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LegalFlow · Law firm growth partner · UK

The first firm to reply wins the instruction. Make sure it is yours.

Website, phones, intake, client updates, marketing, billing — the whole front office of the firm, run by us. Reported to the partners by practice area.

Live in 14 daysoverflow line + instant acknowledgement first
Every call answered24/7, in the firm’s name
Every enquiry chasedto instruction, in your voice
Every client updatedat every stage, automatically
What you get from us

Four outcomes a firm actually needs. We are accountable for all four.

Every call answered
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24/7 phone and chat receptionist in the firm’s name. Parties captured for the conflict check before anyone speaks to the prospect.

Every enquiry chased to instruction
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Branded acknowledgement in seconds, a structured follow-up on every enquiry that has not instructed, a call task for the fee earner at the right moment.

Every client updated
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Plain-English update on every stage change. Kills the silence that produces the number-one complaint to the Legal Ombudsman.

Numbers, by practice area
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Enquiries, reply time, conversion to instruction, fees quoted and billed, lock-up — one partners’ dashboard, weekly.

A to Z, one bill

Everything the firm’s front office runs on, run by us — website to invoices.

Website & consultation bookingpractice-area pages, fees displayed, live diary
Google, SEO & AI searchGBP, local SEO, AEO/GEO per practice area
Ads & creativesMagic Studio · Google & Meta · SRA/CAP-safe
Social mediaLinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Google — one calendar
Ava, the receptionistphone · web chat · WhatsApp · after hours
Intake forms & ID checkspractice-area intake, ID and proof of address
Enquiry-to-instruction chaseacknowledge, follow up, call task
Matter boardsone per practice area, every stage visible
Client updateson every stage change, plain English
E-sign & client care lettersterms, client care letter, signed online
Invoices, payments & lock-upraised on stage change, chased on schedule
Partners’ dashboardenquiry → instruction → billed, by area
You keep: the law, the advice, the client relationshipWe run: the front office — 24/7, on one platformOne bill: from £299/month · onboarding as a guaranteed build
Solicitor in a meeting with a client while the phone rings at reception
While you are in the meeting

The phone still rings. Now it gets answered — and conflict-checked.

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A fee earner cannot leave a client or a hearing for a call. LegalFlow answers in the firm’s name, screens by practice area, captures the parties for your conflict check, books the consultation, and logs the transcript to the matter record.

Meet Ava. Human warmth, artificial intelligence, never in a hearing.

She answers in your firm’s name, captures the parties for the conflict check, books into the right fee earner’s diary, and hands over to a person when it matters.

Every call answeredFirst ring · phone, web chat, WhatsApp
Conflict check firstBoth parties captured before a fee earner is involved
Instructions securedA missed call becomes a consultation, not a voicemail
Ava, the AI receptionist — an artificial team member presented as a personOn a call · 17:52AI
AvaYour firm’s receptionist · artificial, super-intelligent
24 / 7 / 365Evenings, weekends, court days, lunch
Hands over to a humanUrgent or distressed caller → named person by rule
Gives no legal adviceYour knowledge base only · every call transcribed
168 ha week on shift
1st ringevery call, every channel
0sick days, court days, holidays
100%calls logged to the matter record
How Ava works

Ava is a member of the Autonomous AI Workforce, trained on your firm: practice areas, fee earners and their qualifications, fixed fees, hours, legal aid position and complaints procedure. She answers phone, web chat and WhatsApp, screens by practice area, captures both parties so you can run a conflict check before anyone speaks to the prospect, and books into the right fee earner’s calendar. She gives no legal advice, never accesses a file, says only what your knowledge base says, and transfers to a human on request. Every call is transcribed to the matter record. Rules, calendars and escalation paths are set with you at onboarding.

Be found

Be the firm Google — and AI — recommends for that practice area.

Map pack, reviews, practice-area pages with fees displayed, and AI-search answers, all pointing at your diary.

