Tuesday, 9:12 a.m. Nobody in this room is guessing.
How did the room get this calm?
Back past the assistants. Back past the printers.
Monday, 4:40 p.m. He already knew.
The firm, read the night before.
And here is what he was reading.
Four quiet yeses.
Realization
You know where the work leaks money. Per matter, per partner, per practice.
Velocity
Lockup is measured, not felt.
Trust
Watched hourly, with the partner of record named.
Contribution
Compensation season starts from numbers nobody disputes.
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We do not publish per-seat pricing.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.
Asked before the walkthrough.
What is FirmIntel, in one sentence?
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.
Who is it for?
Managing partners and CFOs. If you answer for the firm's numbers, this was built for you.
Does it replace our practice management or accounting systems?
No. FirmIntel sits a layer above the systems already in place. No replacement, no migration, no disruption to the people who run the books. Nothing in the firm's books is rewritten.
Which systems does it read from?
FirmIntel connects read-only to the firm's existing practice management and accounting systems, through standard OAuth2 where the upstream supports it. The list of currently supported systems is provided under NDA during engagement.
Is there a free trial?
No free trial. No checkout. A walkthrough, then a proposal. Forty minutes, conducted privately, against your firm's anonymized figures or ours. No deck. No demo recording.
How is pricing set?
In conversation, because the firm is read in conversation. Three forms of engagement: Practice, Partnership, Institution. By inquiry, by engagement, by arrangement. We commit a partner of record to every engagement; we ask the same of you.
Who owns the data?
The firm does. Each firm is provisioned its own database tenancy, with row-level security enforcing that no row crosses the firm boundary. On engagement end, the firm receives a complete export in standard formats, and the tenancy is wound down.
— IV.
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.