For law firms & solicitors
AI and automation for solicitors who want their fee earners back on billable work.
Enquiries, intake, attendance notes, chasers, file opening, client updates: a small firm runs on admin its fee earners do between matters. We build the automation and AI that take it off them, inside Clio, LEAP or Actionstep, with a solicitor signing off every step.
Why a firm's fee earners spend their day on admin.
- 01New enquiries wait. The phone and the web form land in someone's inbox, and by the time it's answered the client has instructed the firm that replied first.
- 02Fee earners do admin. Attendance notes, file opening, chasers, ID checks and client updates eat hours that should be billed.
- 03Documents are drafted from the last matter. Precedents live on someone's desktop and every engagement letter is edited by hand.
- 04Nobody can see the whole caseload. Which matters are stalled, which deadlines are close, which clients are waiting, lives in people's heads.
What it is
Automation and AI built for how a small UK firm actually runs, inside your case management system. Enquiries answered and qualified in minutes, intake and onboarding that run themselves, first drafts from your own precedents, attendance notes and chasers written for you, and one view of the caseload. A solicitor signs off everything that reaches a client or a court.
Who it's for
Law firms with 5 to 25 fee earners: conveyancing, private client, family, employment, litigation or commercial. The partners can see the admin, the SRA has told them to be careful with AI, and nobody in-house has the time to build it properly.
Map the matters
A 48-hour audit of where fee-earner time goes: intake, file opening, drafting, chasing, updates. You keep the map whether or not we build.
Build the first automation
Usually enquiry response and intake, because that is where instructions are won and lost. Live in two to four weeks, inside your case management system.
Connect the firm
Case management, inbox, calendar and documents joined into one system, with a daily brief for the partners on deadlines, stalled matters and WIP.
Run and extend
Hosted, monitored and extended month by month, with every new automation checked against the SRA guidance before it goes live.
- Enquiries answered, qualified and booked in minutes, around the clock
- Client intake from first contact to signed engagement letter, tracked and chased
- First drafts from your own precedents, never from the public internet
- Attendance notes and client updates written up from the call for the fee earner to approve
- Chasing of documents, ID and signatures that stops the moment the client responds
- One view of the caseload: deadlines, stalled matters, WIP, who is waiting on whom
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Built inside the systems your firm already runs.
The case management system stays the system of record. We build on its API, so a matter opened, a note filed or a chaser sent by the automation looks exactly like one a fee earner did, and shows up in the same audit trail.
Proof so far
We have not published a law-firm case study yet, and we would rather say so than invent one. The nearest builds are alongside, and the first firm we build for gets the case study written about them, with their numbers and their name if they want it.
What we have shipped
An AI email responder that reads every new enquiry for a premium service business and drafts the reply for the owner to approve, a £3,000 build. Meeting-intelligence software for a UK accountancy firm that turns each client call into a summary, actions and a read on risks and opportunities, £7,500. Proposal e-signature with the signed document filed automatically, built for our own practice.
Built for a profession the regulator is watching.
- A solicitor reviews and signs off anything that reaches a client, a court or the other side. The AI drafts; the fee earner decides. That is the control the SRA warning notice on the misuse of AI asks for.
- Drafting from your own precedents only. Nothing cites an authority a person has not checked, and nothing is sent to a consumer AI product.
- Business tiers only, so the AI providers do not train on your clients' data. Data stays in the UK or EU wherever the tool allows it.
- Procurement the way the Law Society's Buying new technology guide describes it: named tools, named data flows, a written record of what the system may and may not do. Its Generative AI: the essentials is the reading we start from.
- A data protection impact assessment on request, following the ICO's guidance on AI and data protection. Access scoped per fee earner, every automated action logged.
- You own what we build: the code, the documentation, the data. No lock-in to us or to a platform.
What it costs, before you book.
Free
Thirty minutes. We show you where fee-earner hours are going and what to fix first. You keep the map whether or not we work together.
£997
A 48-hour deep dive into your firm's systems, workflows and gaps, with a prioritised action plan.