Google Business Profile, run weeklyposts, Q&A, review replies in the partners’ voice
Local SEO per practice area“settlement agreement solicitor + your town”, not just “solicitor”
AI search (AEO / GEO)structured so ChatGPT and AI Overviews name you
Reviews that keep arrivingrequested at matter close, routed privately when needed
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We run your Google Business Profile, build practice-area pages with the fees, credentials and schema AI engines read, keep your name, address and phone consistent everywhere, and route every satisfied client to Google. Visibility is reported alongside instructions — one dashboard, not a separate agency report. Copy respects the SRA Transparency Rules and CAP Code: fees shown, credentials as held, no unsubstantiated success claims.

AI search answer

“For a settlement agreement solicitor in your area, your firm publishes a fixed fee, offers same-week consultations and can be booked online.” — the answer we build your pages to earn.

Free firm visibility audit

Firm name + postcode. We score your Google profile, practice-area pages, fee transparency and AI-search presence, and email the report within one working day.

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Fill the diary

From search to booked consultation, without a fee earner in the loop.

Ads only when you want them — billed to your own accounts. The rest runs the same whether the enquiry comes from Google, LinkedIn or a referral.

Creative that looks like your firmMagic Studio ads · SRA and CAP-safe copy
Practice-area landing pageFixed fee, what it includes, live slots
Settlement agreements from £1,250
Employer usually contributes
Next slot: Thu 10:30
Ava answers the enquiryPhone, chat or WhatsApp — first ring
“Can you look at it this week?”
“Yes — shall I book Thu 10:30?”
Consultation booked, conflict checkedConfirmation by text, reminder 24 h
Thu 10:30 · J. Okafor
Conflict check · clear
Reminder 24h + 2h
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Call tracking tells you which channel produced the instruction. Ad spend, when you choose to run it, is billed to your own Google and Meta accounts — never marked up by us.

The leak, in pounds

Where the fees leak in a UK firm

Three published failures. None of them is about the quality of the law.

35%Calls unanswered
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of calls to small and mid-sized firms go unanswered. A live answer converts at roughly 35%; voicemail at around 10%.

26%Enquiries never answered
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of firms never reply to a web enquiry at all — and when a reply comes, the median wait is hours, not seconds. The prospect has already instructed the firm that answered.

No. 1Complaint: silence
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cause of complaints to the Legal Ombudsman is poor communication: silence during the matter. Not the advice — the updates.

Source ranges: Law Leaders 2025 (Moneypenny); Hennessey Digital 2025 study of 1,333 firms; Clio Legal Trends; Legal Ombudsman complaint data. Your own figures replace these in the review.

What is a slow reply costing you?

Put in your own enquiry volume and average matter value.

Assumes 35% of answered enquiries would instruct, the published live-answer rate. Illustrative only; the review uses your real figures.
Leaving through the drain
£0in new fees lost each year to enquiries nobody answered
We reply with your number and the three things that recover it. No newsletter.
A day with the system on

A Thursday with LegalFlow on

Six moments the front office used to miss — handled, logged, reported.

08:40
Thank you for your enquiry
A solicitor from our family team will call within one working hour.
Sent 4 s after the form

Web enquiry acknowledged in 4 seconds

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Branded reply, call-back task to the family team, conflict-check fields captured.

10:30
Settlement agreement · 45 min
Thu 10:30 · J. Okafor
Conflict check · clear

Consultation, conflict-checked

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Booked by Ava last night; reminder sent; parties already checked.

12:15
Phone receptionist
Buying a flat, need a quote…
Fixed fee £1,250 · booked Fri 14:00

Call during the hearing

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Answered first ring, screened to conveyancing, booked with the right fee earner.

15:00
Intake chain
Intake form ✓ID requestClient care lettere-signatureInstructed

Instructed — client care letter out

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Client care letter, terms and ID request sent for e-signature the moment the stage changes.

16:40
Your matter: searches received
Nothing unexpected has come up. Next: we raise enquiries with the seller’s solicitor this week.
Sent automatically on stage change

Stage change → client updated

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Searches back on a conveyancing matter; the client is told what happened and what comes next.

Mon 08:00
This month
27enquiries
1 minmedian first reply
41%instructed
£38.4kfees quoted

The partners’ numbers

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Enquiries, median first reply, instructed, fees quoted — by practice area.

Client signing a client care letter on a tablet at a law firm reception desk
At instruction

The client care letter goes out the same evening. Onboarding without the phone tag.

