We replace the legal software your firm rents with software it owns. Fixed price, live in weeks, and you pay only for milestones you accept.
Show me the math for my firmFree scoping audit. Reject it and keep it. If the math says stay put, we say stay put.
What you pay today, at the vendor's own prices
Clio Complete on annual billing, $1,609.20 per user per year. Payment processing and Manage AI ($39 a seat) on top.
Vendor numbers only, checked 6 October 2026. Your seat count on the call turns this into the bill a build is measured against.
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The invoice, the third of it you use, what you own, three builds, four steps. Sound effects only; it works muted.
Per seat, every seat, every year. Gated API. A renewal letter with an increase in it.
Each line is backed by a documented vendor fact, not a slogan. Sources sit on the pricing and lock-in posts linked further down. Checked 6 October 2026.
The same shape for every build. Dates and acceptance criteria are written before work starts, and every step has an exit for you.
We read your exports, your seat list and the 10 to 20 percent of the product you use. You get the scope, the date and the price in writing.
Reject it and keep it. Nothing owed.Each milestone has written acceptance criteria. Repos and cloud accounts are in your name from the first one.
A milestone you do not accept is not billedOld and new side by side, counts reconciled, staff trained on the system they will keep.
Nothing cuts over until the numbers matchThe subscription stops. Two months of maintenance begin, then a monthly plan you can cancel.
Twelve-month defect warranty startsStill paying the old vendor for the seats we replaced? We keep working at no charge until you are not.
In the contract, not the brochureEach replaces the 10 to 20 percent of the vendor product your firm actually uses and hands the rest to tools you already own. Each starts with the same free audit.
2 to 10 attorneys leaving MyCase, Clio, Smokeball or PracticePanther
Matters, contacts, calendar, tasks, time and documents in your own cloud, a client portal, and invoicing that hands off to the LawPay or QuickBooks setup you already trust. Trust accounting stays where the bar-safe ledger lives.
60 days to a parallel run, 90 to cutover
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10 to 50 attorneys leaving iManage or NetDocuments
Matter-centric folders, Outlook and SharePoint filing, full-text and semantic search over your own index, versioning and audit log, migration with a reconciled document count before cutover.
90 days to cutover, single office
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PI firms of 5 to 50 staff leaving Filevine
Pipeline phases mirroring your board, intake and lead tracking, records-request tracking, phase-change automations, demand shells, reporting partners read, SMS and email through your own accounts.
About 12 weeks under 2,000 open matters
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Every clause below goes into the agreement, not only on this page.
Start free. The scoping and migration audit is the first milestone: accept it in writing or owe nothing and keep it.
After that you pay only for milestones you have accepted against written criteria. A milestone you do not accept is not billed.
Repos, cloud account, domain and documentation sit in the firm's name from the first paid milestone. IP is assigned per milestone, never on final payment.
Twelve months after cutover, if your firm is still paying the old vendor for the seats we scoped to replace, we keep working at no charge until you are not. Conditions: cutover ran on the date we scheduled together, the firm used the system as its system of record, and scope changed only through signed change orders. Third-party services (payments, hosting, SMS, AI providers) sit outside it.
Twelve-month defect warranty on everything in the signed scope. Two months of maintenance included after launch, then a monthly plan you can cancel and keep the software.
Two replacement builds at a time. Starts are scheduled, not sold. A seven-person team can run a handful of these at once and says so, instead of inventing a countdown.
Pick your vendor. Vendor numbers only, each sourced on the linked post.
practice management
Clio Complete is $1,609.20 per user per year on annual billing. Ten seats is about $16,000 a year before add-ons and payment processing, every year, with nothing owned at the end.
Build shape: 6 to 8 weeks to a live first version.
The real cost of Clio over three yearspractice management
MyCase Advanced, the only tier with API access, is $130 per user per month on annual billing. Ten seats is $15,600 a year before payment processing, every year.
Build shape: 6 to 8 weeks to a live first version.
MyCase pricing, the full cost breakdownpractice management
Filevine quotes per firm. Trackers report $49 to $87 per user per month plus implementation plans from $1,750 to $32,500. Fifteen seats lands between about $9,000 and $16,000 a year before AI metering and texting lines.
