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One method. Three deliberate moves from readiness to shipped.

Most firms' first AI project fails because it starts in the wrong place — a tool, not a diagnosis. Our approach starts with what's true about your firm, ships a capability that earns its keep, then teaches your team to do it again.

Our approach, end to end
Step01

The AI-Readiness Diagnostic

Free · 30 minutes · a 1-page assessment you keep

A structured 30-minute call where we read your firm's readiness and find where AI actually creates leverage for a practice like yours. You walk away with a 1-page assessment you keep — whether or not we ever work together. It's the cleanest half-hour you'll spend on the AI question, with no pitch baked in.

  • Your top AI opportunities, ranked for leverage
  • The one hidden risk most firms in your position miss
  • A 30/60/90-day plan you can act on alone
Step02

The 90-Day AI Sprint

$7,500 · fixed scope · 4 working weeks · ship-or-it's-on-us

When a firm is ready, we run a focused Sprint that ships one to two AI capabilities into your real workflow inside four weeks. Not a slide deck, not a pilot stuck in a sandbox — a capability your team uses the day we leave, scoped to your bandwidth and built alongside your people so it actually gets adopted.

  • 1–2 AI capabilities shipped into your production workflow
  • Built with your team, so adoption sticks after we leave
  • A short playbook so your firm can extend it without us
Step03

Implementation & Continuity

From $25,000 · or $1,500/mo continuity

Once the Sprint proves the model inside your firm, we go deeper — a broader rollout across more of your operation and, if you want it, a light monthly continuity engagement that keeps your firm shipping after the first capability lands. The goal is never dependence on us; it's a firm that's learned to put AI to work on its own terms.

  • Broader rollout across more workflows & teams
  • Enablement so the capability lives in-house
  • Optional monthly continuity — a steady hand, not a retainer trap
What the diagnostic measures

Five dimensions of AI readiness.

A firm can be eager and still not be ready. The diagnostic scores all five — because being strong on four and weak on the fifth is exactly how first AI projects stall. We'll walk you through where your firm lands on each.

One
Strategy Clarity

A formed view of where AI should touch your work — not a reaction to headlines.

Two
Vendor Literacy

The ability to tell which tools are real for your field and weigh them.

Three
Data Readiness

Whether your data is in a state AI can actually work on.

Four
Internal Champion

Someone with the standing and will to drive adoption.

Five
Pilot Capacity

The bandwidth to run a focused four-week sprint without it slipping.

A capability we ship

AI agents, built for your firm.

The headline capability most Sprints ship is an embedded AI agent — one trained on your own data and your field's rules, working inside the tools you already use. We build two kinds, and the right firms run both: one pointed inward at your team, one pointed outward at your clients.

Pointed inward · your team

Your firm's own AI assistant

Embedded in your tools. Trained on your data.

An assistant that lives inside the software your team already opens every day, and actually knows your firm — because it's grounded in your records and your field's rules, not the open internet. Staff ask it real questions and get answers they can trust, with the source attached. When something routine needs doing, it tees up the action and waits for a person to approve it — and it stays out of the calls that need real professional judgment.

What it does for the firm
  • Answers grounded questions — pulls from your own files, ledgers, and policies, and cites where the answer came from.
  • Tees up routine actions — drafts the entry, the renewal, the work order, and hands it to a person for one-tap approval.
  • Knows your field's rules — works against a rules pack for your practice, so answers fit your jurisdiction and standards.
  • Saves the back-and-forth — the answer your team used to hunt for across three systems arrives in one place.
Safe by design: nothing is written until a person confirms it, and the assistant never makes the judgment calls — the professional decisions, the close ones, the regulated ones — that have to stay with a human.
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Pointed outward · your clients

An AI customer-service agent

Always on. Always hands off when it matters.

A front-door agent that answers your clients' inbound questions the moment they arrive — after hours, over a weekend, during your busy season — so no one waits and nothing falls through. It answers the routine questions, captures new leads with the details your team needs, and the instant a question needs real judgment, it hands the conversation to a human with the full context already gathered.

What it does for the firm
  • Always-on front door — answers common client questions 24/7 in your firm's voice.
  • Captures leads cleanly — gathers the details a prospect gives and logs them where your team will see them.
  • Hands off the moment it matters — escalates to a person the instant a question needs real judgment, with the conversation already summarized.
  • Lightens the front-desk load — your team stops fielding the same routine questions and focuses on the work that needs them.
§ Safe by design: the agent handles what it can answer and recognizes what it can't — advice, disputes, and anything consequential are routed to a human, never improvised.
See it work

Tap a question — watch the assistant answer.

A scripted preview of an embedded assistant for a professional firm. Each sample question shows a different action-risk tier — from a grounded, cited answer to a one-tap action to the calls it deliberately leaves to a human.

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Firm Assistant
Demo firm · grounded in its own records + a rules pack
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Grounded in this firm's own data + its field's rules · answers with sources · acts only with confirmation · never makes the judgment call
Grounded answer

Hi — I'm your firm's assistant. I can answer questions from your own records, check the rules for your field, and tee up small actions for you to confirm. Tap a question below to see how I work.

Try one — each shows a different action-risk tier:

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Grounded answer answer + source Action needs one-tap confirm High-impact needs approval Human only hands off, never decides
The Sprint guarantee

We ship two of three objectives in four weeks — or it's on us.

Every Sprint is scoped to three concrete objectives up front. If we don't ship at least two of them inside the four weeks, we discount the engagement and keep working until they land. We can offer that because the readiness diagnostic comes first — we don't start a Sprint with a firm that isn't set up to finish one. The diagnosis is what makes the guarantee honest.

Start at step one

Every engagement begins with the free diagnostic.

It's the only way we'll quote a Sprint. Thirty minutes, a 1-page assessment you keep, and a clear read on whether your firm is ready to ship.

Get your AI-Readiness score → Free · 30 minutes · No obligation. See the full pricing ladder.