AI readiness audit · the front door
Find out where your firm actually stands.
Fixed fee, quoted on the intro call once we know your firm's size and practice areas.
The problem
Most firms don't have an AI problem. They have an information problem: nobody can say, with numbers, where the hours actually go. Few realize custom solutions to those problems are cheaper and more available than ever.
Meanwhile the risks of guessing are real. Client confidentiality under ER 1.6. Your duty of competence under ER 1.1. Contracts that lock you into a vendor before you know whether the tool fits how you practice.
The audit replaces guessing with a measured reading.
What it is and how it works
AI is not a full solution. It hallucinates, and it does not replace a lawyer's judgment. Where it earns its place is discrete tasks — the repetitive, document-heavy work that adds up to real attorney and support-staff hours.
The audit is a structured review of how work actually moves through your firm: interviews with the people who do the work (paralegals, support staff, and attorneys, not just the partners), a review of your current tech stack, and a measured account of the pain points and the budget you'd work within. Where a fix is warranted, it identifies one, custom or out-of-the-box, that could save real time and effort.
It ends in two documents. The roadmap: where the hours go, what could help, and an honest answer to whether it's worth doing at all. And a safety report: the strengths and limitations of your current tools and workflows, and of the ones the roadmap proposes. Both are yours to keep whether or not you hire Aktiston to act on them.
Your side is light: a few hours of interviews across the firm, and about an hour of a partner's time. The written report follows within two to three weeks, depending on your firm's size and how quickly we can get time with your people.
Talk to everyone who touches the work
Paralegals, support staff, and attorneys — not just the partners.
Map the stack and the pain points
What you use today, what's breaking, and what it costs in time.
Put a number on it
How many hours each task actually takes, task by task.
Say whether there's a better way
A tool, a custom build, AI, or leaving it alone — and whether it's worth the money.
What you get
- Where the hours go
- Every task that eats attorney and staff time, with the time it actually costs — measured from the interviews, not guessed at.
- Options, priced to your budget
- For each thing worth fixing: an off-the-shelf tool, a custom build, or AI — with a rough cost and the hours it would give back.
- A safety report
- The strengths and limitations of your current tools and workflows, and of the proposed ones — including what must stay under a lawyer's review.
- An honest verdict
- Including the tasks to leave alone. Not everything is worth automating, and the report says so plainly.
Who it's for
A good fit if
- Firms of 2–25 attorneys that suspect they're losing hours but can't say where
- Partners who want a priced, sequenced plan before signing anything
- Firms being pitched by vendors and wanting a neutral read first
Probably not if
- Firms that already know exactly what to build — start with single-system implementation instead
- Anyone shopping for a consultant to validate a purchase they've already made
Questions partners ask
- Do you sell or resell any of the tools you might recommend?
- No. Aktiston takes no commissions, no referral fees, and no reseller margins. If the roadmap names a product, it's because the product fits — not because it pays.
- What if the honest answer is that we're not ready?
- Then the roadmap says so, and says what would have to change first. You're paying for a reading, not a sales document.
Book the consultation. Decide after.
Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. If this isn't the right fit, the call is where we'll both find out, and it costs nothing to ask.
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