Tech Advisory: Tech Decisions, Engineered

Advisory engagements that frame the decisions behind every successful implementation, led by senior engineers and technology leaders who have built legal technology at international firm scale.

Why This Service Exists

Most legal technology failures start as decision failures. They surface eighteen months later, when a platform will not integrate, a vendor contract cannot be exited, or an AI pilot has no path into production because the dependencies were never sequenced.

Firms usually get that advice from one of two places: generalist management consultancies who have never shipped legal software, or the vendors themselves, whose recommendations are structurally tied to their own roadmap. Neither is a neutral party who has actually built the thing.

3Rive advises from the build side. The people who run our advisory engagements are the same senior engineers and technology leaders who deliver our development, AI and implementation work, so the recommendation and the delivery reality stay connected.

How It Helps Clients

  • Advice from people who have shipped.Every recommendation comes from someone who has delivered comparable systems inside an international law firm, so estimates, sequencing and integration risk are grounded in delivery experience.
  • Vendor-neutral by structure.We hold no reseller margin on any platform we assess, including the ones we are certified to deploy. Our registration in Anthropic's Claude Partner Network gives us depth on Claude and earns us nothing when the right answer is a different model, a different vendor, or a tool already sitting in your stack.
  • The output is a sequenced plan.You get a prioritised implementation sequence with dependencies mapped, written to survive contact with a partner meeting.
  • Legal context assumed.Matter lifecycle, conflicts, client confidentiality obligations, jurisdictional data rules and partner governance are the starting assumptions of the engagement. The first session goes on your decision.

What We Cover

Architecture and Strategy

  • Technology architecture and platform strategy.
  • AI strategy and roadmap definition.
  • Legal tech stack consolidation and rationalisation.

Decision Support

  • Build-versus-buy assessments.
  • Vendor selection and procurement support.
  • Implementation sequencing and dependency mapping.

Specialist Diagnostics

  • Technical due diligence for legal mergers and acquisitions.
  • Capability and readiness assessments.
  • Cost-to-serve and ROI modelling for technology investments.

How It Works

1

Scoping and Framing

We agree the decision the engagement has to answer, the constraints around it, and who has to be persuaded by the output.

2

Current-State Assessment

Review of the existing stack, integration surface, data estate, delivery capability and contractual commitments.

3

Option Development

Build, buy and hybrid options modelled against cost, time to value, integration risk and internal capability.

4

Recommendation and Business Case

A single recommended path with cost-to-serve and ROI modelling, written for the audience that signs it off.

5

Sequencing and Dependency Map

The recommendation broken into a phased implementation sequence, with dependencies and decision gates identified.

6

Handover or Delivery

Your team executes, or 3Rive delivers, using the same people who wrote the recommendation.

Trusted By

Recognised in the legal tech industry

Named client references and case data are pending sign-off. Here's what's already public.

British Legal Technology Awards 2023 Finalist — Alliance of the Year
Case StudySee it in action: Global Top-30 Insurance-Led Law Firm

Definition

What is legal tech consulting?

Legal Tech Consulting

Legal tech consulting is advisory work that helps a law firm decide what technology to build, buy or retire, and in what order. It covers technology architecture, AI strategy, build-versus-buy assessment, vendor selection, and implementation sequencing. 3Rive delivers legal tech consulting through senior engineers and technology leaders with direct experience building legal technology at international firm scale, and holds no reseller margin on the platforms it assesses.

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Make the decision once, and make it right.

Tell us the technology decision in front of you. We will tell you how we would frame it.