adnah · technology for the legal industry
Websites, intake, portals, matter and billing systems, IP and compliance tooling, due diligence and M&A managers, security testing, and AI that actually holds up in practice. One studio, the whole stack.
Adnah Legal is the studio I founded strictly for legal organisations. Where this site sells one system at a time, Adnah Legal runs the whole practice through the MATTER Method as a fixed-fee engagement: audit, name, systematise, automate, hand over. Same builder, same doctrine, organisation-wide.
Fixed fee · Remote first · 4 to 8 weeks · Two tracks
Built for
15
transformations run to date
20
practice areas mapped in depth
7
demonstration websites, four jurisdictions
8 wks
intake, matters, deadlines, billing and a portal installed as one system
This page
Adnah Legal, for legal organisations.
Organisation-wide transformation, run as one engagement. Firms, in-house, legal aid, government.
Working with me directly
One agent, one system, one site.
The ten-rung services ladder on this site, for any organisation, from $450.
Not a legal organisation?
Adnah Labs, for every other business.
Websites, MVPs, internal tools and agents, fixed price, live in weeks.
What Adnah Legal builds
Three groups. The front door and the machinery behind it, the recurring work moved onto rails, and the security that protects privilege. No plugins, no patchwork.
The front door and the machinery behind it.
Law firm websites
A site that reads like counsel, not a directory listing.
Client intake systems
Qualification, conflicts, engagement letters and payment in one path.
Client portals
Status, documents and next steps without the phone call.
Matter management
One container per matter: parties, deadlines, actions, evidence, correspondence, time.
Billing & trust accounting
Time to invoice to collection, without the leakage.
Document automation
Your precedents become generators.
The recurring work, moved off memory and onto rails.
IP portfolio management
Registers, renewals, prosecution, oppositions, chain of title.
Compliance tooling
Obligation registers with owners, evidence and exposure in one view.
Due diligence management
Requests, review, findings and the report as one workflow.
M&A deal managers
Checklists, data rooms and closings that run on rails.
Litigation technology
Evidence registers, chronologies, exhibits and discovery logs.
AI for legal work
Agents that cite sources and stay inside your data.
Privilege is a security problem before it is a legal one.
Security architecture
Designed around privilege and confidentiality from day one.
Penetration testing
The system attacked the way an intruder would attack it.
Data-leak hunting
Where client data is actually leaving, found and closed.
Load & stress testing
Proof it holds under the busiest week of the year.
Access governance
Who can see what, enforced rather than assumed.
Incident readiness
The plan for the day it goes wrong, written before it does.
Twelve shapes of system get installed most often: compliance, matters, IP, tax, receivables, litigation and evidence, real estate, estates, agents, trackers, websites and intake portals, client CRM. See them as built on this site or as installed by Adnah Legal.
Websites for lawyers
Each one built as the front door of a practice, not a brochure, and built to its own jurisdiction's advertising and disclosure rules. Fictional firms, real craft.
How the engagement runs
The order is fixed. Automation applied to an unnamed process only makes the mess faster, so every engagement names the process on paper first, builds the structure the practice would keep running on without AI, and only then puts agents to work.
Track · AI-Native Transformation
For practices with little legacy structure to protect: the operating model is rebuilt around the matter, and AI runs first on every action by default.
Track · AI Adoption
For firms, departments and agencies with existing structure, sign-off chains and procurement: the same sequence installed inside what already exists, desk by desk.
01
Weeks 1 to 2
Structural audit, a written map of the six primitives as they actually run in the organisation, and the track decision.
02
Weeks 3 to 5
Matter template live, action library and role chart written, time and evidence rules in force. Built so the practice runs cleanly even if every AI tool vanished.
03
Weeks 6 to 8, occasionally 10
Software selection and the first intake agent, a drafting agent, the research stock, a second agent, and handover.
Matter
The atomic unit of legal work.
Actions
Named, repeatable moves.
Time
Managed, not merely billed.
Team
Roles attached to actions.
Evidence
Anchored, self-verifying work.
Research
A compounding stock, not a flow.
The six primitives of the MATTER Method, one page each on Adnah Legal. The manifesto lives here.
Pricing
Fixed, agreed before work starts, no change orders for scope that should have been anticipated. The fee scales with scope, not with the size of the firm.
4 to 8 weeks, occasionally 10
One fixed number, quoted on the call
Structural audit, the written map of your six primitives, matter template plus action library plus role chart, then MatterOS, LexOS, a custom build or market software, whichever fits, installed and handed over.
Monthly, after a transformation
Optional · one month notice, either side
New actions added as the practice grows, agents tuned against real usage, a quarterly review.
Scoped per matter
Retainers from $2,500 a month
Digital evidence built to survive court: forensic analysis, digital discovery, evidence structuring, the exhibit, and expert testimony in US courts.
What actually happens on the call
Thirty minutes. You leave with a track, a fixed fee and a named first move, or an honest pass.
