A map, not a move
Your systems stay where they are. Konotree reads from them and points back to them. Nothing is migrated; nothing is replaced.
Konotree · sovereignty at the edge
Your own AI. On your premises.
An AI is only as useful as what it can see. Konotree is the box: your own AI that works when the internet doesn't, syncs edge to cloud, and keeps the firm sovereign over its knowledge. Every person and every assistant reads from the same living record — and it outlasts any of them.
OfflineWorks without the internet
Edge ↔ cloudSyncs when you are back
SovereignYour knowledge, your premises
The problem with AI in a firm
The limit is not the model. It's what the model is allowed to see.
Your firm already knows how to do its work. That knowledge is in a few people's heads, a decade of email, three drives, and the practice system.
Every tool you use now ships with an assistant. Each one is confident, fast, and limited to its own drawer. The practice system's assistant knows the matter and nothing about the family. The email assistant knows the thread and nothing about the engagement letter. So the people who know the firm keep doing the connecting by hand, and the AI stays a toy.
There is a second cost, slower and larger. When a partner retires or an associate leaves, what goes with them is the part nobody wrote down. A firm that has captured that is worth more, trains a new hire in weeks, and absorbs an acquired practice without a two-year integration.
How a firm gets there
Seven stages to a sovereign knowledge system.
The box is the destination. The stages are how a firm gets there — one workflow at a time. Labs walks stages two through four with your team.
- 01
Chaos
Where is everything?
Several offices, staff on phones and laptops, a dozen cloud accounts. Every connection runs from one person to one tool. Nobody, including the owner, can see the whole state of the business. This is the normal result of growing, not a failing.
- 02 · With Labs
Discovery
What do we actually have?
One pass follows every connection into every drive, inbox, database and cloud account and brings back a copy. Read-only, one direction, nothing changed at the source. The result is the first complete inventory the firm has ever had.
- 03 · With Labs
Order
What is it?
The pile sorts itself into layers: files below, structured data in the middle, records from your cloud tools on top. Your naming convention does the sorting, which is why the people who know the work are in the room. For the first time, the firm can see itself.
- 04 · With Labs
Connection
How does it connect?
Every piece is wired back to the office or system it came from, and across to what it relates to: the engagement letter to the client, the client to the matter, the matter to its documents and invoices. From here, switching a vendor is an edit to the map, not a migration.
- 05 · Konotree
Consciousness
Where does it live?
The layers close into one sphere between the offices on the ground and the tools in the cloud. Knowledge, communication and intelligence in one place, kept in sync, independent of any vendor or address. This is what Konotree holds.
- 06
Intelligence
Who runs it?
With the whole firm visible, AI officers can work on the live state across every location at once. Information first, then finance, then operations. A management bench a thirty-person firm could never afford, now available to one.
- 07
Leadership
Who can now lead?
The owner walks the company and leaves a local AI at every region, every desk and every phone. A new office or an acquired firm joins the same map in weeks. It becomes easier to be an entrepreneur inside your own organization, and beyond it.
The box · software you own
A map, not a move.
Konotree runs where you put it. It gathers what your firm knows, keeps it current without anyone tending it, works offline, syncs to the cloud when you're back, and stays readable by people and by whichever AI you choose. The assistant you already pay for stops answering like a stranger and starts answering like a colleague in their fifth year.
Sorted by the people who know the work
The firm's own names for matters, documents and procedures do the sorting. The technology follows your conventions.
Kept current on its own
The first pass is a cleanup. After that, new documents, records and conversations find their place as they arrive.
Open to any assistant, owned by you
Built on an open standard. Point today's AI at it, and next year's. Change vendors without losing a year of memory.
Reading and drafting, never deciding
The system gathers, sorts, connects and proposes. A person signs. That line is fixed.
See Konotree ↗
The box: your own AI, offline-capable, edge↔cloud sync, sovereign by default.
In practice
What it looks like on a Monday morning.
The firm answers like a colleague
A new associate asks how the firm handles a situation and gets the precedents, the reasoning and the person who wrote them. A client calls the other office and whoever answers sees the whole file. A retiring partner's practice is still in the building after the farewell lunch.
Stages two through four, with your team
We run discovery, order and connection with your people, starting where the paper is heaviest. Workshops teach your team to use the AI they already have against their own files, so adoption happens with us in the room. Stages five through seven are built on that base.
One workflow, measured
Start with one workflow and the documents that run through it, such as intake and drafting in the busiest practice area, measured in hours per matter before and after. Every workflow added makes every assistant in the firm better.