AI, automation and custom software for law firms, built around the practice management system you already run

You keep Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther, Smokeball or whatever you run. We build the layer around it: the 5:15 inquiry answered and screened, the engagement letter out the same day, the first draft assembled from the matter file, the deadline that can't be missed, the invoice that gets collected. Privilege-safe by design, and we keep it running.

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What changes for your firm

3 things that decide this

01Leads call five firms and hire the first that answers. Yours gets answered, screened, conflict-checked and booked, at 5:15pm and at 2am, with the lead written into your intake system and the recording attached.
02The work behind the intake runs on its own: the engagement letter out for signature the same day, the first draft assembled from matter facts with a lawyer's review built in, the deadline that escalates before it's missed, the invoice that goes out when the work closes.
03Privilege decides the architecture before the roadmap does. Access scoped to the matter, written no-training terms you can produce on request, every vendor named as a recipient, and a private deployment where your clients' obligations require it.

On the record

What you can check before you call

5.0

Clutch rating from client reviews

countries our client work runs in: US, UK, Switzerland, Australia

2017

building since. TechNova 2026: Best AI-Native Software House of the Year

2 mo

of support and maintenance free after launch. NDA before the first call

What we build for law firms

Eight places a firm leaks time and fees, and what we put in each one

Pick the one that's costing you this quarter. Every card keeps the practice management system you already run and adds the AI, automation or custom piece it's missing.

Be the firm that answers. Book the consult.

Leads call five firms and hire the first that picks up. Calls land on a receptionist between tasks, voicemail, or a service that takes a message, and web forms sit. We add AI intake that answers, runs your screening questions, does a first-pass conflict check, qualifies by practice area and books the consult, writing the lead into your intake system with the recording attached.

AI intake for law firms →

Sign faster. Open the matter the same day.

From inquiry to signed engagement is a chain of manual touches: intake form, conflict check, fee agreement, e-sign, retainer invoice, matter opened. We automate the chain off your intake record, with a lawyer's sign-off kept on the fee agreement.

How to automate the engagement letter →

Draft in minutes. Review in minutes. Keep privilege.

Associates build demand letters, motions and contracts from the last similar file. We build a drafting pipeline on your templates and your matter data, with lawyer review designed in and nothing leaving your environment: first drafts from matter facts, clause libraries, redline against the template, a cite-the-source rule.

Document automation for law firms →

Find it once. Find it every time.

The matter lives in six places: email, the DMS, practice management, local drives, a shared folder, someone's head. We index what you already have and answer with the source cited, on your infrastructure with an audit trail, so a new associate doesn't relearn the firm's positions from scratch.

What legal RAG is, and whether a firm needs it →

Nothing missed. Nothing waiting on memory.

Statutes of limitation, court dates and filing deadlines live in the PMS calendar, Outlook and a paralegal's list, and a missed one is the claim that ends a firm. We build workflow on top of your PMS: deadline rules per jurisdiction and matter type, reminders that escalate, stage gates that trigger the next task.

Custom software for law firms →

Bill what you worked. Collect what you billed.

Hours get reconstructed on Friday, billed monthly and never fully collected. We capture time from the work with lawyer approval, send the invoice when the work closes, chase it with payment links and reminders no partner has to send, and show collections by matter and client. Trust accounting stays in your PMS; we read, never write.

Billing automation for law firms →

Know which matters make money.

Partners review realization, WIP, AR and utilization across the PMS, QuickBooks and spreadsheets that disagree, and practice-area margin lives nowhere. We pull them together into dashboards built for a Monday: utilization and realization by lawyer, matter profitability by practice area, intake conversion by source.

Which law firm KPIs actually matter →

Clients who know where their matter stands, and come back.

Clients call for status updates that eat paralegal time; reviews and referrals happen by accident; closed matters never hear from the firm again. We send status updates and run a client portal off the matter record, ask for the review at the right moment, and reach back out by practice area when it's time.

Custom software for law firms →

Your day, mapped

From the 5:15 inquiry to the paid invoice, and where the machine takes over

Pick your practice management system. Tap a station to see what happens today, what we automate, what stays with a lawyer, and what gets written back.

Your system

Station 01 · The 5:15 inquiry

Today: Your receptionist has left, the lead is calling four other firms, and the voicemail or web form waits for the morning. Most of those leads hire whoever picked up.
What we automate: Your line answers in two rings, runs your screening questions by practice area, does a first-pass conflict check against your system, qualifies the matter and books the consult with the lawyer who handles that work.
What stays human: Anything urgent goes to a person: an arrest, a deadline tomorrow, a domestic situation, anyone in distress. Your line says so and connects them.

Writes to ClioNew contact and matter-intake record with practice area, source and the recording attached; consult on the calendar.

Every station writes to your system of record, whatever it is. Running an older PMS, a DMS plus spreadsheets, or something your firm had built years ago? The stations are the same; only the write-back changes, and that's the part we build.

Why privilege decides the architecture

A privacy policy decided whether material was privileged

In United States v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y., 10 February 2026), a defendant used a consumer AI tool to research his own case, and the court held the material wasn't privileged. That tool's published terms allowed disclosure and training on inputs, so there was no reasonable expectation of confidentiality, and work product failed on a second ground: nobody had prepared the documents at counsel's direction.

Whether an enterprise tool with no-training terms comes out differently was left open, and left open isn't the same as safe. So two rules are built into everything we ship for a firm: keep the terms retrievable, and keep the direction of counsel on the record. ABA Opinion 512 makes vetting a vendor's security and breach practices part of your own duty, and California asks for more than a vendor's marketing assurances. We'd rather answer those questions before the pilot than after it.

