More billable hours, less paperwork.
Fee-earners lose hours to intake, drafting and admin. We put AI on the first drafts and the routine, with your people reviewing everything that matters.
Fee-earners in UK law firms are under constant pressure to bill more hours, yet a surprising chunk of each day disappears into intake forms, conflict checks, standard letters and time recording. That is time that could be spent on client work, not on the machinery around it.
Fettle puts AI agents on the tasks that eat your team's mornings: capturing new enquiries, producing first drafts from your own templates, summarising lengthy bundles and reconstructing the day's chargeable activity. Your lawyers review and sign off everything. The AI just does the heavy lifting first.
AI for your law firm, at a glance.
Agents built around your desk.
Off-the-shelf tools where they fit, and bespoke AI agents we build, run and improve for you where they don't. Here's where we'd start.
Client Intake Agent
Captures enquiry details, runs first checks and opens the matter cleanly.
Document Draft Agent
Produces first-draft letters and standard docs from your templates.
Bundle Summary Agent
Summarises correspondence and documents into a clear case picture.
Time Recovery Agent
Reconstructs the day's chargeable time from calendar and activity.
What changes, with examples.
A fee-earner or secretary takes the initial call, manually keys enquiry details into the case management system and runs a conflict check by hand, often across multiple spreadsheets.
The Client Intake Agent captures enquiry details through a structured conversation, runs the first conflict check against your existing matters and opens the file ready for the fee-earner to review and confirm.
A solicitor pulls up a previous letter, strips out the old client details and rewrites the substance from scratch, repeating this for every instruction, every update and every completion letter.
The Document Draft Agent takes the matter details and produces a first-draft letter built from your firm's own precedents, ready for the fee-earner to review, adjust and send in minutes.
A fee-earner reads through dozens of emails and documents to build a chronology before a client call or hearing, spending an hour or more on a task that is important but not intellectually demanding.
The Bundle Summary Agent reads the correspondence, produces a clear chronological summary with key points flagged and hands the fee-earner a concise brief they can verify and use straightaway.
A week with Fettle at a busy regional firm
On Monday morning, three new enquiries come in while the team is already in client meetings. The Client Intake Agent captures each one, flags a potential conflict on the second matter and has all three files partly set up before the solicitor sits down. By Wednesday, a residential conveyancer has drafted and sent four standard requisition letters using first drafts the Document Draft Agent produced from the firm's own precedents, spending a few minutes on each rather than most of the afternoon. On Friday, the Time Recovery Agent prompts each fee-earner with a summary of their day's activity and suggests time entries they can confirm or edit, meaning time recording is finished before the weekend instead of being left for Monday morning.
That's time freed valued at £75 an hour, plus the cost of the tools we help you cut. Your assessment works it out on your own numbers.
Will AI have access to confidential client files?
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Our fee-earners use very specific precedents. Can the AI work from those?
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How do we know the AI output is accurate enough to rely on?
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