How Calder Legal answers firm knowledge in seconds
Associates were losing 45 minutes a lookup digging through 15 years of case files. A private assistant now answers in seconds and cites the source document.
45 min → 20 s
avg. research lookup
15 yrs
of case files indexed
100%
answers cite a source
4 wks
to production
The firm's knowledge was unsearchable
Fifteen years of matters, memos, and precedent lived in folders only a few senior associates could navigate. A routine question could cost 45 minutes of hunting — or a knock on a partner's door.
The knowledge existed. It just wasn't reachable when it mattered.
A SINGLE LOOKUP · BEFORE
several times a day
A private assistant that cites its sources
We built a retrieval assistant over the firm's own documents — answers are grounded in the actual files, and every response links the source it came from.
Index the archive
Ingested 15 years of matters and memos with strict access controls — nothing leaves the firm.
Ground every answer
The assistant retrieves the relevant documents and answers only from them, always citing the source.
Tune for trust
Calibrated it to say "I don't have that" rather than guess, then rolled it out to associates.
> abs build --client calder
Indexing case archive…
✓︎ 15 yrs of matters embedded
✓︎ Access controls enforced (on-prem)
✓︎ Citations required on every answer
Deployed to production. Day 24.
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Research went from minutes to seconds
Associates ask in plain language and get an answer with the source attached. The senior team stopped being a search engine, and nobody's redoing work that was already in the files.
Research lookup
45 min → 20 sec
Answers with a citation
— → every one
Partner interruptions
daily → rare
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