A short note for Michelle Kariyeva, Esq. · From Denis

Four ways AI can help your team day-to-day.

Claude is the kind of AI you can use today. It reads, drafts, and summarizes inside the files your team already produces. Below are four simple examples plus one tool for every laptop. Two minutes.

01 · Saturday, 11 PM

A weekend call gets answered in the right language.

A Russian-speaking family just had a small accident. Today the call goes to voicemail or to whoever is on after-hours. With AI: it picks up in the caller's language, writes down the basic facts, and texts back a Monday slot in 90 seconds. Monday morning your intake team has a sorted queue, no notes to retype.

02 · Demand letters

Half a day of drafting becomes thirty minutes of editing.

A demand letter takes an associate half a day. Most of it is rewriting generic templates so they sound like your firm. With AI trained on your firm's prior letters: a first draft in your voice. Associate edits 30 minutes. You review 15. Demand ships the same week the file matures.

03 · Multilingual replies

The Russian text at 7 PM gets a fluent Russian reply by 7:05.

Today the bilingual paralegal has gone home, so the reply waits or comes back in slow English. With AI: anyone on the team sees the original message, an English summary, and a draft reply in your firm's voice in the client's language. Edit one phrase, send. Same for Spanish and Georgian.

04 · Medical records

Eighty pages, summarized in thirty seconds.

An 80-page records bundle gets read three times: once by the paralegal, once by the associate, once when you review the notes. With AI: a five-bullet summary in 30 seconds. The team reads only the pages that actually matter.

05 · A tool for every laptop

Claude Team plan, around $30 per seat per month.

Each person on your team has a desktop assistant they can interrupt anytime. Useful for: rewriting a legal paragraph in plain Russian for a client, sorting Monday morning emails, summarizing a voicemail in any language, checking citations before they hit a senior. Standalone. Could roll out next week.

06 · Custom software, weeks not months

Built around your firm, owned by your firm.

What used to be a six-month, six-figure project is now a three-week build. Claude does the heavy coding next to me. The right build is the piece of your work where no off-the-shelf tool quite fits.

07 · If something resonates

If something here resonates, or it's already covered, or it just isn't your pain, I'd love to hear. One-word answers are fine: resonates / already doing / not my pain / didn't get it.

Half an hour whenever it's easy.

No deck. Founder to founder.