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The 5 Levels of
Legal AI Adoption

You have the tools. How much of the work is actually supported? Map your firm's governance, infrastructure, workflow, and compliance practices—and choose what to improve next.

12 questions · About 2 minutes · No email required

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Four dimensions. One working picture.
01
Governance

Who decides, owns, and reviews?

02
Infrastructure

Can the work survive a handoff?

03
Workflow

Where does human judgment stay?

04
Compliance

What can your team demonstrate?

A planning framework, based on your answers.
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Firm Profile

Attorney headcount at your firm?

Practice Area

What's your primary practice area?

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Governance Protocol

Does your firm have a written AI use policy?

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Decision Authority

Who owns AI decisions at your firm?

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Policy Lifecycle

When was your AI policy last reviewed or updated?

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Infrastructure Stack

What best describes your firm's AI tool setup?

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Knowledge Redundancy

If the person who manages your AI tools left tomorrow, would the system keep running?

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Workflow Architecture

What percentage of your document review, contract work, or research involves AI?

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Intelligence Mapping

Has your firm identified which tasks are rule-based versus which require human judgment?

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Compliance Enforcement

Do your engagement letters or retainer agreements address AI use?

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Court Readiness

If a court issued an AI-related protective order tomorrow, could you demonstrate compliance?

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Evidentiary Logging

Does your firm maintain audit trails on AI-assisted work product?

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Your self-assessment

Governance
Infrastructure
Workflow
Compliance
Where the answers diverge

Turn a level into a working habit.

The useful next step is something your team can show: a named owner, a documented workflow, a review record. Start with the lowest dimension and test one improvement before expanding.

Get the workflow playbook →
The playbook's Workflow Readiness Scorecard, for assessing a candidate workflow
A separate worksheet for choosing your first pilot.

A separate question: AI visibility. This assessment covers how your firm uses AI. The Visibility Diagnostic examines how AI search represents your firm to potential clients.

Explore the Visibility Diagnostic →
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How the score works

This is an AI Vortex planning framework, not an audit, certification, or ranking against other firms. It uses your answers only. It does not inspect your systems, documents, or legal compliance.

Two profile questions provide context. Ten scored questions contribute to four dimensions. Each dimension receives a level from 1 to 5; the overall level is their average, rounded down.

See the scoring thresholds
Raw point totals mapped to levels 1 → 5
DimensionL1L2L3L4L5
Governance (Q1–3)0–12–34–56–78–9
Infrastructure (Q4–5)0–123–45–67
Workflow (Q6–7)0–123–45–67–8
Compliance (Q8–10)0–12–34–56–89–10

Answers stay in this page's memory. Shared result links contain the four levels, but not your answers or firm profile. Anyone with the link can view those levels. Standard site analytics may record page visits.

Manu Ayala

I'm Manu Ayala. I spent five years doing legal investigations for a US law firm. Now I run AI Vortex, where I help firms figure out where they actually stand on AI and build the infrastructure to get to where they need to be. I write about what I find at aivortex.io/legal.

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