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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 organisation 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

    The 60-Minute Matter File & PII Audit. Forensic review of two live casework files (one leasehold, one freehold), identifying latent omission risks and supervisory gaps under SRA/CLC rules.

    You keep: the Casework Supervision Gap Register and a signed Underwriter AI Governance Attestation Letter for your PII renewal.

  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

The 60-Minute Matter File & PII Audit. We forensic-audit two of your live casework files (one leasehold, one freehold) and stress-test your CMS workflows for regulatory exposure. You leave holding three things: a signed Underwriter AI Governance Attestation Letter for your broker, a 2-page Casework Supervision Gap Register, and a 90-Day Safe Action Plan. If you proceed to the full installation within 30 days, the £995 is credited 100% against the installation fee.

Live casework audit. Forensic check of two live matter files for latent omission risks.
CMS vendor liability check. Inspecting Clause 12 EULA disclaimers in your software contracts.
Live covenant extraction demonstration on a synthetic leasehold pack.
Signed Underwriter Attestation Letter. Contemporaneous evidence of human oversight for your autumn PII renewal.
The 2-Page Gap Register. Specific supervisory gaps named, rated, and prioritised for your COLP and partners.
90-Day Safe Casework Action Plan and capacity calculation.
100% Credited Deposit. Your £995 fee is credited in full against the Governance Installation.

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 give your firm an immediate PII shield and an objective supervisory audit, not to be a profit centre.

£995
Fixed fee + VAT · 60-min session + 2 live matter files
SRA & CLC versions
100% credited against installation
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Book from the results screen

Post-Installation Advisory · Optional

The Active Governance Retainer

Offered only after completion of the Governance Installation. Strictly optional.

We do not sell retainers upfront. Only after your firm has completed the Governance Installation and has operational controls in place do we offer ongoing advisory support. If you choose not to continue, everything installed remains 100% yours in your own Microsoft 365 tenant. Every month: a written oversight review with recorded commentary. Every quarter: a live strategic review, an adversarial test of your controls, and progress against the roadmap.

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 installation · 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.

Start with the free AI Reality Check. It takes seven questions scored against your regulator's rulebook to assess your firm's baseline exposure. The £995 Discovery Audit then forensic-audits two live matter files and stress-tests your CMS workflows, giving you the written Gap Register and Underwriter Attestation Letter.

Start AI Reality Check → Book a call with Paul →

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