Custom Model Fine-tuning for Legal Services

Training data quality dominates everything else. A thousand carefully curated examples routinely beat fifty thousand scraped ones, and the curation is the real work.

In legal services, privilege and confidentiality mean data handling is scrutinised more than model performance. That single fact reshapes how custom model fine-tuning has to be built here, the guardrails, the approval points and the evidence trail are design inputs rather than things bolted on before go-live.

The workload we are most often asked to take on first is contract review and clause extraction, usually integrated against matter management. Integration comes before intelligence. A model that cannot reach your systems of record is a demo with good manners.

Built by engineers who ship production systems, not by a practice that subcontracts the build. You own the code, the models where they are open-weight, and the documentation to run it without us.