For small PI & criminal defense firms on Clio

Your firm is already using AI. You just can’t defend any of it.

It already happened.

Not the paralegal’s ChatGPT tab. Not the associate who pasted a client memo into a free tool at 11 pm to make a filing deadline. There is no record of it, and nothing you could produce if someone asked.

Albi gives your firm AI it can actually use, and a record you can stand behind.

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Works withClio
Never
trained on your data
Nothing you put into Albi trains or improves any model. Not ours, not anyone's.
7 years
of audit records
Every AI action logged, hash-chained, and verified nightly.
Minutes
to connect Clio
Assistants and voice can run the same day. SMS waits on carrier approval, which is not ours to grant.

It starts with somebody being helpful.

She was being useful, on a deadline.

An associate has a response due Friday. She has done this kind of motion before at her last firm and cannot find anything like it here. So she opens a free AI tool, pastes in what she has, and gets something workable in four minutes.

She was not being reckless. She was being useful, on a deadline, with the tools that were in front of her.

But the file left the firm. The duties did not pause while it happened.

No names

You don't know who did it. Nobody logged in to anything you administer.

No record

There is no entry, no timestamp, no export. The tool has no memory you can subpoena and neither do you.

Nothing to produce

If a client asks, or a carrier asks, or a bar committee asks, you have your word and nothing behind it.

Tools in use · last 30 daysSAMPLE
ToolSeatsWhat went into it
ChatGPT6Client documents · PII
Claude3Matter summaries
Gemini2Published case law
Grok1General research
12 of 14
seats using AI

2 of these 4 tools received client material. None of the 4 was evaluated, and none of it was logged. Sample figures for a fourteen-seat firm, not a client result.

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See it. Replace it. Prove it.

In that order, and you can stop after the first one.

SEE ITREPLACE ITPROVE IT
See it. Find out which AI tools your team uses and what has been going into them. Free, and you can stop here.
Replace it. Give them something better than what they were sneaking off to use. Grounded in your firm's own matters, not the open internet. Nobody circumvents a tool that is already the fastest option.
Prove it. Every request, every output, every document referenced, written to a record that holds up when someone asks what happened.

What it costs you twice.

Your best work is locked in closed files.

That associate could not find the firm’s prior work, so she went outside to recreate it. Your firm had already solved that problem. It had the motion, the outcome, the note about what that judge cared about. It just was not reachable.

You pay for it once when someone rebuilds it from scratch. You pay again when the rebuild happens somewhere you cannot see.

Research tools feed AI the published record, the same library opposing counsel is reading. What you argued, what settled, what worked in front of which judge: no tool can use what it was never given.

A records room in near darkness: shelves of banker's boxes and stacked paper running back into shadow, with one wall of binders lit at the far end.
Ten years of answers, one aisle away and unreachable.
See matter intelligence

Patterns drawn from matters you have already closed.

Every case you close teaches the next one

Past strategies, outcomes, what the judge cared about. Every matter you close is searchable from your first sync onward.

Nothing ships unreviewed

Albi drafts. An attorney approves. That order never reverses, and nothing writes back to your case management system until it does.

New staff stop starting from zero

Day-one access for a new hire to what took the firm ten years to learn.

We connect your firm in minutes, not months.

You don’t need an IT department.

We do the setup with you on a call. Three steps, and you are working the same day.

01

We connect your case management system

One click to authorize Clio. Your matters and contacts come across, and you choose which documents to bring in. Nothing for your IT to configure.

02

Everything your firm knows lands in one place

Scattered across systems, it can't work for you. In one place, it can. Past strategies, outcomes, what worked with which judges, all searchable. Every matter you close from your first sync joins it.

03

Get back to practicing law

We build your drafting workflows with you during onboarding, then your team runs them. New hires ramp in days, not months. Every matter you close makes the next one faster.

Setup · Whitfield & Barrsample42 min elapsed
  1. 01Clio connected1,284 matters · 2,911 contacts
  2. 02Documents selectedyou choose what comes across
  3. 03Knowledge indexedrunning · 6 min remaining
  4. 04Workflows built with youon the call

Sample setup - illustrative firm and figures, not a client result.

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Certifications tell you the building is locked. They don’t tell you who went in.

So we built that part first.

