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Vaught AIAI Operations Audit · Personal Injury

Your PI firm sits on demands for 150 days. Here's where the time goes.

An operational gap map built specifically for plaintiff personal injury firms. Five workflow agents, one private intelligence layer, zero proposals to sign before you see what we'd build.

150 days
Industry MMI-to-demand cycle
EvenUp 2025 benchmark
$2,500-3K
PPC cost per signed case
CasePeer 2025
40-60%
After-hours calls go to voicemail
r/VoiceInfra 2025
5 of 10
Documents missing at demand time
EvenUp 2025
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What this isAn operational gap map for plaintiff PI.

Built from 47+ Reddit threads, ABA TechReport data, EvenUp benchmarks, and the unit economics of a 10-attorney plaintiff firm.

What it changesCycle time. Conversion. Case completeness.

Demand cycle 150 → 30 days. After-hours leak 50% → 5%. Case docs at demand 5/10 → 9/10.

Why we built itEvenUp drafts. Filevine tracks. Nobody runs the workflow.

Five workflow agents that sit between your existing tools and your paralegal's actual day.

Pain 01150-day demand backlog

Your demand letters are sitting 150 days post-MMI.

EvenUp's 2025 industry benchmark: average plaintiff firm sits 150 days from MMI to demand sent. That's five months your client is waiting. Five months your case-cost float is sitting. Five months your competitor, who ships demands in 30 days, is closing cases faster than you. The fix isn't drafting faster (you can buy that). The fix is detecting MMI the day it happens and auto-assembling the demand package while your paralegal is still pouring coffee.

The number
+$300-500K NPV/yr on velocity alone for a 10-attorney firm
EvenUp 2025 Express Demands Report, ROI math from research
Henderson v. Allstate · case timelinemilestone watch · live
Sign-upDay 0
retainer signed
TreatmentWk 1–8
PT · 3x/wk
ImagingWk 4
MRI · C5-C6 herniation
SpecialistWk 9
ortho consult
PT dischargeWk 14
released · MMI declared
Demand firesWk 14 + 1d
package assembled
Pain 02After-hours intake leak

40-60% of your after-hours PI calls go to voicemail.

Most PI inquiries don't come in at 2 PM Tuesday. They come in at 11 PM after a wreck. They come in Saturday morning. By Monday, your prospect has already hired the firm down the street. Generic answering services (Smith.ai, Lex Reception) take messages. They don't sign cases. We build voice agents trained on your actual qualification rubric that sign e-retainers on the call. Borderline cases ping your phone. Junk hangs up politely.

The number
~$250K/yr in lost signed-case revenue per typical PI firm
Attorney Assistant 2024
Live · 11:47 PM

Your phones don't sleep at 6:01 PM.

The wreck happened at 11:14 PM. The caller is on the curb. He has tried two firms and gotten voicemail at both. The Brain answers on the second ring, qualifies him on your firm's actual rubric, and signs the e-retainer before he gets home.

Same conversation Monday morning. Just that the firm down the street never sees this lead.

Answered100%Calls
Signed11:48PM
Wait0Sec
CALL · 0:00
11:47 PM·
After-hours · routed to PI rubric
Inbound · MVA · 14th & Bayshore
+1 (405) 555-2014
Pain 03Records death march

Your paralegals spend 8-10 hours a week leaving voicemails.

Hospitals slow-walk records 3-4 months on average. Your paralegal calls every clinic every week to ask 'did you get our request?' That's $30/hr × 10 hours × 50 weeks = $15K per paralegal per year just to leave voicemails. We built a voice agent that does it. HIPAA-aware. Calls every provider weekly, navigates the phone tree, logs status to your CMS, flags 30+ day stalls. The hours nobody wants to do.

The number
8-10 hrs/wk per 50-case paralegal load freed
r/paralegal 2024-2026 community data
records-agent · weekly cycle9 providers · 4 matters
Pain 04CMS that tracks but doesn't run

Your case management software stores your files. It doesn't move them.

Filevine, Litify, CASEpeer. They track case data and send reminders. They don't call medical providers. They don't qualify intake calls at midnight. They don't read records and detect MMI. None of the workflows that actually move a case from sign-up to settlement run inside your CMS. They run on top of it. That's the gap we fill. We don't replace your CMS, we add the parts that do the work.

The number
Filevine and Litify run $50K-$80K/year and still leave the highest-leverage workflows manual
Vendor pricing analysis 2025
Vaught · Brain
01Henderson v. Allstate Insurance Co.$285,000
02Reyes v. State Farm Mutual$340,000
03Whitfield v. GEICO General$215,000
04Park v. Liberty Mutual Group$410,000
05Delgado v. Farmers Insurance Exchange$268,500
06Nakamura v. Progressive Direct$295,000
14 matches across 2,847 documentsAvg. settlement $291,250Avg. time to resolution 11 mo.

Demonstration · firm data not real

Pain 05Demand drafting time

8-15 hours of senior-attorney time per demand. Per case.