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Move the matter to Instructed and the client care letter, terms of business and ID request go out for electronic signature. The client signs on their phone; the signed pack lands on the matter.

Instruct, update, bill

Enquiries instructed. Clients updated. Bills paid.

The follow-up a busy fee earner can’t do by hand — running every day, in your firm’s voice.

Stage: consultation held
Day 1 · follow-up email
Day 4 · second follow-up
Day 7 · call task → J. Okafor

Enquiry-to-instruction chase

Every enquiry is followed up. Zero relying on memory.
What it is

Acknowledged in seconds. Stalled at a stage: a follow-up, a wait, a second follow-up, then a call task for the fee earner with the quoted fee attached. A monthly report of what stalled and why.

New enquiry
Conveyancing · £1,250
Family · £1,550
Consultation
Immigration · £2,400
Instructed
Employment · £1,800

One board per practice area

The partners see every matter that has stalled, by area, and what it is worth.
What it is

Conveyancing, family, immigration, employment, wills and probate, litigation, commercial. Every enquiry is a card with source, fee earner, quoted fee and stage.

Client care letter
Signed 12 Sep · 19:14
ID + proof of address · received

Intake, ID checks and e-signature

Onboarding in one evening instead of three phone calls.
What it is

Practice-area intake forms, ID and proof-of-address requests for your AML checks, client care letter and terms of business sent for electronic signature. Everything lands on the matter.

Contracts exchanged this morning. Completion is set for Fri 27th — we will confirm the funds timetable tomorrow.
Brilliant, thank you

Client updates at every stage

Kills the silence behind the number-one complaint. Fewer “any news?” calls.
What it is

As the matter moves along the board, the client is told what has happened and what comes next, in plain English, drafted in your voice and approved by a fee earner.

Matter closed
Closed well → Google review request
Anything else → private conversation

Review and reputation engine

A wall of genuine reviews and fewer public complaints.
What it is

Closed-well matters are asked for a Google review; anyone else is routed to your complaints handler first, within one working day.

Invoice INV-2026-0117
Settlement agreement · £1,250 · card link sent
Day 14 · reminder scheduled

Billing that raises itself

Billable brains stop doing admin. Lock-up comes down without fee-earner time.
What it is

Move a matter to billing and a numbered, branded invoice is created and emailed with a card link. Unpaid bills are chased on a schedule. Past clients told about services they have not used, with consent.

How it works

Three steps. No pitch before the numbers.

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Diagnostic first

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A 20-minute review of your own numbers: enquiries by source, how many were answered and how fast, how many became instructions, by practice area. You see the cost in fees before we propose anything.

2

Live in 14 days

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Onboarding is a paid, guaranteed build. Missed Enquiry Recovery usually goes first — Ava on your overflow line and instant acknowledgement of every web enquiry — measured from day one.

3

The full front office, reported monthly

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Boards, chase, intake, client updates, reviews and billing, run by us, reported to the partners by practice area.

Start with one problem

Most firms start with one of these and add the rest.

most common

Missed enquiry recovery

Ava on the overflow line + instant acknowledgement
highest value

Enquiry-to-instruction chase

Structured follow-up, call task, monthly stall report

Client communication programme

Stage updates + feedback gate at completion

Billing & lock-up follow-up

Invoices on stage change, chased on schedule
Pricing

Serious plans for serious operators.

One platform, three tiers. Longer term, lower rate.

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Professional onboarding included as a paid, guaranteed build on every plan. LegalFlow is built at onboarding on whichever plan you choose; Connected is recommended for most firms. Multi-office firms are quoted.

Prices from the live catalogue. No VAT (Autonomous AI Ltd is not VAT-registered). Usage for calls and texts published on the rate card. Full pricing and add-ons →

See it running

Nothing to imagine — it’s already running.

A demonstration firm runs every part of this page. Inspect it on the call; phone Ava yourself.

Partner reviewing practice-area figures on a laptop in a quiet office
Monday, 08:00

The partners see what stalled, by practice area, while there is still time to act.

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Enquiries by source, median first reply, conversion to instruction, fees quoted against billed, lock-up — one dashboard, weekly, no spreadsheets.

