Value Your Work

Three tools. One for each stage of the work.

Describe it so the client sees the value. Price it from your own rate. Present it so the fee makes sense. Use one, or all three — each stands alone.

1 · Describe the work Turn a three-word time entry into what the client actually got “Review agreement” becomes the risk you caught. Uses AI, with your consent. 2 · Price the work An approximate fee, built from your own rate Describe the matter, answer a few questions. No market figures — your rate, stated assumptions, a range. 3 · Present the work A polished fee proposal — bring your own fee Deliverables, assumptions, exclusions and change-of-scope triggers, assembled into a document you can send. Type the scope yourself, or let AI structure your rough notes.

Tools 1 and 3 can use AI, always opt-in and always behind a confidentiality warning. Tool 2 never sends anything anywhere, and no AI ever sets a fee.

Use these tools responsibly. They help you think a fee through and present it clearly — they do not know your client, your market or your file. Everything they produce is a suggestion for you to review, and the fee you charge is always your decision and your responsibility. Tools terms

Value your work

Most of us write the time entry at seven in the evening, in three words, because the day has already gone somewhere else. Review agreement. Email to client. Call. Every one of those is true, and every one of them hides what the client actually got for the money.

This tool takes a description like that and gives you back a clearer one. Not a grander one. The same work, written so that someone reading the invoice can see what it was for.

What most of us write

Review agreement.

What actually happened

Identifying the two clauses that left the client carrying unlimited liability.

Both are true. The second one is the same fact, told from the client's side of the desk. Notice that it needs something only you know: which clauses, and what they exposed. That is why the tool asks you rather than guessing, and why it will not write the second version from the first on its own.

Please do not enter client names, confidential information or personal data.

For example: Reviewed the shareholders agreement and flagged the pre-emption clause

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Use this honestly. It helps you describe work more clearly. It must not be used to inflate, exaggerate or misrepresent work performed. Always make sure a description is accurate, proportionate and consistent with the engagement, your professional obligations and your firm's policies. Everything it produces is a suggestion, and you should read it before it goes anywhere near a client.

See the other tools or ask a question about running your firm.

Which do you need?

Price the work

What work are you being asked to do?

Describe the work generically — no client names, confidential facts or personal data. The questions below are all the tool needs.

The rate you typically charge, or would charge for this work. The estimate is your rate × a stated effort assumption — so it is built on your own number, not on a market figure.

Present the work · before anything is sent

This will send your description to an AI provider

What you type below will be sent to Anthropic's Claude API to be turned into structured scope. It is not used to train models and is deleted from their systems within about 30 days — except where it is flagged under the provider's usage policy, when it may be kept for up to two years. It does leave this site.

Do not include client names, personal details, or confidential matter information. Describe the work generically, and use this only where you are satisfied you may disclose the information to the service providers involved.

Too much: Advice to ABC Holdings on dismissing Maria Georgiou after fraud allegations.

Better: Advice to a corporate client on terminating a senior employee following an internal investigation.

Present the work · clarify

A few things the description does not settle

Present the work · scope

Describe what you delivered

Set out the work in countable units. Only what appears here goes into the proposal.

This sentence appears immediately above your fee, so it is worth being yours. Put it in the client's own words if you have them.

If ticked, the proposal states that costs recoverable from another party are determined by the court and are not covered by your fee.

Present the work · pricing factors

Tick only what actually happened

Nothing is pre-selected and the AI has no say in this list. These shape how the fee is explained and which pricing model fits — they never change the amount, which stays yours.

Present the work · service level

Which of these describes the engagement?

Change what they are buying — never the value of what it is. Same standard of care in all three.

Present the work · your fee

What are you proposing to charge?

This tool does not set your fee and does not suggest one. You decide the number; it builds the proposal around it. Nothing on this step is sent to the AI.

Did AI materially reduce the time this work needed? (optional)

Never changes your figure. It feeds the private panel you see after you build — efficiency you created stays yours to keep, share or reinvest.

Your own arithmetic, shown back to you. Nothing here is a recommendation, and none of it is sent to the AI.

Your delivery economics

What this matter costs you to deliver, and the target you set. Your own arithmetic, shown back to you after you have decided your number — the tool forms no view of its own.

Loaded cost is what an hour of that grade costs the firm — salary, overhead and non-billable time. It is not your charge-out rate.

If you give both, both are shown. They answer different questions and are never blended.

Present the work · the document