NOT FOR EVERY FIRM.
Grow output, not headcount.
Clauseo is a computer your firm puts on a matter. It does the junior work. Your lawyers judge it, own it, sign it.
Below is one morning’s work, condensed from the record of a real run. The matter is invented. The 110 minutes, the 12:27 refusal and the ₹8,211.46 bill are real.
11:00 AM THE PARTNER WRITES THE BRIEF
SENIOR PARTNER · 11:00 AM
Crane & Poole want out of their South India distribution arrangement. Shore & Associates have been their exclusive distributor since 2022, and it has gone bad slowly: minimum offtake missed two quarters running, short by about 40%, and we believe Alan Shore has been carrying a competing label on the side. Yesterday his counsel sent across the attached amendment, which on a first read extends the arrangement rather than repairing it. The client wants to terminate and have a replacement signed before the festive season. Give me a memorandum on whether they can terminate cleanly, whether Shore can hold them hostage with an injunction, and what the recovery on the shortfall looks like. Draft the notice of default, firm but courtly; these two have shared four years of Diwali dinners and it should read that way. Mark up their amendment in tracked changes; I want to see what they tried. Memo and notice in our house template; reference doc attached. Once the memo settles, keep a daily watch on the authorities. If anything we rely on draws adverse treatment, I want to hear before their counsel does. File it all under a new matter, Project Balcony.
SENT · 11:00 AM
That is the last thing a person typed, abridged here; the full brief is in the record. Everything below, the machine did on its own.
11:02 AM THE MACHINE STAFFS THE MATTER
It opens a file, records the facts, and splits the legal questions into three research streams, run at the same time.
matter.create Project Balcony
file opened · facts recorded · plan laid
DONEResearcher 1 · Can we end this contract?
termination · waiver
RUNNINGResearcher 2 · Can Shore hold them hostage?
specific performance · interim relief
RUNNINGResearcher 3 · Can we recover the shortfall?
damages · their new force majeure clause
RUNNING11:37 AM THE LAW, PINNED DOWN
Before it writes a word, it copies out every passage it intends to rely on, from the judgments themselves, word for word.
code_execution Pinning quotations to the law reports
0 of 43 passages locked, before drafting begins
RUNNINGResearch memorandum: termination, injunction risk, shortfall
11 sections · both sides of every point argued
12:27 PM IT REFUSES ITS OWN MEMO
The memo is finished. The machine checks all 177 citations against the actual judgments and finds that in seven places, the draft has drifted from the text it pinned at 11:37.
7 OF 177 QUOTATIONS DO NOT MATCH THE LAW REPORTS · FOUR ENTRIES OF THE LEDGER:
The memo does not issue.
No one caught this. No one had to. Checking its own work against the source is part of the job.
12:31 PM CORRECTED. RE-CHECKED. ON YOUR DESK.
It corrects the drift and runs the whole check again. What still cannot be verified word for word is not smoothed over; it is flagged inside the memo, with reasons. Nothing goes to the other side. That is your call, on your letterhead.
Research memorandum: 11 sections, 60 authorities
the seven flags sit in section XI, in plain sight
Notice of default, for your signature
to Shore & Associates · 30-day cure · firm but courtly
Their amendment, marked up in tracked changes
31 revisions · 11 comments · proposes striking the evergreen renewal
watch.create Daily watch on all 60 authorities
Indian Oil (1991) to November 2025 · adverse treatment, every morning
LIVE12:50 PM RETURNED, BEFORE LUNCH
THE SAME WORK, STAFFED THE OLD WAY
The week’s work, before lunch. Checked before it arrived.
A research memo, a notice of default, a tracked-changes markup and a standing watch. The better part of a junior lawyer’s week, returned in 110 minutes.
THE BILL
The meter you just watched, settled.
₹8,211.46
The entire morning, itemised to the rupee and billed to the matter, the way a court fee or a courier is. Set that against the better part of an associate’s week, and a client answered the same day.
If that number reads high, you are pricing it against software. Price it against the week it replaced.
WHAT CHANGES
Growing the firm used to mean hiring. Not any more.
THE PARTNER
Briefs.
Three asks, tonight, from the car. The machine takes it from there.
THE MACHINE
Works.
The grunt work leaves human hands: research, first drafts, cite-checking.
YOUR LAWYERS
Verify. Sign.
The machine proves every quotation is real and exact. Whether the position is sound stays with your lawyers. So does the signature.
BUILT IN PUBLIC
Law as structure is the whole thesis.
The machine you just watched checks every quotation against source text, character for character. That is only possible when law is structure instead of photographs of paper, and structure is the thesis this company is built on. We practice it in public: two standalone artifacts, separate from the machine, free for anyone. Check them yourself.
Judgments as structure, not walls.
Custom parsing over the reported record: paragraph-anchored quotes and citations that carry sentiment, so support and doubt read differently.
COUNTS AS OF AUGUST 2026.
WHO IT’S FOR
Built for the firms that come next.
BUILT FOR
- Firms that intend to out-produce firms ten times their size.
- Partners who read the record and decide for themselves. It’s their letterhead.
NOT BUILT FOR
- Anyone shopping for a cheaper chatbot. This is the expensive one, on purpose.
- Thousand-lawyer institutions. They have a committee for this.
TWO WAYS IN
Firms that rent software, and firms that employ computers.
Open an account tonight and put a machine on one matter. Or talk to us about machines built for your firm alone, on your firm’s own record.
Each matter runs in its own sealed workspace, isolated from every other firm’s, and nothing your firm uploads is used to teach the system. The demonstration above is condensed from a real run: the parties are fictional; the work, the refusal ledger and the bill are unedited. Clauseo produces drafts and research for a lawyer’s verification. The signature is always yours. Built in Bombay by bbdeeplearning.systems.