Draft one · to-be · prospect phase · companion to the as-is grid

The prospect, rewired

Same documents, same rows, same stages — but now every journey is driven by triggers the current process already produces. The paper doesn’t change and the consultation doesn’t change. What changes is that when a scan lands or a signature completes, the system reacts instead of a person re-typing.

rule: attorneys approve, never authorrule: tax formula is never AI-proposedrule: every journey ends in evidence, not a dead end

The grid

Five kinds of cell now. The amber ones are the point — each is an event the firm already produces today, promoted into a trigger the platform listens for.

Document STAGE 1Seminar / first contact STAGE 2Prospect created STAGE 3Pre-consult prep STAGE 4The consultation STAGE 5Signed & paid → matter
LEAD CAPTURE
The blue form paper stays; a QR names it; an iPad joins it at check-in HUMAN Prospect hand-fills it as today — the form carries a pre-printed QR naming the form type and the seminar. Or they tap the same form on an iPad at check-in, which skips the scan entirely PAPER + IPAD ⚡ TRIGGER The bulk scan landing IS the trigger: the QR tells the platform what every page is, it splits per attendee, reads the handwriting — evaluation answers included — and spawns the whole of Shannon’s follow-up as a task queue SCAN → PLATFORM OCR REVIEW Shannon handles exceptions only — illegible fields and duplicate conflicts beside their scanned crops. Clean pages file themselves into the lead inbox; the acknowledgement send policy is a separate firm decision (auto vs one-tap release) PLATFORM → GROW LEADS EVIDENCE Every prospect links to its source page; the evaluation answers are extracted and surfaced so Traci can make the priority-slot call — the resulting order is recorded, proposed by the system at most, decided by her. The dead end is gone PLATFORM
The phone call the voicemail spreadsheet retires ⚡ TRIGGER Voicemail email arrives — Brittany’s line and Joanna Burns’s front-desk line both (P6) — and the mail pipeline that already classifies the firm’s inbound recognises it as a lead OUTLOOK → PIPELINE AUTO Properly re-transcribed, caller auto-matched to existing contacts; a proposed new prospect is confirmed by Brittany on the callback before any Grow lead-inbox write — mirroring the blue-form row, where Shannon approves before the platform files leads. Callback task raised for Brittany with the recap attached — Tiffany types nothing. The task lives on the platform: Grow’s API has no tasks, by Clio’s design GPU TRANSCRIBE → PLATFORM HUMAN Brittany makes the callback — the relationship stays hers. One tap sends Charles’s three-tier template, and the send is logged PHONE + PLATFORM EVIDENCE Call → prospect → callback → template send, one linked chain. 247 voicemails become a queue with a state, not a sheet with highlights PLATFORM
CLIENT-SUPPLIED
PIF the form itself already asks: “Prefer to complete online?” AUTO Booking confirmation carries the online PIF link — the firm’s own form, as a form PLATFORM INTAKE ⚡ TRIGGER Submission lands structured — no scan, no re-keying. A paper PIF that arrives instead is scanned once and OCR’d into the same record, human-checked PLATFORM HUMAN Attorney fills gaps with the client in the room, on the pre-filled record PLATFORM EVIDENCE Identity data typed once, by the client — and Joi reads data, not handwriting PLATFORM → WEALTHCOUNSEL KEYING
Deeds & statements homework becomes a tracked list ⚡ TRIGGER The attorney already names each item aloud, deliberately — the transcript is the source. AI extracts the homework list; the attorney confirms it TRANSCRIPT → AI AUTO Each item becomes an expected document on the matter. Arrivals check themselves off; chases are queued on schedule for Brittany, every attempt logged — the ladder is computed, the outreach stays hers; “what are we waiting on?” is a query PLATFORM
THE PACKET
The packet as one object paper in the room stays; identity survives the scan AUTO The circled selection becomes a recorded manifest: Admin ticks the subset on screen, prints the kit with a QR code per form — colour and identity both survive PLATFORM → PAPER HUMAN Attorney hand-fills with the client, client signs — the room is untouched PAPER ⚡ TRIGGER The bundle scan auto-splits on the QR codes; each form files itself, individually, state = signed. The trigger accepts both delivery channels — Z-drive landing and email attachment ingestion (Charles delivers unpredictably, sometimes over several emails, C6) — unless his delivery is standardised as part of the rollout. The split is checked against the manifest — a missing form flags immediately, not at the signing date SCAN → PLATFORM → P DRIVE
