Legal & professional services
Software for firms that bill by the hour
Navelo Software builds legal and professional services software: practice and matter management, time and billing, client portals, document automation and AI assistants for research and review, all built around confidentiality and audit requirements.
Overview
Law firms, accountants and consultancies run on time, documents and deadlines. Generic tools rarely fit their matters, conflict checks, client-account rules or billing arrangements.
We build systems that capture time without friction, keep documents organised and secure, and use AI carefully for drafting and review with a professional always responsible.
The problem
What makes this sector hard.
01
Confidentiality
Client information demands strict access control and auditability.
02
Lost billable time
Work done in email and calls often never reaches an invoice.
03
Document overload
Versions, precedents and evidence are scattered across drives.
04
Deadlines
Court and contractual dates cannot be missed.
05
AI risk
Hallucinated citations and data leakage are professional risks.
What we build
How we solve it.
01
Matter management
Clients, matters, conflict checks, key dates and tasks in one place.
02
Time and billing
Timers, suggested entries from calendar and email, invoices and aged debt.
03
Client portals
Secure document exchange, updates, e-signature and payments.
04
Document automation
Templates and clause libraries that generate first drafts from structured data.
05
AI review and research
Summaries, clause extraction and research grounded in your documents, with citations.
06
Reporting
Utilisation, realisation, WIP and profitability by matter and fee earner.
Proof
Our work in this space.
These are Navelo Software concept builds, not client projects: a practice management system for law firms and an AI document agent that extracts and checks data from documents.
Compliance & data
Rules we design around.
- Client confidentiality
- Role-based and matter-level permissions with full access logs.
- Client money rules
- Client account records separated and reconciled where regulations require.
- Data protection
- GDPR and local privacy laws, including retention and deletion schedules.
- Responsible AI use
- Private or zero-retention model settings and mandatory human review.
This is a summary of how we approach these requirements, not legal advice.
FAQ
Common questions.
Can AI be used safely in a law firm?
Yes, with safeguards: answers grounded in your own documents with citations, private or zero-retention model settings, permission-aware search and a lawyer reviewing every output used for advice.
Can you integrate with our existing practice management system?
Yes. We build integrations, portals and AI tools on top of existing systems, or replace them in stages.
Do you build client portals?
Yes: secure document sharing, matter updates, e-signature, invoices and payments, with full audit logs.
How much does legal software cost?
It depends on scope, integrations and compliance needs. After a short discovery conversation we send a written scope with a fixed quote and timeline. Get a quote.
Related services
- SaaS products, CRMs and internal tools built around your real workflows.Custom Software & SaaS
- Customer and internal assistants grounded in your own data, with citations and permission-aware retrieval.AI Chatbots & RAG Development
- Open-weight models deployed on your servers or private cloud for data that must stay in-house.Private & Local LLM Deployment
- Custom CRM, ERP, admin panels, dashboards and portals that replace spreadsheets.CRM, ERP & Business Software
Work with us
Building in legal & professional services? Talk to us.
We reply within 24 hours. Bring your requirements, your constraints and your deadline — we'll bring what we learned shipping in this space.