Your firms.
Your matters.
Your visibility.
You know your firms. You trust your partners. That's not the problem.
The problem is you can't see what they're spending until an invoice arrives — weeks or months after the work is done. PERSUIT gives you real-time visibility into every matter, every dollar, every narrative. Without changing how your firms work. Without adding a single step to your day.
You're not the problem.
The blind spot is.
Your instincts about your firms are usually right. But relationships alone don't give you spend visibility, rate benchmarks, or real-time WIP data. The gap isn't judgment — it's information.
See what they're billing.
Before they bill it.
Every entry your law firm releases at the end of the week flows into PERSUIT automatically. No separate system for firms. No manual uploads. No waiting for invoices.
Check in on a Saturday morning and see exactly how much was billed that week. Drill into individual partner narratives to see what work is being done. See gearing — who's actually staffed and at what level.
It's the difference between managing spend and discovering spend after the fact.
Your day, with and without PERSUIT.
Not a feature list. The specific moments every in-house attorney faces — and what changes when you have real-time visibility.
You email outside counsel asking for a spend update. They say they'll "get back to you." Three days later you get a rough estimate. The deal closes next week.
You open PERSUIT. WIP is current as of this morning. $280K against a $350K budget. You have the number in 30 seconds.
Your go-to litigation partner sends their new rates. You have no idea if the increase is standard or aggressive. You approve it because you trust them.
You check the benchmark. Their proposed rate is at the 82nd percentile for regulatory partners at comparable firms. You counter with data.
You know which firm you want. You've worked with them before. But is there a better option you've never considered? You don't have time to find out.
You still pick the firm you trust. But now you have data showing they delivered 15% below benchmark on the last three similar matters. Your instinct was right — now you can prove it.
You email three firms asking for their unbilled time. Two respond. One gives a range. You make up a number for the third. Finance gets a guess dressed up as a forecast.
WIP is already in PERSUIT. Accruals are real, not estimated. You forward the dashboard link. Total time: 10 seconds.
None of these are about bad judgment. They're about operating blind.
Your relationships still matter. Your instincts still count. You just have the data to back them up.
All the power.
None of the work.
The last thing you need is another system to manage. Persi is the opposite — it manages the system for you. Ask it to benchmark a rate, recommend a firm, check your WIP, or draft an RFP response. It's built into PERSUIT and draws on $22B+ in proposal data.
You don't learn a tool. You ask a question.
$47,200 in unbilled time across 3 timekeepers. Lead partner billed 18 hours this week. Budget utilization at 62%. No rate variances flagged. Want me to break down by timekeeper?