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The clause is in last year's email. The clock is still running.
Plutonic builds legal software and AI for Indian firms — contract review, matter search, and practice ops tied to the DMS and email you already run.
- Associates start from a blank Word file because last year's clause is in email
- The client called for status. You opened three folders
- Intake is a mailbox. The matter gets lost across practice groups
- Deadlines live in Excel and a WhatsApp reminder
Overview
What a firm actually needs from software
Challenges
If this is your week, keep reading
First pass eats the week
Contracts and discovery sit until someone has time to triage.
- Associate reads 80 pages to find the three that matter
- Deviation from the playbook is a feeling, not a mark
- Partner reviews from a blank page
The memo is in someone's inbox
Prior clauses and matter history vanish when the person is on leave.
- Search is Outlook plus a shared drive named Final_v7
- New joinee asks the same question every week
- No citation when someone asks 'have we taken this position'
Every draft starts from scratch
Approved language exists. Nobody starts there.
- Internet tone sneaks into a client mark-up
- Playbook PDF nobody opened
- Redline after the clock already ran
The practice runs on chat
Intake, deadlines, client updates — Excel and WhatsApp.
- Limitation date in a personal calendar
- Client asks 'any update' because status is a rumour
- Monday MIS is a workbook someone built on Sunday
Solutions
What we put on the matter and the desk
Solution 01
Find the clause without the archaeology
The mess
Precedents sit in drives and old mail.
What we put in
Search over the firm's own repository — access by role, citation on the hit.
- Answer from your memo, not the internet
- Matter walls respected
- Log of who opened what
Solution 02
Intake that becomes a matter, not a mail
The mess
New work arrives in email and dies across groups.
What we put in
Facts captured once, routed with an owner — tied to the file, not a side thread.
- Conflict and facts on day one
- Practice group queue
- No 'we'll open the matter later'
Solution 03
First draft from your playbook
The mess
Associates rebuild the same agreement.
What we put in
Draft and redline from approved templates. Lawyer still signs the advice.
- Start from your clause, not a model habit
- Deviation marked for the partner
- Nothing to the client without a name
Solution 04
Status the client can see — without oversharing
The mess
Updates are a phone call because the file is opaque.
What we put in
Portal and structured notes that cut 'any update' without dumping the working papers.
- Stage the client is allowed to see
- Docs in the record, not a chain
- Less status theatre
Capabilities
What we actually build for firms
01
First-pass that a partner can start from
Clauses, risks, deviations — marked. Counsel still signs.
- Deviation from the playbook
- Photo of the clause in context
- Human on anything that goes out
02
Search that cites your work
Answers from the firm's memos — not the open web.
- Hit with a citation
- Matter walls
- Role-based access
03
Drafts in your voice
First pass and redline from approved templates. Not internet tone.
- Start from the playbook
- Partner reviews a mark-up, not a blank
- Client never sees an unsigned draft
04
Practice as a queue
Intake, tasks, limitation dates — visible across the firm.
- Owner on the matter
- Deadline not in a personal calendar
- Handover when someone is on leave
05
Client portal without the sprawl
Docs and status without a 40-mail chain.
- What the client is allowed to see
- Upload into the file
- Fewer 'any update' calls
06
Practice ops for the CA desk too
When the firm sits next to tax and compliance — same discipline on the file.
- File the professional will open
- Client status without a leak
- Tied to the tools you already pay for
07
The file stays in the room
Access, logs, private deploy when the matter requires it.
- Who opened the document
- On-prem or private cloud when needed
- Export audit will take
08
DMS and email you already live in
Meet the lawyer in Outlook and the DMS. Don't force an island.
- DMS stays
- Mail into the matter
- No rip-and-replace as day one
Use cases
Jobs a managing partner will pay for
Cut first-pass on one contract type
Pilot review on the agreement that hurts. Expand when hours move.
- One playbook first
- Partner still on the send
- Roll out when TAT drops
Stop hunting last year's clause
Search the firm's own work with a citation.
- Memo, not the internet
- Walls between matters
- New joinees stop interrupting
Get 'any update' off the phone
Status the client can see without the working papers.
- Stage on a portal
- Docs in the file
- Fewer status calls
Kill the Sunday MIS
Aging matters and deadlines to the phone, not a 40-tab workbook.
- Limitation dates in the system
- Owner on the aging file
- Meeting starts with facts
Recommended services
Where to start in our practice
Why it matters
Why firms stay with us
We talk matters, not 'legal AI'
If we can't name the playbook and the DMS, we don't belong in the kickoff.
- First-pass hours
- Limitation risk
- No buzzword kickoff
Counsel stays on the advice
We speed review and search. Filings and opinions stay human-owned.
- Human on the send
- Log from day one
- Pilot on one matter type
We plug into the DMS you have
A tool that lives beside the file is a toy. We wire it in.
- No rip-and-replace as the pitch
- Email + DMS + desk
- Screens an associate will use
You can point at a number
Review hours, search time, aging files — not 'AI adoption'.
- Baseline before we start
- One owner per metric
- Expand when it pays
FAQ
Legal questions
No. It speeds first pass, search, and a draft. Advice and filings stay with counsel. If it tries to be the partner, we built it wrong.
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