Legal operations / on the record

Run legal like an operation, not an inbox.

Counsel is the system of record for in-house legal. Route intake, move contracts, and track every matter and dollar in one ledger the whole company can trust.

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Trusted by legal teams that keep the receipts

14 daysmedian time to first live matter
1 ledgerintake, contracts, matters, spend
100%of approvals stamped and timestamped

The platform

One authoritative record, from request to signature.

Legal has been run out of email threads and spreadsheets for too long. Counsel gives your team a defensible operating system: everything routed, versioned, and provable.

01

Intake that routes itself

Every request enters through one door, gets classified, and lands with the right owner in minutes. Retire the legal@ alias and the "who owns this?" thread for good.

02

Contracts with a defensible trail

Draft, redline, approve, and sign against your playbook. Every version, comment, and approval is stamped, timestamped, and audit-ready before anyone asks.

03

Spend you can defend to finance

See outside-counsel budgets, accruals, and matter costs in real time. Walk into every quarterly review with numbers instead of guesses, and no surprise invoices.

Our point of view

Legal is not a cost center to be tolerated. It is an operation to be run, on the record, with evidence for every decision.
The Counsel Method · Principle No. 1

Get on the record

Bring your legal team on the record.

See how Counsel maps to your matters, playbooks, and approvals in a 30-minute walkthrough. Bring one messy contract process. We will show you the ledger version.