Bench-Work

What's been built.

Custom engagements occasionally produce something general enough to stand on its own. These are those. They are shown as evidence of approach rather than as a catalogue — neither is sold as a subscription.

§ 01 — Platform

In production

Bench-Work.ai

Case management and document intelligence for a litigation practice.

Bench-Work.ai holds the working life of a case: pleadings, medical records, correspondence, deposition transcripts, expert materials, and the deadlines that govern all of it. It reads what comes in, files it against the right matter, and makes years of accumulated record searchable in the way a lawyer actually asks questions of a file.

It runs a litigation practice today — intake through trial, on live matters, under real deadlines. It began as a custom build for one firm's specific problems and grew from there.

Availability: in production for a single firm. Not offered as a general subscription.

§ 02 — In development

Private pilot

Bench-Work Connect

Helps busy lawyers take part in social media without it becoming another thing on the list.

Professional visibility matters to a practice, and it is almost always the first thing to lose to a trial calendar. Connect removes the friction between deciding to post something and actually posting it — no new platform to learn, no workflow to adopt, and nothing that acts unless a person chooses to.

How it handles a member's account

Connect is built directly on LinkedIn's official API, under the permission LinkedIn grants for exactly this purpose. That choice sets hard limits on what the application can do, and those limits are the point:

  • 01 It never posts without a click. There is no automatic posting, no automatic liking, and no scheduled activity that acts on a member's behalf. Software that manufactures engagement violates LinkedIn's User Agreement and puts the member's account at risk. This does neither.
  • 02 It reads nothing. No connections, no messages, no feed, no activity. The application holds permission to publish a post as the member, and holds nothing else.
  • 03 A member can end it in one step. Revoking access from LinkedIn's own settings removes the permission immediately, without asking anyone here.

Full detail is in the application's privacy policy and terms of use.

Availability: in development, running as a private pilot at a single firm. No public sign-up.

§ 03 — Custom

Most of the work isn't on this page.

Custom builds are the practice; the two products above are what happened to generalize. If your firm has a workflow worth solving properly, that conversation starts here.