ripeflow
For law firms

AI that handles new matter intake and first drafts, with client files kept inside the firm.

We build AI for law firms that answers prospective clients after hours, prepares the conflict check before anyone opens the matter, and drafts from your own precedents on a system the firm controls. A lawyer reviews anything that goes to a client or a court, and every action the AI takes is logged.

Illustrative. A law firm between Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning. Voice agent, prospective client, office closed: I was rear ended last week. Is that the kind of case you take? The firm handles car accident injury cases. I can take a few details so an attorney can look at it in the morning. What date did it happen? Last Thursday, on Route 28. Thank you. I have added that to your intake, and the office will call you tomorrow before noon. AI staff, intake into the conflict check: Prospective client searched, Opposing party searched, Insurer searched, Prior matters 1 possible hit, Intake in practice system entered. Waiting for attorney review.

What we hear from law firms

  • We lose new matters because nobody answers the phone after five.

  • Somebody pasted a client agreement into a chat window to get a summary of it.

  • Our docket clerk reads every filing notice and types the dates in by hand.

Where AI helps first

The work we take off your team's desk first.

Each of these is a service we build on systems you control, test on your own data, and look after. A person stays in charge of every decision that matters.

  1. 01AI phone line

    Intake when the office is closed

    A prospective client calls or opens your website at nine in the evening. The voice agent answers from your own material (practice areas, how a consultation works, where the office is), asks the intake questions your firm already uses, and the summary lands in Clio, MyCase or whichever practice system you run, ready for the morning. Your phone line and consultation calendar are connected as part of the build. It gives no legal advice, because it only says what is in the documents you gave it.

    AI that talks to your customers

    How AI phone line works

  2. 02AI staff

    Conflict check preparation

    The agent takes the names from a new intake (the prospective client, the opposing party, related companies and insurers), searches your matter history and client list, and puts every possible hit in front of the person who clears conflicts, with the source matter beside it. The decision stays with that person. The searching and pasting is what goes away.

    AI that does the work

    How AI staff works

  3. 03Private AI

    First drafts from your own precedents

    Engagement letters, demand letters, discovery responses and research memos drafted from the firm's own templates and past work, on AI that runs on a machine in your office or in the firm's own cloud account. Associates get a tool that knows the firm's forms, access follows the roles you already have, and nobody needs to paste a client document into a consumer chat window again.

Your data, your control

Client confidences stay on systems the firm controls.

Confidentiality and technical competence are both professional duties, and your state bar has its own guidance on how they apply to AI. The part we can answer precisely is where the data goes. The model runs on a workstation in your office or in a cloud account the firm owns, so a document goes from an associate's desk to that system and comes back, and no AI vendor holds it.

Your case management system may already be a cloud product, and that was a decision the firm made with its eyes open. The AI we build does not add a second vendor to that picture. Agents work your screens from a machine inside your network with the same permissions as the person at that desk, and every action is logged so a partner can see exactly what was done.

How we handle compliance

Your ethics counsel decides how your state's rules apply to the firm. We give them the facts to decide with: where the model runs, who can reach it, what it logs, and which steps keep a lawyer's review. We also write the firm's AI use policy with you when you want one.

The notice arrives from outside. The dates are read, entered and shown to a clerk, and all of it happens on a system inside the firm. The line that would carry the file out to somebody else's model is the one that stops at the wall.COURT NOTICEfiling emailSYSTEMS YOU CONTROLNOTICE READby the agentDEADLINE DATESevery one it triggersDOCKET SCREENthe system you runCLERK CONFIRMSbefore it savesTHE FILE ITSELF, OUTNOTHING CROSSES THIS LINEHOLDS: WORKED FROM INSIDESTOPS AT THE WALL
The notice arrives from outside. The dates are read, entered and shown to a clerk, and all of it happens on a system inside the firm. The line that would carry the file out to somebody else's model is the one that stops at the wall.
More we take on

Other work we build for law firms.

Once the first job is running, these are the next ones worth handing over. Each links to the service that does it.

  • Docketing from court notices

    An electronic filing notice lands in the inbox. The agent reads it, opens the docket screen in Clio, ProLaw or Smokeball, enters each deadline it triggers, and shows the clerk what it entered before anything is saved. A person confirms every date.

    Done by AI staff

  • Time entries gathered for billing

    Narratives written in notes and emails, collected and keyed into the billing system at month end, with anything that does not agree with the calendar flagged for the lawyer who worked it.

    Done by AI staff

  • Claude or Copilot connected to your practice system

    If the firm already pays for Claude, ChatGPT or Copilot, an MCP connector lets it look up matters, contacts and documents in your own systems, under the same access rules your staff have, with every lookup logged.

    Done by AI integrations and custom software

  • A written AI use policy for the firm

    An inventory of the AI tools people in the firm already use, a written policy the partners can adopt, and training for staff on the tools you approve. It gives your ethics counsel something concrete to review.

    Done by AI readiness and policy

Where we would start

The services that do the most for law firms.

Ranked by how much of the day each one gives back, with the reason beside it. The free AI review ends with a written page that puts your own firm in this order.

  1. 01

    AI phone line

    AI that talks to your customers

    Answers the prospective client at nine in the evening and puts a clean intake in front of you at nine in the morning.

  2. 02

    Private AI

    Private AI

    Gives associates a drafting tool that knows the firm's forms, on a system the firm controls.

  3. 03

    AI staff

    AI that does the work

    Conflict check preparation, docketing and billing cleanup, with a person confirming every date and every hit.

  4. 04

    AI readiness and policy

    AI strategy and leadership

    A written AI policy and a ranked plan, for the firm that wants to decide before it builds.

  5. 05

    Connects the AI tools the firm already pays for to its own practice system, under access control.

  6. 06

    Fractional AI and technology lead

    AI strategy and leadership

    A technology lead for the managing partner who signs off on vendors and wants somebody accountable beside them.

Questions

What law firms ask us first.

Can an agent be trusted with a docket date?
Every date it enters is shown to the person who does that job now, and it is saved after a human says yes. Anything touching a deadline or money keeps that check step in every build we deliver.
Where do our client files go?
To a machine the firm owns, on the firm's network, or to a cloud account in the firm's own name. The document goes to that system and comes back. No AI vendor receives client information, and that is a fact about where the system sits that your IT lead can check.
Does the voice agent answer our phone line or only the website?
Both, as two products. The AI phone line answers your calls on our ElevenLabs voice account, from $199 a month for up to 500 minutes. The talking website guide answers visitors out loud in their own browser, $2,500 one time. Booking consultations and passing urgent calls to a person are set up to the way your front desk already works.
Our practice management system is fifteen years old and the vendor is gone.
That is a common case and it is the reason AI staff exists. The agent works through the screen, so it needs no API and no vendor support. If your system does have a good API, we use that instead.

Start with a free AI review.

Thirty minutes with the engineers who would build it. Bring the job your team most wants off its desk, and you leave with a written page you keep: what we would build first, which systems it touches, and where your data stays.