The situation
The firm bought AI for document intake and first-pass review before busy season. The promise was fewer late nights and less contract labour.
Busy season ended. Late nights were down, everyone thinks. Contract labour was down, though two engagements ran long. The partner who approved the spend is now asked to renew it, and what she has is an impression.
This is a firm that will not sign a number it cannot show its working for. That standard is the reason the impression is not good enough.
What runs where
Vendor account
The firm-wide subscription, including everything staff do in the browser rather than through an API.
Managed fleet
One policy file deployed to every firm laptop, so seasonal staff are counted from their first day.
API gateway
The document-intake service the technology team wired directly into the practice system.
What Oabo shows in the first 30 days
- Every AI cost against the engagement that incurred it, not against one firm-wide line.
- First-pass review hours absorbed, per engagement type, in their own register.
- Contract-labour invoices that fell, matched to the ledger entries that prove they fell.
- A quality grade per claim, so the partner signing the renewal sees which figures are evidenced.
What to expect
Two units, two blocks. Cash is money your ledger moved. Capacity is time your people got back. Oabo never adds them together.