Selected work

a decade of building for the law.

Case studies from across the legal industry: a national government, a global firm, a mid-sized practice, a solo, a corporate legal team, and a law school. Each one is a problem understood, turned into a structured and scalable system, with the value it created. Alongside them are the products we ship in-market. Open any one for the full case.

A note on confidentiality. The engagements below are presented anonymously. We do not name any client, firm, company, government, or institution, and figures are rounded or adjusted to protect their identity, in line with the confidentiality obligations legal work carries. The problems, the systems we built, and the outcomes are real; the names are withheld on purpose.

Selected engagements

across the whole of the industry.

From the body of the law itself down to the solo practitioner. Six clients, six very different problems, one way of working.

Government
01 · National ministry of law · 14-month build

Statute Engine

The statute book as living data, not static PDFs.

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The ministry held the country's entire body of statutes as static PDFs and Word files spread across departmental drives. Every amendment triggered a manual reconciliation: a drafter had to locate each downstream provision the change touched, hand-edit the consolidated version, and hope nothing was missed. Consolidating a single amended Act averaged 47 working days, roughly one in five published consolidations shipped with a cross-reference error, and citizens, courts, and firms were routinely citing superseded text because no authoritative live version existed.

47 to 3

Working days to consolidate an amended Act

<1%

Cross-reference error rate, down from ~20%

1 source

Authoritative point-in-time statute book

Impact
  • - Consolidation of an amended Act cut from ~47 working days to under 3
  • - Cross-reference error rate reduced from roughly 20% to below 1%
  • - A single authoritative point-in-time statute book courts began citing directly
What we built
Structured statute modelAmendment engineCross-reference resolverPoint-in-time portalDrafting workspaces
Large law firm
02 · 900+ lawyers · 14 offices

Clause Atlas

Thirty years of work product, finally reusable.

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The firm had drafted an estimated two million documents over 30 years, and almost none of it was reusable. When a partner needed a strong indemnity for a cross-border deal, they either rewrote it from scratch or emailed dozens of colleagues asking if anyone had seen something similar. Knowledge sat trapped in individual inboxes and matter folders. Associates spent hours reinventing clauses the firm had already perfected and been paid to write, so the firm was paying to solve the same problems repeatedly and could not leverage its own scale.

90 to 5

Minutes to locate a fit-for-purpose precedent

35-50%

Less associate drafting time on standard work

1,200+

Outdated clauses retired before reaching a client

Impact
  • - Time to find a fit-for-purpose precedent cut from ~90 minutes to under 5
  • - Associate drafting time on standard instruments down an estimated 35-50%
  • - Over 1,200 clauses with outdated regulatory references retired before reaching a client
What we built
Clause-level searchWord & DMS integrationClause healthEthical-wall engineKnowledge analytics
Small & mid-size firm
03 · 25-lawyer commercial firm · 6-month build

Matterflow

Stop the revenue leaks. See the whole firm.

Read the case

The firm was profitable on paper but leaking money everywhere in practice. Time was recorded on paper slips and keyed in days later, so an estimated 12 to 18% of billable time was never captured. Matters had no consistent lifecycle, so work-in-progress sat unbilled for months. Conflicts checks were a partner searching their own memory. The managing partner had no real-time view of what the firm was owed, what was at risk of write-off, or which clients were quietly unprofitable.

+14%

Captured billable hours in the first quarter

71 to 22

Days from work done to invoice issued

-40%

Aged debt over 90 days

Impact
  • - Captured billable hours up roughly 14% within the first full quarter
  • - Time from work done to invoice issued cut from 71 days to 22
  • - Aged debt over 90 days reduced by around 40%
What we built
Guided intakeInstant conflicts checkPassive time captureMatter lifecycle & WIP alertsPartner dashboard
Solo practice
04 · Independent practice · productised build

Counsel Copilot

One person, the reach of a whole team.

Read the case

A solo lawyer is a lawyer, a paralegal, a receptionist, a billing clerk, and a marketing department at once. Our practitioner was turning away roughly a third of inbound enquiries simply because she could not respond fast enough, was losing evenings to document assembly and intake paperwork, and had no way to keep clients updated without answering the same status questions by phone all day. Every hour on administration was an hour not billed, and administration was winning.

12-15 hrs

Recovered each week from admin

24/7

Instant response to inbound enquiries

Hours to mins

Standard document turnaround

Impact
  • - 12 to 15 hours a week recovered from administration and intake
  • - Enquiry-to-retained conversion up sharply on instant, 24/7 response
  • - Standard document turnaround down from hours to minutes of review
What we built
24/7 intake assistantDocument assemblyClient portalMilestone invoicing
In-house / GC
05 · 9-lawyer team · 2,000-person company

Legal Front Door

From bottleneck to measurable business function.

