Beyond AI invoice review: the e-billing playbook for controlling outside counsel spend

For the last five years, e-billing vendors have competed on the same promise: better AI to review invoices faster. Invoice review still matters, catching rate and scope mismatches is part of the job. But it happens after the work is already done.

PERSUIT is the only e-billing platform built to get the invoice right before it's ever sent. In this webinar, Francesca Riggione, Assistant Vice President of Legal Operations at Blackstone, shared how she put the playbook into practice.

Four points of value capture, across the life of every matter:

• Before the engagement. Scope the work, benchmark what it should cost, and source it through a Request to lock in the right firm on the right fee arrangement.
• From the first dollar spent. Real WIP tracked live against the agreed price — not month-end estimates chased across fifteen firms.
• At the invoice. BillClear puts the firm in the position of solving its own problems before submission: a rate that's off, a scope question, hours that don't belong.
• At approval. What's left to review is whether the invoice matches what was agreed — because it already does.

This is sourcing-empowered e-billing: powered by the industry-standard RFPs, sourcing, and benchmarking used by the Fortune 500. Proactive problem-solving, not faster review, is what makes the invoice right before it's ever sent.

If you're evaluating e-billing, or renewing an incumbent, this is 50 minutes of what your system should deliver.