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Turn Smokeball Into the Operating Layer for Your Law Firm

Connect Smokeball to Claude, Westlaw, email, documents, and calendars so your team can work from one intelligent, controlled system instead of switching between disconnected tools.

Smokeball Holds the Data. Your AI Should Be Able to Use It.

The opportunity is not another chatbot. It is a practical AI operations layer that can retrieve context, prepare work, and execute approved actions across the firm.

Smokeball becomes operational

Read and write approved matters, contacts, documents, tasks, calendar data, and internal notes through a controlled AI workflow layer.

Documents become usable context

Ingest case files, recordings, forms, and LawPro-style outputs so the team can find facts, dates, parties, and next actions without hunting across folders.

Every tool works together

Connect Smokeball with Claude, Outlook, calendars, Westlaw, cloud storage, notifications, and the systems your firm already uses.

Humans stay in control

Use approval gates for client communications, sensitive actions, and legal judgment. The agent drafts and prepares. Your team decides.

Built for legal workflows

The AI paralegal layer, without giving up judgment

A good legal AI system does not remove the lawyer from the loop. It removes the searching, copying, sorting, and repetitive preparation that keeps the lawyer away from the work that matters.

Claude as reasoning layerSmokeball as practice dataHuman approval by design

A matter workflow can look like this

1Matter or document enters the system
2AI reads the approved context
3Claude prepares summary, tasks, dates, or draft
4Human reviews and approves the action
5Smokeball and connected tools are updated

What the System Can Prepare for Your Team

Start with one workflow. Expand only after it proves useful in the real practice.

High-value legal operations

  • Summarize a matter and surface missing documents, key dates, and open tasks
  • Create calendar events and deadline reminders from matter data
  • Draft client emails and internal updates for human review
  • Prepare document summaries, discovery support, and deposition notes
  • Search across firm knowledge, Smokeball files, and approved research sources
  • Replace repetitive LawPro-style summaries with a workflow owned by the firm

Document intelligence

Summaries, fact extraction, missing-document checks, and preparation for review.

Dates and obligations

Surface important dates and prepare calendar actions from matter context.

Controlled communication

Draft emails and updates in the firm's voice, with review before anything goes out.

One Architecture, Multiple Systems

The integration is valuable because the firm does not live in one application.

Practice data

  • Smokeball API
  • Matters and contacts
  • Documents and tasks

Reasoning layer

  • Claude AI
  • Firm knowledge
  • Prompted workflows

Connected systems

  • Outlook and Calendar
  • Westlaw
  • OneDrive and notifications
The result is a connected operating system for the practice, not another isolated tool.

A Safer Way to Start

The first engagement is deliberately focused. We prove the workflow before expanding the system.

01

Map the first workflow

Choose the highest-value matter, document, deadline, or communication workflow and define its approval points.

02

Connect and test

Configure Smokeball access, connect the supporting tools, and test the workflow against real examples in a controlled environment.

03

Train the team

Turn the workflow into a repeatable operating habit with training, documentation, safe prompts, and clear escalation paths.

04

Expand the system

Add Westlaw research, deeper document intelligence, email triage, reporting, and new workflows as the firm is ready.

AI drafts. Your team decides.

Legal automation needs a control layer

Permissions, approval gates, audit trails, backups, and rollback procedures are part of the build. The goal is useful automation that respects the firm's responsibility to its clients.

Approved data access only
Human review for outbound communication
Clear action logs and ownership
Expandable workflows instead of a black box

What should your first Smokeball workflow do?

Tell us the repetitive task that keeps coming back. We will map the data, approvals, integrations, and safest path to production.

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