We build legal software for law firms and legal SaaS founders in regulated industries. Document search on 1M+ records. HIPAA-compliant case management. Compliance baked in from day one — not bolted on after your first audit fails.
30-minute call. We'll map your compliance requirements and give you an honest scope estimate.
Our attorneys were spending 3-4 hours per day searching through legal documents manually. The search system couldn't handle synonyms, returned irrelevant results, and slowed to a crawl above 100K records. We needed something purpose-built for legal workflows — not a generic document search with a law firm skin.
We've seen these same problems across every legal tech project we've worked on. Generic agencies don't understand the domain well enough to avoid them.
Your team spends hours searching through contracts, filings, and case documents. Basic keyword search misses synonyms like "termination" vs "cancellation." Every hour wasted on search is billable time lost. At $300+/hour, even 30 minutes per day per attorney adds up to six figures annually.
Most agencies build the app first and "add compliance later." That's how you end up with document storage that can't pass audit, access controls that don't track who viewed what, and encryption bolted on in a way that breaks search. Compliance needs to be in the architecture from day one.
Spreadsheets, shared drives, and duct-taped tools. Multiple roles — attorneys, paralegals, clients — each need different access levels. Documents exceed 50MB. Without proper RBAC and encrypted storage, you're one breach away from malpractice exposure.
We've built legal tech platforms 3 times. We understand the domain — document privilege, chain of custody, audit requirements, and legal-specific search needs.
Elasticsearch implementations purpose-built for legal document corpus. Synonym handling for legal terminology ("breach" = "violation" = "infringement"). Fuzzy matching for typos. Relevancy boosting by document type, date, and jurisdiction. We've built this exact system 3 times for 3 different legal use cases — and delivered 100ms queries on 1M+ documents every time.
Multi-role platforms with RBAC for attorneys, paralegals, and clients. Encrypted document storage handling 50MB+ files. Full audit trails tracking every access, edit, and download. Built for compliance from the database schema up.
Template engines for contracts, filings, and legal correspondence. Version control with diff tracking. Approval workflows with role-based signing authority. Integration with existing document management systems and e-signature providers.
HIPAA-compliant architectures with encryption at rest and in transit. Immutable audit logs tracking document access, modifications, and exports. Data retention policies enforced at the infrastructure level. Role-based access control with granular permissions using spatie/laravel-permission.
A law firm needed to search across 1M+ legal documents — contracts, filings, case law, correspondence — with results in under a second. Their existing system took 5-10 seconds per query, and attorneys were losing 3-4 hours per day to manual search. We built a purpose-built Elasticsearch implementation with legal-specific optimizations that transformed how the entire firm operated.
Every legal tech project teaches you something the next one benefits from. Here's what we've shipped.
Elasticsearch on 1M+ legal documents with sub-100ms queries. Built 3 times for different legal use cases.
HIPAA-compliant platform delivered in 8 weeks, 290 development hours.
Structured settlement platform built in 5 weeks for $15K. Client secured a $2K/month retainer immediately after launch.
Whether you need architecture guidance, a full MVP, or search implementation — we have a package that fits.
Requirements analysis + compliance mapping in 1-2 weeks
Full platform with compliance in 8-12 weeks
Elasticsearch for your legal document corpus in 6-10 weeks
We use battle-tested tools chosen for reliability, security, and long-term maintainability in regulated environments. No exotic frameworks that leave you stranded when you need to hire developers.
Application layer built on Laravel for the backend, Vue.js for reactive UIs, and Inertia.js for seamless page transitions. This stack powers thousands of production applications and has a massive hiring pool when you need to scale your team.
Purpose-built for legal document search. Custom analyzers, synonym dictionaries for legal terminology, fuzzy matching, n-gram analyzers for partial matches, and relevancy boosting. We've tuned this for legal use cases 3 separate times.
PostgreSQL for structured data with row-level security. AWS infrastructure with encryption at rest, VPC isolation, and compliance-ready logging. spatie/laravel-permission for granular RBAC across attorney, paralegal, and client roles.
You work directly with the founders. No account managers, no junior developers learning on your project. The people who architect your system are the same people who write the code.
10+ years building software for regulated industries. Led 3 legal tech platform builds including Elasticsearch implementations handling 1M+ documents. Obsessive about compliance architecture and search performance.
Full-stack architect specializing in Laravel, Vue.js, and scalable infrastructure. Leads technical architecture, code quality, and security implementation. Built encrypted document storage systems handling 50MB+ legal files with full audit trails.
A production-ready legal tech MVP typically takes 8-12 weeks. This includes compliance architecture, document management, role-based access control, and search functionality. We've delivered HIPAA-compliant legal case management systems in as little as 8 weeks (290 development hours). The timeline depends on complexity — a legal document search engine can be faster (6-10 weeks), while a multi-role platform with document automation may take the full 12 weeks.
Yes — we've built the same legal document search engine 3 separate times for different legal use cases. Our implementations handle 1M+ documents with sub-100ms query times, synonym handling for legal terminology (so "breach" matches "violation" and "infringement"), fuzzy matching for typos, and relevancy boosting by document type, date, and jurisdiction. One client recovered $220K+ per year in search time savings alone. This is not theoretical — it's our most-repeated build.
Yes. We specialize in regulated industries and build compliance into the architecture from day one — not as an afterthought. Our legal platforms include encrypted document storage handling 50MB+ files, immutable audit trails tracking every access and modification, role-based access control with granular permissions (using spatie/laravel-permission), and PostgreSQL with row-level security. We deploy on AWS with encryption at rest, VPC isolation, and compliance-ready logging.
Legal Tech Architecture (requirements + compliance mapping) starts at $5K-$15K for 1-2 weeks. A full Legal Tech MVP runs $15K-$50K over 8-12 weeks — this includes document management, search, RBAC, and compliance. Legal Search Implementation specifically ranges $20K-$40K for 6-10 weeks. We offer a free 30-minute consultation to scope your specific needs and give you an honest estimate before you commit to anything.
We build legal tech platforms with Laravel + Vue.js + Inertia.js for the application layer, Elasticsearch for document search, PostgreSQL for structured data with row-level security, and AWS for infrastructure. We use spatie/laravel-permission for granular RBAC and implement encryption at rest and in transit for sensitive legal documents. This stack is battle-tested, has a massive developer hiring pool, and is proven in regulated environments.
General agencies treat compliance as a checkbox. We've built 3 legal tech platforms and understand the domain — document privilege, chain of custody, audit requirements, and legal-specific search needs like synonym handling for legal terminology. That domain knowledge means fewer revisions, faster delivery, and software that actually passes compliance review the first time. We know what "good enough" looks like for a legal tech MVP because we've shipped them before. A general agency is learning on your dime.
Book a 30-minute consultation. We'll map your compliance requirements, discuss your document management needs, and give you an honest scope estimate — whether you hire us or not. No sales pitch. Just a technical conversation with founders who've built this before.
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