Fixed-fee sprint

Outside Counsel AI Supplement & Firm Assessment

Put AI terms in your guidelines, then find out how your panel actually answers them.

The problem

Your outside counsel guidelines were written before any of this. Your firms are using AI on your matters, and you have no stated position on disclosure, confidentiality, review or how the efficiency is shared.

The evidence

  • 2%

    of 1,054 outside counsel guidelines mention AI at all.

    Fulkerson Advisors, September 2026

  • 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

What you get

  • AI supplement for your outside counsel guidelines, drafted for your counsel to approve
  • Firm questionnaire covering tools, confidentiality, human review and rate treatment
  • Scoring rubric so answers can be compared across the panel
  • Read-out of the responses received during the sprint, scored
  • Follow-up list by firm, ranked by exposure

How it works

  1. WEEK 1

    Baseline

    Read your current guidelines and panel list. Agree the positions you want to take on disclosure, review and rate treatment.

  2. WEEK 2

    Design

    Draft the supplement and the questionnaire. Your counsel reviews the language; we issue the questionnaire to the panel.

  3. WEEK 3

    Prove

    Score the responses that arrive, brief you on the gaps, and hand over the rubric for the firms that reply later.

Every engagement leaves an instrument behind. Here it is: A scoring rubric you reuse at every panel review.

What it costs

Fixed fee

3 weeks

Sprint fees are confirmed in writing when we scope the work, usually within one business day of your note.

What it does not include

We draft for your counsel to approve; we do not give legal advice and we do not negotiate with your firms. Firms reply on their own schedule, so the read-out covers responses received inside the three weeks — the rubric lets you score the rest yourself.

What it typically leads to

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