For small and mid-size law firms · 30–150 staff

Your attorneys spent 300 hours last year on work software should be doing. We'll show you which hours.

The AI Audit gives small and mid-size law firms a scored assessment of their AI exposure and opportunity — and a prioritized roadmap — in 3 weeks. Fixed $6,500. No retainer.

If we don't identify at least 300 recoverable hours per year, you pay nothing.

Book Your 20-Minute Opportunity & Exposure Check

You'll leave the call with your firm's top 3 exposure points — whether or not we ever work together.

$6,500
Fixed fee
3 weeks
Start to score
300 hrs
Found, or free
$0
Retainer
Specimen
AI Readiness Score — Confidential
RPT-2026-014
Prepared forLLP
Conducted remotely · 30–150 staff · 3-week engagement
0
/ 100
Managed risk begins here.
Composite of 3 lenses
Exposure
42
Efficiency
63
Expectation
78
Finding E-03: privileged material located in 4 unsanctioned consumer AI tools across 2 practice groups. Remediation: roadmap item 1 of 12.
Illustrative specimen. Your firm's numbers will differ — that's the point.
II. The record

Not a feeling. A pattern — already documented.

Three facts you can verify yourself. No projections, no vendor decks.

Exhibit A

78% of employees who use AI at work bring their own tools — unsanctioned, unvetted, and invisible to management.

Microsoft & LinkedIn, Work Trend Index, 2024. Survey of 31,000 knowledge workers.

Exhibit B

The bar has already spoken. ABA Formal Opinion 512 and a growing list of state bar task-force reports tie AI use directly to your duties of competence and confidentiality.

ABA Formal Op. 512, Jul 2024 · state bar AI task-force reports, 2024–2026. All public. All citable against you.

Exhibit C

Malpractice carriers are starting to askabout firm AI policies on renewal questionnaires. "We don't have one" is now an answer on the record.

Reported across legal malpractice insurance commentary, 2024–2026. Ask your broker.

You don't have an AI problem. You have a visibility problem.

You can't manage what you haven't mapped.

III. The instrument

The AI Readiness Score measures your firm across three lenses.

Lens 01 — Risk

Exposure

Where confidential information is already flowing into unsanctioned tools — and what your professional obligations require you to do about it.

Lens 02 — Return

Efficiency

Which workflows — drafting, intake, discovery review, correspondence — hold recoverable hours. Quantified, not gestured at.

Lens 03 — Horizon

Expectation

Where clients and opposing counsel are heading — and when it starts showing up in your pitch meetings and your rates.

You get a score out of 100, a finding-by-finding breakdown, and a roadmap ranked by impact against effort. In plain English. Yours to execute with anyone — including without us.

Score / 100
Finding-by-finding breakdown
Roadmap: impact vs. effort
Get Your Firm's Score
The preliminary tier

Want a preliminary read first? Take the 12-question self-assessment — the same three lenses, self-reported — and get your firm's preliminary AI Readiness Score in about 4 minutes. Scored against a documented methodology. No call required.

Take the self-assessment →
IV.Who's asking you to trust them

You're right to be skeptical. Stay that way.

Most of what's marketed to law firms as "AI strategy" is a software demo in a trench coat. You've sat through the pitches. You've watched every vendor bolt "AI" onto last year's product and raise the price. Your skepticism isn't a barrier — it's the correct professional instinct.

You work directly with the person doing the audit. This happens in a conversation, not a webinar. We sell no software, take no vendor commissions, and have no requirements of implementing any of our findings. The deliverable is the deliverable.

"We put our name on a number. Consultants who sell vague transformation don't."
§1

Independent

No software to sell you, no vendor commissions, no reseller margin. Our incentive is being right.

§2

Direct

Remote-first, working with firms nationwide. The person who runs the audit is the person your partners talk to — no account managers, no handoffs, no junior team you never meet.

§3

Accountable to a number

A score out of 100 and a 300-hour guarantee. Both are falsifiable. Vague transformation isn't — which is exactly why it gets sold.

§4

Fixed by design

Fixed scope, fixed fee, defined deliverables, hard end date. The engagement is built so it cannot become a retainer by accident.

