Inlet GTM brain

Inlet automatically captures computer activity and drafts billable time entries for attorneys and law firms.

category

Legal AI timekeeping

market profile

  • text: Lawyers switching among matters can miss billable work and spend time reconstructing entries.
  • text: Timekeeping vendors compete on passive capture, billing narratives and connections to legal practice management systems.

personas

  • title: Managing partner
    pains:
    • Missed billable work reduces firm revenue
    • Lawyers inconsistently record time while switching among matters
  • title: Attorney or paralegal
    pains:
    • Reconstructing emails, documents and meetings at the end of the day is tedious
    • Drafting clear billing descriptions adds administrative work
  • title: Law firm COO or billing administrator
    pains:
    • Time leakage is difficult to see across multiple timekeepers
    • New tools must fit existing billing processes and protect client information

icp

  • text: Small and mid-sized law firms billing by the hour with lawyers handling many matters per day.
  • text: Firms already using practice management systems such as Clio, MyCase or PracticePanther.
  • text: Multi-attorney practices where recovering even small amounts of time per person could support a measurable ROI pilot.

message pillars

  • text: Recover billable work that would otherwise be missed.
  • text: Capture activity across the tools lawyers already use.
  • text: Draft entries without changing how attorneys work.
  • text: Send entries into existing legal billing systems.

objections

  • objection: Will it pay for itself?
    response: Use the free trial to measure recovered billable time per attorney and compare realized revenue with the quoted cost.
  • objection: What happens to confidential client information?
    response: Review Inlet's current security, privacy and vendor terms with firm counsel before connecting systems.
  • objection: Will attorneys have to change their workflow?
    response: Inlet describes background activity capture and a review-and-release workflow into existing systems; validate the specific integrations in a pilot.

competitors

  • name: WiseTime
    why: Automatic time capture and narratives for legal work.
  • name: Mitimes
    why: Builds lawyer timesheets from computer activity.
  • name: PointOne
    why: AI timekeeping and billing for law firms.

keywords

  • AI timekeeping for lawyers
  • automatic billable time capture
  • law firm billing software
  • Clio time tracking integration
  • legal time entry automation
  • recover lost billable hours

voice

  • Direct and outcomes focused
  • Reassuring about client confidentiality
  • Grounded in law firm testimonials

signals

  • text: A firm uses Clio or MyCase and complains that attorneys submit incomplete or late time entries.
  • text: A managing partner is seeking to improve billable realization without adding administrative staff.

stack

  • Clio
  • MyCase
  • PracticePanther
  • Outlook
  • Gmail
  • Word
  • Zoom

hiring

  • Founding SDR
  • Founding Customer Success Manager
  • Founding Engineer

pricing

model: unknown

motion

sales_led

channels

  • outbound
  • inbound
  • customer referrals
  • LinkedIn
  • customer case studies

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Sean Adler
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Sean is co-founder and CEO of Inlet. 10+ years writing code and building AI products at startups. Previously at AKASA (Head of NLP) and ASAPP (ML Engineer).
  • name: Adam Miller
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Co-founder and CTO of Inlet. Previously lead product and machine learning teams at Gridspace, where we built best-in-class voicebots to automate complex contact center workflows. Now building Inlet. Would love to talk, just reach out!

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