Draftsheet AI

Draftsheet AI is an innovative, purpose-built time-tracking solution designed exclusively for law firms. It directly addresses the pervasive problem of underbilling, where fee earners lose an average of 48 billable minutes per day due to cumbersome manual time entry. At a typical rate of £250 per hour, this translates to approximately £48,000 in lost revenue per fee earner each year. Draftsheet AI solves this by running silently in the background on each lawyer's machine, passively monitoring active applications and document titles without interrupting their workflow. This allows lawyers to focus entirely on their legal work while the software automatically captures activity. The platform then uses advanced AI to group activities into sessions, match them to clients and matters, assign billing codes, and draft narrative descriptions. At the end of the day, fee earners spend just 10 minutes reviewing and approving entries before pushing them directly to popular billing systems like Clio or LEAP. Critically, Draftsheet AI is built with robust security and privacy at its core. It never captures keystrokes, screenshots, file contents, or email bodies, and all activity logs are encrypted. The solution serves solo practitioners, small firms, and mid-sized firms, helping them recover lost billable time, improve billing accuracy, and significantly increase overall revenue. Its intuitive setup, free pilot period, and per-seat annual pricing make it a low-risk, high-return investment for any legal practice.

Passive Background Activity Capture

Draftsheet AI operates without any timers, forms, or manual input from the fee earner. The desktop agent silently captures active application names, window and document titles, browser tab titles and domains, calendar event details, and timestamps every few seconds. This completely eliminates the need for lawyers to remember to start or stop a timer, ensuring every billable moment is recorded. The system is designed to be invisible, allowing fee earners to maintain their natural workflow without interruption.

AI-Powered Timesheet Generation

At the end of each day, a single click triggers the AI to process all captured activity. The system intelligently groups related work into sessions, automatically matches activities to the correct clients and matters, assigns appropriate billing codes, and drafts professional narrative descriptions for each entry. This transforms raw activity data into a polished, billable timesheet that is ready for review within minutes, drastically reducing the administrative burden on fee earners.

Continuous Learning and Personalization

Draftsheet AI improves its accuracy over time for each individual user. Every edit a fee earner makes, such as reassigning a session to a different client, correcting a billing code, or tweaking a narrative, is used to retrain their personal AI model. This means the system becomes increasingly attuned to the user's specific practice areas, common clients, and preferred billing language, resulting in higher accuracy and less required editing as days go on.

Comprehensive Security and Privacy Architecture

The product is built from the ground up with legal data sensitivity in mind. Draftsheet AI has a strict data policy: it never captures keystrokes, typed text, screenshots, screen recordings, file or document contents, email body text, full URLs with query strings, or clipboard contents. All captured activity logs are encrypted, and the solution is fully compliant with Data Protection Act (DPA) standards. This ensures that while the clock is watched, the content remains completely private.

Recovering Lost Billable Time for Individual Fee Earners

A solo practitioner or associate lawyer often loses track of time while deeply focused on complex legal research, drafting documents, or client calls. Draftsheet AI captures this activity automatically, ensuring no time is forgotten. At the end of the day, the lawyer can quickly review the AI-generated entries, approve them, and submit accurate timesheets. This directly recovers the average 48 minutes of lost billable time per day, translating to thousands of pounds in recovered revenue annually.

Improving Billing Accuracy and Reducing Write-Offs

Many firms lose revenue not just through forgotten time, but through inaccurate or vague time entries that get written off during billing review. Draftsheet AI generates detailed, professional narratives based on actual document titles and application usage, such as "Drafted settlement terms for Mercer v. Halcyon" rather than a vague "Work on case." This specificity provides clear justification for the time spent, reducing disputes and write-offs while increasing client confidence in the bill.

Enhancing Firm-Wide Utilization and Performance Tracking

Practice managers and firm administrators can use Draftsheet AI's revenue reporting dashboard to gain a real-time view of firm-wide billing performance. They can see hours captured, approved, and exported per fee earner, utilization rates by team, and a breakdown of billed versus recorded time. This visibility allows managers to identify underperforming fee earners, optimize resource allocation, and address time leakage issues before the end-of-month scramble, ultimately improving the firm's overall profitability.

Streamlining Billing for Remote and Hybrid Teams

With the rise of remote and hybrid work, managing time tracking across a distributed legal team has become more challenging. Draftsheet AI operates consistently on each lawyer's machine regardless of their location. The centralized dashboard provides administrators with a unified view of all fee earners' activity, ensuring accountability and consistency. This eliminates the need for manual check-ins or complicated remote time-tracking procedures, making billing management seamless for modern, flexible law firms.

How does Draftsheet AI ensure client confidentiality and data security?

Draftsheet AI is designed with a strict "no content" policy. The desktop agent only captures metadata such as the active application name, window title, and browser tab domain. It never captures keystrokes, typed text, screenshots, screen recordings, file or document contents, email body text, full URLs, or clipboard contents. All captured activity logs are encrypted, and the platform is fully compliant with DPA standards. This ensures that sensitive legal work remains completely private and secure.

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

Fee earners typically need to spend only about 10 minutes at the end of each day reviewing and approving the AI-generated timesheet. The passive capture system does all the work automatically throughout the day. For most users, the AI-generated entries are highly accurate, so the review process is primarily about quickly approving entries or making minor adjustments to client or matter assignments.

Can Draftsheet AI integrate with my existing billing or practice management software?

Yes, Draftsheet AI is built to integrate directly with popular legal billing and practice management systems, including Clio and LEAP. After a fee earner reviews and approves their timesheet entries, they can push the data directly to these systems with a single click. This eliminates the need for manual data entry into separate billing platforms and ensures a seamless workflow from time capture to invoicing.

Is there a free trial or pilot period available?

Yes, Draftsheet AI offers a free pilot period for new customers. This allows law firms to test the solution with their own fee earners and see the actual impact on time capture and billing accuracy before making a financial commitment. There are no setup fees for any plan, and customers can cancel anytime during or after the pilot period. This low-risk approach makes it easy for firms to validate the ROI of the product.