Fractional in-house counsel · Canada and the United States
Your in-house legal department, without the hourly bill.
For B2B companies past $5M ARR with no lawyer on staff. Every request gets a fixed price and a turnaround date, both in writing before the work starts. Fractional in-house counsel from $5,000 a month.
NDA reviewed in one business day, $99, fixed.
Who does this work today
Right now, you are the lawyer.
A firm costs more than the problem. A first legal hire costs more than the role can justify at your stage. So the MSA lands on your desk, and you read it on a Sunday, an Executive doing redlines is the worst possible hourly rate.
A different business model.
A law firm bills for time. Time is the product, so efficiency is disincentivized.
We price the outcome. The technology we have built takes the hours out of retrieval, comparison and the first pass, so speed is our problem rather than something you pay for. That is the entire reason there is a price list on this website and a turnaround date next to every line on it.
The judgement is not automated. The tooling handles the mechanical half. We read every document and we write every recommendation. If you send us a contract, a lawyer is the one looking at it.
| A law firm | A first legal hire | Contract Flow Solutions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | Hours | Salary, benefits, ramp | The outcome |
| Do you know the cost first? | No | Fixed, but for a full role | Yes, quoted before work starts |
| Do you know the date? | No | Depends on their queue | Yes, in writing |
| Small questions | $100* | Free | Free, no meter |
| Scales down when quiet | Yes | No | Yes |
| Who reads your contract | Probably your lawyer's associate | Your hire | Richard |
* 0.2hr based on a $500/hr rate.
Two halves of the job
Every firm tells you what could go wrong. We also tell you what you are not charging for.
Defensive
What could go wrong
Indemnities, liability caps, IP ownership, termination rights, data terms. The exposure you are carrying and never priced for. This is the work you are already paying a firm to do, at a fixed fee instead of an open file.
Offensive
What you are leaving on the table
Change-order mechanisms, acceptance criteria, payment triggers, renewal and uplift terms. Written for your team to sell. Nobody sells you this half. It is where the money is.
Commercial terms
Fixed fee. No billable hours.
Every price below is a starting point and every quote is fixed before work begins.
Fractional in-house counsel
from $5,000 / month
Your legal department, without the headcount. Fair-use volume set against your projected workload, guaranteed turnaround on every category of request, no hourly billing at any point.
Monthly or annual term. Training for your commercial team included if you want it.
Not ready for a retainer? Start with one document.
| Service | Price | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| NDA review | from $99 | 1 business day |
| SOW / order form review | from $299 | 2 business days |
| MSA / DPA review | from $499 | 3 business days |
| Redline turn in a live negotiation | from $299 | 1 business day |
| Risk & Revenue Audit | from $2,500 | 3 business days |
| Quick question by email | Included on retainer | Same business day |
Need it faster? Same-day turnaround is available on most request types for a rush fee.
How it works
You make business decisions. Our team informs you of the legal risks and we figure out strategy together.
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Tell us what you need
Email, the intake form, or a short call. Whichever costs you the least effort.
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Conflict check, then a fixed quote
We run a conflict check before we look at anything substantive. Once it clears, you get a fixed price and a turnaround date in writing. Neither moves after that.
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Onboarding, once
A short set of questions about how your business makes money, what you sell, and what you actually care about protecting. That is the last time you have to explain any of it.
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Then it runs
Send requests by email, or whatever channel suits your team. We come back on the date. You will hear from us when there is a genuine business decision to make, and not otherwise. If something falls outside commercial contracts, we tell you that day and point you to someone who does it properly.
The point of this is that you stop thinking about it.
Monthly or annual. Fair-use volume, set against your projected workload and reviewed if it changes.
Fit
Whether this applies to your company.
This fits
- B2B, past $5M ARR.
- No lawyer on staff.
- You or your COO are the one reviewing contracts.
- Contracts are how revenue actually lands: MSAs, SOWs, order forms, DPAs.
- You would rather buy a fixed price than an open hourly file.
This is not us
- You need litigation, employment disputes, immigration or IP prosecution. We do commercial contracts.
- You are pre-revenue and need a template pack. Buy one; you do not need us yet.
- You already have in-house counsel and want overflow support at hourly rates.
- You want the lowest number on the page. That is not what we compete on.
Who you're working with
You are hiring a lawyer, not a platform.
Contract Flow Solutions was founded by Richard Scott. Legal work is delivered through his firm, Scott Law. He was called to the bar in 2015 and works with B2B companies across Canada and the United States.
Before this, he spent seven years in-house. Three years as in-house counsel at Traction on Demand, a year at Salesforce after the acquisition, and three years as fractional in-house counsel to companies past $5M ARR. Same subject the whole way through: commercial contracts, and what they do to revenue.
Called to the bar in 2015. Member of the Law Society of British Columbia. Practising through Scott Law, Vancouver.
From seven years in-house
Unprofitable projects became profitable, because the contract finally allowed it.
At Traction on Demand, clients changed scope mid-project and the delivery team absorbed it every time. Not because they agreed to, but because the SOW gave them no mechanism to do anything else. Richard restructured the SOW so a scope change opened a change order, then trained the delivery team on when and how to use it. After that, when scope moved, the client made a choice: pay for the change, or cut something else. Projects that had been running at a loss stopped doing so.
This is the offensive half of the job. A firm reviewing that SOW would have flagged the liability cap and been right to. None of that would have made the projects profitable. The change-order mechanism did.
Seven years
- Traction on Demand
- In-house counsel · 3 years
- Salesforce
- Post-acquisition · 1 year
- B2B companies $5M+ ARR
- Fractional in-house counsel · 3 years
Clients
Contract Flow Solutions works with B2B companies in cybersecurity, SaaS and professional services across Canada and the United States. Client references available on request, and we will make the introduction directly.
Questions
Before you get in touch
- Why fixed fee instead of hourly?
- Hourly billing prices our time. You care about the outcome. A fixed fee also means you send us the small question, the one you would otherwise answer yourself to avoid opening a file. Those are usually the expensive ones.
- How can you be cheaper than a firm without being worse?
- Because a firm's revenue is the hours, so nothing in their model rewards efficiency. Ours is the outcome, so speed is worth something to us. The technology takes the hours out of the mechanical half. The judgement is ours, and we read every document that goes out.
- What does "guaranteed turnaround" mean in practice?
- Every category of request has a turnaround written into the engagement before you sign. Not an estimate, and not “as soon as we can.” A date, agreed in advance, so you can plan around it.
- When does the clock start?
- When we have everything we need to do the work, which usually means the documents and any context we have asked for. We will confirm in writing that the clock has started and what the date is, so there is never a question about it later.
- Are you a law firm?
- Legal work is delivered through Scott Law, our firm in Vancouver. Contract Flow Solutions is how that work is packaged and priced: fixed fees, guaranteed turnarounds, no hourly billing.
- What happens when something is outside what you do?
- We tell you the same day and point you to someone who handles it properly. Litigation, employment disputes, immigration, IP prosecution, regulatory filings and tax are all outside what we do.
- Who actually does the work?
- Richard does. Every document that goes out has been read by him.
Find out in 15 minutes whether this fits.
A scoping call is a conversation about your contracts and where they cost you. If we are not the right fit, you will hear that on the call.