The firm,
before the meeting.
The analytical layer for law firm partnerships. Billing velocity, realization, trust health, and partner contribution — observed under one quiet interface, before they are interpreted in a room.
A platform built for the people who answer for the firm.
Most of what is sold to law firms today is operational software, dressed up. Time entry. Billing. Trust ledgers. Document storage. Useful, certainly. But not strategic.
The partners who carry equity in a firm are not in the market for another workflow tool. They are in the market for a clearer view of the business they already built — one that does not require an analyst to interpret it, and does not need to be reconciled across four systems before it is trusted.
FirmIntel sits a layer above the practice management stack. It draws from the systems already in place at your firm — whichever they are — and translates that activity into the metrics partnerships actually convene around: realization, billing velocity, trust health, partner contribution, client concentration, exposure.
FirmIntel reads from the firm's existing practice management and accounting systems. The connectors are read-only. Nothing in the firm's books is rewritten.
Discrepancies between systems are surfaced — not silenced. The partnership decides which figure is the source of truth, in writing.
Every figure traces to its source row. Every rule is versioned. The auditor receives the same view as the partnership.
We are not an ERP. We are a truth layer. If the source data is not present, the report does not exist. The instrument refuses to estimate.
FirmIntel is built for partnerships that have decided the firm should see its own books in real time, and want one defensible view of them. It is not a fit for firms shopping on price, or for firms still working out whether the partnership runs the firm or the systems do. Those are worthwhile questions in their own right — we are most useful once they are settled.
Four readings the partnership returns to.
Each is a distinct view of the firm. Together they are the partnership's running record. Refreshed continuously. Defensible to your auditor. Read in under a minute.
Realization
Standard rate, billed rate, collected. The three values reconciled per matter, per partner, per practice. Where the firm is leaving money in the work, and where it is not.
Per matter · Per partner · Per practiceVelocity
Time from work performed to invoice issued; from invoice issued to cash received. Two latencies the firm controls and rarely measures, treated as instruments — not anecdotes.
Lockup · Cycle · DecayTrust
Continuous monitoring against rules of professional conduct, refreshed hourly. Negative balances, commingling, stale retainers, missing reconciliations — surfaced as they appear, with the partner of record named.
13 Canadian provinces · NY · CA · WAContribution
Origination, working attorney, and supervising credits — separated, weighted, and presented without ambiguity. Compensation conversations begin from the same numbers everyone is reading.
Origination · Working · SupervisingFour surfaces the partnership operates from each day.
Each is a working instrument built on top of the four readings. Together they are the partnership's day-to-day operating record. Refreshed continuously. Defensible to your auditor. Read in under a minute.
Action Inbox
A closed-loop partner workflow. Every exception requiring a decision moves through six stages — detect, decide, communicate, track, confirm, close. Threaded by file. Auditable in writing.
Detect · Decide · ClosePerformance Drivers
What the readings cannot say alone — why the numbers are what they are. Utilization, realization, pricing discipline, leverage, separated and tied to named partners and practices.
Driver · Diagnostic · ActionSource-Backed Reports
Fifteen formal report definitions. Each is generated only when its source data is present. Source rows are surfaced; missing rows are surfaced. Nothing is estimated.
Trace · Defensible · VersionedFirm Health Index
A five-pillar composite, weighted and benchmarked. Financial, compliance, operational, client, partner — anchored to industry sources (Thomson Reuters Peer Monitor, NALFA, Am Law), not arbitrary internal numbers.
Anchored · Composite · DefensibleBuilt for partnerships, not for vendors.
Sits above the systems already in place.
FirmIntel reads from your existing practice management and accounting stack. No replacement, no migration, no disruption to the people who run the books. The data is already there. We make it readable.
Calculations the auditor agrees with.
Every figure is traceable. Every rule is versioned. Every alert names a source. FirmIntel was built by a controller for partnerships that do not tolerate a number they cannot defend.
Your firm's data does not leave your tenancy.
Single-tenant deployments. Row-level isolation. Audit logging on every read. The firm's books, partner compensation, and client matters remain firm property — and stay firm-private.
One interface. Few words. No noise.
FirmIntel does not ship features for the sake of features. What is here, is here because partners asked for it and used it. What is not, was tried and removed.
FirmIntel did not begin as a product. It began as a controller's notebook, kept on the side because the system in front of me did not answer the partnership's questions.
I have spent my years inside a partnership, in the seat that produces the numbers the partners read. The questions a partnership asks are not the questions a SaaS product is built to answer. I built FirmIntel because I needed it.
If you are a partner who has ever asked for a number, waited a week, and then asked again — we built this for you. If you are a controller who has been asked to defend a figure that came out of a system you did not choose — we built this for you, also.
Three ways a firm engages with FirmIntel.
Pricing is determined by the firm — by partnership size, by data complexity, by deployment model. It is set in conversation, not in a checkout.
We do not publish per-seat pricing. The conversation begins with your firm — its size, its books, and what the partnership wants visible.
No free trial. No checkout. A walkthrough, then a proposal.
— VII.
For the partners who would rather know.
The work has been done. The data is already there. The move is yours.
A walkthrough is conducted against your firm's anonymized figures or ours. No deck. No demo recording. The instrument, your questions, and the partner of record on our side.