LSA the gate becomes an event AUTO Printed with the packet, fee section blank PLATFORM → PAPER HUMAN In person: attorney prices it and takes the paper signature; card payment keyed into Manage as today. Virtual: the client e-signs — dependent on the unresolved e-signature decision (§7 C3, #255) — and the retainer routinely arrives later, chased by Joanna Burns (B10, Phase E) PAPER + E-SIGN + MANAGE ⚡ TRIGGER Signed LSA + retainer payment = the gate event — firing on e-sign completion + payment received, whenever the second arrives. The work matter opens in Manage, the prospect converts, File Opening tasks spawn — nobody “remembers” to open a file. Did not retain: the consultation matter closes, the “EP did not retain” set is assigned, no work matter opens (A3, C12) MANAGE + PLATFORM
EP intake → the Plan Spec the silent decisions get a home REVIEW AI drafts the plan design from the transcript; the attorney reviews — “approve, approve, approve” — and MUST pick the tax formula from the firm’s list. That field is never pre-filled, by design TRANSCRIPT → AI → PLATFORM EVIDENCE The Plan Spec: typed, versioned, one record of the plan’s legal shape. Four re-derivations collapse into one; nobody reads handwriting again PLATFORM
Draft of Attorney Notes the sketch stays; the tracking duty moves AUTO Printed with the packet as today PLATFORM → PAPER HUMAN Suzanne draws the plan for the client — that conversation is the product; it stays paper PAPER AUTO Scanned and attached with the packet. Its header’s tracking jobs — phone-review date, changes box, signing date — live on the matter record instead of a form header SCAN → PLATFORM
BORN IN THE MEETING
The transcript exists by default, not by memory AUTO One capture path for all three meeting modes — Teams, in-person and phone (G2); booking-created Teams transcription is an interim mechanism for booked meetings only, and no attorney converts anything by hand. The booking event needs a named source: a Calendly webhook (attorneys) and/or a platform booking surface — Grow-link bookings (paralegals, via the 340 Network page) must move, because Grow’s API exposes no calendar (P8). Charles’s as-is routes include an unnamed third-party app (B1): either it is identified and ingested, or the design states he moves to booking-created Teams meetings — needs asking PLATFORM → CALENDAR HUMAN Attorney speaks the plan aloud, deliberately — unchanged, because it was designed behaviour all along TEAMS ⚡ TRIGGER Transcript-ready event fires the whole post-meeting chain: saved to the matter, memo drafted, intake extracted, homework listed, client email drafted — one unified prompt for both attorneys TEAMS → PLATFORM → AI
Memo to file + client email 15–20 minutes of post-meeting admin becomes one review REVIEW Attorney corrects and approves the drafts in one sitting. Approval files the memo and queues the finished client email — and the DocuClub intro — for Suzanne (or Shannon for Charles’s clients) to send, and notifies Shannon and Brittany. The send stays a named human’s act, matching the Stage 1 RACI PLATFORM
Client email — the SHP template family an unrecorded selection rule becomes data AUTO The SHP… selection rule — today never spoken and never recorded — is elicited and captured as explicit data (in-person/virtual × phone-review-set) and drives which draft the AI produces; the send stays Suzanne’s (or Shannon’s for Charles’s clients), per C10–C11 PLATFORM → GROW TEMPLATES
Grow task list + next-steps note Grow tasks are API-dead; the judgement becomes data AUTO Suzanne’s “EP retained” / “EP did not retain” list becomes platform tasks — Grow’s task API is dead, by Clio’s design — with the deletion and due-date rules captured as data instead of unrecorded judgement (C12–C13); the next-steps note’s fields (hired, how paid, thank-you) live on the record PLATFORM
Financial-checkup disclosure a consultation-born signature the firm already asked to automate HUMAN Charles decides in the room whether a financial checkup is warranted; the client signs the disclosure (B12) PAPER ⚡ TRIGGER The signature (or its transcript mention) triggers the referral email to Traci Carver that the firm has already requested (§8 — requested, not yet AS-IS) — drafted and queued for Charles’s review, never auto-sent PLATFORM → EMAIL DRAFT

