Voice notes that become billable time for solo lawyers

Solo and small-firm lawyers in the US bill by the hour — but on average only about 2.9 hours of an 8-hour day make it onto the bill. The rest is real work that never gets written down. Most of them run their practice on Clio.

Rebuilding the day from memory at night loses hours, and the deadlines promised on calls live only in someone’s head. Lawyers needed to capture work in seconds, from the parking lot — without an AI ever filing something they didn’t approve.

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   One-press voice capture that works offline — a recording is never lost
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   A capture engine that turns speech into time entries in tenth-hours, matter notes, tasks, deadlines with reminders, calendar entries and expenses
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   New clients created by voice, with a duplicate check that can’t be skipped
4. [04]
   “Never guess”: an unknown matter or amount becomes a tap-to-answer question instead of a guess
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   Review, edit and confirm — big items start unticked, and nothing is filed without the lawyer’s OK
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   Clio integration that files each item exactly once, reconciles anything stuck and offers undo
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   Deadline reminders at a sensible local hour, an evening close-out and a full audit trail
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   Privacy by design: audio deleted after transcription, encrypted Clio access, export and delete-everything, and a “hallway mode” that hides transcripts in public

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   A niche over a general assistant: solo lawyers were chosen after scoring nine professions.
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   Accuracy over cost: the stronger AI model won because a wrong date is unforgivable in a deadline product — prompt caching brought the cost back down.
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   A filing instrument, not an AI assistant: the lawyer confirms everything, and only their own voice is captured.

For the technically curious. You don’t need to know any of this to work with me.