Law firms
Begin with supervised intake, approved-template assembly and evidence-preserving document review. Compare against the firm's existing software before replacing it. Neither exposure estimates nor a repository's features establish cash savings.
Posture
what the record may say, and what it may notSource frame is the Action Model system-map industry slug law_firms: taxonomy reference only, not client demand or implementation proof. Law firms are the N1 research pilot.
An occupational task inventory (O*NET) identifies legal-assistant document preparation, records organisation and research. A preregistered 2024 study found errors in the legal AI research tools it tested despite retrieval grounding. This supports decomposing tasks and measuring supervised assistance; it does not supply a law-firm-wide automation rate. forecast_percent: null.
This is not legal advice, product admission or an industry-wide value forecast. Current software adoption and subscription prices were not verified; named offerings are not assumed installed. No claim that a generic repository replaces the whole practice stack.
this is another template we need for the library the per industry research with all of the projects and what we're offering and stuff obviously the template for that needs some work let's look at the law firm pilot yeah it's all right but they still need some work in in terms of UI and like what actual other information is there that's missingShaan → FOUNDRY-ZERO · 6 Sep 14:26
we're building an ai operating system which is built to integrate and take over the business … we can make a framework to take on basically any agency it's like a light agency operating system for example they all need web apps so we build it build that in-houseShaan → Fable FA0 · 5 Sep 17:40
Process map
six processes with the automation boundary, the metric, the falsifier and who keeps authority| process | metric | falsifier | human authority | value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client intake and missing-information chase intake | Human minutes per complete, accepted intake including review and chase | Reject if a known conflict/identity ambiguity is suppressed or completed intake takes no less total human time. | Firm-designated intake reviewer; lawyer owns conflict/engagement decision. | unmeasured |
| Approved-template document assembly assembly | Human minutes per correct, reviewed document; critical field errors | Reject if reviewed documents take no less human time or critical field errors rise. | Lawyer approves templates and every outgoing document. | unmeasured |
| Document extraction and source-linked review evidence_review | Correct accepted findings per reviewer hour, with unsupported findings counted | Reject if unsupported findings reach a filing or reviewer hours do not fall. | Reviewing lawyer. | unmeasured |
| Approved-document signing coordination signing | Human coordination minutes per correctly completed signing workflow | Reject if an unapproved document is sent or coordination minutes do not fall. | Responsible lawyer. | unmeasured |
| Client updates and administrative follow-up followup | Net human minutes per accurate approved update, including exceptions | Reject if an inaccurate update reaches a client or net minutes do not fall. | Case owner sends. | unmeasured |
| Time/billing exception review billing_review | Review minutes per resolved exception; correction rate; actual recovered or avoided spend | Reject if exceptions are auto-resolved or review minutes do not fall. | Billing staff and responsible partner. | unmeasured |
Current marketed capabilities
verified marketed capability, not measured installed-base prevalence; no price verifiedVendor currently advertises intake, case management, document automation, time/billing and client communication features.
No verified billing-basis quote or client invoice; do not count the subscription as cancellable.
Vendor currently advertises matter/workflow management, intake/conflict checking, document automation, billing and client portal features.
Firm-specific quote and actually avoidable spend unknown.
Current case-management product explicitly targets civil legal aid, public defenders and government law offices.
Do not treat a public-interest legal product as a like-for-like incumbent for a private commercial firm.
Candidate modules
source-pinned repos with rights state; a repository's features are not measured accuracySISO projects and Works that apply
The offer
A supervised operating layer over the firm's existing software: intake normalisation and chase, approved-template assembly, citation-linked document review, signing coordination, approved client updates, billing-exception review. Each process carries a metric, a falsifier and a named human authority; the offer is sold on measured human minutes and first-year net cash in one authorised firm, never on a chart.
Within one authorised firm, compare matched routine work under the incumbent workflow and the supervised candidate workflow. Start with synthetic/redacted fixtures; pre-register which documents/actions are in scope before using live data.
- units processed
- baseline human minutes
- assisted human minutes including review and rework
- critical errors and denied-access cases
- actual cancelled spend
- recurring operating cost
- implementation and rollback cost
Value inputs and rank
unmeasured stays unmeasured- Human time including review/rework is not lower than the matched baseline.
- Any privileged record crosses an unauthorised boundary or an unapproved external action occurs.
- The result depends on treating draft/closed status as accepted legal work.
- Measured first-year net cash is not positive for a cash-savings offer; capacity gains alone are not cash.
No firm baseline, invoices, achieved automation rate, review/rework time, operating cost, displacement proof or eligible-population measurement. Null is not zero. Formula: observed-value-v0.1; every process row carries status: unmeasured.
Evidence and gaps
11 sources retrieved 200 on 2026-09-05; 3 blocked, not used- Rights, security, accessible UI, restoration and integration behaviour remain product-owner gates.
- State and practice-area requirements still need an authorised firm-specific review.
Mind map
Each leaf links to its record. Branches are laid out by subtree size, not by hand.
Agent entry
curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sisodias/siso-foundry/main/intelligence/agency/industries/law_firms.json | jq '.processes[]|{id,metric,value:.value.status}'python3 siso-foundry/scripts/build_industry_pages.py # dirty, unpushed per REVIEW-ZERO
- Read first
siso-foundry/intelligence/agency/industries/law_firms.json- Owner
- FOUNDRY-ZERO (closed by Shaan 6 Sep 14:27) · last writeback 6 Sep 07:27Z
- Machine
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sisodias/siso-foundry/main/intelligence/agency/industries/law_firms.json- Done when
- Open /industries/law_firms/ and see the seven sections filled from the record; open /industries/ and see 17 rows each with a rank or 'unmeasured'.