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AI That Amplifies Your Conveyancing Practice. Under human control you can prove.

We build governance into the workflow itself, so your conveyancers move at AI speed without shortcuts, you own every decision, and you have the proof when a regulator or underwriter asks. Start with the £995 Discovery Audit, or take one of the Governance Installation places.

Why this matters to you personally

Your PII underwriter is asking about AI governance now

Brokers report underwriters asking three things this cycle. How is AI used? What governance sits around it? Are staff trained? Without evidence you risk exclusions. With it you get cover. The installation is the evidence pack.

Conveyancers are probably using free ChatGPT

In most firms we talk to, staff copy leasehold packs into ChatGPT to hit a deadline. Undetected, unlogged, no zero-retention guarantee. If your underwriter asked tomorrow, you would have no answer.

Your CMS has AI turned on by default

Most case management platforms ship with native AI enabled on standard plans. Without a signed Zero Data Retention addendum, you can't prove to the SRA that client data isn't being routed to the vendor's standard processing.

SRA Code 3.5 puts personal COLP liability on you

You must "effectively supervise" AI-assisted work. Without documented written rationale on file, an SRA audit puts your personal licence at risk, not just the firm's.

Risk. Readiness. Return.

Three stages, one sequence. Each one ends with something you keep, and that thing is what tells you whether the next stage is worth it. If it isn't, stop. We would rather you stopped than bought something you didn't need.

You can measure where you are

AI governance maturity has three recognised stages. Symbolic: policies exist, but whether they hold under pressure is untested. Operational: your evidence is contemporaneous and survives scrutiny. Cultural: governance is built into how work happens, not a gate at the end.

"If your organization has run AI systems for more than a year and security is still at the symbolic stage with sparse evidence, you cannot defend high-risk use under scrutiny."

Rosenberg, S. and Polonetsky, J., Practical AI Governance, Kogan Page, 2026. We assess against this scale because it is an independent standard, not one we invented.

  1. Stage 1 · £995

    Discovery Audit

    Risk · scores you at Symbolic

    Finds what AI is actually running in your firm, including what nobody told you about, and where that leaves you exposed.

    You keep: the Gap Register. Every gap named, rated and costed by what closing it takes, including the ones you can close yourself.

  2. Stage 2 · £5,500

    Governance Installation

    Readiness · moves you to Operational

    Removes the blocker. Governance written, the three layers of human oversight designed, technical controls specified for your IT provider. Your firm becomes able to use AI safely and prove it.

    You keep: the Two-Year AI Adoption Roadmap, built with your partners in a working session. Where AI sits in the business plan, what to adopt in what order, and what each step should return.

  3. Stage 3 · £1,500/mo

    Active Governance

    Return · takes you to Cultural

    A fractional AI advisor who delivers the roadmap, one step at a time, while keeping your governance matched to whatever Microsoft, your vendors and the regulators do next.

    You keep: quarterly evidence of what changed, what we did about it, and what moved.

Inside the Installation: four phases

These four phases sit inside stage two of the three-stage journey above. They are not a separate track. We write the governance documentation and build the oversight standard your COLP signs against, specify the technical controls, and brief your own IT provider who implements them. We never log in to your systems.

  1. Phase 1

    Assess

    What AI is actually running, what your risk profile is, and who owns each decision. Includes a forensic audit of your own 30-day network logs.

  2. Phase 2

    Co-design

    You choose how governance works here. Policy from three templates, customised live. Ownership assigned. Partner signs.

  3. Phase 3

    Build & Integrate

    We specify the Microsoft 365 controls: data-loss prevention, logging, access boundaries. Your IT provider implements them from our written mandate. You verify the result.

  4. Phase 4

    Evolve

    Training your team watches on their own time. A live verification test you run in front of us. Then a month of support while confidence builds.

Not ready to commit to the full installation?

Start with the Discovery Audit

You leave holding two things: a written AI risk report your PI broker can read, and a prioritised fix list. You will know your firm's three biggest exposures and what closing each one takes. It is built on a focused 30-minute session and an anonymous staff questionnaire run beforehand. Your actual AI footprint, not a guess. No obligation to go further. If you sign the full installation within 30 days and commit to a minimum 6-month ongoing governance retainer at the same time, the £995 is credited in full against the installation fee.

Shadow AI survey. What your staff are actually using.
CMS default AI settings check across your platform.
Live covenant extraction demonstration on a synthetic leasehold pack.
Written AI Exposure Report with a prioritised remediation roadmap.
Revenue capacity calculation. Hours recoverable per month.
PII underwriter disclosure checklist.
Your maturity stage, scored. Symbolic, Operational or Cultural, assessed against evidence you can actually produce rather than how organised it feels. Plus the two or three things that would move you up one.
The Gap Register. Every gap named, rated, and costed by what closing it takes. Including the ones you can close yourself without us.

Comparable published diagnostics from UK legal AI advisers ran roughly £1,000 to £3,950 when we last checked public pricing in August 2026. £995 is deliberate. This exists to get you a written report and a decision, not to be a profit centre.

£995
Fixed fee + VAT · 30-min session + staff survey
SRA & CLC versions
Credited against installation
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Book from the results screen

After installation. Entirely optional.

The Active Governance Retainer

A fractional AI advisor, executing your two-year roadmap.

This is where the roadmap gets delivered. You have the governance; now you have someone whose job is turning the two-year plan into adopted practice, one step at a time, with the evidence produced as you go. Governance staying current is a given rather than the product: Microsoft, your case management vendor and the regulators all keep moving, and we keep your position matched to them. Every month: a written oversight review with recorded commentary, and a staff session that produces continuing-competence evidence. Every quarter: a live strategic review, an adversarial test of your controls, and progress against the roadmap. On any material regulatory change: a written advisory within five working days.

Decline it and everything stays yours. Ledger, policies, and controls run in your own tenant.
No lock-in. Exit to self-managed at any time with a verified handover.
Vendor-triggered technical maintenance is separate at £150/hour. The flat fee never absorbs it quietly.
£1,500/mo
Active Governance Retainer
Roadmap delivery, reviews, vendor watch
+ VAT · starts after Week 3 · optional
Discuss at completion →

Built specifically for conveyancing practices.

SRA-regulated solicitor firms

Residential conveyancing as a core or sole practice area. COLP in post and personally exposed to the SRA's active supervision obligations. PII renewal approaching and underwriters asking AI governance questions.

CLC-licensed conveyancers

Licensed conveyancing practices regulated by the Council of Licensed Conveyancers. We produce CLC-specific output: rationales grounded in the CLC AI and Technology Principles, and client disclosure language framed for the CLC. Not rebranded SRA copies.

Small and mid-sized, deliberately

This was designed for practices where nobody's full-time job is AI governance. Large firms have innovation teams and enterprise platforms to run them. You have exchange deadlines and a COLP who already has a day job. We brief your own IT provider from a written mandate. Your conveyancers do no technical work.

Start where the evidence is.

The free 2-minute AI Reality Check gives you a risk score. The £995 Discovery Audit gives you a written report your broker can read. Neither commits you to anything.

Start AI Reality Check → Book a call with Paul →

No account. No email required to start the check. Takes 2 minutes.