Bill the Hours, Not the Follow-Ups
Solo practice means you're the firm, the paralegal, and the receptionist. alfred_ handles the 2 hours a day you can't bill for, urgent triage, status drafts, sent-email lookups, so the billable work has more room.
- 2-minute setup
- No credit card
- Cancel anytime
The Real Cost of Unbillable Email
Every hour spent triaging email is an hour you can't bill. For a solo practitioner at $300/hour, two unbillable hours a day adds up to roughly $150,000 a year in revenue you're working through, not capturing.
Scenarios You'll Recognize
The 4:50 PM Friday Filing
The Email You Sent Two Weeks Ago
The Client Status Update You Forgot
How alfred_ Works for Solo & Small-Firm Attorneys
Urgent-Sender SMS Alerts
Set rules so you get an SMS the moment a client, opposing counsel, or court email lands. Everything else waits for your morning brief. You never miss a deadline because you were in court.
Sent-Email Lookup
'Did I send X to Y?' alfred_ searches your sent folder and answers in seconds. Date, recipient list, subject. No more scrolling through six months of correspondence to confirm what you already did.
Status Update Drafts
'Any update on the Williams matter?' is the most common client email you get. alfred_ drafts the routine status reply for you to approve, pulled from your recent activity on the matter. One tap to send.
Filing & Deadline Reminders
Tell alfred_ once: 'Send me a reminder 7 days before the Henderson response is due.' It surfaces in your brief on the day, with the original filing linked. Your calendar app doesn't have to know about it.
A paralegal costs $50-$120/hour. A legal assistant runs $40,000+/year. Both work business hours.
Bill More Hours Without Working More Hours
Setup takes 2 minutes. alfred_ starts triaging tonight. Full refund if it doesn't return multiples of what you paid.
Frequently Asked Questions
Confidentiality and client privilege, is this safe?
alfred_ uses OAuth (never sees your password), AES-256 encryption, and per-user data isolation. Your email is processed in memory for triage, not stored or used to train AI models. You review every draft before it's sent. For sensitive matters, you can keep specific threads out of alfred_'s scope, it processes the 80% that's routine.
How reliable is the urgent-court-email SMS alert?
alfred_ runs continuously against your connected email. The moment a sender matching your rule (specific email, domain, or pattern) lands in your inbox, the SMS fires. There's no batching or polling delay, it's the same pipeline your phone uses for direct text messages.
Does it integrate with Clio / MyCase / PracticePanther?
Not directly. alfred_ sits on top of your email and calendar (Gmail or Outlook), not on top of your practice management software. Most attorneys use both: PM software for matter tracking and billing, alfred_ for the email coordination around those matters.
Multiple matters, how does it know which email is which?
alfred_ reads the email itself: client name, matter subject line, prior thread context. It doesn't need a matter taxonomy to know that 'Williams update' relates to the Williams thread you've been in. The more you use it, the better it gets at linking related correspondence.
Worth $24.99/month vs my paralegal time?
A paralegal costs $50-$120/hour. If alfred_ saves you 30 minutes a day on sent-email lookups, status drafts, and urgent triage, that's roughly $25 of paralegal time per day, $500+ per month. Many solo practitioners use both: alfred_ for coordination, paralegal for substantive work.
Will alfred_ send a draft without my approval?
Never. alfred_ drafts replies and queues them for your review. One tap to send, edit to modify, skip to ignore. Especially for legal correspondence, every word goes out under your name, alfred_ never sends autonomously.