Legal AI advisory for law firm leadership

Your competitors are delivering the same work in half the time.

Intelligence by Intent helps managing partners, COOs, and practice leaders move from scattered AI experiments to governed, adopted workflows in 90 days.

Led by Steve Smith, former CFO and Wharton MBA. 3,000+ attorneys trained. 50+ firms and bar associations served.

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20-minute call. We'll show you where firms like yours typically start.

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How we help

Where are you starting?

Most firms don't need another AI demo. They need the right next step — whether that's diagnosing the opportunity, deploying workflows, or supporting a live matter.

01 / Diagnose

We need partner buy-in.

Legal AI Foundations Workshop

Half-day CLE-eligible session on your actual documents
Prioritized list of 2-3 workflows ranked by ROI and risk
90-day implementation plan with assigned owners

Half-day or full-day leadership session

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02 / Deploy

We tried AI tools, but nothing stuck.

90-Day Implementation Sprint

Workflow buildout for 2-3 priority use cases
Attorney and staff training on your firm's actual work
Prompt libraries, governance guardrails, and adoption tracking

90-day fixed-scope engagement

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03 / Embed

We have a live matter now.

AI Case Support

Chronologies, issue maps, and document summaries
Discovery, deposition, transcript, and exhibit workflows
Human-reviewed work product aligned with case strategy

Matter-based or monthly support engagement

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Need a CLE speaker or workshop for your firm, bar association, or conference?

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Why Steve

Why law firm leaders work with Steve

AI adoption isn't just a technology decision. It's a leadership, workflow, risk, and change-management problem. Steve brings the operating background to make it practical.

Former CEO, CFO, and SVP

So AI adoption gets framed around margin, utilization, risk, partner dynamics, and operational follow-through. Not just prompts.

Wharton MBA

So the business case for AI survives partnership scrutiny, budget conversations, and ROI questions.

3,000+ attorneys trained

So your firm benefits from patterns Steve has seen across firms, practice groups, and bar association audiences. Including what actually gets adopted.

100+ legal AI use cases developed

So your team starts from tested workflows instead of blank-page experimentation.

From the field

"We went from banning ChatGPT to implementing five workflows in 30 days. Without a single ethics complaint."

Senior Partner Family law firm 30+ years experience

The firms that move fastest aren't reckless. They define use cases, guardrails, and review steps before attorneys improvise on their own.

The Legal AI Playbook

20 pages. No theory. A practical checklist, 90-day rollout plan, policy language, prompt patterns, and practice-specific red flags.

Next step

Ready to move from AI experiments to adoption?

20-minute call. We'll identify where your firm is today, which workflows are worth prioritizing, and whether a workshop, sprint, or case-support engagement is the right next step.