The founder
I was going to be a lawyer.
My career took me into engineering instead. Thirteen years building systems for Fortune 1000 companies. A prior tech exit. But my brain never stopped thinking like a lawyer. Systematic. Reasoned. Drawn to the rules that make systems work.
That’s why Protomated exists. I understand how attorneys think because I almost became one. I build software because that’s what I trained to do. And I kept seeing the same problem nobody was fixing. Solo and small firm attorneys buried in operational busywork with no one to help them dig out.
The pattern I kept seeing
Solo and small firm attorneys losing half their day to work a system could handle. Enterprise tools priced for BigLaw. Generic tools that ignore bar rules. No one at the table offering hands-on help at a price that fits a three-attorney practice.
So we built LegalContext. Not as a product strategy, but as a way to understand attorney workflows from the inside. Hundreds of conversations with solo attorneys about how they actually spend their week. What eats their mornings. Where revenue leaks. Which follow-ups fall through the cracks. I wanted us to prove we understood the work before asking anyone to hire us for it.
Protomated is the result. A consulting practice with its own engineering team, backed by real software, building for the solo and small firm attorneys BigLaw-priced vendors skip. Flat pricing. One measurable metric per engagement. A guarantee on the number.
How we work
Four principles behind every engagement, every tool recommendation, and every line of code we ship.
01
Listen first, then build
Every engagement starts with understanding how you actually work. Not how we think you should. Our consulting practice and our software both come from the same place. Watch real workflows before prescribing anything.
02
Legal-specific, not generic
Generic automation advice is dangerous in a profession governed by ethics rules and confidentiality obligations. Everything we recommend is reviewed against bar guidance, client data handling rules, and the tools your practice already runs on.
03
Simplicity over sophistication
If you can’t operate what we built without an IT department, we haven’t done our job. The best automation is the one you forget is running. Complexity is a cost, not a feature.
04
ROI first, or not at all
We scope the number before we scope the work. One measurable metric per Build, written into the SOW. If we miss it, we keep going or we refund. You deal with enough uncertainty in your cases. We won’t add more.
Built for immigration solos, nationwide
We earn trust by building. Not by pitching.
Immigration solos work the hardest week in law. Multi-stage cases, USCIS waits, clients reaching out on WhatsApp in three languages, and a software stack built for BigLaw budgets. We built our practice around that reality.
Solo and small firm attorneys don’t hire consultants from a slide deck. They hire the team that already understands their week and can prove it. That’s why we built LegalContext first, and why every engagement starts with a measured number we put in writing.
Builders, not just advisors
Our engineers built LegalContext. We ship code, not just slide decks.
Privacy-first
Identity theft survivor. Security and privacy aren’t features. They’re the starting point.
Prior tech exit
Built and sold before. We know what sustainable looks like. We’re not chasing growth at your expense.
Want to work together?
Start with the free assessment. Or book a call. Or follow along as we build.