Marlow & Finch Lawyers is a fictional 18‑person law firm. Every figure on this page is made up for the example.
The report you take home from the AI Scan, written up for a fictional law firm.
Up to two hours, at a fixed price. Take the next step within 30 days and the Scan fee comes off its price.
The headline
The legal work is strong. The work around it eats the day.
Prepared by Bart Puszko, Founder, Blue Seas AI, from a questionnaire and a session of up to two hours with both principals.
Six areas of work, in the order a matter moves through them. Seven of the eleven AI‑ready processes stood out.
Four AI tools turned up in the session. One was approved.
The risk to close: client details in personal accounts and on personal phones, outside the firm's control. It is on the 30‑day plan.
Who does each one, how and with what, then three scores out of ten.
No legal work touched, and the hours are already worked.
38 unrecorded billable hours a month (9 fee earners × 1.1 hours a week) × $480 = $18.2K
A lawyer settles every draft before it goes out.
90 hours a month saved (45 fixed‑fee matters × 2 hours) × $130 cost an hour = $11.7K
Pays only if the freed hours are billed.
124 fee‑earner hours a month freed (9 × 3.6 hours a week). Count 1 in 3 as billed: 41.4 hours × $480 = $19.9K
Top 3 together
$18.2K + $11.7K + $19.9K = $49.8K a month
$597K a year
Hours a month use 46 working weeks a year. $480 is the realised rate: $545 standard at 88% realisation. Fixed‑fee hours count at their $130 loaded cost, since on a fixed fee a saved hour adds margin and no extra fees.
the one thing to do first
The practice management system can record time as fee earners work. It is in the subscription and switched off. Turn it on for all nine fee earners this week, and post entries before leaving each day.
Each stage has a number to check before the next one starts.
Check: recorded hours per fee earner, rising week on week.
Check: production hours per fixed‑fee matter, down on today.
Check: the 40‑minute opening down to a 5‑minute review, and freed hours going to billed work.
Recommended next step
With eleven processes ready and two principals to agree the order, the Blueprint maps your biggest jobs, scores every step and gives you a 12‑month plan you own.
Take the next step within 30 days and the Scan fee comes off its price.
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.
Legal judgement and client advice. A lawyer signs off everything that leaves the firm. Your files and records are stored in Australia. Your data is never used to train AI models.
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.