The seven breaks in the as-is, and what happens to each

Break, as it exists todayFate in this design
Shannon re-types ~60 handwritten blue forms into Grow ELIMINATED — OCR proposes, she approves; illegible ones go to her, not all sixty
Nobody knows who scans a returned PIF ELIMINATED — the client types it once, online; paper fallback scans into the same record
The tax formula travels silently, on handwriting ELIMINATED — forced selection on the Plan Spec; the field cannot be skipped and is never AI-filled
Homework has no home; chasing is memory and due-dates ELIMINATED — extracted from the transcript, tracked as expected documents, chased on schedule
The transcript exists only if the attorney remembers to convert the meeting ELIMINATED for booked meetings — transcription is on at booking; the full fix is one capture path for all three meeting modes (G2), and Charles’s unnamed-app consults are not covered until then
The attorney’s handwritten legal pad hides in the bundle CONTAINED — the auto-split files it as its own document; a person still reads it. Honest limit: OCR of a legal pad is assist, not automation
The bundle scan flattens the circled subset of the 20-item standing packet list — ~8 documents across 20 pages in the sample — into one PDF, re-split by hand ELIMINATED — corner codes split it automatically and verify against the recorded selection

The rules this design keeps

Every form in this grid becomes an intake form — the tool already exists. The platform’s intake-forms engine is shipped and live: PDF↔form, OCR + AI extraction and content-based bundle splitting, public links. The blue form, the PIF, every packet form — each is one intake-form definition with two capture channels: filled digitally, or filled on paper and recognised at the scan. QR printing and QR recognition are proposed new work the shipped splitter does not yet do — today it splits on content analysis, not codes. Adding the next form is adding data, not structure — which is the platform’s governing rule. ⚠ The packet list itself is unreconciled: Suzanne’s spoken set includes the AMP agreement and Charles names an asset-titling/beneficiary-designation intake — neither attorney’s list is a superset of the other’s (B4, needs asking), and a form missing from the grid never gets defined.
What stays human is chosen, not left over. The seminar stays paper. Brittany keeps the callback. Suzanne keeps her sketch. The attorney keeps the room. Automation takes the re-typing, the routing and the remembering — the parts nobody chose.
Attorneys approve; they do not author. Charles asked for exactly this — approve, approve, approve. Every AI output in the grid passes a REVIEW cell before it takes effect, and the tax formula is structurally barred from ever being proposed.
Most of the rails already exist. The mail pipeline that would catch the voicemail is live in production. The online intake engine is shipped. OCR + AI form-splitting shipped with intake-forms. GPU transcription runs on Beast. The gap is wiring them to these triggers — not building them.
The iPad enters at two moments. At seminar check-in, as a digital blue form that skips the scan entirely — and later at the signing table, which Joanna endorsed when Craig proposed it (opportunity #3 on the wiki: signing on an iPad, not paper). Same device, both ends of the journey.
Three honest dependencies. The e-signature path for remote clients is an unresolved decision (HelloSign vs DocuSign, #255) — the LSA gate event needs it settled. The auto-split writes to the P drive, which is still inaccessible pending Curt. And the booking trigger needs a named source: a Calendly webhook and/or a platform-owned booking surface — Grow-link bookings must move, because Grow’s API exposes no scheduling or calendar endpoints at all (P8). None of these blocks the blue form or the phone call.