Onboarding a new firm in thirty minutes
A managing partner signs up, sets the firm's practice profile, prints the confidentiality and data statement the COLP will ask for, opens a matter with a conflict check, and runs a Contract Agent memo, all in one sitting without a card or a call.
Practice management · Managing partner, knowledge lead, IT, COLP
- Agents
- Contract
- First draft
- A signed-off Work-Stream Memo from a real document inside thirty minutes of signing up.
The problem
Step 01 of 06
Sign up and name the firm
Free is a real tier: two seats, welcome credits, every agent, prebuilt horizon packs, and bring-your-own-key if the firm already has a provider account.
Project Halcyon: SPA warranties and disclosure
Buy-side warranty review, disclosure analysis and cited due-diligence grid.
- Client
- Halcyon Bidco Ltd
- Reference
- WC-2026-0412
- Practice area
- Corporate / M&A
- Jurisdiction
- England and Wales
- Responsible partner
- E. Vance
No conflict check on file.Chat, on this matter
Compare warranties with the disclosure letter.
Three high-priority exceptions require action: the unregistered charge, the change-of-control right and the tribunal claim.
Send a message… (@ to mention tools)BalancedPrepare for- 25 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Chat
- 21 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Run · completed · 560 credits
- 18 Aug
Project Halcyon: Disclosure Letter
Document · indexed
- 16 Aug
Project Halcyon: Share Purchase Agreement
Document · indexed
- 4 Aug
Matter opened
Opened
Step 02 of 06
Set the practice profile
Choosing the firm's practice areas installs the matching agents and horizon packs; the answer is visible in the sidebar within minutes.
Project Halcyon: SPA warranties and disclosure
Buy-side warranty review, disclosure analysis and cited due-diligence grid.
- Client
- Halcyon Bidco Ltd
- Reference
- WC-2026-0412
- Practice area
- Corporate / M&A
- Jurisdiction
- England and Wales
- Responsible partner
- E. Vance
No conflict check on file.Chat, on this matter
Compare warranties with the disclosure letter.
Three high-priority exceptions require action: the unregistered charge, the change-of-control right and the tribunal claim.
Send a message… (@ to mention tools)BalancedPrepare for- 25 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Chat
- 21 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Run · completed · 560 credits
- 18 Aug
Project Halcyon: Disclosure Letter
Document · indexed
- 16 Aug
Project Halcyon: Share Purchase Agreement
Document · indexed
- 4 Aug
Matter opened
Opened
Step 03 of 06
Read and print the confidentiality statement
No training on firm data, storage location, visibility rules and deletion on request, written to be forwarded to the COLP verbatim.
6 items need your confirmation14 authorities · Where we lookedSenior Associate Employment Contract: English Law Review
Summary
- 1.
Clause 9(c), non-competeHigh
The 12-month prohibition on working for any law firm anywhere in the UK, Ireland or EU, in any capacity, is almost certainly wider than reasonably necessary and therefore unlikely to be enforceable.
Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd [2019] UKSC 32 - 2.
Clause 11, data and monitoringHigh
Blanket contractual consent is not an adequate basis for general employment processing, special-category data or unrestricted monitoring.
UK GDPR, Arts 6 and 9 - 3.
Clause 4, holiday carry-overHigh
The unconditional five-day cap conflicts with mandatory carry-over rights where sickness, statutory leave or employer failure prevents leave being taken.
Working Time Regulations 1998, regs 13 to 13A
- 1.
Step 04 of 06
Open a matter
The conflict check runs on save and returns clear on a new firm's first matter.
Project Halcyon: SPA warranties and disclosure
Buy-side warranty review, disclosure analysis and cited due-diligence grid.
- Client
- Halcyon Bidco Ltd
- Reference
- WC-2026-0412
- Practice area
- Corporate / M&A
- Jurisdiction
- England and Wales
- Responsible partner
- E. Vance
No conflict check on file.Chat, on this matter
Compare warranties with the disclosure letter.
Three high-priority exceptions require action: the unregistered charge, the change-of-control right and the tribunal claim.
Send a message… (@ to mention tools)BalancedPrepare for- 25 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Chat
- 21 Aug
Disclosure exceptions matrix
Run · completed · 560 credits
- 18 Aug
Project Halcyon: Disclosure Letter
Document · indexed
- 16 Aug
Project Halcyon: Share Purchase Agreement
Document · indexed
- 4 Aug
Matter opened
Opened
Step 05 of 06
Ask a question and run an agent
A contract is added, a chat question returns a clause-level answer with source chips, and the Contract Agent runs a Work-Stream Memo.
Agent
Jurisdiction
Prepare for
Deliver as
Instruction
What should the agent look for?Documents
Drop a contract, or pick one from the matter
Also on the matter
- Offer_letter_v3.pdf2 pages
- Staff_handbook_2025.docx61 pages
- Board_minute_14_Aug.pdf3 pages
Platform model · zero data retention · audit register onStep 06 of 06
Check an authority and invite the second seat
Clicking through to an authority in the memo is the moment that decides whether the firm buys; the knowledge lead is invited on the second free seat.
# Reference Source Verdict 1 Tillman v Egon Zehnder Ltd
[2019] UKSC 32— not yet checked 2 Working Time Regulations 1998
SI 1998/1833, regs 4 to 5, 10 to 14— not yet checked 3 Coppage v Safety Net Security Ltd
[2013] EWCA Civ 1176— not yet checked 4 UK GDPR, Articles 6 and 9
Retained Regulation (EU) 2016/679— not yet checked 5 Employment Rights Act 1996, s 1
c 18— not yet checked 6 Harlow v Artemis International
[2008] EWHC 1126 (QB)— not yet checked
A document, not a transcript.
- A printable confidentiality and data statement, ready to send to the COLP.
- A clear conflict check on the firm's first matter, recorded on the register from day one.
- A clause-level chat answer with source chips on a real contract.
- A signed-off Work-Stream Memo with authorities, each carrying a verdict and a link to check.
What it does not do
- DMS connectors for SharePoint, OneDrive, iManage and NetDocuments are catalogue tiles, not live integrations, and documents come in by upload.
- There is no Word add-in and no redlining inside Word.
- Verified source lists cover the UK, Ireland, the EU and the ECHR today. Elsewhere, research runs at open-web quality with the same gates, and the output says so.