BriefCo is South Africa’s first legal cost consultancy leveraging technology to automate the preparation and opposition of bills of costs. Their secure online platform allows attorneys to digitally deliver, store, and manage documents with a guaranteed 5-day turnaround. Uses AI and machine learning to automate bill-of-cost preparation. Team of admitted attorneys who can attend taxation hearings. Founded 2020 in South Africa. ~3,066 LinkedIn followers. AlphaCode programme graduate (ZAR 500K grant). Updates tech after every taxation hearing for continuous accuracy improvement.
Company Info
- Founded: 2020
- Team size: 11-50 employees
- Funding: $132.2K
- HQ: South Africa
- Sector: Litigation, Legal Marketplace
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Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Briefco New is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Briefco New addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
After winning a litigation matter the attorney needs to prepare a detailed bill of costs for taxation but the manual process of itemizing every court appearance, correspondence, and consultation takes weeks and requires specialist knowledge of court tariffs
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Briefco New
Litigation concludes → party-and-party or attorney-and-client costs must be drafted into a bill of costs → traditionally sent to a cost consultant who manually prepares the bill over weeks
After Briefco New
Bill of costs prepared → submitted for taxation hearing → BriefCo attorneys attend taxation on behalf of client → data from hearing fed back into platform to improve accuracy
Integrations & hand-offs
BriefCo (cost preparation) → South African courts (taxation hearings); → law firm billing systems (cost recovery). No known integrations with international practice management tools.
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