What this looks like in the work
The same five stages, applied to the work legal teams actually ask for. Each one names what it needs from you, where the human stays in the loop, and how we would know it worked. Every one of these starts as a sprint.
These are descriptions of our approach, not accounts of client engagements.
The same five stages, every time
Whatever the use case, the order does not change: find out what is true, measure it before changing it, design where the human sits, ship something real, then prove it against the baseline.
STAGE 1
Evidence
What is actually happening — in the data, in the contracts, and in what people do when nobody is presenting. We interview, sample and read before proposing anything.
STAGE 2
Baseline
Measure it before we change it: time, cost, error rate, review effort. A claim of improvement is worthless without the number it improved on.
STAGE 3
Design
Decide the approach and where a human has to be. Retrieval, routing, review points, privacy and IP positions — signed off by the people who own the risk.
STAGE 4
Ship
Build and release in slices, against an evaluation set, with guardrails and a way back. Something real is in use before the engagement ends.
STAGE 5
Prove
Report against the baseline, including the parts that did not improve. Then decide what is worth doing next, on evidence rather than enthusiasm.
Prove feeds the next Baseline.
For legal departments
The work that reaches production tends to sit close to a process the team already runs.
NDA and vendor-paper review
First-pass review against your playbook, with the exceptions routed to a lawyer.
Walk through it →Legal front door and triage
One way in, questions answered at the door, the rest routed with context attached.
Walk through it →Contract lifecycle and self-service intake
Standard agreements the business can start itself, without losing the record.
Walk through it →Policy and playbook assistant
Answers from your own policies, with the citation attached.
Walk through it →Matter and spend analytics
Numbers about firms, rates and staffing that survive a conversation with finance.
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For law firms
Practice groups, knowledge management, litigation and transactional teams — with privilege and ethical walls designed in.
Contract analysis and abstraction
Key terms out of a contract set, with every value traceable to its clause.
Walk through it →Due-diligence acceleration
First-pass review of the data room, with the issues surfaced for a lawyer to judge.
Walk through it →Deposition and discovery summarization
Summaries and issue-coded extracts with citations back to the transcript line.
Walk through it →Knowledge search across the document system
Find the firm's own best work, with the walls respected.
Walk through it →Drafting and research assistance
First drafts from the firm's own precedent, with sources a lawyer can check.
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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 →