£5k to £15k
Most firm builds land here: enquiry handling and intake, drafting from precedents, chasing, or the partners' caseload view. Scoped and quoted after the audit.
£4,995 + £995/mo
Everything connected, a daily partners' brief and the first automation, live in 14 days or refunded. Then hosted, monitored and extended every month.
Guides for law firms, in depth.
Law firmsAI Policy for Law Firms: A Free Template Built Around the SRA Warning NoticeThe SRA received 42 reports of AI misuse in a year and published a warning notice. The Law Society's guidance tells you to follow your firm's AI policy. Most firms with fewer than 25 fee earners do not have one. Here is a policy you can adopt as it stands.
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Law firmsClio Automations: 12 Workflows a UK Law Firm Can Run TodayMost firms on Clio use it as a filing cabinet with a billing engine attached. The automation is already in the subscription, and the API takes it further than most firms realise. Here are twelve workflows, in the order most firms should switch them on.
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Law firmsAI for Solicitors in the UK After the SRA Warning Notice: A Plain-English GuideThe warning notice did not ban anything. It said what it has always said about responsibility, and named the ways AI is being used to fall short of it. Here is what it means for a small firm that wants the benefit without the referral.
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Law firmsClio vs LEAP vs Actionstep for Automation: Which Case Management System Builds Best?All three will run a firm. They differ sharply on how much you can build on top. Here is the comparison that matters if automation is the reason you are choosing, with what each vendor publishes and what we could not verify.
Read it →Law firmsLaw Firm Client Intake Automation: From First Enquiry to Signed Engagement LetterInstructions are won in the first hour after an enquiry and lost in the week of emails that follows. Here is the intake process a 5 to 25 fee-earner firm can run automatically, step by step, and the one place a solicitor must stay in it.
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Law firmsAI Receptionist for Solicitors: What to Automate and What the SRA Won't Let YouHalf the pitches for AI receptionists would get a solicitor a complaint. Here is the version that works in a regulated firm: what it answers, what it hands over, and the four things it is never allowed to do.
Read it →Law firmsLegal Document Automation in the UK: Templates, Precedents and Where AI Drafting Is SafeDocument automation is three different things that get sold under one name. Most firms need the first two before the third is safe. Here is what each layer does, what it costs in effort, and the rule that keeps AI drafting inside the SRA's lines.
Read it →AI for law firms, questions answered.
Yes, if the firm stays in control. The SRA's August 2026 warning notice on the misuse of AI is about unchecked output: hallucinated citations and client data in unsafe tools. Everything we build drafts for a solicitor to approve, runs on business tiers that do not train on your data, and never files or sends anything on its own.
Clio, LEAP, Actionstep and Proclaim, plus DocuSign, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Teams, Slack and your CRM. We build on the live APIs. If a system has an API or a reliable export it can join; if it has neither, we tell you before you spend anything.
Client data stays in your systems and in business-tier AI services under contracts that forbid training on it, in the UK or EU where the tool allows. Access is scoped per fee earner, every automated action is logged, and privileged material is never sent to a consumer AI product.
A discovery call is free. The Scaleability Audit is £997 and gives you the map whether or not we build. Most firm builds land between £5,000 and £15,000, scoped after the audit. AIOS Foundation is £4,995, then £995 a month to host, monitor and extend it.
We draft from your own precedents, never from the open internet, and only as a first draft for a solicitor to review. Court documents and anything citing authority are checked by a person before they leave the firm. The 42 misuse cases the SRA reported in a year are exactly what that step prevents.
The first automation, usually enquiry handling and intake, is typically live within two to four weeks of the audit. AIOS Foundation goes live in 14 days or you get your money back. Builds are planned around your completions and court dates, not ours.
It produces the records they ask for: logged actions, documented processes, consistent client care letters and chasers. We do not claim a build makes you Lexcel compliant, that is your assessor's call, but the evidence is generated as you work rather than assembled before a visit.
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Whether it's AIOS, consulting, software or automation, we'll map where the time and money are leaking and what would give you the most back. No obligation, you keep the map.
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