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Cover

Research through the firm. Counsel on the loop.

The lawyer is the customer. The client is the user. Like a chief buying vests for officers.

• Public product: CounselConduit on kovelai.com
• Wholly owned by ShadowTagAI Inc.
• Factual posture, not a court guarantee. Product does not create privilege.

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Problem

Clients already search. The other side can take it.

At 2 a.m. they ask a public model. After Heppner, that trail is fair game. You get ambushed by wrong opinions. You did not give the first word.

• Privilege does not attach retroactively.
• The problem is not that they use AI. It is that they use it outside you.

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Solution

Your firm’s portal. You stay on the loop.

They search, chat, and dump facts through your branded door. You see it. You bill under the rules. You write the first opinion.

• Counsel stays on the loop for client research and bad AI advice outside the portal.
• Either through the firm, or proceed at their peril (lawyer speech — not a product immunity claim).

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Market validation

Heppner made the pitch write itself.

A public tool is not a lawyer. A contemporaneous Michigan decision treated a model as a tool. The split is the market. Firms need a defensible standard now.

• We sell the strongest available posture. We do not sell certainty.

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Market

1.3 million U.S. attorneys. Start where discovery bites.

Beachhead: criminal, family, plaintiff-side. Planning TAM stays in the memo. This slide is the buyer, not a hockey stick.

• Lawyer buys. Client wears it.

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Product

Two sides. One firm vault.

Four yearly service fees. Google bills the firm for Gemini and applicable Google Cloud and Workspace usage. CounselConduit does not resell or mark up Google. Client view can expire; the firm keeps the file.

• Split plane: we hold seats and invoices, not prompt bodies.
• A lawyer-routed channel is optionality for providers. Not immunity.

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Business model

Client package. Firm subscription.

The firm buys the subscription. Client legal fees stay with the firm. Solo, Boutique, Midsize, Big Law. Book a pilot until checkout is proved.

• We are not a public advice bot.
• No special “law” model SKU on the roadmap as a promise.

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Underlying magic

Attorney-directed from the first keystroke.

Attorney direction begins before use. The firm is the Google customer. The system records who directed what, when. CounselConduit does not create privilege.

• Zero-retention plane for prompts when the firm chooses it.
• Receipt plane is separate. Judge 6 is not this product.

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Competition

They build for the lawyer’s own desk.

Desk tools serve the associate. Consumer models are public and exposed. CounselConduit is the firm-bought client channel with counsel on the loop — not a seat-replacement wedge.

• Empty quadrant: client-facing + attorney-directed + prepaid.

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Advantages

The vest, not the sermon.

Heppner is a fact pattern, not a privilege grant. Oversight without ambush. Billing that matches the rules.

• Health copy, if any, is oversight — never a privilege claim.

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Team

Erik L. Hancock, JD — Founder, CEO

Lawyer and builder. Ethics counsel is a planned hire before the privilege theory faces diligence.

• founder@shadowtagai.com
• 495 N Main St., #119, Lakeport, CA 95453
• +1 (369) 235-5643 · fax (707) 263-8659

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The ask

Pre-seed to put the first firms on the loop.

Intent: engineering, an ethics opinion, CLE as the door. 18-month path to a small paying set. Older year-three curves are not in this deck.

• Web-only until revenue.
• First hire: product-minded full-stack, not a half-million outlier.