Laires Labs

Laires Labs

For law firms

Recover one to two billable hours per fee earner, per day.

Email triage, contract first-pass, matter filing, and time capture, automated inside your stack. Built for 20-300 fee-earner UK firms that can't justify Harvey's £700k a year.

What we build

Four places automation earns back fee-earner time.

Email triage

Auto-classify inbound by matter, urgency, and type. Flag deadlines. Route to the right fee earner. No more 121-emails-a-day bottleneck.

Contract first-pass

15-minute review: parties, key dates, liability caps, deviations scored red / amber / green against your firm's standard positions.

Matter filing

Inbound correspondence auto-filed into the correct matter folder. Works against your existing practice management system.

Time capture

Reconstruct billable time from calendar, email, and document activity. Recover the 10-40% of hours lost to manual timesheet entry.

How it works

Three steps. Fixed price. You own the output.

01

Map

We pick the two or three manual processes costing you the most billable hours. Scoped plan with a fixed price.

02

Build

We build end-to-end. Data pipes, logic, interfaces, alerting. Weekly check-ins. Four to eight weeks.

03

Install

Deployed inside the systems your team already uses. Docs, runbooks, 30-day warranty. You own the code on day one.

Who builds this

Robin Laires. Senior engineer, ten years building production software.

Previously tech lead at Jellyfish, one of the UK's largest independent digital agencies. We build AI systems end-to-end. No account managers, no offshore dev shop, no handoffs. The person you talk to is the person writing the code.

Where we fit

The legal AI landscape, honestly.

We don't compete with Harvey or CoCounsel for general legal AI, Luminance for M&A document review, Orbital for real-estate due diligence, or Clio Duo for the AI layer baked into a practice-management product. Those are deep-pocketed platforms with sales teams, roadmaps, and per-seat licence models. We build the layer your firm actually needs that those platforms don't ship: matter-specific intake, internal-process automation, and the workflows that don't fit a vendor's product roadmap.

Honest qualification

Who this isn't for.

  • Firms under 20 fee earners. The maths doesn't work.
  • Firms already deep into Harvey, CoCounsel, Luminance, Orbital, or Clio Duo. You've picked your platform.
  • Firms who want a SaaS subscription, not owned code. Different business model.

Stop losing billable hours to manual admin.

Twenty minutes, no pitch deck. We talk about where your fee-earner hours actually go.

Book a 20-min intro