V. The plan

Three steps. We do the work.

STEP 1

The 20-Minute Opportunity & Exposure Check

We learn how your firm actually works. You leave with your top 3 exposure points— and a straight answer on whether the audit makes sense. If it doesn't, we'll say so.

20 minutes · No obligation
STEP 2

The audit

We assess your workflows, data handling, and current AI use — sanctioned and unsanctioned— including the anonymous staff survey. Your team's total time commitment: a handful of interviews.

3 weeks · ~4–6 staff hours total
STEP 3

Your roadmap — and your score

A prioritized, plain-English plan: what to do first, what to ignore, what it costs, what policies the bar guidance expects you to have — and your score.

60-minute partner briefing
VI. The engagement

One fee. Six deliverables. One clause that protects you.

Founding Partner Rate
$6,500
Fixed. Total. No retainer.

Reserved for the first 5 firms. We're building our reference base, and early clients trade testimonials and referrals for the rate. That's the whole logic — no artificial countdown.

  • 1.The full three-lens audit — Exposure, Efficiency, Expectation
  • 2.Your AI Readiness Score — out of 100, finding by finding
  • 3.Anonymous staff AI-use survey — anonymous, so you get the truth
  • 4.Prioritized 12-month roadmap — ranked by impact against effort
  • 5.Draft AI use policy — aligned to bar guidance
  • 6.60-minute partner briefing — we walk it through, you ask anything
Clause 7 · The Guarantee

300 recoverable hours per year — or you pay nothing.

If the roadmap doesn't identify at least 300 recoverable staff-hours per year, you pay nothing.

If it does, but you simply don't find it decision-useful — you still pay nothing. You are the judge of "useful." Not us.

Signed & scored
In writing, in the engagement letter
Paid
only if
useful
VII. Anticipated questions

The questions partners actually ask.

Q.1 Is our client data safe during the audit?+
Yes, and it's in writing.We work under a mutual NDA as standard, our confidentiality terms are in the engagement letter, and we treat privileged material with the same handling discipline we're auditing you on. We never move your data into third-party AI tools — that would be the disease posing as the cure.
Q.2 How much of my team's time does this take?+
About 4–6 hours, total, across the whole firm.A few partner and staff interviews plus the anonymous survey, which takes each person under ten minutes. We do the work. That's what the fee is for.
Q.3 We're not technical.+
That's the point.The deliverable is written in plain English for partners, not IT. Every finding says what it is, why it matters, and what to do — in the order you should do it. If a recommendation needs a translator, we've failed at the job.
Q.4 What if the roadmap says we shouldn't do much with AI yet?+
You're paying for the truth, not a sales document. Some firms' highest-value move is a policy, a training hour, and nothing else for twelve months. If that's your answer, that's your roadmap — and it still comes with your score and the exposure findings.
Q.5 Why is this only $6,500?+
Three reasons, all self-interested.It's a founding rate — we 're building a reference base and early clients trade testimonials and referrals for pricing. The audit is fixed-scope by design, so we can price it precisely. And we are highly incentivized to produce excellent results while launching a new service. When a seller can't explain their price, walk. We just explained ours.
VIII. The next 20 minutes

Twenty minutes. Your top 3 exposure points. Whether or not we ever work together.

Right now, you can't rule out the headline at the top of this page. After one call, you'll know exactly where to look.

§No pitch deck. If the audit isn't a fit, we'll say so on the call.
§ Founding Partner Rate holds for the first 5 firms.
§ Booking takes 60 seconds. You pick the time immediately after this form.

Book Your 20-Minute Opportunity & Exposure Check

You'll pick a time on the next screen. Speed matters — we hold slots for 15 minutes.

You'll leave the call with your firm's top 3 exposure points — whether or not we ever work together.

One step left: pick your time.

Your details are in. I'll email you within one business day to confirm a time that works — usually sooner.

Not ready for a call? Take the 12-question self-assessment and get your preliminary score by email.
The AI Audit for Law Firms · The Chalfant Group — remote-first, serving firms nationwide
Independent. No software sold. No vendor commissions.
Sources cited in Section II are public and verifiable.
Guarantee terms stated in full in the engagement letter.