A person looking for a lawyer fills out three intake forms and hires the firm that responds first with something that does not read like an autoresponder. Meanwhile, the same firm sitting on slow intake is often the one that, correctly, will not touch cloud AI tools because of what is in its files. Those are two different problems, and we built a separate answer for each.
Intake and reputation: the AI employee
- Consultation follow-up. Every inquiry gets a fast, personal response and a scheduling path, then polite persistence until they book or decline.
- Review management. Requesting reviews from closed matters, and drafting responses to the ones that arrive, in a tone a partner signed off on.
- Staying in front of referral sources. The quiet, consistent outreach to past clients and referring professionals that every partner means to do and nobody has time for.
Everything is draft-first: the AI writes, a human approves. For a firm, that is not a nice-to-have. Advertising and solicitation rules vary by state bar, and a human eye on every outbound message is how you stay comfortably inside yours. Intake messages carry no legal advice, and nothing on this page is legal advice either.
The confidential work: Private AI Box
For the work you cannot send anywhere, we install an on-premise AI computer that runs a 70B-class model entirely inside your office. No internet required, no vendor holding client files, and a signed data sovereignty agreement: no remote access, no telemetry. It summarizes depositions, answers questions across case files with the passage it drew from, and finds the paragraph you remember but cannot locate. The full picture, including what it does worse than cloud tools, is in the private AI for law firms guide.
What it costs
The audit is free. AI employee plans run from $1,500 setup plus $2,500 per month (Pilot) to $5,000 setup plus $7,500 and up per month (Executive), depending on how many workflows we install and how much of the supervision we carry. Marketing budgets are set in the audit, against what a job is actually worth to you, not from a rate card.
The Private AI Box is priced separately: $2,500 one-time install, $3,500 to $5,000 per month managed, fine-tuning runs $800 to $1,500.
Common questions
Can our firm use AI without sending client data to the cloud?
Yes. The intake and marketing workflows never need case files, only inquiry contact details and your scheduling calendar. For work that does touch privileged material, the Private AI Box runs entirely on hardware inside your office, with no internet connection required and no third party in the loop.
Does AI-drafted intake follow-up create confidentiality or ethics risk?
Intake follow-up messages contain scheduling and general firm information, not legal advice and not case details, and every message is approved by a human before it goes out. Bar advertising rules differ by state, so during setup we build the templates to your firm's own review standard. Your compliance stays your call; the draft-first design is what makes that practical.
What does this cost for a law firm?
The AI Audit is free. AI employee plans run from $1,500 setup plus $2,500 per month to $5,000 setup plus $7,500 and up per month. The Private AI Box is $2,500 to install and $3,500 to $5,000 per month for managed service. Which combination fits, if any, is what the audit answers.
What can the on-premise model actually do for legal work?
It answers questions across large document sets with citations to the passage it used, summarizes depositions and discovery, runs first-pass contract review against your own checklist, and drafts routine correspondence in your format. It is weaker than frontier cloud models on novel legal reasoning, and every output still gets read by a lawyer. We say that plainly because firms that expect an associate replacement return the box.
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