The opportunity is not personal experimentation. It is governed, workflow-integrated document intelligence.
Based on the vertical playbooks and operating patterns in AI That Pays for Itself.
Loan review, clause checks, summarization, and research support are pipeline problems before they are magic problems.
Personal AI use is ahead of firm-wide deployment. That gap is the opportunity and the risk.
Legal judgment stays human. AI handles volume, draft work, extraction, and issue spotting behind review gates.
Pick one workflow. Score readiness. Estimate current cost. Write the kill criterion before the pilot starts. If that sounds obvious, good. Obvious is usually what ships.