Habeas gives boutique and small Australian law firms the research depth, insight collation, and drafting capacity that used to require a team three times your size. Stop referring out work. Start winning it.
You have the expertise. You have the client relationships. What you don't always have is the research headcount and infrastructure of a firm five times your size. And that gap shows up in ways that cost you.
A complex matter comes in that sits slightly outside your core expertise. You know you could get across it with proper research support, but without that support, you refer it to a larger firm and watch the fees walk out the door.
Every research-heavy matter is a tension between thoroughness and profitability. Your lawyers are doing partner-level thinking and junior-level research simultaneously, and your effective hourly rate suffers for it.
You need more capacity, but a new hire is a six-figure commitment. If the work pipeline fluctuates, you're carrying overhead you can't justify. The economics of scaling through headcount don't work until they do.
Your clients don't adjust their expectations because you're a boutique. They expect the same depth, the same turnaround, and the same breadth of expertise as the firm down the road with 60 lawyers and a research team.
Refer out matters that fall outside your core specialisation
3-5 hours of manual research per complex matter before you can form a view
Partners doing research that a paralegal or junior should handle
Turning down work because you can't resource it without hiring
Generic AI tools that give US law answers dressed up for Australia
Take on the matter with AI-powered research depth across any area of Australian law
First-pass research in minutes with verified citations from 300,000+ Australian documents
Partners focus on strategy while Habeas handles the analytical groundwork
Scale capacity on demand without the overhead and risk of hiring
Jurisdiction-native intelligence built from the ground up for Australian law
Habeas is a specialist AI platform trained on Australian legislation, case law, and regulatory materials. It can search across your documents, synthesises complex questions, and delivers structured work output your lawyers can actually use.
Your team gets instant access to deep, cited legal research across every area of Australian law. First-pass research that used to take hours now takes minutes. Your lawyers spend their time on analysis and client work, not trawling through databases.
A regulatory question outside your core area? An employment dispute that needs deep statutory analysis? With Habeas backing your research, your firm can confidently handle broader mandates without the risk of under-resourcing them.
Create tailored research and drafts for your practicel contracts, employment, regulatory, and more. Instantly generate letters, advices, workflows, and summaries, always citing Australian law. Quickly produce quality, fact-informed first drafts, even for complex matters.
This isn't about saving a few hours a week. It's about structurally changing the economics of your firm.
First-pass research report and drafted documentss with citations - in minutes instead of hours
Stop referring out work you can now handle internally
Add research capacity without adding headcount
Annual software subscription vs. $100k+ salary + overhead
Here's a realistic scenario of how a 10-lawyer boutique firm uses Habeas across a single working day.
A commercial client needs urgent advice on privacy obligations under the Australian Privacy Act. Your firm specialises in commercial and property law. Previously, you'd refer this out. Instead, a partner runs the question through Habeas and has a much-enhanced understanding within 10 minutes.
Your associate is preparing a memo on insurance regulatory compliance for a mid-market client. She uses a custom Habeas agent your firm has configured for insurance law. It synthesises the relevant legislation, identifies key obligations, and outputs a structured issue framework she can refine further in an hour instead of a day.
Your managing partner is pitching for new work from a healthcare company. He uses Habeas to rapidly build a briefing on the key regulatory and compliance issues facing Australian healthcare providers. He walks into the meeting with the depth of preparation that normally takes a research team.
Work that would have required two additional hires or external referrals was handled internally, on time, with the research quality your clients expect. Your effective margins improved on every one of those matters.
Your firm needs precision, not plausibility. Here's why we're different from ChatGPT, CoPilot and every other tool your lawyers have tried and abandoned.
300,000+ Australian legal documents. Understands court hierarchies, jurisdictional boundaries, and regulatory nuance. Not a US tool with an Australian accent that has been bolted on as an afterthought.
Every output is grounded in real, traceable sources. Your lawyers can verify the reasoning and identify exactly where the analysis comes from. No hallucinated cases.
Habeas doesn't just find documents. It reads across multiple sources, connects the dots, and delivers structured outputs your lawyers can use immediately as first drafts.
Book a 20-minute demo and we'll run Habeas on a legal question relevant to your practice. No slides. No sales pitch. Just the tool, working on your problem.