# Sovael Legal — Service Definitions

**Date:** 2026-06-27  
**Research cycle:** 1 — Legal Intelligence  
**Scope:** Proposed Legal Intelligence service catalogue based on UK market gaps and competitor positioning.

## Design Principles

1. **SRA-aligned by default** — every service embeds the Solicitors Regulation Authority Standards and Regulations, confidentiality duties, and court guidance.
2. **Human-in-the-loop** — AI amplifies lawyer judgment; lawyers remain accountable.
3. **Transparent pricing** — direct response to market pushback against opaque enterprise AI contracts.
4. **Mid-market accessible** — aimed at UK firms and in-house teams that cannot afford or do not need Harvey-level enterprise deployments.
5. **Modular and outcome-based** — clients buy capabilities and results, not platform licences.

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## Service Catalogue

### 1. AI Readiness & Governance Audit

**What it is:** A structured review of a legal practice’s current tech, workflows, data practices and AI use against SRA Principles and the Law Society’s GenAI guidance.

**Deliverables:**
- AI risk register mapped to SRA Standards and Regulations.
- Confidentiality and privilege impact assessment.
- Policy templates: acceptable use, client disclosure, supervision.
- Roadmap for safe, phased AI adoption.

**Target buyers:** Managing partners, COFAs, risk directors, GCs.

**Why now:** The SRA and courts have made clear that lawyers remain accountable for AI errors; most firms lack documented AI governance.

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### 2. Legal AI Implementation & Integration

**What it is:** Hands-on deployment of legal AI tools into existing practice management, document management and CLM systems.

**Capabilities delivered:**
- Contract review and redlining automation.
- Document drafting from precedents.
- Secure in-house / private-cloud LLM configuration.
- Integrations with DMS (iManage, NetDocuments), CLM and case-management systems.
- User training and adoption support.

**Target buyers:** Mid-market law firms, in-house legal teams, legal operations.

**Differentiator:** Vendor-agnostic; we select and configure the right stack rather than selling a single platform. This addresses the Harvey/Luminance pricing-opacity problem.

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### 3. Contract Intelligence & Lifecycle Support

**What it is:** End-to-end support for contract drafting, review, negotiation, execution and post-execution management, powered by AI and supervised by legal engineers/lawyers.

**Use cases:**
- NDA / MSA / DPA review and mark-up.
- Vendor and customer contract playbooks.
- Portfolio-wide clause extraction and risk scoring.
- Obligation management and renewal tracking.

**Delivery model:** Managed service with defined SLAs (e.g., first-pass review within X hours; escalation paths).

**Target buyers:** In-house legal teams, commercial law firms, growth-stage companies.

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### 4. Litigation Support & e-Disclosure

**What it is:** Technology-assisted review, early case assessment and disclosure preparation, aligned with UK court rules and the October 2025 Judicial AI Guidance.

**Capabilities:**
- Document collection and processing.
- Technology-assisted review (TAR) / predictive coding.
- Privilege and confidentiality screening.
- Chronologies, witness bundles and disclosure statements.
- Guardrails against AI-generated fictitious case law (post-Haringey safeguard).

**Target buyers:** Litigation teams, dispute resolution practices, insurers.

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### 5. AI Compliance & Regulatory Watch

**What it is:** Ongoing advisory retainer covering changes to SRA guidance, court rules, data-protection law and government AI policy.

**Deliverables:**
- Monthly regulatory update digest.
- Annual policy refresh.
- Incident-response support for AI-related errors or client complaints.
- Training on new court guidance and Law Society positions.

**Target buyers:** Compliance officers, risk partners, GCs.

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### 6. Talent & Change Enablement

**What it is:** Training and change-management programmes to ensure lawyers and staff use AI tools competently, ethically and efficiently.

**Components:**
- Role-based prompt-engineering and output-verification training.
- Supervisor training on GenAI risks.
- Culture and adoption sprints.
- KPI design: time saved, quality scores, client outcomes.

**Target buyers:** Learning & development, innovation partners, legal operations.

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## Pricing Architecture (Indicative)

| Service | Model | Indicative Range |
|---------|-------|------------------|
| AI Readiness & Governance Audit | Fixed fee | £8,000 – £25,000 |
| AI Implementation & Integration | Project / deliverable-based | £15,000 – £75,000 |
| Contract Intelligence | Monthly retainer or per-contract | From £3,500/month or £80/contract |
| Litigation Support & e-Disclosure | Per-matter or volume-based | Custom pricing |
| AI Compliance & Regulatory Watch | Monthly retainer | £1,500 – £5,000/month |
| Talent & Change Enablement | Fixed-fee workshops | £2,500 – £8,000/session |

*Actual pricing will vary by firm size, data volume and complexity. These are opening estimates for scoping discussions.*

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## Market Gaps Addressed

| Gap | How Sovael Legal Fills It |
|-----|---------------------------|
| Premium tools (Harvey, Luminance) are expensive and opaque | Modular, transparent, mid-market pricing |
| Robin AI collapse created buyer nervousness | Vendor-agnostic, continuity-focused, SRA-aligned advisory |
| Firms lack AI governance and risk policies | AI Readiness & Governance Audit |
| Courts are warning against unverified AI output | Human-in-the-loop verification and litigation controls |
| In-house teams need self-serve contract speed | Contract Intelligence managed service |
| Lawyers need supervision and competence training | Talent & Change Enablement |

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## Immediate Opportunities

1. **Robin AI transition services** — offer continuity and migration support to former Robin AI customers.
2. **Post-Garfield.Law SRA packaging** — help firms understand what “AI-native” authorisation looks like and whether their controls meet the bar.
3. **Mid-market contract review bundles** — pre-empt Luminance/Harvey enterprise sales by offering fixed-scope, fixed-price AI contract review.

## Sources informing this catalogue

- LexisNexis UK AI adoption surveys, 2024–2025 — https://www.lexisnexis.co.uk/blog/future-of-law/ai-adoption-soars-across-uk-legal-sector
- Grand View Research, UK Legal AI Market Size & Outlook, 2030 — https://www.grandviewresearch.com/horizon/outlook/legal-ai-market/uk
- SRA, Risk Outlook: The use of artificial intelligence in the legal market, November 2023 — https://www.sra.org.uk/sra/research-publications/artificial-intelligence-legal-market/
- Law Society, “Generative AI – the essentials” — https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/ai-and-lawtech/generative-ai-the-essentials
- Bar Council / King’s Bench Division warnings on AI-generated case law, 2025 — https://www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/ai-in-law-breaking-down-the-latest-developments.html
- Automation Outcomes, UK small-to-mid-sized firm AI impact, 2025 — https://www.automationoutcomes.co.uk/ai-is-transforming-the-uk-law-sector/