Demand assembly is the highest-leverage attorney/paralegal time in pre-lit. EvenUp ($2B valuation) and Supio compete on the drafting itself. The bigger leverage is feeding those drafters cleaner inputs (full records, milestone-tagged, completeness-verified) so output quality goes up AND human review time drops. Or, for firms that can't afford EvenUp, drafting in your firm's voice from your own prior demands.

The number
Each demand: 8-15 hours manual; 30-45 minutes with the right workflow
r/paralegal 2025, EvenUp benchmark data
Henderson Law GroupAttn: Counsel of Record
Re: HendersonFile No. HLG-2026-0418

To Whom It May Concern,

The dream state

Wake up to a firm that already worked overnight.

While you sleep, the Brain triages your inbox, qualifies after-hours intakes, drafts responses, and prepares your day. By the time your phone buzzes, the noise is already filtered.

Morning briefing · 6:42 AM

Wake up to a firm that already worked overnight.

While you slept, the Brain triaged your inbox, qualified after-hours intakes, drafted responses, and put together your day. By the time your phone buzzes, the noise is already gone.

You walk in already two hours ahead of every other firm in the city.

Triaged47Emails
Drafted5Replies
Signed3Cases
6:42·
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What we build

Five workflow agents. Built for plaintiff PI.

EvenUp ($2B valuation) and Supio compete on demand drafting. Filevine and Litify compete on case management. We don't. We build the five workflow agents that sit between those tools and your paralegal's actual day.

01

After-Hours Intake Agent

Your phones don't sleep at 6:01 PM.

Voice + SMS bot trained on your firm's actual case-acceptance rubric. Runs SOL, insurance, and severity checks live. Signs e-retainer on the call. Escalates borderline to your phone.

Replaces · Smith.ai, Lex Reception, voicemail
02

Provider-Chase Agent

Stop paying $30/hr to leave voicemails.

Voice agent calls every treating provider weekly. Navigates IVR. Logs status to your CMS. Flags stalls past 30 days. Saves a paralegal 8–10 hours a week per 50-case load.

Replaces · Paralegal making weekly status calls
03

MMI Milestone Detector

Demand goes out the day after MMI.

AI parser reads each incoming record dump, classifies the milestone (PT discharge, MMI, surgery scheduled, IME requested), and fires the demand-prep workflow automatically.

Replaces · Paralegal reading every record dump manually
04

Lead Scoring + Attribution Loop

Know which keyword paid for your last $90K case.

Every inbound lead gets SOL + insurance + severity scoring before an attorney touches it. Signed cases pipe back to Google and Meta as conversion events for actual ROAS.

Replaces · Marketing agency PDF reports + paralegal triage
05

Client-Update Narrative Engine

Your clients stop calling because they already know.

Case-event triggers fire per-client narrative updates in your firm's voice. Sign-up, treatment milestones, demand sent, settlement. Status calls drop by 80%+.

Replaces · Friday afternoon manual update emails
The guardrails

Built around compliance, privacy, and attorney oversight.

Sensitive firm data should not be casually pushed into generic AI tools. Client data, medical records, attorney work product, and privileged communication require a different level of care.

What we do not do

PI firm data, client records, medical files, attorney work product, case strategy, privileged communication. All of it needs a different level of care than a generic SaaS prompt. Six explicit limits.

01
We do not train public AI models on your firm's data.Your records, notes, and work product are not fuel for public-model improvement. Ever.
02
We do not send PHI into consumer OpenAI, Anthropic, or public LLM endpoints.Medical records and protected case information are not handled like normal SaaS prompts.
03
We do not transmit AI-generated client communications without attorney review.Drafting support is allowed; unsupervised client communication is not the model.
04
We do not replace legal judgment with AI output.The system retrieves, drafts, and organizes. It does not stand in for attorney reasoning.
05
We do not use one firm's data for another firm, public model training, or marketing.Your intelligence remains yours.
06
We do not treat AI output as final legal work.Everything meaningful still passes through attorney oversight before it becomes real work product.
Controlled environment

Stays inside a controlled stack.

Planned for client-owned hardware inside the firm's office, with local model runtime, local vector database, encrypted storage, encrypted backups, and a wired-LAN-first posture for ingress.

Sensitive workflows

Private work stays on the private system.

When medical records, chronologies, demand drafts, or attorney work product are involved, the goal is to keep that work on-prem rather than route it through uncontrolled cloud AI systems.

Attorney review

Vaught AI is not positioned as a lawyer.

It drafts, retrieves, organizes, summarizes, and supports. The attorney still decides, reviews, approves, signs, and sends.

Current technical plan: local inference on the Brain, cloud fallback only by explicit attorney override, PHI stripped if fallback is ever used.
Before / After

The gap map for a 5-attorney PI firm.

