AI Discovery Tournament for law firms.

For a firm that wants its first AI use case chosen by its own people and proven before it commits. An indicative fee of £9,750 plus VAT, fixed in writing before any work starts, with the deliverable set out on one page you keep.

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What you get

A challenge agreed with the partners in week one and an idea round open to every member of staff, with a one-page form and twelve prompts that turn a blank page into a list. Firms of your size typically produce between forty and eighty entries.
Two filtering rounds: a firm-wide vote that produces a shortlist, and a half-day panel with the partners that tests each shortlisted idea for the inefficiency it removes and the duty it engages.
A one-page map placing every surviving idea against the four kinds of connected client experience, showing where your competitors sit and which positions are empty.
A four week pilot of the winning idea on one matter type with one team, with a written test plan, weekly check-ins and a supervision protocol so the pilot stays inside your SRA duties.
A pilot report and a ninety-minute debrief setting out whether the need was real, whether the solution met it, what value it created and what the firm should do next, with the reasoning written down.
The forms, prompts, scoring sheet and pilot template, which are yours to keep for the next tournament.

Who it suits

The tournament suits a firm of five to forty fee earners that has decided to do something with AI and wants the something chosen well. It settles a disagreement between partners about where to start with evidence rather than seniority, it brings into the open the AI tools staff are already using quietly, and it turns a readiness audit or a strategy sprint into a proven first step. It does not suit a firm that has already chosen its tool, which wants vendor selection, or a firm that wants a twelve month plan rather than one proven use case, which wants the strategy sprint.

How it runs

When you get in touch we reply within one working day and arrange a short call to understand your firm and the question in front of it. There is no charge for that conversation and no obligation to go further.

Before any work starts you receive a written confirmation setting out the scope, the deliverable, the inputs we need from you, the assumptions behind the price and anything excluded. The inputs are deliberately light. We work from short conversations with the people you choose, your policies and your supplier contracts, arranged around your diary, and our delivery does not normally require access to client matter files.

The price agreed in writing before you instruct us is the price you pay, whatever the work turns out to involve. If we do not deliver what that document says we will deliver, you do not pay for it. Travel, where it applies, is charged at cost and agreed in advance.

The fee

£9,750plus VAT, indicative and fixed in writing

Figures are indicative and fixed in writing before work begins. The fee covers the seven weeks in full and does not cover the licence for any tool used in the pilot, which is arranged on a trial basis wherever a supplier offers one and otherwise agreed with you in writing before the pilot starts. VAT registration has been applied for, so VAT is added to invoices from the date HMRC confirms the number. Adliora is a management consultancy, not a law firm, and its deliverables are governance, operational and commercial assessments rather than legal advice.

Common questions

Will our people take part?

In our experience they do, because the tournament is the first time most of them have been asked. The briefing in week one explains the rules, the vote is anonymous, and the partners commit in advance and in writing to piloting whatever wins.

What if the winning idea is not about AI at all?

Then the firm has found an improvement it would not otherwise have found, and we say so. The challenge is framed so that AI is the likely answer rather than the required one.

What if the pilot fails?

Then you have spent four weeks and a fraction of a licence fee learning that, instead of a year and the whole licence. The report says what failed and why, and the runner-up from the panel is ready to test next.

How much of our time does it take?

Half a day with the partners in week one and again in week three, fifteen minutes per person to vote in week two, one team working normally through the pilot with a thirty minute check-in each week, and ninety minutes for the debrief.

Ask whether this is the right piece.

Describe where your firm is and we will tell you plainly whether the AI Discovery Tournament answers it, including where the honest answer is a different package or none of them. Unsure where the firm stands? The two-minute readiness check gives you a private view first.

Start with a conversation