Build shape: about 12 weeks to cutover for a firm under 2,000 open matters.
Filevine pricing, what a firm actually paysdocument management
iManage Work is reported at $50 to $75 per user per month with a ten-user minimum and $15,000 to $30,000 to implement through a partner. A 17-person firm pays $85,000 to $255,000 over three years.
Build shape: 8 to 12 weeks, archive and OCR included.
iManage pricing and the 3-year totaldocument management
NetDocuments is reported at $50 to $65 per user per month base and $80 to $120 once storage, OCR and email filing are on. Twenty users is $12,000 to $29,000 a year.
Build shape: 8 to 12 weeks, archive and OCR included.
NetDocuments vs iManage at 50 and 500 usersintake CRM
A nine-attorney firm showed us a real Lawmatics bill of $1,800 a month against a $299 sticker, about $21,600 a year, next to the practice management system it sits on.
Build shape: 3 to 6 weeks for an intake and portal build.
The real cost of Lawmaticspractice management
Smokeball runs $49 to $149 per user per month on 36-month contracts. Ten seats on the mid tier is about $10,700 a year, locked for three years.
Build shape: 6 to 8 weeks to a live first version.
Clio, LEAP and Smokeball lock-in comparedpractice management
Fifteen attorneys on PracticePanther Business is about $1,335 a month, roughly $80,000 over five years, with nothing owned at the end.
Build shape: 6 to 8 weeks to a live first version.
Lock-in terms comparedClient names stay masked. The numbers and the screens are real.
Replaced an iManage purchase. 15 years of documents, results under 100 milliseconds, live in 10 weeks. Employee 18, 30 and 50 cost nothing.
Client, broker and admin portals for structured settlements, audit log, role-based access. Live in 8 weeks. Intake from days to hours. Passed audit.
Replaced an Excel and PowerApps workflow for a fund manager. PDF reports in under 3 seconds, live in 10 weeks.
[ FAQ ]
Operating-side billing, time and invoicing, yes. Trust accounting we deliberately leave where the bar-safe ledger already lives, usually LawPay, QuickBooks or your accounting system, and hand the movements across with the reconciliation reports your bookkeeper already uses. Model Rule 1.15 and most state rules want monthly three-way reconciliation and multi-year records; that belongs in an accounting system, not in version one of a case platform.
Bars regulate the lawyer, not the software. ABA Opinion 477R asks for reasonable efforts matched to the sensitivity of the data. North Carolina 2011 FEO 6 asks that you can retrieve your data in a non-proprietary format if the vendor closes, that it is returned or destroyed on request, and that you have reviewed the security and backups. A system in your own account, in open formats, with a written ethics file, meets that more easily than a vendor does.
Three layers. The firm owns the repositories, cloud account, domain and documentation from the first paid milestone, so any developer can take over. There is a twelve-month defect warranty on the signed scope. And there is a monthly plan you can cancel and keep the software. Escrow is available if a partner insists, but when you already hold the code it is redundant.
Six to eight weeks to a live first version of a practice management replacement, eight to twelve for a document search platform with the archive included, three to six for an intake and portal build. Add a two to four week parallel run before cutover. The date goes in writing with the scope.
A fixed price, in writing, before work starts, set on a free scoping call from your seat count and the systems you run. We do not publish a number because the honest one depends on the firm. What we do publish is the shape: fixed scope, fixed price, weeks not months, no hourly, and a payback measured against the invoice you pay today. If the three-year math says stay put, we tell you to stay put.
Clio and MyCase export structured data as CSV files. Documents and invoices are the manual part, and MyCase excludes them from its backup. We pull them as their own line item, run the old and new systems side by side for two to four weeks, reconcile counts, and only then cut over. The scoping audit tells you exactly what comes out of your current system and what does not.
Do. Clio and MyCase take 15 to 30 percent off list for annual and multi-year deals. If price is your only pain, a discount is the right move and we will say so. The build is for firms whose pain is the API gate, the automations the vendor will not allow, the tier migrations, the feature request that never ships, and the renewal letter every year.
You leave with the three-year bill you pay today and an honest read on whether a build beats it. If it does not, we say so.
Show me the math for my firmTwo replacement builds at a time. Starts are scheduled, not sold.
