Kaveotech

Workflow automation for law firms

A matter can't move until somebody signs, sends, or remembers something. Most of what sits between a consultation and a filed document is administrative, and none of it is billable.

A long wooden table holding a closed folder and a fountain pen with two chairs pulled up to it, a window onto a street along one side and a full wall of matching archive binders along the other.

Where the hours go that you can't bill

  • The consultation that never got followed up

    Somebody called about a matter, spoke to whoever answered, and never heard back. They're not shopping on price. They're calling the next firm because that one picked up.

  • Intake that takes four calls to finish

    Conflict check, engagement letter, fee agreement, the facts of the matter. The same sequence for every new client, moved by hand, and the file can't open until all of it lands.

  • Deadlines that don't forgive anything

    Statutes, court dates, filing windows, and the internal date you set so nobody is drafting the night before. Missing one isn't a scheduling problem, it's a malpractice problem.

  • Documents you're still chasing

    The signed retainer, the identification, the prior correspondence, the records from the other side. The matter sits at a standstill and the client thinks you're the holdup.

  • Clients who call to ask what's happening

    Not because anything is wrong, but because nobody told them. Each one costs a partner ten minutes and the answer was always going to be that it's proceeding.

  • Time that gets reconstructed on Friday

    Work that happened Tuesday gets written up from memory three days later, which is how billable hours quietly go missing.

What we can and can't show you

We haven't published a legal case study and we're not going to describe one we don't have. What we can do on a call is walk through the exact workflows, running, and let you judge whether they fit how your firm actually runs a matter.

The relevant background is regulated back-office software, where retention, audit trails, and who's permitted to open which record are design decisions rather than afterthoughts. A conversation about privilege, conflicts, and file access doesn't need explaining first.

How we work

Start with intake or with deadlines

Those two are where firms lose the most and where the fix is most visible. Tell us how a matter opens today and we'll tell you what's worth changing.