Access scoped to the matter, never firm-wide.
Written no-training terms you can produce on request.
Every vendor in the chain named as a recipient, in writing, before anything is built.

A faceless robed wooden figurine at a judge's bench with a gavel and brass scales holds a sealed folder, the hidden compartment glowing blue, showing privileged legal material.

Who else received the promptLive

MatterScoped access, not firm-wide
PromptDirection of counsel recorded
EndpointWritten no-training terms
LoggingEvery vendor is a recipient
OutputReviewed state, or unreviewed

Sending the prompt to a third party is the disclosure event, not storing it. A tracing vendor, a prompt cache and an eval pipeline each add a recipient, and each one has to be named in writing before the architecture is fixed. This is the diagram we draw on the audit call.

A client, on camera

“They will treat your vision like their own and build it that way.”

Ron Klabunde · Founder, SmartREI ↗

A legal client, in their own words

“Their attention to detail, quality of employees, and work ethic were outstanding.”

Nicolas de Quesada · CEO, Lexpair

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Keep your system

We don't replace Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther or whatever you run. We build what they won't.

Every practice management system is good at the job it was built for, and most firms we talk to describe the same gaps around it: the inquiry nobody answered, the drafting that starts from the last file, the deadline on a list, the invoice that waits, and the numbers that live in three places. Those gaps are what we build, on top of whatever you already run.

So the access model matters more than the brand. Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther and Smokeball each expose contacts, matters, calendars, documents and billing through their APIs to different depths, and we confirm exactly what your account exposes during the audit, before anyone estimates. Running an older system, a DMS plus spreadsheets, or something built years ago? We write into that instead.

01Intake, matter and calendar write-back into your PMS, with the recording attached.
02Your DMS stays your DMS; we index and cite, we don't move files.
03Trust accounting is read-only to us, always.

How the engagement runsLive

AuditFree. We read last month's inquiries by hour and outcome, your intake-to-engagement chain, and where drafting starts from scratch.
DiagnoseWe map the path into your PMS and sit with your intake desk and one practice group for an afternoon.
BuildFixed price from the diagnostic. Tested on your real matters, with privilege terms written before we start.
RunMonitoring, a named engineer, and the first two months of maintenance free.

Best fit: five or more lawyers, an intake desk or a receptionist, and a PMS you've outgrown in places. Not a fit: a solo who's happy with their tools, who's better served by a subscription. You can stop after any stage, and the audit report is yours either way.

Questions managing partners ask

Before you book

01Is it safe to use AI on client matters?+

It can be, and the safety is in the architecture, not the model. Access scoped to the matter, no-training terms in writing that you can produce on request, every vendor in the chain named as a recipient, direction of counsel recorded, and a private deployment where your clients' obligations require it. Heppner is the case to read: a consumer tool's terms cost a litigant his privilege. We design so that can't happen to your firm.

02Do we have to leave Clio, MyCase, PracticePanther or whatever we run?+

No, and we'd usually tell you not to. You keep the system your firm knows. We build the layer around it: the intake that books into it, the drafting that saves into it, the workflow and dashboards it doesn't have. We only suggest replacing a system when it genuinely can't do the job, and we'll show you why.

03Can an AI assistant send emails or file documents for us?+

It can prepare them; a lawyer sends and files. Every pipeline we build produces a reviewed-state document, with the responsible lawyer's approval as a gate, because the duty can't be delegated and neither can the signature.

04Will this let our lawyers bill more?+

It lets them bill what they actually worked, which for most firms is the bigger number. Time captured from the work with approval, invoices out when the work closes, and follow-up that doesn't need a partner's attention. Whether that's more hours or the same hours collected faster depends on your firm, and the audit shows you which.

05How do we vet you as an AI vendor?+

Exactly the way Opinion 512 asks you to. We'll give you our terms, our subprocessor list, where data travels and who can see it, and a written answer to every security question your clients impose on you, before anything is built. If we can't answer one, that's the audit doing its job.

06Our matter data lives in systems that don't talk to each other. Is that a problem for AI?+

It's the usual starting point, and it's what the matter-file index is for: it reads what you already have, where it already is, and answers with the source cited. You don't consolidate first; you index, scope access, and keep the audit trail.

07We're eight lawyers. Too small for this?+

It's about the size where it starts to pay: enough inquiries that the misses cost you matters, and a desk that can't cover evenings. Under five lawyers and no intake desk, a subscription intake or answering tool is usually the honest answer, and we'll say so on the audit call.

08What's the free audit, and what does the build cost?+

Yes, the audit is free. We read last month's inquiries by hour and outcome, trace your intake-to-engagement chain, find where drafting starts from scratch, and write down where client data would travel in any automation. You keep the one-page map and the privilege-safe architecture note either way. Your build is a fixed price set after the diagnostic, never a guess on the first call.

Who you'll talk to

A senior engineer, not a sales rep

Abdul Basit founded Hashlogics in 2017, and the team runs from Lahore with a US LLC. Clients rate the work 5.0 on Clutch, and in 2026 it was named Best AI-Native Software House of the Year at TechNova.

Your audit call is with an engineer who has read intake logs and matter workflows before, and it isn't a slide deck. Bring last month's inquiry report and your engagement-letter template if you have them.

NDA before the first conversation.
No pitch on the call. A report you could hand to another firm.
Fixed price after the diagnostic, so the number isn't a guess.

Receiving Best AI-Native Software House of the Year at the Tech Titans Global Awards, TechNova 2026

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By Abdul Basit, CEO, HashlogicsUpdated 19 August 2026