AI transformation for professional services

Expertise built your firm. AI will scale it.

For law, accounting and consulting firms, we build two things: AI agents that run your workflows, and a central intelligence that stops partners and C-level leaders from being the bottleneck.

The shift

Billable hours don't scale. Neither does partner attention. The firms that pull ahead won't own the most AI tools. They'll be the ones that rebuild how expert work gets delivered.

Law firms

Diligence, contract review and legal research that clear first pass in minutes, every finding cited back to source.

Accounting firms

Close, tax preparation and audit testing with more capacity in busy season, and without the seasonal hiring scramble.

Consulting firms

Proposals, analysis and firm knowledge at work on every engagement, not buried in last year's slide decks.

01

Workflow Agents

Agents that do the work, and know when a professional must decide.

We design, build and deploy agents tailored to your workflows, connected to your document management, practice and knowledge systems. They automate the repetitive, augment your professionals, and leave a full audit trail behind every output.

    Priority finding

    Interactive illustration of a Mentra agent run. Agents never finalise work without a named professional's sign-off.

    02

    Central Intelligence

    Your firm keeps moving, even when you're not in the room.

    In most firms, every important answer still runs through a partner, founder or executive. We build one central intelligence around how your leaders think and decide, connected to your clients, financials and knowledge. Teams get answers and routine approvals within the rules you set. You only see what truly needs you.

    • Decision rules and judgement captured from your leaders
    • One source across matters, clients, finance and knowledge
    • Routine questions and approvals handled within set limits
    • Daily brief of the decisions that need you, context included
    Your brief, this morningExample output
    Answered for you
    41
    Cleared by your rules
    12
    Need you
    3
    • Fee exception, Project Halyard11% below floor. Margin impact and two precedents attached.
    • Lateral hire, Tax practiceConflict check clear. Package sits 6% above band.
    • Client escalation, Retail groupRenewal at risk. Meeting history and draft reply ready.

    Where it starts

    AI Diagnostic & Strategy

    Know exactly where AI will pay back, what stands in the way, and what to do first.

    In four weeks we assess your readiness across data, workflows, risk and people, then size every opportunity against your actual economics. Your leadership team leaves with a decision, not a slide deck of possibilities.

    • AI readiness assessment across practices
    • Opportunity map, sized by margin impact
    • Risk, confidentiality and governance review
    • 18-month transformation roadmap
    Opportunity mapExample output
    Start here Contract review Proposal drafting Time narratives Legal research KYC onboarding Business impact Ease of deployment

    Approach

    Consulting rigour.
    Engineering follow-through.

    1. Weeks 1–4

      Diagnose

      Interview partners and fee earners, map workflows, audit data and size what matters.

    2. Weeks 5–8

      Design

      Pick the first use case, set the success metric and agree review and risk controls.

    3. Weeks 9–16

      Deploy

      Build, test on real matters and go live with one practice group, measured weekly.

    4. Ongoing

      Compound

      Train your people, extend across practices and put each win to work on the next.

    Case studies

    Measured in margin, not in demos.

    Law · Workflow Agents

    Aldine & Rowe LLP

    240-lawyer corporate firm

    68%

    less first-pass diligence time

    M&A teams were writing off diligence hours to protect fixed-fee deals. We deployed an agent that reviews data rooms against the firm's own playbook and cites every finding to source.

    Live in
    14 weeks
    Write-offs
    −31%
    Adoption
    9 in 10 deal teams

    Accounting · Workflow Agents

    Harlow Finch

    Top-30 audit and tax firm

    +41%

    busy-season capacity, no new hires

    Staff shortages were forcing the firm to turn away tax work. Agents now prepare workpapers and pre-test audit samples, so seniors start from a reviewed draft rather than a blank file.

    Live in
    12 weeks
    Prep time
    −54%
    Overtime
    −28%

    Consulting · Workflow Agents

    Northgate Partners

    Pan-European strategy boutique

    +11 pts

    proposal win rate

    Partners spent nights rebuilding proposals from memory. A knowledge agent now finds the right credentials, experts and past approaches, and drafts a first version on day one.

    Live in
    10 weeks
    Time to draft
    9 days → 2
    Payback
    5 months

    Advisory · Central Intelligence

    Merrow & Hale

    Founder-led advisory firm, 180 people

    −62%

    decisions escalated to the founding partners

    Three founding partners were approving everything from fee exceptions to client replies, and teams waited days for answers. We built a central intelligence on their decision rules, connected to clients and financials. Routine calls now clear on their own, and each partner starts the day with the few that matter.

    Live in
    15 weeks
    Approval time
    3 days → 4 hours
    Partner time back
    11 h/week

    “Everyone else showed us what AI could do. Mentra showed us which decision to make on Monday, then stayed until it was running.”

    Managing Partner, Aldine & Rowe LLP

    Built for firms where confidentiality is the business.

    • Your data stays yours

      Private deployment in your environment. Client data never trains a shared model.

    • Professionals stay accountable

      Review points are designed in, so nothing leaves without a named sign-off.

    • Every output is traceable

      Sources, prompts, versions and approvals are logged for audit and regulators.

    • Your walls hold

      Agents inherit matter permissions and ethical walls from your existing systems.

    Pricing

    Fixed scopes. Clear commitments.

    Diagnostic

    For leadership teams deciding where to begin.

    €28,000

    Fixed fee · 4 weeks

    • AI readiness assessment
    • Sized opportunity map
    • Risk and governance review
    • 18-month roadmap, presented to your partnership
    Start with a diagnostic

    Workflow Agents Most chosen

    For firms ready to put a first agent into production.

    from €85,000

    Per agent · 10–16 weeks

    • Tailored agent on your workflow
    • Integration with your DMS and practice systems
    • Private deployment and audit trail
    • Team training and 90 days of tuning
    Scope your first agent

    Central Intelligence

    For partners and C-level leaders who have become the bottleneck.

    from €120,000

    Central build · 12–16 weeks

    • Your decision rules and judgement captured
    • One source across clients, finance and knowledge
    • Routine approvals handled within set limits
    • Daily brief of the decisions that need you
    Free up your leaders

    Transformation Partner

    Both systems, run and extended across the firm by a dedicated team.

    from €18,000/month

    12-month partnership

    Talk to a partner

    Diagnostic fee credited in full against a Workflow Agents or Central Intelligence build started within 90 days. All fees exclude VAT.

    Questions partners ask

    Are you tied to one AI vendor?

    No. We select models per use case on accuracy, cost and data residency, and design so you can swap them later without rebuilding.

    We already license AI tools. Why would we need you?

    Licences give access, not results. We find where those tools already do the job, and build only where your workflow or know-how requires something of your own.

    What does this need from our partners?

    About ten hours from a sponsor over the diagnostic, and a practice lead who owns the first use case. We handle the rest.

    What happens to the billable hour?

    Every diagnostic models it directly. Most firms use the capacity to take on more work, protect fixed-fee margin and move selected services to value-based pricing.

    Your next step

    Your competitors are already deciding.

    Spend 45 minutes with a Mentra partner. You'll leave knowing your three highest-value AI opportunities, whether or not we ever work together.

    We take on four new diagnostics each quarter.

    A partner replies within one business day. No sales sequence.