AreaBeforeAfter
After-hours intake40-60% calls to voicemail · Smith.ai takes a message · Monday-morning callback hustleVoice agent answers, qualifies on your rubric, signs e-retainer · attorney pinged on borderline
Lead-to-signed conversionPPC at 3-6%, no SOL/insurance check before attorney sees lead, junk in, junk triagedLead scoring agent runs SOL + insurance + severity check before attorney touches it
Records retrievalParalegal calls every clinic every week, leaves voicemails, 3-4 month avg per providerVoice agent calls weekly · navigates IVR · logs to CMS · flags >30-day stalls
MMI → demand cycleParalegal manually reads each record dump, demand sits in queue 150 daysAI parser classifies milestone the moment records arrive · demand-prep fires next morning
Demand assemblyAttorney + paralegal hand-assemble for 8-15 hours · 5/10 documents missing at signPre-completed records inventory · drafted in your voice from prior demands · review-ready
Client status calls30-50/week 'what's going on with my case?' calls eating paralegal MondaysCase-event-triggered narrative updates fire automatically · status calls drop 80%+
Marketing attributionMarketing agency PDF report · spend → CPL · signed cases never close the loopSigned cases pipe back to Google/Meta as conversion events · actual ROAS by keyword
ROI math

For a 5-attorney PI firm, conservatively: +$500K–$1M/year.

Roughly $2.5M gross revenue, ~125 active files, ~$200K/yr marketing spend. Conservative estimates from the research, not vendor marketing math.

+$120-200K
Signed-case revenue

After-hours intake conversion 40-60% lost → 80%+ qualified or signed

+$300-500K
Same marketing spend

Lead-to-signed 7-10% → 12-15% via SOL/insurance/severity scoring

+$100-200K
Cycle time NPV/yr

MMI-to-demand 150 days → 30 days × case count

+$300-500K
Settlement-value lift

Missing documents at demand 5/10 → 1/10 (EvenUp benchmark)

200-400 hrs
Paralegal capacity/yr

Records-chase reduced from 8-10 hrs/wk to 1-2 hrs/wk per paralegal

5-8 hrs/wk
Status-call time freed

Client calls drop 80%+ from auto-narrative updates

Headline: +$500K-$1M/year in signed-case revenue and settlement-value lift, plus 200-400 paralegal hours recovered without hiring. Estimates vary by firm size and current process maturity.

What changes for your firm

Sign more cases. Ship demands faster. Get your paralegals back.

Operator outcomes, not features. What actually changes for the firm in the first 90 days.

For your bottom line

Sign 30-50% more cases on the same marketing spend.

After-hours intake stops bleeding. Junk leads stop reaching attorneys. Signed cases pipe back to Google and Meta so your spend chases the keywords that actually sign clients. Same $200K marketing budget, double the signed cases.

For your paralegals

200-400 hours back per year. No new hires.

Records-chase calls, status update calls, demand assembly grunt work. All automated. Your paralegals stop spending their mornings leaving voicemails and start spending them on case substance. Turnover drops. Inherited messes stop happening.

For your cycle time

Demands out in 30 days post-MMI. Settlements disbursed in 30-45.

Industry average is 150 days from MMI to demand sent and 90+ days from settlement to client check. We cut both. Cases close faster. Your case-cost float clears faster. Clients stay happier because they get their money on time.

For your nights and weekends

Voice agent answers at 11pm Saturday. Signs the retainer on the call.

Stop losing prospects to the firm down the street that picked up first. Stop checking voicemail Monday morning hoping the leads are still warm. Voice agent qualifies on your rubric, signs e-retainers for green leads, escalates borderline to your phone, hangs up politely on junk.

For your inbox

Walk in two hours ahead. Every day.

Morning briefings on your phone before you're out of bed. Inbox triaged. Drafted responses ready to review by 7am. Calendar prepped. By the time you sit down at your desk, the noise is already filtered and the day is already set up.

For your clients

80% fewer 'what's going on with my case?' calls.

Auto-narrative updates fire at every milestone in your firm's voice. Clients know what's happening before they think to call. Status calls drop. Reviews go up. Referrals go up. The clients who used to feel ignored start feeling looked-after.

Built from systems already running. The morning briefing engine, the voice agents, the milestone-driven workflows: all in production today for adjacent service businesses. The PI build is a 4-8 week pilot at fixed price. You bring the case-acceptance rubric. We bring the workflow.

The next step

Most firms will rent AI. Yours will own it.

30-minute conversation. We walk through your firm, identify the three biggest leverage points, and show you what automation could look like. No pitch. No pressure.

Industry benchmarks: IBISWorld 2025 PI Industry Report ($61.7B / 50,435 firms), Clio 2025 Legal Trends, ABA 2024 TechReport (30% AI adoption), EvenUp 2025 Express Demands (150-day MMI-to-demand average), First Page Sage 2024 cost-per-lead data, Attorney Assistant 2024 missed-call cost data, and community pain points sourced from r/Lawyertalk, r/LawFirm, r/paralegal threads (2024-2026). Demonstrations on this page use synthetic data for illustration. ROI estimates are conservative projections.

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