AI Automation
for Chicago Law Firms.
We build AI intake, phone systems, and case automation for law firms, then run them month to month. Chicago is well within reach and everything is built around how your firm already works, including how eFileIL and the Circuit Court of Cook County actually behave.
The consult: one hour with the team, not a salesperson. You leave with a real number. The $250 comes off your build if you move forward. You pick your time right after checkout.
What We Build
Built for Chicago firms.
How Chicago files
Built around how Chicago firms actually file.
Illinois runs one statewide e-filing system called eFileIL. Filings go through an electronic filing system approved by the Supreme Court of Illinois, which in practice means registering with one of the certified providers rather than filing into the state system yourself. Under Illinois Supreme Court Rule 9, documents in civil cases must be filed electronically unless they are excepted or exempt, and the circuit courts came under that rule on January 1, 2018. The Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County states that as of July 1, 2018 e-filing became mandatory for all civil areas except quasi-criminal, housing and wills. On timing the rule is generous and specific: a document is timely if it is submitted before midnight on the day it is due, and if the clerk's office is closed it gets file stamped on the next day the office is open.
A midnight cutoff only helps a firm whose intake, calendar and client messages are still working at 11pm, which is the whole reason those three have to run on the court's hours instead of office hours.
Our work is remote, so we can build for a firm downtown in the First Municipal District or out in the suburban districts in Skokie, Rolling Meadows, Maywood, Bridgeview and Markham, and into DuPage, Lake, Will, Kane and McHenry.
Worth saying plainly. Nothing we build files anything with a court. It carries the work up to the point where a decision has to be made, then puts it in front of a person to make it. A lawyer approves and a lawyer files. What the software guarantees is that the decision shows up on time with everything attached.
Filing details above are from Illinois Supreme Court Rule 9, Electronic Filing of Documents. Court rules change, so confirm anything that affects a deadline. We build software, we are not your lawyers.
What this means for a Chicago firm
Three things that are true here.
A rejection is recoverable for five court days
A filer can move to have a corrected document deemed filed on the original submission date, but that motion has to go in within five court days of the rejection notice. It turns a rejection into a live deadline, so it cannot sit unread in a shared inbox over a weekend.
What the case is worth and where it happened pick the courthouse
The Clerk of the Circuit Court publishes two different thresholds for the Law Division: above $30,000 in the city, above $100,000 in the suburban districts. The same claim routes two different ways depending on where it arose, so intake has to capture value and location together.
Paper still exists here, by rule
Original wills may not be filed electronically at all, and filings under the Juvenile Court Act, from a self represented litigant in custody, or from anyone whose disability prevents e-filing are exempt automatically. A firm's workflow needs a non electronic lane, because not every document in the file will have an eFileIL receipt behind it.
What you would be getting
Intake that answers the phone, opens the file and drafts the letter. Case documents read and summarized with a citation on every fact. All of it built on Clio, Lawmatics and Microsoft 365, running at firms today.
How It Works
From first call to live system.
The Consult
We learn the firm, what is manual today, and what you want to stop doing. No pitch. The consult is $250 and it comes off your build if you move forward.
We Build It
Everything is custom, built around your matters, your intake, and the tools you already pay for. We handle the technical work.
We Manage It
After launch we monitor it, improve it, and keep building as the firm grows. Your systems change when you do.
FAQ
Chicago, IL, answered.
Do you work with Chicago law firms specifically?
We build for law firms and the work is remote, so Cook County is well within reach. We will be straight with you: our deepest law firm work so far has been in New Jersey and Indiana, not Illinois. What comes with that is a system already shaped around how eFileIL behaves rather than a vendor learning it on your time.
Does this work with Clio?
Yes. We build directly against Clio Manage and Clio Grow, so a signed client can open a matter, get a folder, and start a billing record without anyone retyping anything. We also work with Lawmatics and with firms who use neither.
Will an AI be talking to my clients?
Only where you want it to. The most common first step is the phone, because a missed call is a lost case. The AI answers, takes the intake, and hands off. Anything that leaves the firm in writing is built to wait for a person to approve it.
Is my client information safe?
Your data stays in your systems. We build inside the tools you already pay for rather than copying your files somewhere new, and everything runs with approval gates and audit logs. We are not a law firm and we do not give legal advice, so your confidentiality obligations stay yours to direct and we build to whatever line you draw.
How long does it take and what does it cost?
Most builds go live in 2 to 4 weeks. Bigger multi-system builds run 4 to 8 weeks. Every build is custom, so the price depends on scope. The consult is $250 and it comes off your build if you move forward. You leave that call with a real number.
Start here.
Tell us about your firm.
Hank will text you back within 30 minutes. We will ask what is slowing the firm down, then tell you exactly what we would build.
Built by the team behind AI systems running inside law firms today, led by an engineer with 30 years of enterprise automation.