Sector Law firms
Plaintiff practices run on documents that arrive late, in volume, and in no order. The work of turning them into something a lawyer can use is the least strategic thing in the building and one of the most expensive. We build the software that does it, fitted to how your firm already runs.
Published 2026 industry figures, not our measurements. We have not audited your practice and these are a starting point for a conversation, not a claim about your numbers.
A thousand-page record set takes 10 to 15 hours just to index by hand, and 40 or more to review properly. That is a paralegal week per case, on the least strategic work in the building. Firms report the delay pushing settlement out by three to six weeks.
Nearly half of firms outsource records review rather than fight it internally. A full review and summary commonly runs past $1,000 a case, and retrieval adds $40 to $75 a request. It is a real line item, it scales with your caseload, and it never becomes an asset.
Answering an inbound inquiry inside sixty seconds is reported to lift conversion by 391 percent. Waiting five minutes cuts the odds of qualifying that lead by 80 percent. In a practice where a signed case is worth five figures in fees, that is the most expensive unanswered phone in any industry.
Buying cases from acquisition vendors works until it does not. The price moves, the quality moves, and the relationship is not yours. Firms that build their own intake and referral pipeline stop bidding against everyone else for the same claimant.
Records read once and turned into a dated, sourced chronology with page citations, provider by provider. Treatment gaps, prior conditions and inconsistencies surfaced rather than discovered by opposing counsel. Built against your files and your format, not a template.
The first draft assembled from the chronology, the bills and your firm’s prior demands, in your voice, with exhibits indexed. An attorney edits rather than starts, which is the difference between an afternoon and a two weeks.
Web, phone and referral inquiries qualified and routed in seconds, day or night, with conflicts flagged and the sign-up packet out before the caller has looked anywhere else.
Your case management system, your document store, your accounting, and the spreadsheet that actually runs the practice. Nobody sells the connective tissue, because it differs in every firm.
Landing pages, tracking, follow-up and reporting running on your domain and in your accounts. When it works, the asset is yours. When you stop paying us, it keeps working.
Signed Qualified, routed and the packet sent before the caller reached the next firm on their list.
Priced against what a case already costs you to acquire, not against what a website costs. Most firms should start in the middle.
$6,500
Two to three weeks
A firm whose site and intake are losing inquiries it already paid for.
The narrowest useful thing. Your site rebuilt to convert, and an intake path that answers in seconds instead of hours.
$15,000 – $25,000
Four to six weeks
A firm spending five figures a month renting case flow it does not own.
The pipeline itself, running on your domain and your accounts, from the first inquiry through to the review a settled client leaves. Built so that when you stop paying us it keeps working.
$60,000 – $90,000
Six weeks
A firm where the bottleneck is no longer signing cases, it is working them.
Medical records into a sourced chronology, demand packages drafted from your own prior work, and the deficiency caught before opposing counsel finds it.
The arithmetic behind the middle one
Paid search runs $1,700 to $3,300 per signed case. Owned and organic case flow runs $200 to $750 for the same case. Take the conservative end of both, $2,500 against $475, and shift 10 cases a month across: that is $20,250 a month, or $243,000 a year.
Published 2026 benchmarks, not our measurements, and your numbers will differ. Run it with your own cost per signed case before you believe it.
A trade, if you want it
The first two firms we work with get the build at a reduced rate, in exchange for a written account of the work with the firm name on it that others can check. It is a straight trade and worth real money to both sides. If publishing anything is not something you would agree to, say so and we will quote the standard number instead.
The document problem is the same everywhere; the economics around it are not. What a case is worth, and whether the fee is capped, changes what is worth building.
Your fee scales with the recovery, so the lever is settling higher and sooner.
The same work at a hundred times the volume, against deadlines where the sanction is dismissal.
Low fee per case, high volume, and statutory deadlines that do not move.
The fee is capped by statute, so cost per case is the only lever you control.
It usually is not better, and if one of them fits your practice you should buy it. They are cheaper than a build and available this afternoon. What they do not do is fit around how your firm already works: your case management system, your demand format, your intake rules, your referral sources. If the product does the job, buy the product. We are for the case where the gap between the tools you already own is the problem.
It stays yours. Everything runs inside your own cloud tenant, on your accounts and your keys. We hold no client data, we are granted scoped access during the build, and that access is revoked at handover. We will sign your confidentiality terms rather than ask you to sign ours.
Not for the internal work. Part VII of the Texas Disciplinary Rules governs advertising to the public, so an intake system, a chronology tool or a records pipeline is not a filing. If we build anything public-facing, the homepage has to be filed with the Advertising Review Committee, they have 25 days to evaluate, and past-results and comparison claims carry specific requirements. We build to that and hand you the filing, but the responsibility stays with the firm and we will not pretend otherwise.
A Leak Review is no charge and takes 30 minutes. The Workflow Audit is $7,500 for one week and ends with a working prototype on your own documents, a cost model, and a fixed build quote. Builds run $60,000 and $90,000, typically six weeks, and carry a 90 day defect warranty. Keeping it working is $1,000 – $1,500 / mo.
You measure it, during the Audit, before you buy anything. We report how often it is right, how often it is wrong, and what it does when it is unsure, against a sample of your real records. A tool that quietly guesses on a treatment date is worse than no tool, so the sensible design flags uncertainty for a human rather than smoothing over it. If the accuracy is not good enough on your files, we will tell you that in week one.
Working with us
Questions about insurance, security or contracting go straight to contact@thrivedevelopment.io. We reply to everything within one business day, including the enquiries we are not the right firm for.