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What an AI-first law firm looks like.

We're recovering $1.3M a year in productivity for Catton & Tondelstrand. 4,000 emails filed automatically every month. Client letters drafted in 12 minutes, down from 45.

A 20-person law firm owes its clients the same duty of care a bank does. It has never had access to the same process discipline.

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$1.3M

A year in productivity, and counting

20-person family law firm · Catton & Tondelstrand

$81,000

Monthly savings from Pat, the AI email triage assistant

$35,000

Monthly savings from Donna, the AI consultation assistant

The Problem

Where your firm is bleeding time

Email filing

Hundreds of emails a day, read, sorted and filed by hand.

Meeting documentation

20 to 30 minutes writing the file note and client letter after every consultation.

Admin creep

30 to 40% of legal minds' time goes on work that does not need a law degree.

Calculate how much this is costing your firm

The Solution

AI assistants built for law firms

Assistants that plug into your practice management system and understand legal workflows, from email and documentation to research and drafting.

Meet Pat: Your AI Email Triage Assistant

Pat reads every incoming email, categorises it by matter, and files it into Smokeball (or your practice management system). Anything it is not sure about goes to a person.

$81,000/month recovered for Catton & Tondelstrand

Meet Donna: Your AI Consultation Assistant

Donna records your consultations, transcribes them, and turns them into a client letter and internal file note in your firm's voice and writing style.

$35,000/month recovered for Catton & Tondelstrand

Meet your AI Research Assistant

Ask a question in plain English and get a cited answer drawn from case law, legislation, precedent and your own matter history. Each answer shows its sources, so your solicitors can verify it in minutes.

Hours of legal research, down to minutes, with citations

Meet your AI Drafting Assistant

Advice letters, client correspondence, standard agreements and court documents, drafted from your firm's own precedents and templates in your house style. Your solicitors review and settle each draft, with the writing already done.

First drafts in minutes, built from your own precedents

How Pat works: Email Filing

Email arrives

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Pat reads & classifies

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Matched to matter

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Filed in Smokeball

Pat works 24/7. Anything uncertain goes to a person.

Bart Puszko presenting Donna, the AI consultation assistant, on screen at an AI workshop

See how we think, before you call us

What AI must not touch in a law firm.

Before we design anything, we settle six things: what stays inside your systems, how little data leaves them, where it is processed, who signs before anything reaches a client, what the AI is allowed to see, and how long anything is kept. Alongside them, the obligations each build is measured against: the Privacy Act and the 13 Australian Privacy Principles, the Solicitors' Conduct Rules, legal professional privilege and Notifiable Data Breaches.

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Built for law firms

Australian processing where your matters require it.

Where your matters require Australian processing, we design for it and price it at the start. If a client contract, a government matter or your insurer imposes a location requirement, that requirement governs the build.

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Most leading practice management systems

Matter-level document management

Your data is never used to train AI models

Fully managed, we run it for you

ROI identified before a line of code is written

Enterprise API agreements

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google enterprise tiers. Zero data retention for model training.

Processing location is a design decision

Settled and priced before the build. Client-matter data stays within your firm's control.

Full data security documentation

Provided to your compliance team before any AI system goes live.

Common questions

Questions law firms ask

Is AI safe for law firm client data?

Yes, when set up correctly. We use enterprise-grade AI with data processing agreements, no training on your data, and Australian-hosted options where required. Client confidentiality is non-negotiable, we design every AI system with legal professional privilege in mind.

How much does AI cost for a law firm?

It depends on the scope. We start with an AI Scan, a two-hour session ($2,000, credited if you proceed), to map your highest-ROI opportunities. From there you take an AI Blueprint when you need the full 12-month roadmap, then a build scoped from it. The Scan is credited toward your Blueprint for 60 days, and pricing is anchored to the return each system recovers. One 20-person law firm is recovering $1.3M a year in productivity from two AI systems.

What practice management systems does Blue Seas AI integrate with?

We have built integrations with Smokeball, LEAP, and other major practice management systems. Our AI systems work alongside your existing tools, they do not replace them. For example, Pat, your AI email triage assistant, automatically matches and files emails to the correct matter in Smokeball.

Will AI replace my legal staff?

No. AI systems take over the repetitive admin work your staff should not be doing, filing emails, writing up meeting notes, data entry. Your people keep doing the work that requires judgement, relationships, and legal expertise. Your AI systems handle the 30 to 45 minutes of daily grunt work so your team can focus on billable, high-value tasks.