PraticaDesk
The quiet inbox assistant for small law firms.
PraticaDesk reviews your firm inbox, prepares a morning brief, flags unpaid-invoice follow-ups, and keeps a simple activity record — without storing client mail.
Read-only by design · No email bodies stored · No client data trains AI · Mutual NDA before any access · Revocable in one click
Running a firm generates more admin than anyone can track.
None of this is a single big problem. It's dozens of small ones, scattered across every tool a firm already uses — and they all land on the attorney.
The inbox never empties
Matter updates, client questions, and opposing counsel all land in the same queue — with no signal for what actually needs a decision today.
Deadlines hide in attachments
Scheduling orders and engagement letters bury dates that never make it onto a calendar until someone goes looking for them.
Clients are left waiting
A day of silence reads as neglect, even when the matter is moving. No one has time to check in on everything that's gone quiet.
Admin crowds out billable work
Status chasing, re-reading threads, and rebuilding context cost hours that never show up on an invoice.
One system, three ways it earns trust.
PraticaDesk sits on top of the tools your firm already runs — reading, never acting — until an attorney says otherwise.
The Daily Brief for every attorney.
One prioritized view of the day — calendar, inbox, and matters — reduced to what actually needs a decision, with the evidence attached.
Good morning, Elena
Thu · 18 Jun · 7:00 AM
Nothing here is acted on automatically. Every item links to its source.
Client waiting · Nomad Robotics
Daniel Osei · term-sheet question
- —Inbound Tue, no reply detected
- —Matter marked high priority
Possible deadline · Vertex Labs
Discovery responses · Fri 26 Jun
- —Date parsed from scheduling order
- —Unconfirmed — needs your review
Priority email · Sterling Freight
Opposing counsel · confirm dates
- —Direct question detected
- —Reply expected before 9:00 prep
Stale matter · Ramirez
No activity in 21 days
- —Last activity 28 May · still active
- —Threshold is 14 days
Assembled overnight
The brief is compiled while the firm sleeps and is ready before the first coffee.
Always sourced
Every item links back to the exact email, matter, or scheduling order it came from.
Never sent without you
The brief is a recommendation, not an action. Nothing goes out until an attorney approves it.
Everything an attorney needs to see first — and nothing they don't.
PraticaDesk works across your existing stack and surfaces only what actually needs attention today, with the reasoning attached.
Daily prioritization
One prioritized view each morning — today's calendar, the emails that need a decision, the clients waiting, the deadlines hiding in attachments.
— Inbound Tuesday, no reply detected
— Matter marked high priority
You approve everything
PraticaDesk recommends; it never acts. Nothing is sent, filed, or changed without an attorney's explicit approval.
Inbox intelligence
Decisions separated from noise. It ranks by matter, relationship, and how long something has waited — and explains the ranking.
Calendar & deadlines
Events tied back to their matters, prep-worthy hearings flagged, and possible deadlines surfaced for your review before they slip.
Grounded in sources
Every recommendation carries a source trail and a one-tap link back to the exact thread or document. Never a black box.
Runs while you sleep
The brief is assembled overnight and ready before you arrive. You read; you never wait on the machine.
Built for privilege.
A tool that touches privileged communication has to earn its access. Confidentiality is a design constraint in PraticaDesk, not a setting.
The line we won't cross
No client data is ever used to train AI models.
Your matters never become someone else's training set. Full stop.
Read-only where possible
It can look; it cannot alter. Least-privilege access to every connected system.
Encrypted storage
Data encrypted in transit and at rest. Tokens isolated in a secrets manager.
Append-only audit log
Every read and action recorded with actor, scope, and timestamp.
Human approval
The attorney authorizes every action. The AI advises; it never decides.
Least privilege
The narrowest access that works — and nothing beyond it.
Data minimization
Metadata is stored; message bodies are processed transiently, never retained.
Works with what you already use.
No rip-and-replace. No migration. PraticaDesk sits alongside your existing systems and reads from them — you keep working exactly as you do now.
Microsoft 365 — not supported.
Email on Google Workspace · a Notion workspace your firm owns · one 10-minute grant from your Google admin, revocable anytime. Nothing installs on anyone's computer.
Designed around the professional duties your firm already carries — confidentiality, supervision, and technological competence. PraticaDesk gives you the written record and revocation controls to make that determination; it does not make the compliance call for you.
One tool today. More is planned.
The Morning Brief is live today. Everything below is planned — built on the same read-only, evidence-backed, attorney-approved foundation. No dates promised.
Morning Brief
LiveOne evidence-backed brief every morning.
Inbox Intelligence
PlannedDecisions separated from noise.
Document Intelligence
PlannedFind the right draft, and what changed.
Workflow Automation
PlannedRoutine steps, proposed for approval.
Matter Intelligence
PlannedRisk and momentum across the docket.
AI Intake
PlannedStructured, conflict-checked intake.
Knowledge Search
PlannedAsk across matters, with sources.
Timesheet Assistant
PlannedBillable time, reconstructed for review.
Billing Assistant
PlannedDraft invoices from real activity.
How we build each module.
Product engineering notes on what we're actually shipping — not customer testimonials. PraticaDesk is early; here's what's real today.
Morning Brief
One evidence-backed brief every morning.
The first PraticaDesk module: an overnight job that reads across a firm's calendar and inbox, then assembles a single prioritized, sourced brief — refined with practicing attorneys before wider release.
Built on infrastructure firms can trust.
Runs on Google Cloud with Anthropic Claude. No client mail is stored. Full subprocessor list on request.
AI assists. Attorneys decide.
Let's see what a morning could look like at your firm.
A short conversation, on your terms — no commitment, no pitch deck.