AI
- Workflow automation
- Document and information processing
- Drafting and research workflows
- Internal AI assistants
- Agentic processes where appropriate
Law firm transformation · Australia
Deconstruct old school. Build the future. Now.
Most law firms are still operating with a business model built for another era. Platfirm AI deconstructs the old model and rebuilds the firm around what is possible now.
For owners, principals and managing partners of Australian law firms.
Audit$2,500–$5,000
ImplementationTypically $10,000–$30,000
Ongoing managementFrom $2,000 per week
01 · The inherited model
Complexity that was necessary once is not necessarily necessary now.
A typical firm pays separate providers, subscriptions and internal labour to keep a collection of disconnected systems functioning. People become the integration layer—copying, checking, chasing and re-entering information because the business was assembled one service at a time.
IT supportSeparate supplier
Websites and hostingSeparate supplier
Practice-management adviceSeparate supplier
Microsoft 365 administrationSeparate supplier
Marketing technologySeparate supplier
Software subscriptionsRecurring cost
Manual administrationInternal labour
Repetitive cognitive workInternal labour
Moving data between systemsInternal labour
02 · One operating system
We examine the firm as one business.
IT, practice management, websites, AI and administration are not unrelated services. They are one operating system. Platfirm AI reviews and rebuilds them together.
Practice management
- System and workflow review
- Integrations and automation
- Migration where justified
- Redundant process removal
- Subscription rationalisation
IT & Microsoft 365
- Tenancy and account structure
- Email and identity
- Permissions and security
- Storage and user administration
- Business-system integration
Websites & digital systems
- Websites, hosting and domains
- Forms and customer intake
- Analytics and AI integration
- Ongoing maintenance
- Connected digital operations
Operations
- Repetitive administration
- Supplier rationalisation
- Duplicated systems
- Unnecessary subscriptions
- Unnecessary human handling
Fewer suppliers.
Fewer systems.
Less manual work.
Lower cost.
Better output.
03 · Pricing
Start with the economics of the firm.
The audit establishes what should disappear, what should change and whether the commercial case for implementation is strong enough to proceed.
Start here
01
AI & Operations Audit
$2,500–$5,000
A practical review of the firm’s technology, software, suppliers, workflows, recurring costs, AI use and administration.
The output identifies:
- what can be eliminated or automated;
- what should be consolidated or rebuilt;
- what should remain; and
- the expected commercial benefits.
Where appropriate, the audit cost can be credited towards implementation.
Book the audit →Implementation02
We perform the transformation.
Typically $10,000–$30,000
Depending on the firm, implementation can include:
- rebuilding workflows and configuring systems;
- deploying AI and writing integrations;
- migrating data and rationalising software;
- automating repetitive work;
- restructuring websites and intake; and
- integrating Microsoft 365.
We don’t hand you a strategy document and disappear. We implement it.
Ongoing management03
Your integrated systems function.
From $2,000 per week
Platfirm AI can become the firm’s ongoing technology, AI and operational-systems function, with responsibility for:
- AI and IT coordination;
- Microsoft environment;
- website and practice-management systems;
- automations, integrations and software; and
- continual cost and performance improvement.
The measure that matters
We don’t sell AI strategy. We make AI pay.
Law firms do not need another consultant explaining that artificial intelligence is important. They need someone who can understand the actual business, identify what no longer needs to exist, and make the changes.
The measure of success is not how much AI is installed.
- Lower recurring cost
- Fewer suppliers
- Fewer disconnected systems
- Less repetitive work
- Faster execution
- Better information
- Better client service
- Higher profitability
04 · Why now
The economics of professional services have changed.
AI can now perform or substantially assist work that recently required expensive professional, administrative and technical labour. Software that once took teams years to build can increasingly be created or customised rapidly.
Firms redesigned around that reality gain a cost and operational advantage. Firms that preserve the old cost structure merely because it is familiar will increasingly compete against firms that do not.
05 · Who this is for
For the people responsible for the whole firm.
- Law-firm owners and principals
- Managing partners and practice managers
- Small and medium-sized Australian firms
- Firms with substantial supplier, software and administrative complexity
- Firms without a sophisticated internal technology department
If your firm is paying multiple external providers and significant internal labour merely to keep technology and administration functioning, we should probably talk.
What this looks like in practice
One accountable operator across the whole system.
Platfirm AI already manages integrated technology and operations for professional-services businesses across areas that were previously handled by multiple separate providers.
Verified client case study · reserved
Before
Previous operating model
- Suppliers and recurring cost
- Systems and subscriptions
- Manual handoffs and bottlenecks
Transformation
Changes implemented
- Systems consolidated
- Work automated or redesigned
- Technology rebuilt and integrated
After
Verified commercial result
- Annual savings
- Operational improvements
- Better output and client service
No invented client names or savings figures. This structure is ready for a verified before-and-after case study.
Start with the audit
How much of your current operating cost still needs to exist?
We will look at how your firm operates today and tell you what we would keep, what we would change and what we believe you can stop paying for.
AI & Operations Audit
$2.5k–$5k