Digital ratings aim to speed up purchase of legal services

For decades, in-house legal teams have relied on instinct and relationships to select outside counsel, often without real visibility into pricing or performance. Enter PERSUIT, the platform built by former lawyer Jim Delkousis to bring transparency and efficiency to one of the last unquantified areas of corporate spend.

By digitizing how legal work is scoped, bid on, and awarded, PERSUIT allows companies to compare proposals from top law firms side by side — turning what was once an opaque process into a data-powered marketplace. The result? Faster decisions, fairer pricing, and deeper insights into what legal matters should cost.

What began as a bold idea in Australia is now reshaping the legal market globally.