Built for small law firms and solo practitioners
Intelligence rooted in reality.
We lift up law firms and solo practitioners by doing the work that takes their time and money away from the people they serve.
agentplain REPLACES the intake-to-engagement bottleneck, INTEGRATES with Outlook, OneDrive, and DocuSign on day one, and AUGMENTS the partner's read on every client communication and every drafted pleading with attorney approval on every draft.
The intake-to-drafting skills, agents, and memory you'd otherwise have to build yourself
The fleet for the small law firm.
ROI multiplier
engagement-dependent (target 15×+)
Per seat
Quoted
Integrations planned
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The short answer
What is agentplain for law firms?
agentplain for law firms is a managed AI service partnership for solo and small (2–5 attorney) firms. A service team installs a fleet that handles client intake, drafts engagement letters, runs conflict checks, chases documents, and applies a privilege-aware review pass to client communications and drafted pleadings — working inside Outlook, OneDrive, and DocuSign. The attorney reviews every client communication and filing; the fleet drafts and proposes but never sends or files on its own.
A day in the life
What the fleet drafts before you open the laptop.
Civil litigation matter. Discovery production due Friday — 4,200 documents to review and categorize.
Today
Three associates split the review, two days of doc-by-doc privilege and responsiveness coding, partner spot-checks the borderline calls, paralegal builds the privilege log. ~60 billable hours, of which maybe 8 are real judgment.
With agentplain
The fleet ran first-pass responsiveness + privilege coding against the matter's index, flagged 312 borderline calls, drafted the privilege log entries, and cross-referenced against the firm's prior-matter privilege index. Every borderline call cites the rule.
Outcome
Associates review the 312 borderline calls, partner spot-checks 30. Production ships Friday morning. The 60 hours becomes 14 — the 14 spent on actual judgment, not page-by-page coding.
Jobs to be done
The recurring work, role by role.
Managing partner / owner-attorney
| Job | When | Today | With agentplain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Know matter-state across the firm | Daily | Standup + practice-mgmt dashboard | Matter view — every active matter with current bottleneck (doc / opposing counsel / court / billing) |
| Triage a privilege-sensitive client communication | Reactive, urgent | Read every outbound — slow, inconsistent | Compliance agent (activating after counsel review) flags privilege / work-product / ABA Model Rule 1.6 concerns; until then every draft is held for attorney approval before send |
| Approve a fee escalation or billing exception | Monthly | Spreadsheet of aged WIP + AR | Billing agent drafts the milestone invoice + AR escalation; partner signs >60-day touches |
Litigator / litigation associate
| Job | When | Today | With agentplain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft a pleading, motion, or discovery response | Continuous through every active matter | Template + manual customization against jurisdiction local rules | Drafting agent generates the first draft with the matter facts inserted + local-rule citations attached; attorney reviews and revises |
| Coordinate with opposing counsel on scheduling + discovery | Continuous | Email chains + phone tag | OC-coordination agent drafts the meet-and-confer correspondence, drafts the scheduling-order positions, logs the agreed-upon dates to the matter calendar |
| Run discovery review on opposing production | Discovery phase | Doc-by-doc review + privilege-tag spreadsheet | Review agent runs first-pass responsiveness + privilege tagging, drafts the privilege log entries citing the rule basis; litigator reviews the borderline calls |
| Update the client on matter status | Per scheduled cadence + court-event-driven | Reactive — client calls you | Status agent drafts the update on every matter-state change; attorney signs and sends |
Transactional attorney
| Job | When | Today | With agentplain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Draft a contract from a term sheet or playbook | Per-deal, ongoing | Open the firm precedent, customize against the deal terms, redline by hand | Drafting agent generates the first-pass draft from the firm precedent applying the deal terms, surfaces the playbook-exception clauses for attorney decision |
| Redline a counterparty draft against playbook positions | Per-deal turn | Read line-by-line, mark up Word, escalate edge cases to partner | Redline agent runs a first-pass review citing the firm-playbook position for each deviation; attorney reviews the substantive points |
| Run an intake conflict check + engagement letter | Day 1 of every new matter | Manual conflict search + template merge | Onboarding agent runs the conflict check, drafts the engagement letter scoped to deal type + fee structure |
| Coordinate the closing checklist | Pre-closing, per-deal | Spreadsheet of conditions precedent + email reminders | Closing agent drafts the checklist scoped to the deal type, runs the document-chase cadence, surfaces stuck items to the attorney |
Paralegal / case manager
| Job | When | Today | With agentplain |
|---|---|---|---|
| Build a document checklist for a new matter | Day 1 | Practice-mgmt template, customize by hand | Onboarding agent drafts the checklist scoped to matter type + jurisdiction |
| Chase clients + opposing counsel for documents | Continuous | Phone tag + email | Doc-chase agent runs the cadence per channel; paralegal escalates only when stuck |
| Prep court filings against jurisdictional rules | Per-filing | Hand-checked against local rules | Filing agent drafts the package against local rules; paralegal reviews exceptions |
ROI math
The arithmetic. Audit it.
Headline multiplier
engagement-dependent (target 15×+)
Illustrative; your numbers will vary with the hours you reclaim.
