Draftsheet AI

Draftsheet AI is a sophisticated, purpose-built time capture platform designed exclusively for law firms that are losing significant revenue to unreported billable hours. The product addresses a pervasive and costly problem: fee earners routinely forget to log their time due to cumbersome, interruptive time trackers, resulting in an industry-wide average of over 12% underbilling. For a firm of twenty lawyers billing at £250 per hour, this translates to approximately £660,000 in lost revenue annually. Draftsheet AI eliminates this leakage by operating as a lightweight desktop agent that installs with a single click and runs silently in the background. It requires no timers, forms, or manual input from the fee earner. Instead, it passively observes which documents are open, which applications are active, and which matters are in focus throughout the day, all without ever recording keystrokes, screenshots, or file contents. At the end of each day, the fee earner spends just ten minutes reviewing and approving pre-filled, AI-generated timesheets. The product is built for managing partners, practice managers, and fee earners in solo practices, small firms, and mid-sized firms who want to recover lost billable time, improve billing accuracy, and gain real-time visibility into firm-wide performance. Draftsheet AI is not a generic tracker with a law firm skin; it is an end-to-end solution engineered specifically for the nuances of legal billing, with direct integrations into leading practice management systems like Clio and LEAP. Its value proposition is clear: let your fee earners focus on their work, while the AI watches the clock and writes the timesheet.

Silent Passive Time Capture

The core of Draftsheet AI is a desktop agent that installs on each lawyer's machine with a single click and runs silently in the background. It requires no initiation, no timers to start or stop, and no forms to fill. The agent captures activity every few seconds, observing which documents are open, which applications are active, and which matters are in focus. This passive approach eliminates the friction and forgetfulness associated with traditional time tracking, ensuring that every billable moment is recorded without interrupting the fee earner's workflow.

AI-Powered Timesheet Generation

At the end of each working day, the fee earner clicks a single button to generate their timesheet. The AI analyzes the captured activity data, groups it into logical sessions, matches sessions to the correct clients and matters, assigns appropriate billing codes, and drafts professional narratives for each entry. This transforms a process that typically takes thirty minutes or more of frustrating recall into a ten-minute review and approval task, dramatically reducing the cognitive load on fee earners.

Adaptive Personal Learning Model

Every edit a fee earner makes, whether it is reassigning an entry to a different client, correcting a billing code, or refining a narrative, retrains their personal AI model. This means the system becomes more accurate and intuitive over time, learning each user's specific work patterns, preferred billing codes, and narrative style. The result is a continuously improving tool that requires less manual correction with each passing day.

Real-Time Revenue Reporting Dashboard

Practice managers and managing partners have access to a live, firm-wide dashboard that provides an immediate view of billing performance. The dashboard displays hours captured, approved, and exported per fee earner, utilization rates by individual and team, billed versus recorded time to identify leakage, and a breakdown of activity by client and matter. This data updates in real-time as entries are approved, giving leadership the numbers they need before the month-end scramble.

Recovering Lost Billable Minutes from Daily Admin

The average fee earner under-reports 48 billable minutes per day due to the admin burden of manual time tracking. This includes time spent on client calls that run long, documents reviewed between meetings, and email threads that quietly consume forty minutes. Draftsheet AI captures this activity automatically, allowing the fee earner to recover those minutes and ensure every billable second is accounted for, directly increasing firm revenue without increasing workload.

Streamlining End-of-Day Timesheet Review

After a long day of client work, the last thing a fee earner wants is to reconstruct their activities from memory. Draftsheet AI presents a pre-filled, AI-drafted timesheet at the end of each day. The fee earner simply reviews the entries, approves or dismisses them, reassigns any misattributed sessions, and pushes the final timesheet directly to their billing system. This reduces a thirty-minute frustration to a ten-minute confirmation.

Providing Managing Partners with Leakage Visibility

Managing partners often lack real-time insight into how much billable time is being lost. Draftsheet AI provides a revenue reporting dashboard that shows exactly what work was done by each fee earner and how much of that work was actually billed. This allows partners to identify underperforming fee earners, spot systemic issues in billing practices, and make data-driven decisions to improve firm profitability.

Automating Billing for Solo Practitioners and Small Firms

Solo practitioners and small firms have the most to lose from unreported time, as every billable minute directly impacts their bottom line. Draftsheet AI eliminates the need for manual time tracking, allowing these lawyers to focus entirely on their clients and cases. With features like CSV and PDF export, and import of clients and matters, the system integrates seamlessly into their existing workflow without requiring a major administrative overhaul.

How does Draftsheet AI ensure the security and privacy of my firm's confidential data?

Draftsheet AI is designed to watch the clock, not your content. The desktop agent never captures keystrokes, typed text, screenshots, screen recordings, file or document contents, email body text, full URLs or query strings, or clipboard contents. It only captures the active application name, window and document title, browser tab title and domain, calendar event title and duration, and active or idle timestamps. All activity logs are encrypted, and the system is built to be DPA compliant as standard.

How much time does a fee earner need to spend using Draftsheet AI each day?

The fee earner needs to spend approximately ten minutes at the end of each day. After the AI has automatically captured all activity and generated a pre-filled timesheet, the user reviews the entries, approves or dismisses them, reassigns any to the correct client or matter if needed, and then exports the final timesheet to their billing system. The system is designed to minimize disruption and maximize the time available for billable work.

Does Draftsheet AI integrate with my existing practice management software?

Yes, Draftsheet AI offers direct billing system integrations for leading legal practice management platforms. The system is designed to push approved timesheets directly into systems like Clio, LEAP, and others. For users on the Solo plan, CSV and PDF export options are available, while the Firm plan includes direct integrations. The product is built end-to-end for legal billing, not as a generic tracker, so integration is a core feature.

What is the setup process, and is there a free trial?

Draftsheet AI is designed for easy and fast setup. A lightweight app installs on each lawyer's machine with a single click. The company offers a free pilot period, allowing firms to test the product with no financial commitment. There are no setup fees. After the pilot, the service is available on a per-seat annual contract with two pricing tiers: Solo for sole practitioners and small firms, and Firm for mid-sized firms. Cancellation is available at any time.