Ava · call log, 17:52
Employment · booked 10:30
Conflict check task · created
Family board · this month
27 enquiries · 11 instructed
£38.4k quoted · 6 stalled → chased
Client updates sent
48 stage updates · 0 “any news?” calls
Drafted in the firm’s voice
Billing
14 invoices raised on stage change
3 reminders · 2 paid by link

Who you are dealing with

  • Autonomous AI Ltd — UK company no. 17102156, Hornchurch, England
  • Client data held in the UK under UK GDPR; SRA Transparency Rules and CAP Code built into the templates
  • Works alongside Clio, LEAP and Proclaim — your case-management system stays the matter record
  • Onboarding is a paid, guaranteed build: live in 14 days or we keep working at no extra charge
  • 3, 6 or 12-month terms, signed online, 14-day cooling-off
“Every claim on this page is something the demonstration firm does today. If a firm wants a number we cannot show, we say so.”Azhar Bhuiyan, Founding Growth Manager & COO
Compliance

Built for the rules a UK firm works under

Price transparency

How

SRA Transparency Rules on displayed fees are built into the website, the knowledge base and the receptionist: fixed fees and what they include shown without the prospect having to ask.

The receptionist’s limits

How

It gives no legal advice, never accesses a file, says only what your knowledge base says, captures parties for your conflict check, and hands off to a human on request. Every call is transcribed.

Client data

How

Client data is processed under UK GDPR with Autonomous AI as your processor. Client lists never sync to ad audiences. Marketing goes only to contacts with recorded consent; service messages are separate.

Advertising

How

Ad and page copy respects SRA and CAP Code requirements: no unsubstantiated success claims, credentials shown as held.

Complaints

How

Poor feedback routes to your complaints handler within one working day, in line with your published complaints procedure, before it becomes a public review.

Your data stays yours

How

You own the matter records, the templates and the numbers. If we part, you keep them.

Questions

Frequently asked

Do you replace our case-management system?

No. Clio, LEAP, Proclaim and the rest stay as your matter record. LegalFlow runs the front door, the chase and the client communication around them. On Complete we connect the two by API so instructions flow into your case management.

Can an AI receptionist take a legal enquiry safely?

It answers only from your approved knowledge base, gives no legal advice, captures the parties so you can run a conflict check before anyone speaks to the prospect, and transfers to a human on request. Every call is transcribed.

Does it handle conflict checks and AML ID checks?

It captures both parties on first contact and creates the conflict-check task for your team; the check itself stays with you. ID and proof-of-address requests go out automatically at instruction so your AML file is complete before work starts.

What do you need from us?

Your practice areas, fee earners and their qualifications, fixed fees, hours, legal aid position and complaints procedure, plus a named person for the weekly numbers. Onboarding collects it in one session.

How quickly is it live?

Onboarding is a paid, guaranteed build. Missed Enquiry Recovery typically goes live inside 14 days; the full system follows over the first month.

What does it cost?

Core £299, Connected £599 or Complete £1,099 a month on a 12-month term, plus a one-off onboarding and build fee of £499–£1,499. Shorter 3 and 6-month terms are priced above. Calls and texts beyond your allowance are charged at the published rates. Ad spend, if any, is billed to your own accounts. Multi-office firms are quoted.

Is there a contract?

Yes — a 3, 6 or 12-month term, signed online, with a 14-day cooling-off period. Longer terms carry the lower monthly rate. Everything you agree is written into Schedule A before you sign.

Who writes the client updates?

We draft every stage update and chase sequence in your firm’s voice during onboarding and you approve it. Nothing goes to a client that a fee earner has not seen.

Can our fee earners still call prospects?

Yes. The system creates the call task at the right moment and hands the phone to the fee earner. It replaces the chasing and the silence, not the conversation.

Do we keep our phone number?

Yes. Calls to your existing number are forwarded to Ava on the rules you set — all calls, overflow only, or out of hours only. Nothing is ported unless you want it to be.

Does it work for legal aid and mixed practices?

Yes. Ava answers legal aid and private enquiries by your rules — eligibility questions routed to the right person, fixed fees quoted only where you have set them.

Start with your own numbers

Twenty minutes. We bring your enquiry volume, your answer rate and your conversion to instruction, by practice area. You decide whether any of it is worth fixing.

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