An AI employee for your law firm
Your lawyers never learn an AI tool.The drafted documents just show up in their email.
A chat window asks every lawyer to get good at prompting on top of a full caseload. Edward is an AI employee set up once for the whole firm. Your lawyers email him the work the way they would email a colleague, and the drafted documents come back review-ready, in the thread and in Word. Whatever the work is at your firm, I build him to run it.
[ The terms ]Flat $3,000 a month. Live in 48 hours or month one is free. Any process your firm runs, built in on request.
Built and run by Jordy Backes. The setup is one person’s job, and that person is me: I run Edward and keep him working.
FromEdward (your AI employee)
SubjectMorning brief: 2 deadlines, 3 replies drafted, 1 waiting on your OK
FromEdward (your AI employee)
SubjectRedline ready: Merrivale Bluepine NDA
Attached: the contract with tracked changes and a one page risk memo. 2 clauses need your call, both flagged. Ready for attorney review.
All three are real outputs from the published builds, on sample matters. Open any of them.
- Drafted by Edward
- Reviewed by your attorney
- Sent by your firm
Review-ready, never send-ready. A licensed attorney at your firm makes every final call.
A private, isolated environment for your firm alone. Nothing is shared across firms.
The work your lawyers would email Edward is already piling up: too many mornings that start with answering email instead of billable work, too many routine drafts waiting on one paralegal, and too many engagement letters and demand letters written from scratch every time.
Built for firms where the routine work eats the billable day.
This is for you if
- You run a small or boutique firm: contracts to review, letters to draft, client intake to answer, or whatever the routine work is at your firm.
- Partners or staff are the bottleneck on repetitive document drafting and follow-ups.
- You want Edward working wherever your team already works: email, Word, Teams, Slack.
This is not for
- Firms that want to experiment with AI themselves. The retainer is for firms that want the finished work arriving instead.
- Firms that cannot give me one point of contact. The setup stays my job; I just need one person at your firm to work with while I build, and a few emails is enough.
- Firms that want the AI making the legal calls on its own. Everything he produces is reviewed and approved by your attorneys, by design.
The NDAs and letters on this page are examples from the published builds. What Edward runs at your firm is mapped from your own work on the first call, and any process he does not run yet is built in on request.
From the first call to a working employee.
Step 01
The 20 minute call
You tell me your firm's biggest time sink when you book. I bring Edward and run him live on that kind of work, on the call. You leave with a map of what to hire Edward for first and what the flat retainer covers.
Step 02
Live in 48 hours
After kickoff, your AI employee is live inside your firm within 48 hours, or your first month is free. He starts with the highest-value job I map out from our call, tuned on your firm's own documents inside your firm's own private environment. From day one he also runs the daily basics: the morning brief, inbox triage, client intake, follow-ups, deadlines.
Step 03
He grows, requested or not
You send new requests by email, and each is typically live within 48 hours. Improvement does not wait for your requests either: I watch how your firm uses him and build in upgrades you never had to ask for. Every change arrives with a short personal video from me showing what changed.
Every build, published start to finish.
I build AI employees on camera and publish every build on YouTube. See how the work gets done before we talk. Someone at your firm could follow those builds and set him up themselves. The retainer is for firms that would rather that person be me.
What the builds show
- The redline, returnedThe contract back as a Word document with tracked changes, mostly done, for your attorneys to accept or reject.
- The one page risk memoEvery flag on the contract, ranked and explained.
- The demand letterDrafted from the case file, ready for attorney review.
- The morning briefIn your inbox before you sit down: today's deadlines, new client intake, and drafted replies to the routine mail that does not need a lawyer's judgment.
- The answer, on demandEmail him a question about a matter, a deadline, or a client; the answer comes back from your firm's own files.
- The correction roundA lawyer replies to the draft's email with the change they want; the revised version comes back in the same thread.
The list above is what the published builds show, never the menu. At your firm he runs what you hire him for, and the list grows on request.
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07:00
The morning brief
In your inbox before your team sits down.
