template, or reconstructing Tuesday's time entries from memory on Friday, is a minute not spent on billable work. In a solo practice, those minutes are the difference between a good week and a grinding one. In a small firm, they're the difference between the firm growing and the firm stagnating.
The three highest-impact automations for this niche are usually the same, in order: structured intake that qualifies prospects against firm-specific criteria (practice area, geography, conflict check, budget fit) before attorney time is spent; first-draft document assembly for routine work (engagement letters, NDAs, standard motions, discovery requests) with mandatory attorney review; and time-tracking reconstruction that combines email, calendar, and document-activity data into reviewable time entries the attorney approves or edits.
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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Attorney intake time cut 70%+
60-80% of intake inquiries aren't matters
Structured intake that pre-qualifies practice area, conflicts, geography, and budget before attorney time is spent converts attorney intake hours into attorney billable hours.
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4-8 hrs saved per routine matter
Attorneys drafting at $300/hr what paralegals should draft at $85
Routine documents (NDAs, engagement letters, standard motions, discovery) get drafted by attorneys because there's nobody else. First-draft assembly with attorney review typically saves 4-8 hours per matter on routine categories.
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5-10% billing uplift
Time tracking reconstructed from memory on Friday
Attorneys consistently under-bill because they rebuild the week from memory. AI-assisted reconstruction from emails, calendar, and document activity typically recovers 5-10% of billable hours.
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Client-status inquiries clogging the inbox
'What's happening with my case?', answered ad-hoc. Matter-status automation (drafted summaries from case activity, attorney reviews before sending) cuts inquiry volume and raises satisfaction.
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Conflict checks and intake compliance paperwork
Ethics-rule conflict checks and fee agreement generation are rote but mandatory. Automation that assembles and logs the paperwork properly reduces both the chore and the risk of a missed step.
3-attorney general practice: intake and drafting
A three-attorney general practice firm in the Midwest was receiving about 140 intake inquiries per month. Partner intake time averaged 28 minutes per inquiry, and the conversion rate from inquiry to engaged matter was 24%. We built a structured intake that pre-qualified on practice area, conflicts, geography, and budget, and routed only qualified prospects to a partner for a 15-minute fit conversation. Partner intake time dropped to an average of 9 minutes per qualified prospect; conversion from qualified prospect to matter rose because conversations started better-prepared. First-draft document assembly for engagement letters and standard motions saved an additional 5-7 hours per matter on average. The firm's overall capacity rose by roughly one-third without adding attorneys.
Result: Attorney intake time 28 min → 9 min; firm capacity +33%Rough numbers first
Estimate the opportunity in your own numbers.
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Common questions
Questions to resolve before implementation.
Do you work with Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball, or Rocket Matter?
All of them plus smaller platforms.
How do you handle privilege?
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.
Will an AI draft a brief that gets cited in court?
No. We don't generate case law, we don't auto-file anything, and nothing with legal consequence gets submitted without attorney review. The attorney of record is always responsible.
What about the lawyers who have been disciplined over AI hallucinations?
The pattern in those cases is: attorneys used consumer AI tools ad-hoc, without verification, and cited hallucinated authorities. Our workflows don't generate citations at all; research, when used, is restricted to verified sources and always requires attorney verification before inclusion.
Solo practitioner, is this overkill?
Often not. Solo practices usually have the worst intake-qualification and time-tracking problems, both of which a narrow Nano-Pilot addresses.
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.”
Send a written intakeRelated industry paths
Selected related paths.
- Triage the financial disclosure. Draft the routine motions. Manage emotional clients without losing your evenings. Family law is uniquely document-heavy and uniquely emotionally draining. We compress the document work and stabilize the client-communication cadence so attorneys have the bandwidth for the work that only attorneys can do.
- Qualify prospects against visa categories before the consult. Assemble the forms. Track every USCIS deadline. Immigration practices of all sizes, from solo to 20-attorney firms. The intake bottleneck is real, the form work is substantial, and the deadline stakes are existential for clients. We build inside the reality of both.
- 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.