Professional Services
Your library is built and your firm is drafting. This is the work that comes after: expanding the library into new document types, connecting RediDraft to the systems you already run, bringing older volumes across, and getting your own people confident enough to do all of it themselves.
"The person who scopes your project is the person who does it. We have never been big enough to hand work down to someone junior, and we have never wanted to be."
Your starter build hands you five working core documents and the author seats to maintain them. From there most firms grow the library themselves: a new document type, a specialty provision, a clause reworded after a statute changes. That is how it is meant to go, and the people who end up doing it are usually a paralegal and one attorney who takes to it.
Some of it is bigger than an afternoon, though. A whole practice area. An integration with the practice management system. Thirty years of volumes in an older format. That is when firms call us, and it is what this page is about.
When you do call, you get the people who built the software: the same small team in the United States, not a consulting arm staffed separately from engineering. The person converting your trust provisions knows exactly what the assembly engine will do with them, and will tell you when you are about to make something harder than it needs to be. Every engagement here works the way we have always worked: tell us what you are trying to accomplish and we will tell you honestly what it takes, what it costs, and whether you need us for it at all.
Still getting started?
Your first library is not one of these engagements. Every firm joins RediDraft the same way: an assessment of your own executed plans, then a fixed-price build of your five core documents into working Form Volumes, with the price confirmed in writing before anything is owed. It is how a firm gets productive quickly, and it is described in full on the engagement and pricing pages.
What we're usually asked to do
Four kinds of work, all of it after your library is live, and all of it done by the people who build the software.
Library Expansion & Optimization
Beyond your five core documents: specialty trusts, ancillary documents, whole practice areas. Your own people can build these, and many firms do. When you would rather hand a batch over, it's a scoped engagement, and we start small enough that you can see the shape of the work before we go further.
- We evaluate your actual documents before proposing anything
- Conditional logic that matches how you really decide
- You review each draft volume and we adjust
- Your staff learns to maintain what we built
Integration & Custom Setup
Practice management system, document management, an intake form that already collects half the answers: RediDraft™ can pull from what you already have. Tell us what your data lives in and we will look at what it takes to connect it.
- An honest look at whether the integration is worth it
- Connections built for your systems, not a generic connector
- The simplest thing that works, not the most impressive
- We stay available when your systems change
Migration & Modernization
Thirty years of volumes sitting in FastDraft, an older RediDraft, or someone else's product entirely. Once your core library is live, the rest of your back catalogue can follow it across. We have done this many times, and the plan is always the same: keep the old system running until the new one is proven, then switch when your staff is ready, not when a schedule says so.
- A look at what you have before we quote anything
- Volumes converted, and improved where the old system forced compromises
- Old system stays up until the new one has earned your trust
- Someone on the phone during the first live matters
Training & Mentoring
Training on your own Form Volumes, not a generic curriculum. The goal is to make ourselves unnecessary: most firms have someone who ends up owning the library, and our job is to get that person confident enough to stop calling us.
- Sessions built around your library, not a generic curriculum
- Your own documents on screen, start to finish
- Follow-up once your staff has hit real cases
- The mistakes we have watched other firms make, so you skip them
How we work
Three things worth knowing up front
Consulting engagements go wrong in predictable ways. Here is how we avoid the usual ones.
- The same people, start to finish
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Nobody scopes your project and then disappears. The person on your first call is the person building your Form Volumes and the person you email two years later when the law changes.
- We start small on purpose
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One volume first, built properly, before anyone commits to a whole practice area. You find out early whether the work is worth handing over, and we find out early how that part of your practice really drafts.
- Success means you stop needing us
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We are not trying to become a permanent line in your budget. A library your own people can maintain is the point, and every engagement is aimed at handing you the keys.
Two engagements, for scale
Two from our own history, at the small end and the large end.
Small Law Practice
A solo practitioner handed us the estate planning documents they had been assembling by hand for years. We converted them into Form Volumes, and the firm reported preparation time dropping by about 90%.
Mid-Sized Law Firm
A 25-attorney firm moved off an aging FastDraft installation onto today's RediDraft™. Practice groups switched over one at a time, and no client work stopped while it happened.
Tell us what you're trying to build
Describe the documents and the situation, and we will tell you what the work involves, roughly what it costs, and whether you need us for it at all. If you are not on RediDraft yet, the engagement page walks through how a firm starts.