A legal assistant costs about $60,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee summarizes contracts, flags key terms, dates, and obligations, and drafts routine documents from templates, for a fraction of that.
*A shift is a focused block of work, roughly 2,000 credits (about $20 at standard rates). One shift every working day, 250 days a year, comes to about $5,000 a year; actual cost scales with how much it works.
Five things a legal assistant does every day, handled on demand.
Summarize contracts and flag key terms, dates, and obligations.
Draft routine documents from templates (NDAs, engagement letters).
Organize and index case documents and exhibits.
Research legal topics and summarize findings in plain language.
Compare two contract versions and highlight what changed.
Copy, paste, and adapt. Each one comes back as a finished artifact.
“Summarize this 30-page vendor contract. Pull out payment terms, termination clauses, liability caps, renewal dates, and anything unusual I should flag before signing.”
Delivers: a plain-language contract summary with flagged terms
“Compare these two versions of an NDA and show me exactly what changed, clause by clause.”
Delivers: a redline comparison report
“Draft a standard mutual NDA from our template for a new vendor called Northwind, effective next Monday.”
Delivers: a ready-to-review NDA draft
“Build a timeline of events from these case documents with dates, parties, and key facts.”
Delivers: a chronological case timeline
“Research the basic requirements for forming an LLC in Delaware and summarize them in plain language.”
Delivers: a plain-language research summary
Founders hand off the repetitive legal assistant work and get back finished deliverables, so they can focus on what only they can do.
Small teams point CellCog AI Employee at the legal assistant work no one owns, so output stays consistent and no longer waits on one person.
Agencies produce legal assistant deliverables across many clients at once, growing capacity without adding headcount.
Knowing when to lean on a person is the whole point.
Only a licensed attorney can give legal advice and make the judgment calls that carry professional responsibility; the tool prepares, it does not advise.
Representing a client and making formal filings are things a qualified human handles and signs for.
Reading the other side and negotiating terms is a human skill the tool supports with summaries but does not perform.
Hiring a legal assistant is valuable, and expensive. Here is how it compares for the production-heavy parts of the job.
| Human Legal Assistant | CellCog AI Employee | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | ~$60,000/yr fully loaded | ≈ $5,000/yr* |
| Availability | Business hours | Works shifts on demand, any hour |
| Ramp-up time | 2 to 4 weeks | Instant |
| Output formats | A few document types | Reports, PDFs, slides, spreadsheets, images, video, audio, dashboards, interactive apps |
| Scalability | One person, one task at a time | Parallel tasks |
| Sick days and turnover | Yes | Never |
| Onboarding | Recruiting and training | Goals, access, and approvals |
| Contract review speed | Hours per contract | Minutes per contract |
| Document drafting | One at a time | Drafts from templates instantly |
| Gives legal advice | No (only attorneys) | No (always human-reviewed) |
*A shift is a focused block of work, roughly 2,000 credits (about $20 at standard rates). One shift every working day, 250 days a year, comes to about $5,000 a year; actual cost scales with how much it works.
No. It summarizes documents, drafts from templates, and organizes case materials, but it does not give legal advice. A licensed attorney must review its output and make the legal calls.
It reliably surfaces key terms, dates, and unusual clauses to speed up review. You should still read the flagged sections yourself, since it is a tool to make review faster, not to replace a lawyer's judgment.
That is why a human reviews its work. Treat its summary as a fast first pass that points you to what matters, then verify the clauses that affect your decision.
Your documents stay yours and are used only to do the task you asked for. You control what you upload and can remove it at any time.
It drafts from your templates and standard forms, producing a clean first version. A qualified person should always review and finalize before anything is signed or filed.
A legal assistant costs about $60,000 a year once salary and benefits are counted. A CellCog AI Employee works in shifts of roughly 2,000 credits (about $20 each); one shift every working day, 250 days a year, comes to about $5,000.
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