700+ Ways to Start

A partner at a mid-sized litigation firm told us something that has stayed with us since. She had just gotten access to a new AI tool, sat down to try it for the first time, typed a task into an empty text box, and closed her laptop.

The tool worked fine. She closed it because she didn't know what to ask for, and she had two depositions and a client call before lunch.

That is not an unusual story. It is, by a wide margin, the most common reason AI adoption stalls inside law firms, regardless of size. Even for the most experienced attorneys, technology becomes an obstacle when there is a gap between the software's features and a lawyer’s knowledge, mid-afternoon, to know what to ask.

Lawyers don't spend their day thinking about the ephemeral capabilities AI affords them. They spend it thinking in concrete tasks: summarize this deposition, draft this demand letter, flag the issues in this stack of contracts before Friday. An empty prompt box asks a lawyer to translate her own job into a request, on top of doing the job. Almost nobody does that voluntarily, especially not between two depositions.

Workflows reclaims the time lost translating a legal task into a request before any work even starts, irrecoverable hours spent before the AI does anything at all

The library sitting inside it now holds more than 700 prebuilt entries, so the work can begin immediately instead of being invented from scratch each time

What a Workflow Does

Workflows are August's way of automating repeatable legal tasks. You build them, in plain language, from the left sidebar under any project: review recent emails and draft a client update, summarize a batch of newly uploaded diligence documents, watch a folder and produce a recurring matter status report, pull the key issues out of a stack of contracts for a partner's review.

Once built, a workflow can run once, on demand, or on a set schedule, so the recurring work happens whether or not anyone remembers to start it that week.

The prebuilt versions exist because most legal tasks, examined closely, turn out not to be unique; a demand letter follows a demand letter's structure. A first-pass review follows a first-pass review's logic, more or less regardless of the underlying facts.

Intake, issue spotting, summarization, comparison, drafting, reporting up to a partner or out to a client: these are patterns that recur across firms and practice areas far more than most lawyers expect, once the tasks are laid side by side. Building a good template is mostly a matter of encoding one of those patterns well and letting a lawyer adapt it, rather than asking every associate to work it out from scratch on a Tuesday afternoon.

What 700+ Buys You

700+ (seven hundred!) workflows could easily be a vanity figure, a number that reads well in a deck and changes nothing about how the work gets done. But the reason we emphasize it is irrelevant to the sales page and has more to do with what a library that size takes off a lawyer's desk.

It removes the need to become a prompt engineer before extracting any value from the product. It removes the guesswork of breaking a task into the right steps alone, without a template to check against. And it removes the trial period nearly every new tool imposes, the hour or two of tinkering an associate or a partner has to put in before trusting the output enough to attach it to a real matter.

One early customer put it plainly during a renewal call: the templates gave her associates permission to just start. Nobody had to be the one who figured out how to use the AI first. The workflow already knew what a diligence summary was supposed to look like.

We also knows consistency is key. When ten associates handle the same category of matter, a shared starting point means comparable format and comparable thoroughness, rather than ten slightly different approaches to the same assignment. That consistency compounds quietly: it makes review faster for the partner checking the work, it shortens onboarding for the next associate to join the team, and over time it makes a firm's output read as the firm's, rather than as a collection of individual habits.

The Underlying Idea

The product won’t hold up if a lawyer has to think like an engineer to use it, and that is the principle the library was built around. Workflows enable lawyers to think in tasks, not tools. Nobody wants to weigh which AI capability applies to their situation or how to sequence a pipeline. They want to say "review this agreement" or "tell me what changed between these two drafts" and have that be the entire instruction.

The prebuilt workflows are meant to take the kind of assignment a partner would hand an associate in a hallway and turn it into a structured, AI-assisted process, while leaving the judgment exactly where it has always belonged: with the lawyer. By taking repetitive work off lawyers' desks, AI creates more time for the work that defines the profession: shaping strategy, negotiating outcomes, making drafting decisions, and advising clients where judgment matters most.

Value Across Firms

For a small firm, this mostly reads as capacity. A two- or three-attorney practice can take on more document-heavy work without adding support staff, because the workflow absorbs the first pass that used to eat an evening. For a mid-sized firm, it reads as standardization: associates across a practice group approach the same category of task the same way, without losing the ability to adjust a given workflow to a matter's particulars. For a large firm, it reads as scale: different offices and practice groups running the same repeatable processes for diligence, litigation review, contract analysis, and reporting, all inside one firm-wide standard rather than however each office happened to develop its own habits over the years.

None of those outcomes require a firm to build anything from scratch. That, more than the number itself, is the point of having 700 workflows already sitting there, waiting to be adapted rather than invented.

Want to see which of them fit how your firm already works? Speak with our team today.