Why Miss Lucy · The idea
Give her an hour. Get back most of a day.
Miss Lucy isn't one more subscription that makes you do the work a little faster. She does the work — and on our own rough arithmetic, gives you back something like ten hours of output for every hour you put in.
output for every hour you give her
Our own rough arithmetic, not a study.
The trade
You spend your hour on judgment.
The research, a first draft and the citations checked, all at the same time instead of one after the other.
The part only a lawyer can do, and the part clients actually pay for.
Why it is not software
What you are buying is hours, not features.
A database makes you do the work faster.
Manupatra and SCC Online hand you results and a search box. You still read it, put it together, draft and cite. The hours are still yours to spend.
Miss Lucy does the work, and shows it.
She researches the point, drafts the document, checks the citations and remembers the matter. Then she shows her reasoning so you can stand behind it. You stop doing the routine work and start directing it.
So what you are buying is hours, not features.
The honest way to describe her is not 'a tool'. She does the work a junior would do.
Do the sum
The same sum you would do before hiring someone.
An hour of your own time is worth a great deal. If she saves you even a few hours a month, and she saves a good deal more, she has paid for herself early. That is not an argument about software. It is the same sum you would do before hiring someone.
Get the work a junior would do.
Draft 2 documents free and ask her anything for 10 days. No card.