AI employees for law firms & solo attorneys
Nobody hires the lawyer who replied on Thursday to Monday's enquiry — and nobody refers the one who went quiet mid-matter. An AI team drafts the follow-ups, the updates, and the articles that prove your expertise; you stay the lawyer.
Small firms lose clients in the gaps: the intake enquiry that waited two days, the client who called because nobody updated them, the expertise that never becomes an article, the referral network that only hears from you at Christmas. KentoHQ gives you named AI employees who draft every one of those touches for your review — nothing sends itself, nothing pretends to be legal advice, and every task is machine-verified before it counts as done.
The problems this actually solves
- Intake enquiries wait days while you're in court — every enquiry gets a same-day draft reply — acknowledging their matter, setting expectations, attaching your consultation link — queued for your approval, not sent behind your back.
- Clients call because nobody told them what's happening — plain-English status-update drafts on the cadence you set (“here's where your matter stands, here's what's next”). You review each one; clients stop chasing.
- Your expertise lives in your head, not on your website — Mia turns your notes into client-readable articles — “what to expect in a contested probate,” answered honestly — published to your site and verified live. You review before anything ships.
- The referral network only hears from you when you need something — Jack drafts a steady, low-key touch to the accountants, agents and past clients who send you work — a useful note, not a newsletter blast — so you're remembered before the referral moment.
- You don't know what the firm across town is up to — Victor diffs competing firms' sites weekly — new practice areas, new attorneys, new content — and reports only when something changed.
What your AI team does in a typical week
Enquiry lands, a personal draft reply is waiting within minutes. Unanswered consultations get a polite nudge after three days. One referral-partner note drafted per week. You approve every send.
One article a week from your bullet points — the questions clients actually search — written in plain English, reviewed by you, published and verified live. No legal advice, ever: your review is the gate.
Monday: which searches and pages brought enquiries, which practice-area page underperforms, one fix flagged — in plain English, not a dashboard.
Weekly diff of local competitors: new practice areas, fee-structure changes, new hires announced. Silence means nothing moved.
One short note: enquiries in, drafts awaiting your approval, articles ready to review, anything that needs you. Two minutes before your first call.
What it costs vs what it replaces
A small firm typically pays a marketing agency for content “when they get to it,” a receptionist service for after-hours enquiries, and still loses partner hours to follow-up emails. KentoHQ is one flat subscription (free in early access, no per-seat, no credit meter) that drafts all of it and shows the receipt. At most firms' billing rates, if it returns one billable hour a month it has paid for itself.
Frequently asked
Is this giving legal advice under my name?
No, and it must not. KentoHQ drafts and researches; you — the professional — review everything before it goes anywhere. Nothing sends without your approval, and content ships only after you've signed off on it. It's a drafting assistant, not a lawyer.
What about client confidentiality?
Be deliberate about what you brief. Agents work from what you give them — you can keep briefs matter-generic (“draft a probate status update covering these three points”) without pasting privileged detail. Agents keep memory per workspace, and drafts stay drafts until you approve them.
I'm not technical. Can I actually run this?
Yes — you brief agents the way you'd brief a new paralegal: plain language. No workflows to build, nothing to install. If you can dictate an email, you can run this.
Will it contact clients on its own?
No. Every email, update and article is a draft waiting for your approval. There's no auto-send by default and no AI phone answering — the phone stays yours.
What does “verified” mean?
An independent engine machine-checks every task before it counts as done — the article is actually live, the draft actually exists. No agent gets to grade its own work.
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