For firms where judgement is the product.
Kelp prepares the proposal from similar engagements, drafts with the firm's judgement, watches every deadline and keeps each engagement for the next one.
Fee proposalDue diligence
Due diligence reportMeridiana
Signed
Sound familiar?
Law firms, advisory firms, engineering firms, executive search: different businesses with the same asset, what the firm knows.
Every proposal is tailor-made, in unbilled hours.
Kelp builds it from similar engagements: scope, timelines, team and fees, in the firm's format.
Judgement lives with the partners, and the partners are stretched thin.
AcceptedRejected
Kelp works like one of the team: drafts, reviews and deliverables in the firm's style and judgement.
A missed deadline costs money and reputation.
Kelp watches each engagement's calendar and alerts you in good time, with the draft ready.
The life of an engagement, with Kelp inside.
From proposal to close, Kelp works in every phase. And each engagement leaves judgement for the next one.
- 01Proposal
Scope, timelines and fees from similar engagementsThe credentials that already won
- 02Opening
The file opened with all the context
Deadlines and team, checked from day one
- 03Delivery
Deadlines watched, proactive alerts
Drafts and deliverables with the firm's judgement
- 04Close
Final report and invoicing, no loose endsThe client returns: the firm is already up to date
What does Kelp do in your firm, specifically?
Due diligence proposal
YouKelp's draft12:40Proposal · Grupo Vega
ScopeTimelinesTeamFees
The proposal, in hours.
Kelp takes the scope, timelines, team and fees from similar engagements and builds the proposal in hours, in the firm's format.
Share purchase agreement · Meridiana7 changesThe draft, with the firm's judgement.
Kelp drafts reports, contracts and deliverables with the firm's structure, language and judgement. The partner only reviews.
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3 days to spare
No deadline slips.
Kelp watches the requests, due dates, renewals and commitments of each engagement. When something comes in, it alerts you and arrives with the draft response ready.
PartnersChannelGrupo Vega is back. What did we do last time?The firm remembers everything.
Kelp keeps each engagement: what was done, with what judgement and what happened next. When the client returns, you ask and you get the full history.
And in your discipline, in detail.
Every firm has its own trade. This is what Kelp gets done in yours, inside the tools you already use.
Legal services
Law firms and legal advisory- The fee proposal with similar engagements in front of you
- Conflicts and background, checked when the file is opened
- The complete file: emails, documents and deadlines, in one place
- Drafts of contracts and filings in the firm's style
- Contract review with changes marked up and explained
- Claims, appeals and court filings: the draft, with case law found and cited
- Procedural deadlines and requests, watched, with proactive alerts
- The client informed in plain language, without legalese
- Minutes of meetings and calls, captured
- Hours recorded per file, without spreadsheets at month end
- The engagement's invoicing, reconciled
- The firm's judgement stays: each filing teaches the next
Advisory and accounting firms
Tax, accounting and payroll- Each client's tax calendar, watched with alerts
- Client documentation, requested and followed up
- Bookkeeping up to date: entries prepared and ready to review
- Tax returns prepared with each client's history in front of you
- Payroll and registrations, coordinated with the employment calendar
- Requests from the AEAT and Social Security, answered: the draft, ready to review
- The client informed in plain language: what they pay, why and when
- Queries answered with the firm's judgement
- Monthly and year-end closes, without marathons
- Retainer and extras invoicing, reconciled
- Each new client onboarded with all the context from day one
- Knowledge doesn't leave when someone leaves
Corporate finance and M&A
Mandates, DD and valuations- The mandate pitch with credentials and comparable transactions
- Teasers and info memos, drafted in the firm's format
- The buyer list, live: who, status and next step
- The data room, organised and monitored
- The due diligence: checklist followed up and findings in order
- Models and valuations, built and documented with the assumptions visible
- The process Q&A, managed without losing a single one
- Minutes of every investor call, captured
- The deal status, shown to the partner at a glance
- Retainers and success fees, tracked
- Each process leaves comparables and lessons for the next
- Confidentiality by design: access by mandate
HR, talent and executive search
Search, selection and development- The search proposal with similar processes in front of you
- The role brief, distilled from the requirements meeting
- Long lists built from history and the market
- Candidates researched: track record and public signals
- Interviews captured: what was said stays and can be compared
- Candidate reports drafted in the firm's format
- Each search's pipeline, up to date, with every candidate followed up
- The client informed every week, without having to ask
- References documented and comparable
- The close: offer, negotiation and onboarding follow-up
- Invoicing by process milestone, reconciled
- Each search leaves a market map for the next
Engineering and technical advisory
Projects, reports and works- The bid with the history: scope, timelines and fees from similar projects
