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AI readiness assessment and strategy for legal teams
A structured assessment of where AI can genuinely help your legal department, what needs to be in place first, and what to do in which order. It includes use-case discovery and prioritisation.
Book an intro callProblems this solves
- Pressure from the board or executive team to show what legal is doing with AI.
- A long list of ideas and no defensible way to choose between them.
- Uncertainty about whether your documents, data and processes are ready.
- No agreed position on risk appetite, confidentiality or acceptable use.
Who it’s for
- General Counsel preparing an AI strategy for their department
- Heads of Legal asked to justify investment in legal technology
- Legal Operations leaders building a business case
How Synapse approaches it
- 01
Discover
Interviews across the team and with key business stakeholders, plus a review of current workload and tools.
- 02
Inventory use cases
Capture every candidate task where AI or automation might help, described in operational terms.
- 03
Prioritise
Score each against value, feasibility and risk, and test the top candidates with the people who do the work.
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Plan
A phased roadmap covering the process, people, policy and technology changes required.
Typical use cases
- First AI strategy. A department that has experimented informally and now needs a deliberate plan.
- Pre-procurement. Clarifying requirements before engaging vendors, so selection is driven by use cases.
- Reset after a stalled pilot. Understanding what held adoption back and what to change.
What you receive
- Readiness assessment across people, process, data, technology and governance
- Prioritised use-case register
- Phased implementation roadmap
- Inputs for a business case
- A briefing the General Counsel can present to leadership
How to engage Synapse
A fixed-scope engagement that can be commissioned on its own. The outputs are yours to use whether or not you continue with Synapse for implementation.