From Boardroom Conversations to Working Prototypes

How most law firms and legal departments adopt AI today follows a familiar pattern: leadership selects a platform, procurement negotiates the licence, IT rolls it out, and a training session is scheduled. What almost never happens first is a structured test of what
the organisation's own people actually need.

The consequences of this pattern are becoming visible: adoption plateaus at a fraction of licensed seats, use cases are assumed rather than identified from practice, and the strategy is based on workflows that do not reflect reality. The gap is not a technology gap; it is an evidence gap.

There is a faster, cost effective, and more honest way to close it than another vendor demonstration or consultant report: a one or two day AI hackathon in which the professionals in the organisation -- lawyers, paralegals, knowledge managers and legal ops -- build working solutions together based on their own pain points.