E-billing & Spend Management

The only e-billing solution built for value-based pricing.

Every other e-billing tool starts at the invoice. PERSUIT starts at the moment a matter is scoped, priced, and awarded. So when the invoice hits, you already know if it's right. The industry's only fit-for-purpose billing solution for AFAs and value-based fee arrangements.

See It in Action
Traditional e-billing Sees This
Matter opens
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Work starts
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Scope shifts
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WIP builds
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Invoice arrives
Flags problems after the money is gone.
PERSUIT Sees This
Matter opens
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Scope and price agreed
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WIP live
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Budget tracked
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Invoice expected
You already know the answer before it's submitted.
$22B+
In proposal data managed through PERSUIT
26%
Average cost reduction on first engagement
72%
of RFPs on PERSUIT use Alternative Fee Arrangements
200+
Enterprise legal teams trust PERSUIT
The Real Problem

Legal Ops doesn't hate E-billing.
They hate what it
makes them do.

  • Explaining budget overruns after the fact.
  • Manually chasing firms for accrual estimates every month — and getting fiction.
  • Rate cards buried in PDFs, disconnected from enforcement.
  • Agreed rates quietly renegotiated per matter, with no visibility until annual review.
  • Acting as the human middleware between procurement, finance, and outside counsel.
  • Systems that flag problems only after the invoice is already in.

The dirty secret? Firms aren't careless. They're managing dozens of clients, each with different billing rules, accrual timelines, and OCG nuances. The system is broken — not the firms. PERSUIT fixes the system.

See the Solution
What Makes PERSUIT Different

Traditional e-billing records
what happened.
PERSUIT controls
what happens.

Traditional e-billing
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Downstream admin processTreats billing as something that happens after the work is done. By then, you've already lost.
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Rate cards in PDFsDisconnected from enforcement. Agreed rates quietly drift per matter with no visibility until annual review.
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Static, guessed budgetsBudget set. Scope changes. Invoice surprises. Repeat.
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Accruals are educated guessesManual estimates from firms every month. Finance doesn't fully trust the numbers. Neither do you.
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Firms must be policedAll the compliance work lands on Legal Ops.
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Built for hourly billingAFAs, fixed fees, and value-based arrangements are afterthoughts — shoehorned into systems designed around the billable hour.
PERSUIT e-billing
✓
One connected intelligence platformIntake, sourcing, pricing, guidelines, budgets, WIP, and billing — all connected. Commercial discipline from day one.
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Rates flow from RFP into e-billingNo PDF graveyard. Agreed vs. actual is visible in real time, not at annual review.
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Living, phased budgetsScope evolution is tracked, not ignored. Budgets from the RFP flow directly into billing.
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Continuous WIP from firm systemsAccruals reflect reality. Finance trusts the numbers. You know your total liability before invoices land.
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BillClear makes compliance easy for firmsFirms correct invoices before submission. Value is captured without pushing policing work onto your team.
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Purpose-built for AFAs and value-based pricingFixed fees, capped fees, blended rates, success fees — tracked and enforced natively. Not bolted onto an hourly billing engine. The only e-billing solution designed for how modern legal teams actually price work.
What Others Can't See

Agreed vs.
Actual.

Most enterprises agree on rates once a year and then hope they stick. PERSUIT makes hope unnecessary. Rates negotiated in the RFP flow directly into e-billing enforcement. If a rate is overridden, it's visible. If scope expands, it's tracked. If volume discounts are promised, they activate.

This is the first time in legal ops history that the rate you agreed to and the rate you paid are the same number, in the same system, visible to everyone.

See How Rate Enforcement Works
WIP Tracking View
Rate Compliance — Live View
Real-time
Firm Agreed Rate Actual Rate
Sullivan & Cromwell
$850/hr
$850/hr ✓
Kirkland & Ellis
$1,100/hr
$1,250/hr +$150
Latham & Watkins
$975/hr
$975/hr ✓
Paul Weiss
$1,050/hr
$1,180/hr +$130
2 firms billing above agreed rates. Total overcharge: $43,200 this quarter. Review →
From Estimated Accruals to Actual Liability

If you can't see WIP, you don't know what you owe. That's a governance problem.

Month-end accrual calls used to mean chasing 15 firms for manual estimates — and getting educated guesses that made Finance nervous. PERSUIT connects directly to firms' time and billing systems. WIP is continuous, not periodic. You see what could be invoiced before it's invoiced.

Finance stops getting blindsided. Month-end close gets faster. And your credibility with the CFO goes up — because your numbers are real.

Live WIP Exposure
Updating now
M&A Matters
$2.1M
Litigation
$890K
Regulatory
$340K
Employment
$180K
Total live exposure
$3.51M

We're not here to police firms. We're here to make compliance easy for them.

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Firms want to comply Managing 50 clients with 50 different billing rules, accrual timelines, and OCG nuances is genuinely hard. We automate the complexity so compliance happens by default.
02
BillClear: fix it before submission Firms see and resolve flagged issues before an invoice is submitted — not after a rejection. Fewer disputes. Faster approvals. Better relationships on both sides.
03
AMLAW adoption at scale PERSUIT is already embedded with the firms you work with. Onboarding is measured in days, not quarters.
04
Panel strategy becomes data-driven Live volume data activates promised discounts automatically. Panel decisions stop being guesswork.
What Customers Say

The teams who moved from reactive to controlled.

95%
Pre-invoice compliance rate across PERSUIT customers
$4M
Savings identified in first month of enforcement
3–4 weeks
Faster accrual confidence vs. traditional e-billing
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Common Questions

We've heard the objections. Here's the honest answer.

Is this real e-billing, or light functionality?
Real. The largest private equity firm in the world is a delighted customer. Full invoice processing, GL coding, matter management, budget tracking, and WIP visibility — not a lightweight add-on.
Will my law firms actually adopt this?
Yes — and they already have. PERSUIT has strong AMLAW adoption. BillClear makes compliance easier for firms, not harder. Onboarding is days, not quarters.
Is this another system to integrate?
No — it's done for you. PERSUIT handles the integrations. Your team is not the project manager. You're the beneficiary.
Do we have to rip and replace our current system?
No. But you probably should. Most teams run PERSUIT alongside existing tools first and migrate as confidence builds. The numbers usually make the case quickly.
Persi — Built into PERSUIT

Stop explaining what happened. Start controlling what happens.

Persi monitors WIP in real time, flags rate deviations before invoices are submitted, validates accruals against live data, and enforces agreed commercial terms automatically — so e-billing becomes governance, not archaeology.

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Smart agent. Wise counsel.
Persi
Persi — Working with you
We just got a $180K invoice from Baker McKenzie on the Meridian matter. Is this right?
Invoice validation complete The agreed fixed fee was $155K. This invoice exceeds by $25K. The overage maps to 3 timekeepers billing at unapproved rates. I've flagged the line items and drafted a correction request. Want me to send it to the firm?
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