Your clients are already asking
Buyers are prepared to move work over AI value, almost none of them can see what your firm is doing, and your own margin is leaking through write-offs and a collection cycle that keeps stretching. Both problems are measurable, which means both are fixable.
Client pressure is already here
The pressure does not arrive as a complaint. It arrives as a question in a panel review, a clause in revised guidelines, or a request for reporting you do not currently produce.
The firms that answer well are not the ones with the most licenses. They are the ones who can describe, specifically, what they use, on what work, with what review, and what it changed.
68%
of buyers would consider changing a firm that isn't delivering clear AI value, within five years.
Thomson Reuters Legal Department Operations Report, 2026
11%
are already reconsidering their firms over AI value.
Thomson Reuters Legal Department Operations Report, 2026
3%
think most firms already deliver AI value.
Thomson Reuters Legal Department Operations Report, 2026
Two-thirds
of clients have no visibility into how their firms use AI.
Thomson Reuters Legal Department Operations Report, 2026
The question to ask yourself
If your largest client asked today what AI you use on their matters, who writes the answer?
If it is assembled from scratch by whoever is free that week, the readiness review is the sprint to run first.
Then there is realization
Standard rates have gone up. Collected rates have not kept pace. Write-offs are expected to rise again, work in progress is aging, and cash arrives nearly three weeks later than it did in 2019.
Every one of those is traceable to behavior — scoping, staffing, billing narrative, timing — and every one of them shows up in data the firm already holds.
88%
of firms expect write-offs to rise.
BigHand, 2026
115 → 134
days: the law firm collection cycle, 2019 to 2024.
Citi Hildebrandt, 2026
20%
of matters stay within their outside counsel budget.
Gartner, December 2025
What we build for firms
Practice groups, knowledge management, litigation and transactional teams — with tools that respect privilege and ethical walls.
- Contract analysis and abstraction
- Due-diligence acceleration
- Deposition and discovery summarization
- Knowledge search across your document system
- Matter intake and triage
- Drafting and research assistance
Fixed-fee sprints
Two to three weeks, one approver, a deliverable you keep whatever happens next.
- 3 weeks
AI Tooling Reality Check
What you own, what you use, and what the demo did not show.
Sprint details → - 3 weeks
Client AI Readiness Review
Answer the AI questions your clients are about to ask — before the panel review.
Sprint details → - 2 weeks
AI Governance Quick-Start
A firm-wide AI policy that respects privilege, and a list of what is approved.
Sprint details → - 3 weeks
Leakage Teardown
Where realization is lost between the timesheet and the payment.
Sprint details →
Programs
Three to six months, scoped after evidence rather than before it.
- 3–6 months
Realization & Rate Integrity
Close the gap between the rate you set and the cash you collect.
Program details → - 3–6 months
AI Adoption & Enablement
Get AI into the work your fee earners actually do, with evidence for clients.
Program details → - 4–6 months
Data & KM Foundation
Make your own work findable, so AI has something good to work with.
Program details → - Ongoing, monthly
Fractional Chief AI Officer
Senior AI ownership for the firm, without a full-time hire.
Program details →
Start with one sprint
Two to three weeks, one approver, a deliverable you keep. Tell us the problem and we'll come back within one business day with a scope, a date and a fee.
Scope a sprint →