- Requirements and applicable regulations, found per project
- Calculations and technical reports, prepared and documented with their assumptions
- Technical reports, drafted in the firm's format
- Site or project monitoring: visits, minutes and photos, in order
- Progress certificates and measurements, reconciled and on time
- Administrative deadlines and permits, watched with alerts
- Coordination with site management and contractors, captured
- Scope changes, detected and costed before they are carried out
- The client informed of progress without asking the engineer
- Hours per project against budget, visible
- Each project leaves standard solutions for the next
Architecture and design studios
Competitions, projects and site management- The competition: brief distilled and submission built from the studio's work
- The fee proposal by phase, from similar projects
- The client brief, captured from meetings with the owner
- Reports and specifications, drafted in the studio's format
- Approvals, permits and planning deadlines, watched
- Site minutes and visits, captured with their photos
- Progress certificates and measurements, tracked with the contractor
- The client informed at each phase, in plain language
- Variations detected and costed before they eat into the margin
- Hours per phase and profitability of the project, visible
- The studio's archive, in order: every project, searchable
- What was learned on site goes back into the next project
Audit, risk and compliance
Accounts, controls and standards- The proposal with the scope and hours of similar engagements
- Engagement planning: teams, dates and materiality
- The PBC list, followed up: the documentation requested automatically
- Working papers, prepared, organised and referenced
- Findings documented with their evidence
- Regulation, watched: changes affecting each client, flagged
- The report, drafted in the firm's format
- Whistleblowing channel and compliance programmes, documented
- Committees and monitoring reports, prepared
- Hours against budget per engagement, visible
- The engagement's invoicing and payment collection, tracked
- The engagement file, complete and searchable
Executive education and training
Programmes for companies- RFP responses with programmes that already worked
- The tailored learning path, built: modules, faculty and pricing
- Materials and cases adapted to the client, ready
- The logistics of each edition: rooms, agendas and travel sorted
- Invitations and reminders to participants, sent
- Attendance and participation, captured per session
- Faculty coordination: agendas and briefings
- Surveys sent and analysed at the close
- The impact report for the client, drafted
- The FUNDAE training subsidy, processed where it applies
- Coordination hours and profitability per programme
- Each edition improves the next, with the lessons in front of you
Show us an engagement and we'll show you the change.
A demo on your real case, in your sector. Up and running in weeks.
Tailored demo →Questions from law firms and expert firms.
The ones that come up with law firms, advisory firms, engineering firms and search firms.
Talk to us →Does Kelp work for a law firm or an advisory firm, not just for agencies?
Yes. Kelp covers eight expert-firm trades: legal services, advisory and administrative firms, corporate finance and M&A, HR and executive search, engineering, architecture, audit and compliance, and corporate training. Each with its own work done and its tools connected, from vLex and Aranzadi to a3, Wolters Kluwer or Capital IQ.
How does Kelp stop a deadline from slipping?
By watching each engagement's calendar: procedural deadlines, requests, due dates and renewals, with proactive alerts. And when a request comes in from the AEAT (Spanish Tax Agency) or Social Security, Kelp does more than alert you: it arrives with the draft response ready for you to review. Nothing expires in a drawer.
Does Kelp draft filings and contracts, or does it only organise the information?
It drafts. Contracts, court filings, reports and deliverables come out with the firm's structure, language and judgement, with case law found and cited where relevant, and with changes marked up and explained in reviews. The partner reviews before anything goes out; they don't rewrite.
Does Kelp check conflicts of interest before an engagement is accepted?
It checks conflicts and background when the file is opened, against the firm's history. From then on the file is complete in one place: emails, documents and deadlines, with the minutes of meetings and calls captured. Accepting or declining the engagement is still the partner's decision.
What is rolled out first in a law firm?
A tailored pilot on your real cases: we choose two or three areas where work piles up (files, deadlines, proposals), connect Kelp to what you already use without migrating anything, and it is running within weeks, with measurable objectives agreed before starting. After that, a monthly fee with work credits included. How to get started.
Does Kelp understand the technical language of our trade?
It learns from your files, templates and judgement until it writes like the firm, and it works with the sector's tools, from vLex and Aranzadi to a3 or Capital IQ. What it doesn't know, it asks someone who does.
Does it make sense for a five-person firm?
Yes: the fee is fixed, with no per-seat licences, and the pilot is sized to your real cases. In small firms Kelp is often the difference between turning down an engagement and taking it on without hiring.