Your firm is unique.Shouldn’t your technologyand AI be too?
Stop fighting case management systems nobody likes using. Stop watching manual work eat into billable time. Stop forcing off-the-shelf AI tools onto problems they were never built for.
Technology and AI consultancy for small and mid-size UK law firms. We assess, we advise, and we build. A small UK team of lawyers and technologists.
Assess. Advise. Build.
Three things we do. Combine them as your firm needs.
Assess.
We look at where your firm stands across technology, AI, processes, knowledge, data and governance. You get a written report and a roadmap, one that stands on its own and can be taken to other vendors, used to hire in-house, or quietly shelved for six months. Your call.
Advise.
We act as your firm’s senior technology and AI lead, on demand. Strategic calls, vendor decisions, team education, regulatory horizon-scanning, and the day-to-day questions that come up, without you hiring a full-time IT director.
Build.
We deliver the work itself. Pilot builds to prove an idea, then bespoke builds to put real technology in your firm. One team across the legal and the technical side. You own everything we build.
Three packages. Three ongoing services.
Start with one. Combine them as your firm needs.
Assessment.
A two-week structured review of your firm across technology, AI, processes, knowledge, data and governance. You get a written report, a roadmap, and a presentation to your partners. The output stands on its own. You can take it to other vendors, hire in-house, do nothing for six months, or come back to us for the build.
Pilot Build.
Pick one priority use case. Over four weeks we build a working prototype, test it with your fee earners, capture what works and what does not, and produce a costed plan for the full implementation. You leave with a working tool, real evidence of value, and a decision you can defend to your partnership.
Bespoke Build.
End-to-end delivery of what the assessment recommends or the pilot proved, scoped per engagement. Tool selection, integrations, custom build where it makes sense, training, rollout, and handover. One team across the legal and the technical side. You own everything we build.
Technology & AI Leadership.
A senior partner-level voice in the room when you need one. Strategic calls on technology and AI, vendor decisions, board and partnership updates, regulatory horizon-scanning, and the day-to-day questions that come up when fee earners run into something they are not sure about. We pick up the phone and we know your firm.
Fractional AI Team.
A part-time delivery team that handles continuous build, integration and maintenance of the technology and AI in your firm. Embedded with your operations. Scales up when you have a project, scales down when you do not.
Training.
A continuous training programme that runs alongside the firm. Modular sessions, masterclasses, workshops and partner briefings. Choose only the blocks the firm needs. New joiners onboarded as they arrive. Refreshers as the tools and the regulation move. Built around your practice, your policies, and your matters, not generic AI content lifted from a deck.
Law firms that take AI and technology seriously.
We focus on law firms and in-house legal teams. We do not work with non-legal businesses, and we are not the right firm for magic-circle scale engagements.
Small law firms.
We work with managing partners and senior partners who want to introduce technology and AI properly without a full-time IT function. We help you make decisions you can stand behind without needing in-house technical expertise.
Mid-size law firms.
We work with managing partners, COOs and innovation leads. The firm is at the size where ad-hoc IT decisions stop scaling but a full IT department is not yet justified. We provide the senior judgement without the headcount.
In-house legal teams.
General Counsel and Legal Operations leads inside companies. We help you assess your team’s AI readiness, set policy that works alongside the wider business, and choose tools that fit your existing tech stack and procurement constraints.
AI has arrived in legal. Ready or not.
Four realities every firm is now contending with, whether or not it has a policy, a framework, or a seat at the procurement table.
Your lawyers are already using it.
ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot are embedded in everyday workflows whether your firm has a policy or not. Courts and tribunals are already drawing conclusions about firms that cannot demonstrate oversight.
The SRA is watching.
Professional conduct obligations do not pause for technology adoption. The duty not to mislead is absolute. Supervision responsibilities extend to AI-assisted work. The regulatory framework is already here.
Clients are starting to ask.
Larger clients already know AI compresses the time it takes to do legal work. They are starting to ask why that is not reflected in what they pay. Firms that can answer clearly will set the standard others are measured against.
The efficiency gap is real.
Fee earners losing time to admin, knowledge scattered across matters, compliance reporting that takes longer than it should. AI and modern technology genuinely solve these problems, but only if built for how your firm actually works.
Why work with us.
Lawyers and technologists, together.
Most legal AI consultancies are technologists who have read about law. We are a former litigation lawyer and a thirty-year technologist working on every engagement. The legal and technical perspectives sit at the same table, on every decision your firm has to make.
No platform to sell.
We do not own a software product, so we do not have a vendor’s incentive to push you onto one. Our recommendations are based on what fits your firm, including the recommendation to do nothing or to use what you already have. We get paid for advice, not licences.
Compliance & Security, by design.
We build compliance and security into every engagement from the start, not bolted on at the end. Your regulatory obligations, your insurer’s requirements, and your clients’ expectations are part of the scope, not an afterthought. Technology and AI your firm can stand behind.
Off-the-shelf, integrated, or built.
Generic AI tools were not built for how your firm works. We assess what you have, what is on the market, and what would have to be built. Sometimes the answer is an off-the-shelf product. Sometimes it is integrating what you already use. Sometimes it is building something new. We have the team to deliver any of the three.
End to end. One team.
From the first conversation to the final handover, you work with one team. Whatever the work needs, training, build, integration, governance, change management, it sits inside our scope. We do not hand you off to other vendors. One contract. One place to come back to if anything goes wrong.
Plain English, fixed pricing.
We write reports your partners can actually read and quote engagements with prices agreed before we start. No hourly billing, no scope creep, no jargon hiding behind technical complexity. If we cannot explain what we are doing in plain English, we are not doing it right.
Lawyers and technologists. Working together.
Most technology companies approach legal as an opportunity. We approach it as a profession one of us came from, and an industry the other has spent thirty years building technology for. When you work with Khiliad Legal, you work with both of us directly.
N. KeceliNaz Keceli
CEO · Co-FounderFormer litigation lawyer with nearly two decades in legal practice across private practice, in-house healthcare and regulation, and the Government Legal Department, complemented by an MBA. Naz leads our work with partners and brings the legal and regulatory perspective to every engagement.
J. SkowronskiJimmy Skowronski
CTO · Co-FounderThirty years in enterprise technology, including McKinsey and IBM, with roles from developer to CTO. Jimmy leads our technical work and brings the delivery discipline. He will tell you what is realistic before you commit to anything and ensure it’s delivered.
What our clients say.
“What I got from Khiliad was clarity, a coherent picture of the firm and a clear sense of what to tackle first, which is genuinely hard to do from the inside.
“We appreciated that they kept the user and the core problem at the centre of the work. They understood our mission, and ensured the conversation and development plans stayed on track to address it.
“Their commitment to vision is evident in the quality of the MVP delivered, laying a strong foundation for our future success.
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