The lawyer is the customer. The client is the protected party. Like a chief buying vests for officers.
KovelAI · CounselConduit inside
Wholly owned by ShadowTagAI Inc.
Posture, not a court guarantee.
KovelAI02 / 12
Problem
Clients already search. The other side can take it.
At 2 a.m. they ask a public model. After Heppner, that trail is fair game. You get ambushed by wrong opinions. You did not give the first word.
Privilege does not attach retroactively.
The problem is not that they use AI. It is that they use it outside you.
KovelAI03 / 12
Solution
Your firm’s portal. You stay on the loop.
They search, chat, and dump facts through your branded door. You see it. You bill under the rules. You write the first opinion.
Protects the client from themselves — discovery and bad AI advice.
Either through the firm, or proceed at their peril.
KovelAI04 / 12
Market validation
Heppner made the pitch write itself.
A public tool is not a lawyer. A contemporaneous Michigan decision treated a model as a tool. The split is the market. Firms need a defensible standard now.
We sell the strongest available posture. We do not sell certainty.
KovelAI05 / 12
Market
1.3 million U.S. attorneys. Start where discovery bites.
Beachhead: criminal, family, plaintiff-side. Planning TAM stays in the memo. This slide is the buyer, not a hockey stick.
Lawyer buys. Client wears it.
KovelAI06 / 12
Product
Two sides. One firm vault.
Conflict names first. Bounded $99 triage. Guided questions, cited memo, public-intel prep. One firm bill. We pay the model houses. Client view can expire; the firm keeps the file.
Split plane: we hold seats and invoices, not prompt bodies.
A lawyer-routed channel is optionality for providers. Not immunity.
KovelAI07 / 12
Business model
Client package. Firm subscription.
Clients buy a bounded $99 triage. Firms buy Starter through Enterprise. Auto-step on use. Trust-aware Connect for anything that is a legal fee.
We are not a public advice bot.
No special “law” model SKU on the roadmap as a promise.
KovelAI08 / 12
Underlying magic
Attorney-directed from the first keystroke.
The research tool is engaged by counsel, on a non-public path, so the Kovel agent theory can attach. Providers see the firm pipe, not the client's living room.
Zero-retention plane for prompts when the firm chooses it.
Receipt plane is separate. Judge 6 is not this product.
KovelAI09 / 12
Competition
They build for the lawyer’s own desk.
Harvey, Westlaw, Casetext: lawyer-only research. Consumer models: public and exposed. A medical portal has messages. This one has search and models inside, with the attorney on the loop.