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09:15
The new client inquiry
A new inquiry arrives in the inbox. Edward logs it, runs the conflict search against the firm's own matter list, and drafts the acknowledgment for a lawyer's OK. When the partner says proceed, the engagement letter arrives drafted for sign-off.
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10:40
The demand letter
Drafted from the case file, waiting in your inbox.
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14:10
The redline, returned
The contract redline that used to take an associate 3 to 6 hours comes back in Word with tracked changes, mostly done.
SubjectAlvarez demand letter
Edward, before I sign off on the Alvarez demand letter: how did you get to $48,900, and why is there no interest on the medical bills?
SubjectRE: Alvarez demand letter
The total is the medical invoices in the file, $31,400 across Riverside Imaging and Dr. Osei, plus the $17,500 wage-loss letter from her employer. Interest is left out because your firm-positions file says demand letters go out without interest unless a partner adds it. Every figure in the letter names its source document, so checking any figure takes one click.
Your lawyers write to him the way they write to a colleague. Here the answer came back in 1 minute, from the firm's own files, before the partner signed off. Sample matter shown; the build above produces the same answers.
What $3,000 a month actually buys.
The drafting, the triage, and the follow-ups come back finished, month after month. Your lawyers never learn AI and still get the benefits: they email Edward the work, and building him, watching him, and keeping him current is my job, not your firm's.
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The work comes back finished
Your lawyers forward him the work from their own inbox, and the finished draft comes back in the same thread, ready for attorney review. The drafts arrive in email, Word, Teams, or Slack, the same places your team already works, and I run everything behind it.
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Every lawyer gets the same quality
Whether a partner or a first-year forwards the matter, the draft comes back from the same Edward, with the same firm knowledge behind it. Quality stops depending on which lawyer is best at prompting.
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Watched and kept current
Edward is on duty 24/7, and so is his monitoring. If anything fails, an alert hits my phone that minute, and you hear about it from me. That is the way it is built. I also study how your firm uses him and build in upgrades you never had to ask for. Edward's folder is the brain; the engines underneath are chosen per job and swapped as better ones ship, upgrades and security included. Your firm is never locked to any vendor.
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Any process, built on request
Need him on a new process for your firm, or a change to one he already runs? Ask him by email, the way you would ask any employee. Requests are unlimited, and I am the one who builds each into him, one at a time. Each is typically live within 48 hours, with a short video from me on what changed. No change orders, no scoping meetings, no hourly meter.
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One flat number
The $3,000 covers everything on this page: the AI usage, the infrastructure, the monitoring, the maintenance, the upgrades, the unlimited requests, and me running it all. No surprise bills, no credits, no meters. Every lawyer at the firm can use him, every day, inside the same number.
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A colleague with a memory
His own email address, your firm's name for him, and a memory of your matters, positions, and preferences that grows every week he is employed. Your partners never explain the firm twice.
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Your attorneys stay in charge
Review-ready, never send-ready. A licensed attorney at your firm approves every document he produces. Edward does the work; your firm keeps the judgment.
The terms
The retainer
Month to month$3,000/ month
No hourly billing, no surprise usage fees.
A fraction of the cost of a paralegal hire, and he is on duty every day.
Per Clio's 2025 Legal Trends Report, the average lawyer collects payment on only 2.4 billable hours a day. 5 hours of the same day go unbilled. Edward takes over the routine share of the unbilled hours: the intake replies, the follow-ups, the document drafting.
The guarantee
Your first AI employee is live in your firm within 48 hours of kickoff, or your first month is free.
Kickoff means payment received and access provided.
Month to month, cancel with 30 days notice. If you ever leave, the playbooks, the files, every workflow I built, and everything he produced stay with your firm. No lock-in.
Confidentiality
- A private, isolated environment set up for your firm alone. Nothing is shared across firms.
- The environment can be shut down and deleted on request.
- Every action he takes is visible to you.
- A mutual NDA before I ever see a document. Standard practice, offered upfront.
- A licensed attorney at your firm approves every document he produces.
Confidentiality is treated the way your firm treats it: as non-negotiable.
You are hiring one person, and this is him.
