AI agents for law firms that actually ship.
Intake, drafting, transcript outlines, time capture. Built on your templates, shipped in 2 weeks, delivered to your GitHub. You own the code, you own the data, and your seat license is a repo.
Four starting points. Pick the one that hurts the most.
Four proven Sprints for small-to-midsize law firms (2–30 attorneys). Each is a $3k–$6k, 2-week engagement with a single working module at the end — and a live case study if you want to go further.
New-client intake forms (or Typeform / Clio / website submissions) flow into a drafted matter, a conflict check, and a pre-filled engagement letter ready for partner review.
Deposition and discovery transcripts are parsed into an issue-tagged outline with citations to exact line ranges. Paralegals edit; they stop transcribing.
A drafting agent that knows your firm's clause library, your preferred structure, and your state's quirks. Produces first drafts partners actually want to edit, not rewrite.
An agent reconstructs billable time from your calendar, sent email, and doc activity, matched to matters. Attorneys approve; they don't retype their day.
What a 2-week Sprint looks like here.
A 9-attorney litigation firm burned 4 hours per case turning deposition transcripts into issue outlines. We shipped a firm-specific agent in 11 days. Their paralegal now does the same work in 20 minutes.
Four commitments, in every engagement.
Fixed price — not hourly. Your matter budget thinking, applied to your software spend.
You own the code via your GitHub. No vendor contract holds your firm hostage.
Conservative data patterns: no training on your data, explicit allowlists, human-in-the-loop on anything consequential.
Built to be maintained. Any competent developer — including your IT partner — can extend what we leave you.
From discovery call to your GitHub repo.
30 focused minutes. You describe the bottleneck, we determine together if custom AI is actually the right tool — or if an off-the-shelf product would serve you better.
A precise written scope: what we'll build, how it integrates, what it will and won't do, and a fixed cost. No surprises after this document is signed.
We build in the open. You see every iteration, you test it on your real work, and we tune until it earns its keep.
The full codebase lands in your repository. Architecture designed so any competent developer — including your existing one — can maintain it. You own it.
I'm a lawyer and startup founder turned operator-builder. I ran a boutique law firm for three years before it was acquired by a larger firm for its clientele. Since then, I've been working for 15 years shoulder-to-shoulder with lawyers, CFOs and accounting teams towards exits via: IPO and sale/acquisition to private equity firms.
I know partner-level workflows from the inside: where the billable hours actually go, which tools promise leverage and deliver paperwork, and what 'good' feels like when a piece of software finally earns its place in a firm.
Brightline Labs is designed to be exactly the firm I needed all along. A laser-focused team who scopes the work, ships the module, hands over the source, and leaves.
Good questions, asked often.
Four steps. (1) A 30-minute discovery call to understand your bottleneck and make sure custom software is the right answer. (2) A written scope and fixed price. (3) We build, you test it on real work. (4) Source code lands in your GitHub repo. You own it completely.
A 30-minute audit, not a sales pitch. If custom AI isn't the right answer for your firm, I'll tell you.