Read the case

The legal team was a bottleneck to the entire business and hated being one. Requests arrived by email, chat, hallway, and forwarded thread with no structure, so the GC had no idea how much work was in the queue or where it came from. Standard NDAs and vendor contracts consumed a disproportionate share of the team's time even though the answers were nearly always the same. Signed contracts disappeared into shared drives, so no one could answer basic questions like which contracts auto-renew next quarter or which carry a given liability cap.

~60%

Routine requests resolved by self-service

Days to mins

Standard NDA turnaround

0 surprises

Missed renewals and auto-renewals

Impact
  • - Around 60% of routine requests resolved by self-service, no lawyer touched
  • - Standard NDA turnaround cut from days to minutes
  • - Missed renewals and surprise auto-renewals eliminated
What we built
Legal intake portalSelf-service playbooksContract repositoryObligation & renewal alertsGC dashboard
Law school
06 · ~1,400 students · 9-month build

Praxis

Graduates who have actually practised before day one.

Read the case

The faculty faced a well-known gap: graduates knew doctrine but had never drafted a real contract, managed a matter, run a client interview, or touched the technology firms now expected on day one. Employers were spending their own money re-training new hires on basic practice skills. The school's clinic, its main bridge to real practice, could only serve a small number of students because supervising live matters is labour-intensive, and there was no way to give every student safe, realistic, repeatable practice.

Every student

Completes multiple realistic practice matters

2x

Clinic live-client capacity, same faculty

Instant

Clause-level feedback on drafting

Impact
  • - Every student completes multiple realistic practice matters before graduating
  • - Clinic live-client capacity roughly doubled with no added faculty
  • - Instant clause-level feedback on student drafting, no waiting on a professor
What we built
Simulated mattersAutomated drafting feedbackClinic managementLegal-tech fluencyFaculty analytics

adnah. products

the tools we ship in-market.

Products of our own, live and in the hands of lawyers, built from the same understanding of the work.

01 · Legal practice management · Product

MatterOS

Drop anything. It becomes a matter.

2025

A practice management system for solo attorneys and small law firms, designed around how matters actually arrive, as a mess of PDFs, scans, emails, and voice notes. MatterOS ingests the chaos, structures the file, builds the chronology, and surfaces what needs the lawyer's judgment next. Every asserted fact is cited back to its exact source paragraph; the assembly is the machine's job, the decision stays the lawyer's.

Outcomes
  • - Matter assembled and cited in ~90 seconds, regardless of input shape
  • - Single ranked queue across deadlines, quiet matters, and overdue actions
  • - Hand-built client portal that runs on the firm's own subdomain
Surfaces
CockpitMatter intakeCited draftingOvernight agentsClient portal
02 · Legal OS on Notion · Product

Notion for Lawyers

The legal operating system independent lawyers actually adopt.

100,000+ practitioners

A system layer on top of Notion that turns a knowledge tool into a working practice: matter tracking, time, client comms, knowledge management, and templates for the work a small practice actually does. Distributed at scale to solo and small-firm practitioners across India, the UAE, the UK, and the US, with a working community and a continuous publishing cadence.

Outcomes
  • - Adopted by tens of thousands of independent practitioners
  • - Reference-grade templates and SOPs for the day-to-day of small practice
  • - An on-ramp for lawyers learning to think in systems, not just in cases
Surfaces
Matter trackerClient CRMTemplate libraryPractitioner community
03 · Founder brand · Editorial site

Raghav R Handa

The front door to a portfolio of ventures.

2025

An editorial founder site that holds together a personal practice and an active portfolio: ventures, products, writing, and a working introduction for new client conversations. Built as the canonical entry point for adnah. and the broader ecosystem of products around it.

Outcomes
  • - Editorial voice that holds across product, services, and writing
  • - A clear path from a stranger's first read to a booked call
  • - Performant, SEO-ready, and operated by the founder personally
Surfaces
Editorial heroVentures indexAbout / storyBooking
In their words

What clients say after we ship.

"Understood our practice on the first call. Intake shipped in under two weeks and cut our admin load by roughly a third."
Managing Partner·Litigation boutique · India
"The difference is domain. Every vendor we spoke to needed us to teach them the practice. Raghav already knew it."
Head of Legal Operations·Cross-border M&A firm · Singapore
"We stopped rewriting the same clause forty times a month. That's the whole pitch, and it just works."
General Counsel·Series C fintech · UAE
"Weekly working demos, fixed price, and full source on handover. That's the deal we've been asking vendors for for years."
Director, Digital Services·SE Asian regulator
"The clinic's students now train on the same platform they'll run cases on. It's the closest thing to real practice we've had."
Clinical Director·Public-interest law school

Attributions anonymised at client request. Named references available under NDA.

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