AI has already changed how lawyers practise. The Ayora Manage agent brings that same simplicity to the business of running legal matters.

Clocktimizer showed pricing teams the value hidden in their time entries; Ayora turns that into a context layer the whole firm can own and query.

Every law firm is racing to build an AI knowledge stack, but the dataset that already records, in granular detail, how legal work actually gets done is sitting unused.

Strategic integration combines BigHand Matter Pricing & Budgeting with Ayora’s AI and data enrichment capabilities to help law firms improve pricing transparency, profitability and commercial decision-making.

The billable hour isn't dying - it's being repriced, and firms that get ahead of that shift will be the ones clients trust with their most complex work.

Pricing governance is becoming less like a policy document and more like a live operating system for how law firms price, approve and protect margin.

Keeping client rate cards accurate is not glamorous, but it is one of the clearest signals that a firm takes pricing seriously.

The real decision isn’t whether you can build an AI agent in-house - it’s whether you want to own the security, governance, and ongoing reliability burden that comes with putting it into production.

Walk Through: Ayora – AI-Driven Matter Pricing

If you are a pricing director, head of client value, or legal operations director trying to buy an AI tool, procurement can feel like a separate project that starts the moment the business case is finally clear.

Stefan talks to Marlene and Greg about revenue leakage, metadata, and the post-billable hour playbook

We're not replacing the billable hour - we're just adding five other ways to charge on top of it.

We've built new tools that let lawyers quote Alternative Fee Arrangements with the same confidence they've always had with the billable hour, but with better commercial insight and far less risk.-

AI-powered pricing agents are replacing legacy tools at leading law firms by delivering quotes in minutes instead of days, and transforming pricing from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.

At Briefing’s finance leaders event, law firm CFOs explored how AI is shaking up traditional pricing models in ways the industry is only beginning to grasp.

In today’s legal market, data analytics has become essential for law firm profitability, and by focusing on key metrics, adopting modern platforms, and driving lawyer engagement, firms can unlock significant financial, operational, and client relationship benefits.

Most law firms record only basic matter types, but capturing richer contextual data—such as deal structure, side represented, and key complexities—unlocks sharper pricing, faster pitching, and meaningful performance analysis.

AI data enrichment outperforms manual workflows by delivering faster, scalable, consistent and cost-effective matter data without draining lawyer or finance / BD resources.

Without richer contextual matter data, law firms can’t meaningfully measure AI’s impact on billable hours