For law firms
Know where AI pays back in your firm, what it should never touch, and what to do first. Your AI strategy starts with an AI readiness assessment of up to two hours and becomes a 12-month plan your partners own.
Four questions every managing partner asks before spending on AI.
Every task gets a dollar figure at your firm's own rates, so the first system we build is the one that returns the most.
Each step is scored for safety and capability. Anything that cannot be undone, or anything that needs a lawyer's judgement, stays with a person.
The rules are agreed before we design anything: what AI may see, where it is processed, who signs off and how long anything is kept.
A written 90-day plan with the one thing to do first, then a 12-month plan with the biggest return first.
Strategy first, then we build. Stop after any step and keep everything you have.
Up to two hours at your office or on a call.
One week, from the first session to the finished plan.
The Blueprint states, on its first page, the recoverable productivity it has found over twelve months, at your firm's own rates and volumes. If that figure is below the Blueprint fee, the deposit and any Scan fee credited to the Blueprint are refunded, no balance is due, and the Blueprint is released to you regardless.
For firms going all in, Bart joins your partners part-time as your Chief AI Officer (a fractional Chief AI Officer) and owns the AI strategy with you.
Then we build the AI into the tools you already use and run it for you, or coach your team to run it. What we do
The repetitive work that fills a lawyer's week.
Steps that cannot be undone, or that are the lawyer's own judgement.
Picking the first task: look for a job that takes 30 to 45 minutes most days, follows the same pattern and nobody enjoys. The 30 to 45 minute rule
Six rules are agreed with your firm first, so they are never traded away when a deadline arrives.
The Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the 13 Australian Privacy Principles, the Solicitors' Conduct Rules, legal professional privilege and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme.
Your files and records are stored in Australia.
Family law, Sunshine CoastEvery email is filed to the right matter in Smokeball, and each consultation becomes the file note and client letter in under 5 minutes, down from 45. A lawyer reads and signs everything before it leaves the firm.
Read the case studyThe difference between a few tools and AI built into how the work runs.
the rulesThe commitments, the rules every system starts with, and the rules a law firm's system has to meet.
the systemsThe email, consultation, research and drafting assistants, inside your practice management system.
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Four things: where AI pays back first, at your firm's own rates; what to automate and what never to, step by step; the rules agreed before anything is built, covering what AI may see, where it is processed, who signs off and how long anything is kept; and a plan, 90 days first, then 12 months with the biggest return first.
The AI Scan, a readiness assessment, takes up to two hours and gives you a written 90-day plan. The AI Blueprint takes one week, from the first session to a 12-month plan your partners own.
Work that is repetitive, high in volume and low in risk: filing email to the right matter, writing up file notes and client letters after consultations, and first drafts from your own precedents. A good first task takes 30 to 45 minutes most days and follows the same pattern each time.
Any step that cannot be undone, or that is the lawyer's own judgement: witnessing or signing a document, assessing testamentary capacity, authorising a release of trust funds, the compliance sign-off and the advice to the client. Those steps stay with a named person.
Both. Most firms start with the strategy. The AI Scan takes up to two hours and shows where AI pays off first (an AI readiness assessment). The AI Blueprint turns that into a 12-month plan (an AI roadmap) of what to hand to AI and what never to. Then we build the systems into the tools you already use and run them, coach your team, or Bart joins your leadership team part-time as your Chief AI Officer.
two hours, one plan
The AI Scan gives you a dollar figure on your admin, a 90-day plan and the one thing to do first.
Not ready to spend on a Scan? The chat is free, and you get to know Bart first.