Applied Legal
Legal Engineering

We build the systems your legal work runs on.

Custom AI plugins, pipelines, and software for in-house legal teams and for the business functions that carry legal work. Designed and built by a former General Counsel who is also a software engineer.

Most companies do legal work all day without calling it that. Sales negotiates terms, procurement signs vendors, finance chases invoices, security answers questionnaires. We engineer how that work gets done.

Legal engineering is where our law practice and our software practice meet. We decide the rules with you, then build them into plugins, pipelines, and applications that your teams use inside the tools they already have.

It is the same way we run our own firm. We are AI-native, which is how we deliver exceptional results and pass the savings on, and we build the same capability for our clients.

What we build

Plugins, pipelines, and software.

Four kinds of work, usually combined in a single engagement.

Custom AI plugins and skills

Your playbooks, positions, and templates packaged as plugins for the AI assistants your people already use, so the answer they get is your company's answer.

  • Contract review against your negotiation playbook
  • Clause, indemnity, and insurance analysis
  • First-draft generators for your standard documents

Legal pipelines

Recurring legal work moved out of inboxes and into a defined flow: intake, routing, review, approval, signature, and a record of what was decided.

  • Contract intake to signature
  • Vendor and customer onboarding
  • Invoice, payment, and chargeback dispute packets

Custom software

Purpose-built tools for the legal function when off-the-shelf products do not fit how your company actually works.

  • Clause libraries and playbook engines
  • Obligation, renewal, and deadline trackers
  • Matter and request dashboards for leadership

Integrations

The legal step built into the systems that already hold the facts, so nobody retypes a deal into a form to get a contract reviewed.

  • Slack and Teams, email, Drive and SharePoint
  • DocuSign, HubSpot and Salesforce
  • CLM, ticketing, and finance systems
Who it is for

Legal teams, and the business functions that carry legal work.

You do not need a legal department to have a legal function. We build for whoever is doing the work today.

Legal
Intake and triage, contract review, templates, matter tracking, outside counsel management.
Sales and revenue
Customer paper, order forms, redline turnaround, approval rules for non-standard terms.
Procurement
Vendor agreements, security and privacy addenda, renewals and auto-renewal notices.
Finance
Collections and invoice disputes, payment terms, chargebacks, audit and diligence requests.
Security and IT
Customer security questionnaires, DPAs, incident playbooks, vendor risk reviews.
Operations and HR
Policy acknowledgments, entity records, board and member consents, signature authority.
How a build runs

From the way you work now to a system that runs.

  1. 01

    Map the work

    We sit with the people doing the work and document what comes in, who touches it, where it stalls, and which decisions repeat.

  2. 02

    Decide the rules

    We write down your positions, fallbacks, approval thresholds, and exceptions. This is legal work, and it is the part most software projects skip.

  3. 03

    Build it in your tools

    We build the plugin, pipeline, or application inside your environment and connect it to the systems your teams already use.

  4. 04

    Launch and tune

    We run it on live work with your team, adjust what the first weeks reveal, and train the people who will own it.

  5. 05

    Run it or hand it over

    Keep us on to operate and maintain it, or take it in-house with documentation. Either way it runs in your systems.

Why a law firm builds it

The rules are the hard part. We write them and build them.

01

Built by a lawyer who writes software

EJ Archuleta is a former General Counsel and a software engineer. The person who decides the legal rules is the person who builds them.

02

Legal judgment, not just automation

A law firm can advise on the positions the system applies, and that advice sits inside an attorney-client relationship.

03

Built for the business, not for lawyers

Most legal work starts in sales, procurement, finance, and security. We build for the people who actually send the request.

04

Scoped and priced up front

Builds are quoted as fixed fees against a written scope. Ongoing operation and maintenance is a monthly fee.

Starting with contracts?

Contract Systems is our most common build: playbook, clause library, intake, and routing.

See Contract Systems
Ways to engage

A defined build, or an ongoing partner.

Fixed-scope build

One plugin, pipeline, or tool, quoted as a fixed fee against a written scope.

Legal function program

A roadmap across teams, built in stages, with each stage scoped and priced before it starts.

Build and counsel

We build the system and serve as outside general counsel for the work that runs through it.

Questions

What teams ask before a build.

Next step

Tell us where the legal work piles up. We will scope the build.

Describe the team, the work, and the tools you use. The next step is a short discovery call, then a written scope and a fixed fee.