Founder · every build published on YouTube
Jordy Backes · Founder, Night Docket
I have built software and systems for businesses since 2017. I founded and ran a software engineering agency for 3 years, and since 2026 I work exclusively on AI employees for law firms.
Your firm would be among the first on this retainer.
You now have an AI employee, and I make sure he actually works.
From my previous agency. Different service, same operator.
“We have seen a noticeable impact on our business. This was easy ROI and the results reached far beyond just making our money back. I feel like I finally have time to focus on my company.”
Matti Lamminsalo · Founder, Ivalo
“He cares about the results just as much as we do, which makes the collaboration very enjoyable and effortless. His communication is proactive and clear. You won’t regret it.”
Andreas Kolb · Senior Online Marketing Manager, Telefónica Germany
“Thanks to his help, we were able to release on time and with high confidence. He approaches projects with an eye on the overall business objective and user experience, and not just from a technical side.”
Marin Gerov · Head of Partnerships
Questions before you book.
Is our client data safe?
Edward works in a private, isolated environment set up for your firm alone. Nothing is shared across firms, and it can be shut down and deleted on request. Your team keeps working out of its own email inbox, and every action he takes is visible to you. We also sign a mutual NDA before I ever see a document. Standard practice, offered upfront. Confidentiality is treated the way your firm treats it: as non-negotiable.
What if it makes a mistake?
Everything Edward produces is review-ready, never send-ready. A licensed attorney at your firm approves every document before it leaves the firm, the same way you review a junior associate's draft. The first 2 weeks are an explicit testing period where we tune him on your real work.
What does it cost?
A flat monthly retainer of $3,000. No hourly billing, no surprise usage fees. Month to month, cancel with 30 days notice. And the guarantee: your first AI employee is live within 48 hours of kickoff, or your first month is free. If you ever leave, the playbooks, the files, every workflow I built, and everything he produced stay with your firm. No lock-in.
Do we need technical people?
No. There is nothing for your team to install, learn, or maintain. Nobody at your firm has to learn an AI tool. That is the whole point of how I build him: Edward works inside the interfaces your team already lives in. The work arrives in email, Word, Teams, or Slack, and he can work over text if that is where you need him. I handle everything behind it.
We already use Copilot. Can Edward work with it?
Yes. Edward runs alongside Copilot. His folder syncs into your firm's own Microsoft 365, and Copilot reads what he keeps current there. Your team keeps Copilot exactly as it is.
What if our work is not the work shown on this page?
The deliverables on this page are examples from the published builds, not a menu. Edward is built custom for your firm: on the call you name your firm's biggest time sink, I map the first job from it, and he goes live on that work first. After that, any process you want him running is a request away, typically live within 48 hours, inside the same flat retainer. If a lawyer can hand it to a colleague by email, I can build Edward to run it.
What actually happens on the call?
The call is 20 minutes: you tell me the work that eats your team's week, and I show you Edward doing that kind of work, live. You leave with a clear picture of the first job worth hiring him for, what he would do in his first month, and what the flat retainer covers.
What happens after we say yes?
You get 1 payment link and a short access checklist, and kickoff is the moment those are done. Within 48 hours Edward is live, doing the highest-value job mapped out from our call plus the daily basics: the morning brief, inbox triage, client intake, follow-ups, and deadlines. From then on, you send new requests by email and I keep him running, watched, and improving.
What if something happens to you?
Nothing your firm depends on lives only with me. Your firm keeps Edward, fully, as he is, at all times: the playbooks, the files, every workflow I built, and everything he produced. Every action he takes is visible to you. Month to month, cancel with 30 days notice. No lock-in.
Find out what your firm should hire Edward to do first.
20 minutes, no slides. You leave with a map of what to hire him for first.
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What happens on the callYou meet Jordy Backes, the founder. There is no sales team. You name the work that eats your team's week when you book, and for the next 20 minutes I run Edward on that kind of work in front of you. You leave with a map of the first job worth hiring him for and what the flat retainer covers.
Your first AI employee is live in your firm within 48 hours of kickoff, or your first month is free.
Kickoff means payment received and access provided.
Jordy Backes, Founder