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Tools for running a sharper firm.
A few free, no-account tools, for sizing up your own software spend and visibility, and a look at the client-facing calculators & self-assessments LexSteward builds into a firm’s website to pull in high-intent clients.
Software-stack cost calculator
Add up what you pay across case software, marketing, billing, intake, phone, e-sign, and AI tools, and see the annual savings when you only pay per attorney.
Open the tool →AI-visibility (AEO) audit
See how your firm shows up across AI answer engines and the technical signals that drive AI citation, a scored report with prioritized fixes.
Open the tool →Firm-operator calculators
Five self-input calculators for the person running the firm: true cost of ownership, cost as you grow, admin drag, effective hourly rate, and A/R leakage.
Open the tool →The interactive calculators and self-assessments that turn searchers into signed clients. They live on your firm’s own site, themed to your brand — segmented here by who they’re for. All free, all run in the browser, nothing stored.
For claimants & consumers
Plaintiff firms →The value estimators and eligibility screens a firm embeds on its own site to turn high-intent searchers into signed clients. Each runs in the browser and stores nothing.
Value estimators & benefit calculators
“What’s my case worth?”, back-pay, net recovery, and more — across every practice area.
See all calculators →Case triage & eligibility screens
“Do I have a case?”, eligibility, and deadline checks — private, browser-only.
See all self-assessments →For businesses & defense firms
Defense firms →Structural, input-your-own-numbers tools a defense firm can offer its business clients — no benchmark, capture-free, nothing stored or sent.
Litigation Exposure Estimator
An illustrative exposure picture from your own numbers — no industry benchmark.
See it on /defense →Defense Budget Estimator
Build a defense budget from your own phase estimates — no industry benchmark.
See it on /defense →Defend-vs-Settle Analyzer
Compare a settlement offer to your own estimate of defending — from your numbers only.
See it on /defense →Litigation-Readiness Scorecard
A structural self-audit of how prepared your organization is to defend a claim — scored from your own answers.
See it on /defense →Employment-Practices Liability Self-Audit
A structural self-check of the employment practices that most often drive (or defuse) EPL claims.
See it on /defense →Contract-Risk Checklist
A structural checklist of the clauses that most shift risk in a commercial contract — scored from your own review.
See it on /defense →For in-house & fractional counsel
In-house counsel →Structural self-checks and budget tools for a corporate legal function — spend, readiness, and coverage-model fit, from your own numbers. Nothing stored or sent.
Do You Need a Fractional GC?
A short, structural self-check — it reflects your own answers back as a recommendation.
See it on /in-house →Legal-Spend Estimator
Enter your own outside-counsel spend to see how much is routine, repeatable work.
See it on /in-house →Legal-Budget Builder
Add up your own legal line items into an annual budget — no benchmark, no quote.
See it on /in-house →Outside-Counsel Spend Audit
See your own outside-counsel spend per matter and implied hours — your numbers only.
See it on /in-house →Startup Legal-Readiness Scorecard
A structural self-audit of the legal foundations investors, acquirers, and customers check — scored from your own answers.
See it on /in-house →Fundraise Legal-Readiness Check
A structural check of the documents and housekeeping a financing diligence process will ask for — before the term sheet.
See it on /in-house →Fractional vs. Outside vs. Full-Time Counsel
A structural router that points to the legal-coverage model your own answers suggest — no benchmark, no quote.
See it on /in-house →Data-Privacy Readiness Check (GDPR / CCPA)
A structural self-check of core data-privacy practices, keyed to whether GDPR or CCPA/CPRA may apply to you.
See it on /in-house →Browse the practice-area pages, each with its own client-facing estimators, or open the full indexes.