Legal technology consultancy
From buy to build to run.
We help law firms and legal teams choose the right technology, build what the market does not sell, and run it on infrastructure they control. We work in the open: BigLaw is free and open source, and our Documents intake is shown as a sample.
What we do
Four ways to work with us.
Pick one, or move through them as the firm’s needs change: select a tool, build the gap, have it run for you, keep a technical lead on call. Prices on request.
Buy
Choose the right tools, on your terms.
Independent selection for firms buying legal technology: what you actually need, which vendors deliver it, and what the contract should say about your data.
- Needs assessment across practice groups
- Market scan and shortlist
- Scripted vendor demos on your matters
Build
Build what the market does not sell.
Custom intake, document automation, AI-assisted workflows with verification gates, and the integrations that tie them to the systems your firm already runs.
- Client intake and interview flows
- Document assembly from structured facts
- AI workflows with human review gates
Run
Managed services for the systems you rely on.
Hosting, monitoring, updates, backups and support for what we build or what you choose, including open-source platforms like BigLaw, on infrastructure you control.
- Deployment on your cloud or on-premises
- Monitoring, patching and backups
- Model-provider and cost management
Advise
Technical leadership without the headcount.
Strategy, roadmap, AI governance and build-versus-buy decisions for firms and legal teams, on retainer or for a defined project.
- Technology roadmap and budget
- AI use policy and risk review
- Build-versus-buy analysis
Our own work
Two things we built and give away.
They are how we work in public: the same verification-first approach we bring to client engagements. BigLaw is open source and free to run; Documents is shown as a sample walkthrough.
Sample walkthrough · Ontario
discover.legal Documents
A guided interview turns a client’s story into organized Ontario family-law drafts, in the vocabulary the court uses. Shown here as a scripted sample with a fictional client.
- Interview once; every document fills from the same record
- Every fact keeps the words it came from
- A missing fact becomes a Draft note, never an invention
- A recorded demo: no accounts, nothing sent, nothing saved
Free · Open source · Experimental
BigLaw
An open-source legal AI platform: research, drafting, redlining, e-signatures, docketing and billing, orchestrated by a bench of agents with a verification protocol between every finding and the page.
- Apache-2.0, self-hosted, one static Go binary
- Runs on local models or your provider of choice
- Human gate before low-confidence findings reach synthesis
- Built for solos, boutiques and small firms
How we work
The same rules for what we build and what we recommend.
Verification before output
Nothing an AI writes reaches a page without a check against the record. We build it that way, and we buy it that way.
Your data, your infrastructure
Client data stays in an environment you control. Open models and self-hosting are always on the table.
Open source where it counts
Our own platform is public and free. When we build for you, you own the code.
Fixed scope, written outcomes
Engagements end with something you can read and act on: a recommendation, a running system, or a roadmap.
Research
Questions we are testing in public.
Open experiments on how language models behave on legal tasks. Code, data pipeline and results are published as they exist, with their status stated plainly.
All researchQuestions firms ask first.
- Who is this for?
- Law firms and in-house legal teams that are choosing, building or running technology, from a solo practice standardising intake to a firm replacing a vendor stack.
- Can I use Documents today?
- Not as a public product. It is shown here as a sample walkthrough with a fictional client: there are no accounts and nothing is saved. If you want intake like it for your firm, that is a Build engagement.
- Is BigLaw really free?
- Yes. BigLaw is open source under Apache-2.0. Paid work is the consultancy: selection, custom builds, managed services and advisory.
- What does it cost?
- Prices are on request. Every engagement is scoped in writing first, so you know what you get before anything is billed.
- Do you resell software or take referral fees?
- No. Selection work is independent. If we recommend a vendor, it is because it fits, and the contract we review is yours.
- Can you run BigLaw for my firm?
- Yes, as a managed service on your infrastructure. BigLaw is experimental and has not had an independent security audit, so a deployment starts with that review and authentication switched on.
- Is any of this legal advice?
- No. We are a technology consultancy, not a law firm. Nothing on this site or produced by our tools is legal advice.
- How do we start?
- Email us with the problem. We use a first conversation to understand it and come back with a scoped proposal.
Bring us the problem.
A vendor decision, a workflow nobody sells, a platform that needs running, or a roadmap that needs an owner. We come back with a scoped proposal.
Email us