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The Case of the Missing Lawyer

A legal startup wanted faster client work without hiring a room full of associates, but no one trusted a generic AI copilot to handle live matters.

Baker Street 15 January 2026 Legal Startup
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What landed on our desk

Context: The founder had demand, a small team, and a workflow full of repeatable legal admin. What they did not have was spare fee-earner time to police prompts, review every output from scratch, or build a brittle internal tool that would collapse under real client pressure.

The real problem: The brief was not 'add AI to legal work.' It was to identify one defensible workflow, keep qualified humans in control, and make the system useful enough that busy lawyers would actually use it.

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What changed once the facts were in

Which package fit the case

3-7 days

Paid Workflow Triage

A small paid diagnostic for teams and partners that need evidence before committing to an AI workflow build, operating-memory programme, or larger delivery sprint.

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Monthly, after deployment

Operating-Memory Retainer

A workflow-tied retainer for clients or partners with a deployed AI system that needs evaluation, changes, provider/model swaps, governance updates, and new workflow expansion.

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If you have a specialist team doing expert work by hand, start with the workflow that is expensive, repetitive, and easiest to keep under human review.

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