Remembers the work you'd forget.
The six-minute call, the quick email, the meeting that ran over. Atora notices the work around your day and keeps it for you.
Buy back
your time.
Atora captures billable work as it happens and drafts each entry for you to approve. Nothing new to learn.
Roll of work
Thursday, 16 October
- 108:40Ndlovu Family TrustTelephone call with trustee re distribution0.3Draft
- 210:00Mokoena v ABC HoldingsConsultation with client and counsel1.2Draft
- 312:15Van der Merwe EstatePerusal of valuation report0.5Draft
- 415:30Khumalo Properties (Pty) LtdDrafting lease addendum0.8Draft
Where a lawyer's day goes
A working day has eight hours in it.
Each square is six minutes.
- Reached a bill
- Admin
- Worked, never written down
Source: Clio Legal Trends benchmarks, 2025: average utilisation 38%, about 3.0 billable hours in an eight-hour day. Clio's data comes mostly from firms in the United States.
What Atora does for your firm.
Writes it up properly.
Say what you did in your own words. Atora turns it into a clear entry on the right matter, ready for you to check.
Fits the way you already work.
No new system to learn and nothing to replace. Approved time goes to the billing system your firm already runs.
Shows partners where the time goes.
Which matters are running hot, who is stretched, what is still unbilled. Clear enough to act on. Rolling out to founding firms first.
Made for South African practice, from the first entry to month-end.
Six-minute units.
Your matter numbers.
Your billing system stays.
Built around POPIA.
Insight, not surveillance.
Atora works for the lawyer, not over their shoulder. Nothing is recorded that you can't see, and nothing reaches a client's bill until you approve it.
How we look after your dataAtora never
- Records your screen
- Logs your keystrokes
- Bills anything without your approval
- Sells your firm's data
Atora always
- Shows each lawyer their own time first
- Lets you edit or discard any draft
- Keeps your firm's data to your firm
Join the founding firms.
We're onboarding a small group of South African firms first. Founding firms work directly with the people building Atora and get set up with us.
Prefer email? Write to sales@atora.co.za
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