The billable hour rewards slow lawyers and punishes efficient ones. It teaches clients to dread every email, every call, every minute on the clock. It hides cost overruns until the invoice lands. There is a better way to run a modern practice.
The faster and more experienced you get, the less you earn per matter. Clients pay more for juniors learning on their case than for the partner who could have closed it in an afternoon. That is a broken incentive, not a pricing model.
Hours pile up quietly until billing day. By then the matter is unprofitable and the write-off conversation has already started. Fixed fees with live telemetry surface the bleed on day three, not day ninety.
In-house counsel and individual clients budget in fixed numbers. A quoted fee with clear inclusions, exclusions, and a deterministic amendment process is the difference between a referral and a complaint.
Moving away from hourly billing fails when firms guess the price. Teryn AI models internal cost per role, applies your margin and risk buffer, and tracks actual effort against the quote in real time.
Start on Early Access for free. Upgrade when you need more matters, seats, and archive depth. You'll sign in before any payment.
The full product on a small footprint — run real matters end to end.
The working plan for practices billing on fixed-fee structures.
For firms standardising matter economics across every fee earner.
Prices shown in GBP based on your location. VAT added at checkout where applicable. Change currency anytime in Profile Settings.
Real quotes from the lawyers, authors and firm leaders who've spent decades arguing that fixed-fee pricing is the future. Scroll →
Six questions we hear on almost every first call. The full FAQ goes deeper on payments, the Tax Engine, security, scale, and regulatory compliance.