One rule on attendance: no owner in the room, no decision gets made. The call is with me, not an account manager.
01 · 5 min
Where it actually stands
The audit score if you took it, the honest picture if you did not.
02 · 10 min
The track, confirmed
AI-Native or AI Adoption, decided by legacy structure, not preference.
03 · 10 min
The shape of the work
What gets named, systematised and automated, in what order.
04 · 5 min
The number
A fixed fee, quoted on the call itself, not in a follow-up email.
Not ready for a call? The free AI readiness audit takes two minutes, no email required. Or run the practice diagnostic here first.
Who it is for
Each audience has its own page on Adnah Legal, written for the constraint that audience actually faces.
Managing partners
For small and mid-sized firms whose leverage model blocks a full rebuild. Four transformations show what a firm that size can actually do.
Read the pageIn-house legal
In-house economics run opposite to a firm's. Intake triage beats contract drafting as the first move, every time.
Read the pageLegal aid & government
Unmet demand becomes backlog rather than foregone revenue. Procurement is a structural constraint to sequence around, not an excuse.
Read the pageLitigators
A founder-led specialist practice: forensic analysis, discovery, evidence structuring and expert testimony in US courts. Retainers from $2,500 a month.
Read the pageProof
Client names stay private. The numbers do not. Nine of the fifteen, with the outcomes each engagement was measured on.
Portfolio
Named builds from the Adnah Legal portfolio. Two of them are products you can use today.
A diversified industrial and consumer-goods group, six operating entities
Obligations lived in spreadsheets, inboxes and memory; two licences had lapsed in the eighteen months before the engagement. Now a cross-entity register across eleven obligation modules, a review workflow, financial exposure view and an AI compliance assistant with gap detection.
450+ obligations tracked · 0 lapsed licences since go-live · 6 entities → 1 system
Solos through mid-sized firms on the AI-Native track
Point it at a folder of case files and it constructs the matter itself, every extracted fact linked back to the exact page. The backbone of every AI-Native transformation the studio runs.
6 practice-area packs shipped · ~35 compliance frameworks mapped
Pre-Series-A founders
The general counsel a founder cannot yet afford to hire: reads uploaded contracts, extracts obligations, tracks IP and notices, and sends a weekly digest instead of demanding a daily login.
Payment, renewal, exclusivity and IP obligations tracked automatically
Practices already living in Notion
An eight-step guided setup that installs the whole practice system, with a prompt library and agents included and no client data stored by Adnah by design.
8-step setup · 140+ prompts · 50+ agents · 0 client data stored
The public
The studio's contract-reading logic, given away: a plain-English sign, negotiate or walk verdict for people with no lawyer in the room.
Contracts, NDAs, leases, offers and POAs · free, forever
MatterOS and LexOS are mine, built here first. Compare them on the products page.
Practice areas
Adnah Legal reads each practice area for legacy load and track fit. This site builds the practice system for it. The two pages are meant to be read together.
| Practice | Legacy load | Track fit | On Adnah Legal | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litigation & disputes | High | Either | The transformation | The system |
| Corporate & transactional | Medium | AI-Native | The transformation | The system |
| Personal injury | High | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Medical malpractice | High | Either | The transformation | The system |
| Family law | Medium | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Criminal defence | Medium | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Estate planning & probate | Low | AI-Native | The transformation | The system |
| Immigration | High | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Employment & labour | Medium | Either | The transformation | The system |
| Civil rights | Low | AI-Native | The transformation | The system |
| Real estate & construction | High | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| IP prosecution & portfolio | High | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| IP litigation | High | Either | The transformation | The system |
| Bankruptcy & insolvency | High | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Tax | Medium | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Workers' compensation | High | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Insurance defence & coverage | Medium | Either | The transformation | The system |
| Regulatory & compliance | Medium | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
| Landlord-tenant & housing | High | AI Adoption | The transformation | The system |
Three more practice systems live only on this site: elder law, environmental law and franchise law. All twenty-two.
Security & confidentiality
Seven rules, none of them negotiable, all of them written down before any read access is granted.
01
Read-only, by default
Read access from week one. Nothing needs write access to observe, name and map.
02
No client data trains third-party models
The deployment mode that disables training is selected, and you are told which one.
03
You keep what we build
It runs on tools you already own. There is no proprietary Adnah platform holding your matters hostage.
04
Confidentiality is contractual
Mutual NDA before any read access. Named individuals only, no unnamed subcontractors.
05
Jurisdiction-aware by construction
India, UAE and Singapore professional confidentiality and data-handling expectations, built in.
06
Evidence anchoring as a security control
No assertion ships without a source anchor.
07
Deletion on request
Working copies deleted at engagement end, confirmed in writing.
Founder
Talk to the person who builds it.
No account manager, no intake queue. The call is with me, and the scope is set on it. A lawyer who learned to build software, running a studio of engineers who learned how law firms actually work.
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FAQ
Bring the whole practice. The call is thirty minutes and the fee is quoted on it.
