AI for UK Law Firms

AI built for the
way your firm actually
works.

Senior-led AI consultancy for UK law firms. We find where your lawyers are losing hours — on contract review, leases, drafting, disclosure, taking new clients on — then build the tools that quietly take the work off them. Runs inside your firm, full audit trail, written for the way the SRA expects you to operate.

SRA-aware UK-resident data No model training on client matter

Your lawyers didn’t qualify to spend half their week on bundle-building, time recording and drafting boilerplate.

The work that doesn’t go on a client invoice — but does come out of every partner’s margin.

Six places your lawyers’
hours quietly disappear.

We’ve mapped these across boutique practices, mid-market firms and one international top-50. Same shapes, different software. The hours add up the same way.

01

Contract & lease review

AI pulls out the clauses that matter, flags anything that breaks your firm’s position, and drafts the redlines in your house style. A senior signs off; AI does the first ninety percent.

Typical recovery: 4–8 hours per matter
02

Disclosure & bundling

Document review, redaction suggestions, privilege flags, bundle indexing. Your reviewer becomes the editor, not the typist.

Typical recovery: 30–60% of associate review time
03

Taking on new clients (KYC & AML)

Engagement letters drafted from the conflict-check upwards. Source-of-funds checks. Politically-exposed-person screening. The anti-money-laundering notes drafted from documents the client has already given you.

Typical recovery: 60–80% of onboarding admin
04

Time recording

AI watches the work as it happens — emails, calendars, document edits — and drafts the time-recording narratives ready for a partner to approve. Stops the Friday scramble. Stops the silent write-offs.

Typical recovery: 5–9% uplift in billable hours actually recorded
05

Finding the right precedent

Your firm’s past advice, engagement letters and precedents, askable in plain English. Trained on your house style, not the public internet.

Typical recovery: hours per query, no more “who’s done one of these before?”
06

Drafting & client correspondence

First drafts of client updates, advice notes, board papers and standard letters — written in your firm’s voice, not the generic ChatGPT one.

Typical recovery: 40–70% of first-draft time

Start with an audit.
Build only if it pays back.

No retainers. No subscriptions. No chatbot you wrestle into your stack. We start by costing the problem in pounds — and only build if the maths works.

Step 02 · Build

Custom AI tools

From £15,000 4–12 weeks

We build the tools the audit identified, around your matter management system, your precedent library and your firm’s drafting voice. Pilot first; pay only if hours saved are real.

  • Integrated with iManage, NetDocuments, Clio, Actionstep, etc.
  • 30-day pilot, no payment if it doesn’t save the time we promised
  • Air-gapped or UK-isolated deployment options
  • Full audit trail, role-based access, prompt logging
Talk to us about Build

SRA-aware. GDPR-safe.
Privilege intact.

We’ve built AI inside firms regulated by the SRA, the FCA, the ICO and the GMC. Compliance isn’t a final-page disclaimer here — it shapes the architecture from the audit forward.

Where it runs

On your premises

Or in a UK-isolated tenant you own. No cross-border data flows by default.

Training

Never on your matter

Client data does not leak into model weights. We use models with contractual no-training guarantees, isolated by tenant.

Audit trail

Every prompt logged

Exportable for SRA, ICO or internal review. Who asked what, when, against which document.

Privilege

No third-party reads

Privileged material doesn’t leave your tenancy. Vendor access is gated, time-bounded, logged.

Human-in-the-loop

Sign-off, by design

Where the work is regulated or client-facing, AI drafts. A qualified person posts. Always.

EU AI Act

Risk-tiered build

High-risk legal use cases get extra controls: documented testing, human review gates, transparency notices.

Procurement

DPIA-ready

We hand you a Data Protection Impact Assessment template, a technical security note and a sub-processor list with every Build — the documents your DPO and procurement team will ask for anyway.

Decommission

Yours, on exit

If we part ways, the system keeps running. Documented. Handover-ready. Nothing held hostage.

No slides.
No demo.
Your matter map.

Ninety minutes with a senior AI lead. Structured, no preamble. We’re not selling you the future of AI — we’re costing the present of your firm.

0–15m
Practice shape

Practice areas, fee-earner mix, matter management system, document store, billing system, current AI experiments. No generic discovery.

15–55m
Workflow walk-through

One real matter, end-to-end. Where the hours go. Which are billed. Which are written off. Which never get logged. We watch how the work actually moves.

55–75m
AI fit, named

Strong fits, partial fits, ones we’d tell you to leave alone. Each scored on hours saved, risk, and effort to build. Compliance flags applied as we go.

75–90m
Priorities & next step

Where to start. What it would cost. The written summary lands in your inbox within 48 hours — ranked, costed, board-ready.

The questions UK law
firms actually ask.

Where does the data sit? Will it leave the UK?

Client matter data stays in a UK tenancy by default. For high-sensitivity practice areas (criminal, family, certain commercial) we offer fully air-gapped or on-premises deployment. We don’t use models that train on input. Cross-border processing is opt-in, documented, and disclosed in the DPIA.

How do you protect privilege?

Privileged material is processed inside your tenancy with no third-party read access. Vendor support requires explicit, time-bounded, audit-logged access. Outputs and prompts are stored in your environment. We can sign privilege-aware NDAs and joint-defence-style protocols where engagements warrant it.

Is this SRA-compliant?

The SRA doesn’t certify AI vendors — it regulates firms. Our job is to make sure the architecture lets you meet your obligations: client confidentiality (Principle 7), competence and supervision (Code of Conduct 3), and accurate billing. The audit deliverable flags any workflow that creates supervision risk before you spend on Build.

Do you replace fee-earners?

No. We remove the work that fee-earners shouldn’t be doing in the first place — the time-capture admin, the disclosure transcription, the precedent hunt — so qualified people spend more time on the work that actually requires them. Our most successful Build engagements end with junior fee-earners getting more interesting work, not less.

We’ve been pitched ten “legal AI” products. Why is this different?

Because we’re not selling a product. Most legal-AI vendors give you a generic chatbot bolted onto a doc store and ask you to shape your firm around it. We do the opposite: map your firm first, then build a tool that fits the matter. Your precedents. Your house style. Your risk model.

What size of firm is this for?

Boutiques to mid-market to international. The audit pays back at any scale where your lawyers cost the firm £120k+ all-in and spend 18%+ of the week on repeatable work. That’s most UK practices.

What does Build cost, honestly?

From £15,000 for focused tools (e.g. matter intake automation, time capture). £30k–£120k for sector-wide builds (contract review systems, disclosure platforms). The audit gives you the number for your firm before you commit. No estimate inflation.

How fast can we get a senior in front of us?

Usually within five working days for the audit. Confirmed by email after we receive your booking and clear the conflict check.

Ninety minutes.
£750.
One honest answer.

Senior-led. Refundable against Build. The audit pays for itself the moment you commission us to act on it — and even if you don’t, you walk with the plan.

Book the £750 audit