Tessera
for barristers & law firmsmore time on billable work

Fewer admin hours. More billable work.

AI-assisted admin relief for barristers — scheduling, billing, correspondence drafting, and research support. Every output is human-reviewed before it leaves your desk. Every integration is permission-scoped and revocable.

Works with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and your current practice stack. No new software to learn. Designed to reduce risk through human approval, scoped permissions, and phased rollout.

Guiding principles

Human review on every outbound message

The agent drafts, suggests, and prepares. You review, edit, and send. No autonomous outbound communication — nothing leaves without your sign-off.

No inbox-wide autonomous access

The agent only reads what you explicitly share — a forwarded email, a specific document. You decide what it sees. You review and redact before sharing.

Permission-scoped integrations

Access is revocable, auditable, and limited to what each workflow requires. Retention settings and data boundaries are defined up front.

Phased adoption before sensitive workflows

Work begins with low-risk admin. Sensitive and privileged material is not processed until formal safeguards, anonymisation tools, and approval gates are in place.

What agents do for legal practice

Scheduling & Calendar

  • Court date tracking, hearing reminders, and deadline management across matters
  • Automated scheduling coordination — find availability, propose times, confirm appointments
  • CPD compliance tracking with reminders and summaries
  • Proactive alerts for approaching filing deadlines and limitation periods

Client Correspondence

  • Draft onboarding emails, document checklists, and next-step instructions from templates
  • Routine acknowledgements, adjournment requests, and scheduling confirmations
  • Invoice and billing follow-ups — payment reminders, statement generation
  • Every draft lands in your Outlook Drafts folder — you review and send

Email & Inbox Management

  • Forward specific emails to the agent for drafting help — you control what it sees
  • Categorise and prioritise incoming mail by urgency and type within agreed boundaries
  • Draft responses for routine queries, flag items needing your attention
  • No general inbox access — the agent only reads what you explicitly share

Research Assistance

  • Public-source research assistance — case law lookups and legislation summaries using publicly available information only
  • First-pass research memos on specific legal questions for your review
  • Track legislative changes relevant to your practice areas
  • Draft summaries of lengthy submissions — research support, not legal judgment

Billing & Administration

  • Invoice generation and payment tracking across matters
  • Time entry assistance — draft billing narratives from calendar and correspondence
  • Outstanding balance alerts and automated follow-up sequences
  • Matter-level cost tracking and budget monitoring

Draft Support

  • First-pass drafts of standard documents using context you explicitly provide
  • Template-based document assembly for routine filings
  • Document comparison and change tracking across versions
  • Draft support only — never accesses matter files autonomously, never substitutes legal judgment

How email drafting works in practice

01

You forward an email

You choose a specific email that needs a reply and forward it to the agent.

02

Agent prepares a draft

The agent reads only the material you shared and writes a draft response.

03

Draft appears in Outlook

The draft lands in your Outlook Drafts folder. Nothing is sent.

04

You review and send

You edit as needed and hit send yourself. The agent never sends on your behalf.

Phased rollout

Work begins with low-risk workflows and expands only where value, trust, and safeguards are established.

Phase 1

Admin Assistance

Scheduling, billing, onboarding templates, and routine drafting. No access to client content or privileged material. Cloud-hosted, fast to deploy, easy to reverse.

Phase 2

Email Assistance

Forward-to-draft workflow for selected emails. Optional metadata-based triage for clearly defined categories. You control what the agent sees and when.

Phase 3

Deeper Integration

Matter-aware drafting and research support. If workflows expand to sensitive material, the agent can migrate to dedicated hardware in your chambers.

How it works

01

Discovery

We map your current workflows, understand where time is being lost on admin, and identify the 3–5 highest-impact automations for your practice.

02

Roadmap

You get a clear plan: which agents to build, what they'll handle, data boundaries, and priority order. This alone is valuable — even if you implement it yourself.

03

Build & Deploy

Agents are set up, tested, and integrated with your existing tools. Starting with low-risk admin workflows — no client data until trust is established.

04

Expand

As trust builds, workflows expand to email assistance, research support, and document preparation — each with defined safeguards.

Data handling model

Non-Sensitive

Calendar events, billing metadata, scheduling, admin templates, and public legal research. Processed freely.

Curated by You

Information you explicitly choose to share — for example, forwarding a specific email for drafting help. You decide what the agent sees. You review and redact before sharing.

Sensitive / Privileged

Matter files, client instructions, privileged correspondence. Not processed until formal anonymisation tools, approval processes, and risk boundaries are in place.

What you get back

Fewer admin hours

Scheduling, billing follow-ups, and routine correspondence handled for you.

Faster response handling

Draft replies prepared before you open your inbox. Review and send in seconds.

Less context-switching

Admin tasks don't interrupt substantive work. The agent runs in the background.

More billable time

Every hour recovered from admin is an hour available for client work.

Why me

I built the system I'll build for you — and it runs my business today.

Right now, AI agents handle my code reviews, lead generation, client reporting, project management, and competitive monitoring. They work across Slack, email, Asana, and GitHub without me touching them. I didn't read about this in a blog post. I wake up every morning to work my agents completed overnight.

Before AI, I spent a decade in design, then another decade in frontend engineering. I understand how workflows actually run, where the friction lives, and what's worth automating versus what needs a human. The goal isn't to sell you AI. It's to give you fewer admin hours, faster response handling, and more time on billable work.

I can show you my system running live. That's something no slide deck can do.

Map your first low-risk workflow

Start with a 20-minute call to see if there's a fit. If there is, we'll map your workflows, define the data boundaries, and identify where to start.