Practice management and legal AI for UK firms
Three modes for UK legal work: Chat for fast conversational answers, Search for research cited from live UK sources, and Extended Thinking for comprehensive analysis. Try them all free for 14 days, no card required.
What is Writford? Writford is an AI legal workspace for UK solicitors and small law firms. It answers legal questions with citations retrieved live from legislation.gov.uk, BAILII case law and SRA guidance, and connects that research to matter management, time recording, templates, email and billing. Every plan includes the full AI, data stays in the UK, and client material is never used to train AI models.
Chat
Fast conversational answers for everyday questions
The default mode. Ask any legal question and Writford answers instantly from its built-in legal knowledge, with no live-source calls and no extra usage spent on retrieval. Ideal for drafting starters, plain-English explanations, follow-ups, and anything where a current citation is not essential. Writford caveats the answer when it cannot verify from live sources.
- Instant conversational answers (cheapest mode)
- Draft client correspondence with proper legal terminology
- Plain-English explanations and follow-up questions
- Upload and analyse contracts, leases, and filings
- Export responses as PDF or Word documents
Search
Opt-in live research with pinpointed citations
Toggle Search when you need current UK sources cited in your answer. Writford queries legislation.gov.uk, SRA guidance, court rules, and trusted web sources before responding. Every claim is backed by a clickable reference. Opt-in per turn so you only spend usage on live research when you actually need it.
- Live queries against legislation.gov.uk, SRA guidance, case law, and trusted web sources
- Every answer grounded in clickable, pinpointed citations
- Opt-in per turn. Never runs on a Chat-only turn.
- Freshness-first: no cached snapshots, always current
- Keyboard shortcut: Cmd/Ctrl + .
Extended Thinking
Deep, step-by-step analysis for complex matters
Toggle on Extended Thinking when a question demands thoroughness. It retrieves live UK legal sources, then reasons through them at greater length before answering, and lists the sources it relied on under the answer. Ideal for complex matters that require every angle covered.
- Parallel queries across multiple authoritative sources
- Cross-referenced findings with synthesis into a cited answer
- Structured legal memos ready for partner review
- Ideal for complex multi-jurisdictional matters
- Full audit trail of every source consulted
AI Conflict Check
Firm-wide conflict screening on every new matter
The moment a matter is created, Writford screens both parties against every client, former client and opponent your firm has ever recorded, across all matters and every fee-earner. A deterministic engine catches the variants a manual search misses, Amazon Nova confirms the borderline matches, and a solicitor always makes the final call. Every waiver is recorded for the SRA.
- Screens across the whole firm, not just your own files
- Catches Ltd vs Limited, typos, initials, accents and sound-alike names
- AI confirms genuine matches but never clears a flagged conflict
- Graded Definite, Potential or None, naming who holds the record
- SRA-ready waiver trail: who waived it, when, and why
Everything Writford does
Writford covers the whole of a UK firm's day: AI legal research, the matter file, time and billing, and the client account and compliance work that most legal AI tools leave to a separate system.
Running the firm
AI and research
Matters and time
Try every mode free for 14 days
No card to start. Choose a 1, 3 or 5-year term when you subscribe.
Want this by the kind of firm you run? See Writford by firm size and practice area.
What does Writford actually do?
Writford is an AI workspace for UK solicitors covering the whole of a firm's day: cited legal research from live UK sources, the matter file, time recording and billing, and the client account and compliance work most legal AI tools leave to a separate system.
- What are the three AI modes?
- Chat answers conversationally from built-in knowledge without spending extra usage on retrieval. Search queries live UK sources and cites them. Extended Thinking retrieves across several sources and reasons through them at greater length, listing the sources it relied on.
- Does Writford handle client money and the client account?
- Yes. Client ledgers per matter, ring-fenced balances, separate designated client accounts, bank reconciliation, cash books, a three-way reconciliation report, VAT and month-end close.
- Do I need separate accounting software?
- No. The billing and the client account sit alongside the matters they belong to rather than in a second system you reconcile by hand.
- Is the AI included on every plan?
- Yes. The full AI is on every plan for every member, rather than gated to a higher tier or sold as an add-on.
- Can it replace my current case management system?
- That is what firms use it for. Matters, clients, time, invoices and documents can be imported from your existing system and reconciled against the export.
- Does a solicitor still review the AI output?
- Always. Answers arrive source-linked and wait for review. The AI can put a finding in front of you; it can never clear one.