Operating model

Programmatic legal delivery, with lawyers at the gates

Fences uses scans, sync, alerts, decision agents, and playbooks to reduce legal drag. Lawyers remain responsible for privilege, judgment, adversarial dynamics, and any position that can bind the company.

Agentic delivery: legal operations that run like engineering

Most legal work has a repeatable structure. The same compliance questions appear each quarter. The same contract risk clauses come back in every vendor agreement. The same product launch question surfaces every time engineering ships something new. A trademark filing window closes on a schedule that doesn't change.

In traditional legal delivery, each of these starts from scratch—a new email thread, a new context-building call, a new billable matter. That's inefficient and, more importantly, inconsistent. When every instance of a recurring issue is treated as novel, things fall through.

Fences applies rigorous engineering to key legal workstreams that legacy firms don't solve well. We're focused on dedicated, proprietary workflows that solve high-impact pain points. Not "software replaces lawyers"—that's not how law works, and it's not what clients need. What it means is: measurable inputs, repeatable pipelines, explicit ownership, and documented outputs. Routine work moves cleanly and fast.

Freed of disctraction, you get attorney acumen can be focused on thornier problems.

What agentic delivery looks like

Frontend privacy compliance scans — Physical storefronts had the slip-and-fall. Digital storefronts have the 'surveillance' pixel.

Oh, you used Termly and a "cookie banner"? That's catnip for plaintiffs' lawyers. Even the most sophisticated privacy operations often have gaping flaws due to mistaken risk priorities.

Regular checks of your product surfaces, privacy copy, customer-facing commitments, and documentation for policy drift, obligation gaps, and documentation mismatches. Configured to your actual stack and regulatory exposure—not a generic checklist applied uniformly.

Threat matrix — Ongoing monitoring for new trademark registrations, domain filings, competitor campaigns, and marks confusingly similar to yours. Surfaced as a structured queue with classified risk levels, not raw alerts you have to interpret yourself.

Trademark clearance & watch — Common clearance questions route through configured rules for fast handling. New situations, adversarial actors, and edge cases move to lawyer review with the relevant background already attached.

Fine-tuned decision agents — Assistive agents deployed inside your tools and within agreed boundaries. They handle routine routing: triage incoming legal paper, retrieve the right playbook for a redline question, queue new decisions that need a lawyer. They don't pretend ambiguous questions have automatic answers.

Bespoke playbooks — Structured triage guides your team can use to handle repeat contract redlines, enforce your standards, and know exactly when to escalate. Built by lawyers who understand your business, refined over time, version-controlled.

Forms libraries — Standardized templates for repeat asks—NDAs, vendor agreements, employment docs, IP assignments—with structured inputs, documented scope, and lawyer-reviewed exception handling. Your team doesn't wait for a lawyer to generate a starting point on a familiar document type.

Compliance scans and drift detection

for policies, terms, and product surfaces

Interactive visual stories

Automated delivery visuals

Systems diagram

Lane-based delivery model

Lane 1

Ingest

Intake signals are normalized into a shared issue record.

  • Owner: Operations
  • Risk: Signal misses on scope or jurisdiction.
  • Status: Monitored

Lane 2

Classify

Rules map each signal to service, channel, and urgency.

  • Owner: Delivery
  • Risk: False confidence in automated classification.
  • Status: Monitored

Lane 3

Execute

Repeatable checks and templates move issues forward.

  • Owner: Systems + team
  • Risk: Hidden drift between docs and implementation.
  • Status: Tracked

Lane 4

Escalate

Lawyer review gate handles ambiguity, disputes, or risk.

  • Owner: Admitted counsel
  • Risk: Escalation delay without explicit boundaries.
  • Status: Required

Workflow status rows

Current state checkpoints

Step
Owner
Gate
Status
Next action
Signal intake
Client + LegalOps
Pre-legal screening
open
Create non-confidential issue record
Automation checks
Systems
Scope + risk map
running
Publish draft status row
Review board
Counsel
Final legal position
queued
Confirm scope and timeline

Human escalation boundaries

Escalate before defaulting to automation

FAQ
FAQ
Legacy legal delivery thrives on delay and context loss. This section does not.

Examples include documentation mismatches between privacy policy and product behavior, policy drift versus customer commitments, and contract or template variance. Scans are configured for your stack and regulatory exposure—not a one-size-fits-all bundle.