Putting ten years of privileged work in one place only makes sense if the one place is built for privileged work. So that came first. Every vendor will tell you they don’t train on your data, and that is the floor, not the answer. The question underneath is what got connected to what, what it read, and where that went. A SOC 2 report answers your vendor reviewer. It does not answer a bar committee asking what a specific person did with a specific file on a specific Tuesday. That is a different artifact, and it is the one we built first. Bars are issuing ethics opinions and malpractice carriers are asking about AI on renewal applications. You should be able to answer without hedging.

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Your data never trains AI models

Nothing you put into Albi ever trains or improves any AI model. Period.

Fully isolated and encrypted

Each firm gets its own private space inside Albi. All data encrypted in transit and at rest. Nothing shared with any other firm.

Privileged work is routed to private models

Privileged material is classified and kept to private models, and anything the system is not certain about is treated as privileged by default.

Every AI action is logged and auditable

Every request, every output, every document reference, hash-chained and verified nightly. When a bar committee asks what happened, you have the answer.

Audit trailtoday
14:02:11s.okafor

Draft generated · demand letter

00006-Smith · 3 sources

14:02:11system

Routed to private model

privileged · fail-closed

14:09:47m.reyes

Approved and written back

Clio · matter note

hash-chained · verified nightly

The firms building their foundation now will pull ahead.

Everyone else spends years catching up.

Every month you wait, more of what your firm knows stays trapped in files nobody opens. The knowledge is there. It’s just not working for you yet.

Typical legal AIAlbi
Searches published case law and the current matterSearches every matter your firm has closed
Priced per seatPriced for the whole firm, not per head
Chat assistantDrafts that wait for an attorney's approval before anything ships
No way to see AI usageShows you every AI tool your team uses, free

Common questions from managing partners

Your data and your license

Is my client data safe?

Yes. Your data never trains AI models. Each firm's data is isolated and encrypted, and every AI action is written to an audit trail we verify nightly. We built it this way from day one because legal ethics aren't optional.

Does an attorney review AI output before it goes anywhere?

Drafts, summaries, and matter updates wait in a review queue for your sign-off, and nothing writes back to your case management system until you approve it. Chat, SMS, and voice answer clients in real time, inside limits you set, and every word is logged for you to read back.

Can I control what Albi can access?

Yes. Albi has its own permission model, granted per user, with six confidentiality presets that decide what each person can reach and which work stays on private models.

What happens to my data if I cancel?

You own your data. Always. When you cancel we export everything to you, then delete it from our systems and from the services we use to run them. Two things survive: the audit records we are required to keep for seven years, and anything you have placed under a legal hold. You get a signed certificate recording exactly what was deleted.

Getting started

How does Albi connect to my case management system?

Connect Clio in one click. Your matters and contacts come across, you choose which documents to bring in, and approved work writes back to Clio as notes, tasks, and communications. No exports, no double entry. Custom integrations are available for other systems.

How long does setup take?

We do the setup with you on a call. We connect your case management system, load what your firm already knows, and walk your team through it. Your own part is one click to authorise Clio. Two things run on their own clock: text messaging waits on carrier approval, which takes a few days, and if you want Albi sending email from your firm's domain or running client pages on it, someone with access to your domain settings adds one record. We give you the exact record and confirm when it is live.

Whether it's right for your firm

We tried ChatGPT and it made things up. How is this different?

Albi works from your firm's own documents, not the open internet. Every output cites where it got the answer. And if it doesn't have the answer in your data, it says so instead of making something up.

We're a small firm. Is this built for us?

Specifically for you. We built Albi for solo practitioners through 50 attorneys. Enterprise legal AI is priced and staffed for firms many times your size. You shouldn't need a dedicated IT team to use AI safely.

Couldn't we just keep an eye on this ourselves?

You could, the way a large company does it: monitoring software on every machine and every browser, somebody qualified to run it, and the budget to keep it current. That is a security department, and it is the reason enterprises can let their people use AI freely. It also only watches data on its way out. It still can't tell you what the AI read or why it answered the way it did. Albi covers both, because the governance sits inside the platform instead of being bolted on around it.

I'm not ready to commit to anything yet.

Totally fine. That's why we built ShadowAI. It's free, takes minutes to install, and shows you exactly where your firm is exposed. No commitment, no sales call.

Your firm already has the knowledge. Put it to work.

Every matter you close from here makes the next one faster.

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