Legal efficiency consulting for founders, CXOs, and owners. You buy legal services; Ergane makes sure you get what you pay for: how the work flows, what it should cost, and the technology under both. It is run by a practicing lawyer who has streamlined multiple workflows throughout his career, including automating his own AI-native law firm, so the advice comes from an operator, not a slide deck. His documented work productivity increased by ~5x. Your legal spend has a number too. Let Ergane find it.
A scoped, two to three week diagnostic: what your team actually needs, what the market sells, what you could build instead, and the honest cost of each path.
Requirements, market scan, weighted scoring, demos, and a recommendation memo. Independent advice; any vendor interest is disclosed up front.
When the analysis says build, we can build it or show you how. Intake flows, document automation, review workflows, and the glue between your existing tools, through to custom applications and integrations when nothing on the market fits (or you're just tired of paying for another subscription).
Tools you already bought, set up the way your team actually works.
Ongoing tuning of the stack you run: prompts, templates, integrations, and metrics, kept sharp as the work and the models change.
Zapier and other workflow automation designed, configured, and documented, with managed support if you want it kept running.
Do you actually need a BigLaw firm for your work? Are the rates, staffing, and terms competitive? A spend and panel review, matter tiering, billing guidelines, and support when it is time to renegotiate.
The stack only pays off if the team uses it. Hands-on sessions in your own workflows and documents: prompting that holds up under review, where the tools earn their keep, and where they cannot be trusted. Half-day, full-day, or a run of sessions.
Map how the work actually flows and where it snags.
Buy, build, or fix, with the numbers to defend the call.
Configure, implement, or build the system, milestone by milestone.
Fine-tune, measure, and keep it running.
Ergane is a legal efficiency consultancy, run by Damian Guzman, a corporate-commercial lawyer in the San Francisco Bay Area, who runs his own small, heavily automated practice. Before law he earned a B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations, the study of how organizations, work, and people fit together, from Cornell University; that is the lens this work needs, because legal efficiency is an operations problem before it is a legal one. The workflows we recommend are workflows he has built and runs daily: automated intake, document assembly, AI-assisted review, and the operational metrics behind them. He also knows what outside counsel work actually costs to produce, because he has been on both sides of the table as an in-house buyer of outside counsel, and now produces it for in-house teams. He is CIPP/US, CIPM, and PCIP certified, so privacy by design happens in-house. The name comes from Athena Ergane, goddess of craft and industry, the one the weavers and builders of Athens actually prayed to: wisdom with its hands on the loom. That is the posture here, advice with its hands on your workflows.
A scoped diagnostic, priced before it starts, with your real workflow on the table. You'll deal with Damian directly. Tell him where it's stuck, and he'll come back to you with scope and a number.