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AI Discovery Day

One day. Your AI roadmap,
built.

You already know AI should be doing more for the firm. What you do not yet know is which work, in what order, at what cost. A Discovery Day answers that — in a single day, with a costed Menu of Opportunities you can act on the following week.

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The Gap

Most firms are buying tools
and hoping.

Large firms have internal AI labs. Smaller firms are running off-the-shelf tools. The five-to-fifty fee-earner firm in the middle has nowhere obvious to turn for grown-up, methodology-led help.

The investment is not the tool. It is the operating model around it — who uses it, how, on which work, inside what governance. Most firms have not built that model. They have bought the software but not the framework.

Discovery Day is the starting point. A day spent watching how your firm actually works — not presenting to you about AI — and handing you a structured, costed view of where AI changes things for you. There is no obligation to take any further engagement with Silva.

86%
of organisations do not measure whether their AI investment is actually working — they are buying tools, training staff, signing contracts, and hoping
From £3,000
fixed fee — the full day, the written output, and the follow-up session
Standalone
the deck and Menu of Opportunities are yours regardless of whether you proceed to any further engagement

The Process

Five steps to a clear picture

Not a workshop. Not a sales pitch. A structured day built around watching your work, not telling you about ours. Click any step, or let it run.

The week before  ·  30 minutes

Pre-call

A short call to agree the shape of the day. We confirm who attends, which workflows and practice areas to focus on, and which documents or live matters to have to hand. The day does not have a fixed agenda — the agenda is your firm.

  1. Agree which practice areas and workflows to prioritise
  2. Confirm who will be in the room — fee-earners, paralegals, heads of practice
  3. Identify any specific pressures, projects or questions on the table
  4. Agree format — on site or remote, full day or split sessions

Morning of Discovery Day

The Firm at Work

We sit with the people who do the work — fee-earners, paralegals, support staff — and watch the workflows that matter. Not workshops. Not presentations. Real work, observed and understood in context. This is where the useful information lives.

  1. Observe live workflows in the practice areas agreed in the pre-call
  2. Understand the tools already in use and how they are actually being used
  3. Note friction points — where work slows, where errors occur, where effort is high relative to value
  4. Ask the questions that surface what the documents and decks never show

Afternoon of Discovery Day

Synthesis

We map what we have seen, identify candidate AI use cases, and grade each one — for potential impact, implementation complexity, risk and indicative cost. A short compliance and privilege scan runs alongside to flag anything that needs addressing before AI work can start.

  1. Use cases identified and described for the specific firm context
  2. Each use case graded: impact (high / medium / low), complexity, risk
  3. Indicative cost and timeline attached to each prioritised opportunity
  4. Compliance and privilege scan: what needs to be resolved before AI is deployed

Within five working days

Output

A short, structured deck. The centrepiece is the costed Menu of Opportunities — the artefact the firm uses to decide what to do, in what order. Alongside it: a note on compliance and privilege risks worth addressing first. Readable, actionable, and yours to keep.

  1. Costed Menu of Opportunities — use cases graded and sequenced by impact and readiness
  2. For each use case: what it is, what it requires, what it costs, what it saves
  3. Compliance and privilege scan: a written note on risks and how to address them
  4. A recommended starting point — where to go first and why

After output delivery  ·  90 minutes

Follow-up Session

A working session, not a sales meeting. We walk through the deck together, answer the questions the document raises, and agree what — if anything — happens next. Discovery Day stands alone. Roughly half of firms proceed to a Process Review; roughly a quarter go straight to an implementation.

  1. Walk through the Menu of Opportunities together — every item, every grade
  2. Answer the practical questions: what does this require, who does it involve, when could it start
  3. Agree on a starting point or confirm the firm will act independently
  4. No obligation — the deck, the menu and the compliance scan are yours either way

Your Deliverable

The Menu of Opportunities

Every Discovery Day produces the same four outputs. The content changes firm to firm — the structure stays the same so nothing gets missed and the firm can act independently if it chooses to.

  1. Costed Menu of Opportunities Every AI use case identified, graded by impact and complexity, with an indicative cost and timeline. The document the firm uses to decide what to do and in what order.
  2. Compliance and privilege scan A written note on regulatory and privilege considerations — what needs to be in place before AI work can start, and what can be addressed in parallel.
  3. Recommended starting point A clear view of where to go first: the use case with the best ratio of impact, readiness and manageable risk for this firm at this point.
  4. 90-minute follow-up session A working session to walk through the outputs, answer the questions the document raises, and agree next steps — or confirm the firm will act independently.
Menu of Opportunities Example output — illustrative
Use case Impact Complexity Risk
Document review — due diligence Commercial contracts, 50–200 pp
High Low Low
First-draft lease review Residential and commercial
High Medium Medium
Client update letters Litigation and conveyancing
Medium Low Low
Legal research — case law Employment and commercial
Medium Medium Review
Bundling and chronologies Litigation — routine matters
High Low Low
Full output includes indicative costs, timelines and a recommended sequence · Compliance scan appended

What Comes Next

Discovery Day is Tier One

Five tiers in total, each standalone and fixed-fee where the work allows. Discovery Day is the entry point — but every tier can be taken independently, in any order.

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Tier 01

Discovery Day

One structured day. Watch, map, grade, scan for compliance risk. Costed Menu of Opportunities delivered within five working days. Follow-up session included.

From £3,000

Tier 02

Process Review

2–4 weeks. Deeper engagement across selected functions. Written report and full revised Menu of Opportunities.

From £8,000

Tier 03

Implementation

Delivery of a defined AI use case or workflow. Scoped, built and handed over. Fixed-fee where the scope is clear.

Scoped per engagement

Tier 04

Training

Structured AI training for fee-earners, teams or the whole firm. From introductory sessions to advanced methodology work.

From £1,800 per session

Tier 05

Retainer

Ongoing AI advisory — a named adviser on call, available for questions, reviews, new use cases and governance as the practice evolves.

Monthly fixed fee

Pricing

Fixed fee.
No surprises.

A Discovery Day is a single fixed fee. You know the cost before we start and it will not change. The fee covers the pre-call, the full day, the written output and the follow-up session.

For larger firms where the scope requires multiple days, Discovery is priced on enquiry. The structure stays the same — the scale adjusts.

Fixed fee £3,000 – £5,000
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All Discovery Days are subject to a brief qualifying call to confirm fit. Larger firms scoped on enquiry.