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Per-matter margin, on the bench.

Time capture, conflict checks, billable hours, and the trust account — on rails so the practitioners practice.

Solo · partner-led · regional
Compliance-aware build
WIP-to-bill, typical
Realised hours, year one
Law firms Solo · partner-led · regionalUK SRA Compliance-aware build−11 days WIP-to-bill, typical+22% Realised hours, year one
The law firms stack

Six instruments, calibrated.

Time capture, conflict checks, billable hours, and the trust account — on rails so the practitioners practice. Built for UK law firms.

01 · Matter management

Conflicts, openings, retainer caps.

Every new instruction routed through conflicts and KYC before a partner says yes. Retainer caps watched, not assumed.

  • Conflict screen on intake
  • Engagement letter generation
  • Retainer cap monitoring
  • Clio, MyCase, LEAP-friendly
02 · Time capture

Bench-friendly time entry, end-of-day done.

Lightweight capture that fee-earners actually use. Per-matter, per-task, per-fee-earner — so realisation is calculable, not guessed.

  • One-click timer
  • Voice-note to time entry
  • Auto-categorisation
  • Clio, LEAP, custom
03 · Billing & trust

WIP-to-bill in days, not the partner's weekend.

Pre-bills generated on schedule, partner review on the iPad, trust account reconciled with the ledger. SRA-aware throughout.

  • Scheduled pre-bills
  • Trust ledger reconciliation
  • Disbursement tracking
  • Clio + Xero, IOLTA-aware
04 · Document automation

Engagement letters, contracts, court filings, templated.

Templates the firm actually uses — parameterised, version-controlled, auditable. One source of truth, not seventeen Word files.

  • Engagement letter generator
  • Contract templates
  • Court filing kits
  • HotDocs, Lexis Smart Forms
05 · KYC / AML

Verify on instruction, monitor on-going.

Initial ID + AML at instruction, on-going monitoring through the matter, audit trail for the SRA inspection nobody enjoys.

  • ID + sanctions screening
  • PEP & adverse-media monitoring
  • Source-of-funds capture
  • Onfido, Thirdfort, SmartSearch
06 · BrainBase

Precedents, templates, opinions — owned and indexed.

The firm's drafting brain, searchable. Junior fee-earners find the right precedent in seconds, not the wrong one in twenty minutes.

  • Precedent library
  • Opinion archive
  • Template index
  • AI-assisted retrieval
Sample engagement

The mid-size firm that billed eleven days faster.

Ten lawyers. Three partners. WIP-to-bill at nineteen days, average.

A regional firm ran on Clio for matters but did pre-bills in Excel and trust reconciliation by hand. Three-week build: scheduled pre-bills generated from approved time, partner-review queue on iPad, trust ledger reconciled to Xero nightly. Six months in: WIP-to-bill cut from 19 days to 8, realisation up four points, partner Sundays returned.

How we measure: WIP-to-bill measured as date of last fee-earner time entry to date of bill issue, weighted by matter value across 84 active matters; realisation = billed / recorded hours, rolling quarter.

−11 daysWIP-to-bill, average
+4ptsrealisation, year one
9 hrspartner admin saved / week
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Map the practice.

Bring a recent matter, a pre-bill, and the trust ledger. We diagnose from the numbers.