Function cockpit
Legal
Agents draft, extract and verify. Lawyers hold judgment and privilege.
Phase: Phase 2 — Bounded execution
Industrialize intake, drafting, obligation monitoring and regulatory sensing so legal attention concentrates on judgment, privilege, negotiation and representation.
Trust score
0
Touchless
0%
Human review
0%
Override rate
0%
Capacity released
30-50% released legal-operating capacity (not autonomous legal judgment)
Accountable human
General Counsel
CoS agent: Legal Chief of Staff
Cost to serve per unit including inference, and where the capacity went
Unit economics
What a unit of Legal work costs to serve
Cost per unit is stated after inference, not before it. Model spend, retrieval, evaluation and the human review time that agents still trigger are all inside the number. A cost-per-unit figure that excludes inference is a marketing number.
Units per week
108,092
Cost to serve / wk
$967K
was $2.7M
Run-rate saving
$88.3M
annualized at current volume
Inference spend / wk
$226K
23% of cost to serve
Capacity released
185.2 FTE
601 → 416 on the work
Cost to serve by sub-function
Before and after, per unit, with the inference component shown separately.
| Sub-function | Units / wk | Cost / unit before | Cost / unit now | Of which inference | Change | Weekly delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contract Lifecycle | 11,220 | $43 | $11 | $3.18 | -75% | $359K |
| Commercial Advisory | 14,214 | $19 | $7.32 | $1.90 | -62% | $167K |
| Corporate & Governance | 7,927 | $15 | $6.03 | $1.62 | -59% | $69K |
| Compliance & Ethics | 16,344 | $17 | $5.37 | $0.60 | -68% | $188K |
| Regulatory Affairs | 12,245 | $8.08 | $2.76 | $0.41 | -66% | $65K |
| IP Portfolio | 10,374 | $8.10 | $2.30 | $0.52 | -72% | $60K |
| Litigation & Disputes | 10,475 | $43 | $16 | $2.98 | -62% | $278K |
| Employment Legal | 10,567 | $43 | $22 | $6.36 | -49% | $225K |
| Privacy & Data Protection | 5,925 | $33 | $14 | $3.38 | -59% | $113K |
| Outside Counsel Management | 8,028 | $29 | $8.34 | $1.37 | -71% | $165K |
| Legal Ops & Spend | 773 | $17 | $4.37 | $1.27 | -74% | $10K |
| Total | 108,092 | $2.7M | $967K | $226K | -64% | $1.7M |
Inference is a variable cost that scales with volume, unlike the headcount it replaced. If volume doubles, the inference column doubles. That is the honest trade being made here.
Where the released capacity went
Capacity that is not redeployed is not a saving, it is a rounding error waiting to be re-hired.
Contract Lifecycle
69.6 → 35.3 FTE
Roles held flat; released hours absorbed volume growth rather than headcount reduction.
Commercial Advisory
87.2 → 61.8 FTE
Redeployed into cross-function process redesign.
Corporate & Governance
24.5 → 14.1 FTE
Redeployed into scenario work and strategy authoring review.
Compliance & Ethics
83.8 → 62.8 FTE
Redeployed into control design and independent testing.
Regulatory Affairs
82.6 → 62.0 FTE
Redeployed into agent supervision, calibration and coaching.
IP Portfolio
47.1 → 33.7 FTE
Roles held flat; released hours absorbed volume growth rather than headcount reduction.
Litigation & Disputes
49.3 → 34.4 FTE
Redeployed into exception judgment and supplier relationship work.
Employment Legal
51.9 → 36.5 FTE
Redeployed into control design and independent testing.
Privacy & Data Protection
43.1 → 33.3 FTE
Redeployed into data stewardship and evidence quality.
Outside Counsel Management
52.0 → 34.8 FTE
Redeployed into cross-function process redesign.
Legal Ops & Spend
9.8 → 7.0 FTE
Redeployed into exception judgment and supplier relationship work.