bolt Built for In-House Legal & Finance

Every outside counsel bill, checked line by line.

50+ checks run on the first invoice you upload, with or without your own guidelines. Firms keep sending PDFs the way they do now. From $99 a seat, and your first review takes 10 minutes.

14-day free trial · No credit card at signup · No implementation fees, implementation included and complete in hours

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Typical Spend Reduction

5–15%

More than 90% less expensive than enterprise invoice review platforms See pricing →

What it catches on a real bill

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Overstaffed internal meetings

Three lawyers billing the same internal call. Flagged, with a one-click settlement that pays the lead attendee only.

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Students and first-years on the bill

Summer students and junior associates billed to your matter, checked against the timekeepers and rates you approved.

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Senior rates on routine tasks, and admin work at attorney rates. Each flag shows the evidence and the dollars at issue.

80% Over Budget

Only 20% of legal matters sent to outside counsel stay within budget.

A Gartner survey of 200 in-house and law firm lawyers found that more than half agree in-house lawyers lack effectiveness at managing outside counsel. Gartner estimates the average legal department spends $162,000 a year paying lawyers to duplicate, at least in part, the work of outside counsel.

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

50+ pre-built review checks, AI invoice parsing, flexible guidelines, and real-time spend intelligence. An invoice workflow your team can use on day one, with the approval controls finance expects when you need them. Reviewing invoices in minutes, not weeks.

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Invoice Review

PDF or LEDES, by upload or email. AI reads every line, then 50+ checks run on it, with or without guidelines: staffing, rates, expenses, travel, billing rules and fee arrangements. You decide each flag and the letter to the firm is drafted for you.

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Outside Counsel Guidelines

Start from 50+ default rules, or import your existing OCG document and let AI map each clause to the check that enforces it. Either way, you are enforcing on the next bill.

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Budgets and Accruals

Budgets by matter and above it, WIP collected from firms for month-end accruals, fee estimates against actuals. Ask AI about your spend in plain English.

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RFPs and Firm Selection

Send an RFP to one firm or your whole panel, compare the proposals side by side, score them as a team, and award. The winning terms become the fee arrangement, budget and approved rates every bill from those firms is checked against.

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Transparent Pricing

From $99/seat/mo. On our website. No “contact sales” games.

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Client-Friendly Terms

Terms designed to close, not negotiate. T&Cs and DPA published upfront.

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No Implementation Fees. Implementation Included.

Sign up today and review invoices today, or we set it up with you, complete in hours: approval controls, guidelines, budgets. No consultants, no onboarding fees.

Legal Ops that deliver true ROI.

Direct savings from flagged violations are just the start. The sentinel effect drives the bigger win: billing by the hour is the honor system, having visible controls in place keeps it honest. When outside counsel knows that AI-powered enforcement is parsing every line item, billing behavior changes at the source. The inflated invoice never gets drafted. Continuous automated oversight shifts the burden of accuracy back to the firm, without confrontation, without damaging relationships.

Direct Flagged violations & overbilling caught
Indirect The sentinel effect, cleaner bills upfront

Ready to optimize your legal spend?

Built by sitting CLOs. Upload a bill and see what it finds.