The whole matter, in one pair of hands

AI case prep and practice management, built for small law firms.

Mano takes a matter from the first client conversation to organized facts, solid drafts, verified citations, and clear next steps — one system that runs your firm’s day-to-day work, grounded in your own documents and real legal authority.

Now onboarding a limited group of founding firms. Attorneys stay in control at every step.

Built for the firms that do the work.

Most legal software is priced and designed for AmLaw 200 back offices. Mano is built for small and mid-size firms, where the same attorney takes the intake call, organizes the file, writes the brief, and answers for every citation.

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An attorney reviewing and signing a printed legal document with a fountain pen
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Why Mano

Legal software comes in two flavors. Mano is neither.

Point tools help with one task. Legacy platforms run operations with AI bolted on. Neither runs the actual casework, so the matter still lives in your head, your inbox, and six other tabs.

Legal-AI point tools

Great at one task. Blind to the matter.

Research and drafting assistants do a single job well, then hand the work back to you.

  • The matter still lives somewhere else
  • You re-explain the facts to every tool
  • No deadlines, no tasks, no file
  • You are the glue between systems
Practice-management platforms

Runs the office. Not the case.

Legacy systems handle billing and calendars, with AI added later as a feature.

  • Built for operations, not casework
  • AI bolted on, not built in
  • The chatbot doesn’t know your file
  • Drafting and research happen elsewhere
Mano

AI-native. End to end. Grounded.

One system where the entire matter lives and moves, designed around AI from the first line of code.

  • Intake → facts → drafts → citations → next steps
  • Every output traces to a source you can open
  • Deadlines flagged with the statute behind them
  • You review, decide, and stay in control
How it works

One matter, start to finish.

Follow a single case through Mano. One system, where each step feeds the next.

01 — Intake

Start with the conversation.

Record or paste the first client conversation. Mano structures it into parties, dates, claims, and open questions. The matter file exists from minute one.

02 — Facts

Facts, organized and sourced.

Upload the records, reports, and emails. Mano builds a chronology where every fact links to the page it came from. No more hunting through a banker’s box before a hearing.

03 — Drafting

Drafts built from your facts.

Demand letters, petitions, and discovery, drafted from the matter’s own record in your firm’s voice. Every assertion carries its source inline, so review is fast and the edits are yours.

04 — Citations

Authority you can check.

Every statute and case Mano relies on is verified against real legal authority and linked. Anything it can’t verify gets flagged for your review instead of silently asserted.

05 — Next steps

Know what Monday looks like.

Mano flags deadlines with the rule behind them and proposes concrete next steps for each matter. You approve, reassign, or dismiss, and the file keeps moving either way.

Grounded, or it doesn’t ship

One hallucinated citation can sink a case. So Mano doesn’t guess.

Generic chatbots answer confidently whether or not they’re right. Mano’s output is grounded in two places: your matter’s own documents, and verifiable legal authority. Here’s the same question, answered both ways.

A generic AI chatbot

“What’s the filing deadline for my client’s injury claim?”

Personal injury claims in Texas must generally be filed within two years.

Courts have extended this under Hernandez v. Westbrook Transit (Tex. 2019), which tolls limitations where the defendant is a commercial carrier.

This case does not exist. The chatbot invented it.

It knows nothing about your client, your documents, or your dates, and it cites nothing you can check.

No sources · No matter context · No accountability
Mano, inside the matter

“What’s the filing deadline in Rivera?”

Limitations runs March 14, 2027, two years from the collision date in the police report.

Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 16.003 Police report p.2 — incident date

No tolling facts appear in this file. Ms. Rivera is an adult and the defendant is identified.

Intake transcript · client details

Proposed: calendar the deadline with 90- and 30-day reminders, and finish the demand letter well before suit becomes necessary.

Every claim links to a source you can open. Anything unverifiable is flagged, not asserted.

Confidential by design

Your matter data stays your matter data. It is never used to train models for anyone else, and privilege is treated as a design constraint, not a settings toggle.

You stay in control

Mano proposes; the attorney disposes. Nothing is filed, sent, or promised without your review. It’s a capable junior hand. The judgment is yours.

Not a law firm

Mano is software. It doesn’t practice law, give legal advice, or take clients. It exists to make your practice faster and your work easier to stand behind.

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Why we’re building this

Small firms carry the law. Their software should carry them.

Most legal work happens in small firms

Solo and small-firm attorneys handle the matters most people actually have, and they do it with the thinnest support.

The work is the bottleneck, not the will

Hours go to assembling chronologies, chasing records, and re-checking citations. A well-built system should carry that work.

AI finally makes this possible

Not a chatbot bolted onto old software. A system built around AI, grounded in sources, with the attorney holding the pen.

Questions, answered plainly

What attorneys ask us first.

Is my client data confidential?

Yes. Your matter data is encrypted, isolated to your firm, and never used to train models for anyone else. We treat privilege and confidentiality as design constraints from day one, and our data-handling terms are written to be read by attorneys, not just engineers.

How is this different from using ChatGPT?

A generic chatbot knows nothing about your matter and cites nothing you can verify. Mano works inside the matter file: its answers are grounded in your documents and in real, linked legal authority. When it can’t verify something, it flags it for your review instead of guessing. And it manages the whole matter, from deadlines to tasks to drafts, not just a chat window.

Does Mano replace my judgment?

No, and it isn’t meant to. Mano prepares: it organizes facts, drafts documents, checks citations, and proposes next steps. You review, edit, and decide. Nothing leaves the firm without an attorney’s approval. Mano is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice.

What does it cost?

Founding firms get simple pricing locked in before public launch, with no long-term contract. We’ll share specifics when we talk. Part of the founding program is shaping pricing that actually works for small firms.

When can my firm start?

Mano is in active development and onboarding a limited group of founding firms now. Request early access below and we’ll reach out to schedule a working session with your firm.

Early access

Be one of the firms Mano is built around.

The first cohort of founding firms works directly with us and gets a system shaped by how their practice actually runs.

  • Early access to Mano as it ships, matter by matter
  • A direct line to the team, so your workflow shapes the roadmap
  • Founding-firm pricing, locked before public launch
  • White-glove onboarding for your first matters

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