Your associates bill for thinking. Not for copy-pasting discovery into a spreadsheet.
We help law firms and legal teams recover billable hours and close matters faster by deploying custom AI systems that handle the manual work quietly draining your realization rate.
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What We Fix
We automate the matter lifecycle end to end
We work inside your existing DMS, practice management system, and email. No new platforms. No data migration.
Most legal tech promises integration and delivers a link. We close the loop.
Client Intake & Conflict Checks
AI reviews intake forms, runs conflict checks against your full client history, and drafts engagement letters — before the partner opens the matter. New clients onboarded in minutes, not days.
14 hrs/week lost to intake and conflicts per firm
Document Review & Privilege Logs
AI tags, categorizes, and generates privilege logs across thousands of documents. Your associates review flagged exceptions — not every page. First-pass review cut from weeks to days.
60% of litigation budget burned on doc review
Contract & Pleading Drafting
Generates first drafts from your firm's precedent library — NDAs, complaints, motions, routine contracts — with firm-specific language and clause preferences baked in. Partners edit instead of starting from scratch.
40% of associate time is repeat drafting
Time Capture & Narrative Review
AI reconstructs billable activity from calendars, email, and document metadata — then drafts compliant narratives that pass outside counsel guidelines. Recover 20–30% of unlogged time.
$90K+/year leaks per attorney in unbilled time
Legal Research & Case Synthesis
Surfaces relevant precedent from your firm's work product and public databases, summarizes holdings, and drafts memo skeletons. Associates start at the 60-yard line, every time.
6+ hrs per research memo on routine questions
Deadline & Docket Management
Calendars calculated from jurisdiction rules. Filing deadlines monitored and escalated. Compliance reminders before they become malpractice. Your operations team manages exceptions, not checklists.
$4.8B/year in legal malpractice claims, U.S.
The daily reality at most modern firms
48%
of attorney time spent on non-billable admin work
$90K
in unbilled time leaked per attorney, annually
2.5 hrs
average daily billable output per attorney
92%
realization rate industry benchmark - most firms hit 84%
Today
Associate spends 4 hours reviewing a 200-doc production, manually logging which docs are privileged in a Word table.
With Kinematic
AI tags every document by privilege, responsiveness, and issue — produces a draft privilege log in under an hour, surfaces only edge cases for associate review.
Today
New client calls Friday afternoon. Conflict check done Monday. Engagement letter sent Wednesday. Client already hired another firm.
With Kinematic
Intake agent runs conflict checks against every matter in your history within minutes, drafts the engagement letter in your firm's voice, and flags the partner for sign-off.
Today
Partner writes timesheet narratives on Friday, trying to remember Tuesday's calls. Client pushes back on vague entries - invoice sits at 60 days aging.
With Kinematic
AI reconstructs billable activity from calendar, email, and DMS activity - drafts compliant narratives matching each client's outside counsel guidelines. Partner approves in five minutes.
Today
First-year drafts a motion. Senior associate rewrites 80% of it. Partner rewrites 80% of that. Three people billed, one document delivered.
With Kinematic
AI generates a first draft from firm precedent - matched to jurisdiction, judge, and matter type. Associate edits instead of writes. Partner reviews a near-final product.
These aren't hypotheticals. They're the problems we fix every day.
We integrate with any ATS and business software
From first call to measurable results in weeks, not months
Most legal-tech consulting takes a fiscal year to show value. Ours starts paying for itself in the first sprint.
AI Action Plan
Week 1FreeDeliverable
A detailed report on exactly where your attorneys are losing billable time
Prioritized Roadmap
Week 2Deliverable
A detailed AI execution plan, with milestone-based pricing designed around billable-hour recovery
Build & Integrate
Weeks 3–6Deliverable
Working AI agents running inside your DMS, email, and practice management system
Measure & Expand
OngoingDeliverable
Monthly ROI reports showing billable-hour recovery and realization improvement
Example Engagement
Mid-market commercial litigation firm — 65 attorneys, three offices
Diagnosed
- Associates spending 15+ hours/week on first-pass document review across active litigation matters, with 40% of that time on documents later tagged non-responsive
- Partners writing billable narratives on Friday from memory — averaging 12% write-downs from clients pushing back on vague entries
- Intake and conflict checks requiring two paralegals and averaging 72 hours from initial call to engagement letter — losing clients to faster competitors
Scoped
- Document review agent: 5 weeks, $60,000 fixed price
- Time narrative agent: 4 weeks, $45,000 fixed price
- Intake & conflicts agent: 3 weeks, $35,000 fixed price
Built
- Ingests productions from Relativity and tags documents by privilege, responsiveness, and issue category
- Drafts privilege logs automatically with citation to applicable doctrine per jurisdiction
- Surfaces edge cases and borderline privilege calls for associate review with rationale
- Cuts first-pass review from 15 hours/week to 3 hours of verification
- Reconstructs daily billable activity from Outlook, iManage, and call logs
- Drafts client-specific narratives matching each matter's outside counsel guidelines
- Flags unbillable time and time at risk of write-down before the invoice goes out
- Replaces 90 minutes of Friday timesheet work with a five-minute review
- Runs conflict checks against the firm's full matter history including adverse parties and affiliates
- Drafts engagement letters in firm voice with matter-specific scope and rate language
- Flags jurisdictional issues and regulatory disclosures before partner review
- Reduced intake turnaround from 72 hours to under 4 hours
Result
Total investment recouped within six weeks.
We take on 2–3 new engagements per month.
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Frequently asked questions
For everyone
We work across every practice group
Commercial Litigation
Your associates are drowning in document review and privilege logs.
Corporate & M&A
Diligence checklists, red-lines, and closing books shouldn't consume first-years.
Intellectual Property
Patent drafting and prosecution workflows that don't eat your margins.
In-House Legal Ops
Contract review queues and matter intake running themselves.
Immigration & Family
High-volume intake and document assembly without paralegal burnout.
Your Industry
Don't see your vertical? We work with any operation where manual processes are the bottleneck.
Let's talkStop losing hours to work that should run itself.
Your AI Action Plan is a free, 10-minute diagnostic that shows you exactly where your firm is leaking billable time and realization — and what to do about it.
No commitment. No sales pitch. Just a clear picture of what's possible.