Clinch is a small, opinionated automation studio that builds AI workflows for law firms, accounting practices, and medical offices — the same three verticals, every engagement.
Clinch was founded by someone who spent a decade inside the professional-services world — in law firm operations, accounting practice management, and the unglamorous middle of the billing-and-scheduling stack. The same workflows kept coming up: intake, document drafting, reconciliations, follow-ups, file review. The same hours kept disappearing into them. The same spreadsheets kept pretending they were systems.
When the AI tooling finally got good enough to do real work on real documents, the obvious question wasn’t “what’s possible?” It was “who is going to bring this to the firms that actually need it, in the language they already speak?” Most agencies selling AI at the time were generalists with shiny decks. They sold possibility; they didn’t ship outcomes. The firms we work with don’t need another pitch — they need hours back on the clock.
So Clinch is built opposite to that: one industry, three verticals inside it, no platform pitch, no retainer trap. Every engagement starts with the same $500 assessment, and the rest of the work is priced against what actually shows up in the firm’s books.
The agency model rewards hours sold. The wrong metric, in the wrong direction: it pushes vendors toward longer scopes, more retainers, and deck-driven deliverables that look like progress but aren’t. It pushes firms to pay for “transformation” they can’t find on a P&L.
Clinch is accountable to a different number: overhead reduction in hours and dollars, measured against your firm’s actual books. If the workflows we build don’t show up there, the engagement hasn’t paid off — and we don’t bill on top of a thing that didn’t move. The $500 assessment is paid back or refunded based on whether we can find at least five hours of weekly opportunity on the first call. The build that follows is fixed-scope or performance-priced against the metric you care about.
That means our engagements bill out only when the work moves the number. It’s a small constraint that flips the entire relationship: we’re incentivized to ship the smallest thing that pays off, to instrument it so you can see the impact, and to stop when there’s nothing left to recover. No vanity scope. No deck at the end. Just hours your team gets back.
See how those numbers show up in our case studies →