- Subscription cost
- Max tier · quote-based engagement (privilege-aware depth, ABA Model Rule 1.6 compliance corpus, multi-jurisdiction packs, dedicated team)
- Value delivered
- $150,000 / yr in attorney-hour reclamation at a 3-attorney firm
- The math
- 3 attorneys × ~10 hours/week each on drafting + status + chase work × $250/hr billable opportunity cost × 50 weeks = $375k/yr opportunity. Capture even 40% with the fleet → $150k/yr returned. A 25-attorney firm capturing 75% of $3.125M opportunity returns past $2.3M/yr. Max engagements are scoped per firm — privilege-aware compliance, ABA Model Rule 1.6 review, multi-state filing packs, and dedicated success management drive the price. Talk to a service partner to scope; the Partner ladder ($299→$199 per seat) is the floor the quote starts from before service-intensity overlay. Capability builds we don't have yet (e.g., a custom court e-filing skill) live on /custom in addition to Max.
The downside it removes
The other half of ROI: the violation that never sends.
Client communications are bound by the ABA Model Rules — Rule 1.6 on confidentiality and Rule 7.1 on false or misleading statements about a lawyer's services. There's no fixed civil fine, but the exposure is heavier than one: disciplinary action up to disbarment, plus legal-malpractice liability that follows a single privileged detail sent to the wrong recipient. A tool that auto-sends can breach privilege or misstate in one message; agentplain drafts and an attorney reviews and approves every client-facing draft before it sends, so a privilege breach or misleading line never leaves the firm. That avoided exposure is the part of ROI no hours-saved multiplier can show — and no auto-execution tool can promise.
What agentplain does, and doesn't
Replace. Integrate. Augment.
Replace
Work the fleet takes off your desk entirely.
- Manual conflict-check + engagement-letter drafting on new matters
- Reactive client status updates — replaced by matter-state-triggered drafts
- Hand-checked filing prep against local rules — replaced by drafted packages
- Spreadsheet aged-WIP review — replaced by drafted milestone invoices and AR escalations
Integrate
Customer-system tools agentplain reads from and writes to.
- Outlook (per-attorney OAuth — email + calendar)
- OneDrive (document substrate for matter files)
- DocuSign (engagement-letter + retainer signatures)
Augment
Work the human still owns — the agent drafts, you decide.
- Partner review on every privilege-sensitive draft — ABA Model Rule 1.6 + 1.7 + 1.18 awareness
- Conflict-check audit trail — drafts cite the firm's prior-matter index
- Local-rule compliance — every filing draft cites the rule number
- Billing narrative — drafted in the firm's voice with matter context attached
Pricing
Max · quote-based engagement
What Max covers
- High-intensity service for regulated verticals
- Multi-state ops or multi-jurisdiction compliance corpus
- White-label or dedicated team
- Bespoke compliance review beyond standard skills
How Max works
We scope the engagement together — service intensity, integration depth, dedicated team — and quote month-to-month or annual. Max is service intensity at standard skill scope; for capability builds we don't have yet, /custom is the right path.
Talk to a service partner →Integrations
What's live, what's ready, and what's coming.
Live
Email + calendar
Outlook + M365 Graph
Planned · Q1 2027
Practice mgmt
Clio Manage
Practice mgmt
MyCase
Practice mgmt
Smokeball
Practice mgmt
PracticePanther
Document management
NetDocuments
Document management
iManage Work
Legal research
Westlaw + Lexis
Court
Court e-filing portals
Sync-diff alone is a subtest. Integration-acceptance means the agent completes the full functional value loop — read, categorize, coordinate, schedule, draft — end-to-end on a real customer system.
Questions worth asking
agentplain for law firms — the honest version.
How does agentplain protect privilege and handle conflicts?
Within the augment model. The fleet drafts client communications and pleadings with a privilege-aware review pass, runs conflict checks at intake, and surfaces what needs attention for the attorney — it doesn't make the legal determination or send anything. The attorney reviews everything, and liability for licensed work stays with your firm.
Is agentplain a replacement for my practice-management software?
No. agentplain works inside the Outlook, OneDrive, and DocuSign you already run and replaces the manual work between them — intake, engagement letters, conflict checks, document chase, milestone billing. It isn't a practice-management system, and there's nothing to migrate.
How much does agentplain cost for a law firm?
Law firms are recommended at the Max tier — an ad-hoc service partnership quoted to your engagement and sold sales-led rather than by self-checkout, because the stakes per draft warrant a named partner and a weekly cadence. Every agentplain tier is month-to-month with the first month free; Max is quoted to scope.
Does the fleet send communications or file pleadings on its own?
No. Every draft — an intake reply, an engagement letter, a pleading — lands in your approval queue as a pending item. The fleet drafts and proposes; you approve, send, and file from inside your own systems. It never auto-sends, files, moves money, or makes commitments on your behalf.
Let's scope it
Run your law firms practice on the fleet.
Quoted to your engagement — month-to-month or annual, no surprise charges. The fleet drafts; you decide what ships. Talk to us and we'll scope it with you.