E-billing & Spend Management

The only e-billing solution built for value-based pricing.

Every other e-billing tool starts at the invoice. PERSUIT starts at the moment a matter is scoped, priced, and awarded. So when the invoice hits, you already know if it's right. The industry's only fit-for-purpose billing solution for AFAs and value-based fee arrangements.

Traditional e-billing Sees This

• Matter opens
• Work starts
• Scope shifts
• WIP builds
• Invoice arrives

Flags problems after the money is gone.

PERSUIT Sees This

• Matter opens
• Scope and price agreed
• WIP live
• Budget tracked
• Invoice expected

You already know the answer before it's submitted.

The Real Problem

Legal Ops doesn't hate E-billing. They hate what it makes them do.

• Explaining budget overruns after the fact.
• Manually chasing firms for accrual estimates every month — and getting fiction.
• Rate cards buried in PDFs, disconnected from enforcement.
• Agreed rates quietly renegotiated per matter, with no visibility until annual review.
• Acting as the human middleware between procurement, finance, and outside counsel.
• Systems that flag problems only after the invoice is already in.

The dirty secret? Firms aren't careless. They're managing dozens of clients, each with different billing rules, accrual timelines, and OCG nuances. The system is broken — not the firms. PERSUIT fixes the system.

What Makes PERSUIT Different

Traditional e-billing records what happened. PERSUIT controls what happens.

Traditional e-billing

✗ Downstream admin process
Treats billing as something that happens after the work is done. By then, you've already lost.

✗ Rate cards in PDFs
Disconnected from enforcement. Agreed rates quietly drift per matter with no visibility until annual review.

✗ Static, guessed budgets
Budget set. Scope changes. Invoice surprises. Repeat.

✗ Accruals are educated guesses
Manual estimates from firms every month. Finance doesn't fully trust the numbers. Neither do you.

✗ Firms must be policed
All the compliance work lands on Legal Ops.

✗ Built for hourly billing
AFAs, fixed fees, and value-based arrangements are afterthoughts — shoehorned into systems designed around the billable hour.

PERSUIT e-billing

✓ One connected intelligence platform
Intake, sourcing, pricing, guidelines, budgets, WIP, and billing — all connected. Commercial discipline from day one.

✓ Rates flow from RFP into e-billing
No PDF graveyard. Agreed vs. actual is visible in real time, not at annual review.

✓ Living, phased budgets
Scope evolution is tracked, not ignored. Budgets from the RFP flow directly into billing.

✓ Continuous WIP from firm systems
Accruals reflect reality. Finance trusts the numbers. You know your total liability before invoices land.

✓ BillClear makes compliance easy for firms
Firms correct invoices before submission. Value is captured without pushing policing work onto your team.

✓ Purpose-built for AFAs and value-based pricing
Fixed fees, capped fees, blended rates, success fees — tracked and enforced natively. Not bolted onto an hourly billing engine. The only e-billing solution designed for how modern legal teams actually price work.

What Others Can't See

Agreed vs. Actual.

Most enterprises agree on rates once a year and then hope they stick. PERSUIT makes hope unnecessary. Rates negotiated in the RFP flow directly into e-billing enforcement. If a rate is overridden, it's visible. If scope expands, it's tracked. If volume discounts are promised, they activate.

This is the first time in legal ops history that the rate you agreed to and the rate you paid are the same number, in the same system, visible to everyone.

WIP Tracking View

Rate Compliance — Live View

Total overcharge: $43,200 this quarter.

From Estimated Accruals to Actual Liability

If you can't see WIP, you don't know what you owe. That's a governance problem.

Month-end accrual calls used to mean chasing 15 firms for manual estimates — and getting educated guesses that made Finance nervous. PERSUIT connects directly to firms' time and billing systems. WIP is continuous, not periodic. You see what could be invoiced before it's invoiced.

Finance stops getting blindsided. Month-end close gets faster. And your credibility with the CFO goes up — because your numbers are real.

We're not here to police firms. We're here to make compliance easy for them.

01
Firms want to comply
Managing 50 clients with 50 different billing rules, accrual timelines, and OCG nuances is genuinely hard. We automate the complexity so compliance happens by default.

02
BillClear: fix it before submission
Firms see and resolve flagged issues before an invoice is submitted — not after a rejection. Fewer disputes. Faster approvals. Better relationships on both sides.

03
AMLAW adoption at scale
PERSUIT is already embedded with the firms you work with. Onboarding is measured in days, not quarters.

04
Panel strategy becomes data-driven
Live volume data activates promised discounts automatically. Panel decisions stop being guesswork.

What Customers Say

The teams who moved from reactive to controlled.

95% Pre-invoice compliance rate across PERSUIT customers
$4M Savings identified in first month of enforcement
3–4 weeks Faster accrual confidence vs. traditional e-billing.

Common Questions

We've heard the objections. Here's the honest answer.

Is this real e-billing, or light functionality? Real. The largest private equity firm in the world is a delighted customer. Full invoice processing, GL coding, matter management, budget tracking, and WIP visibility — not a lightweight add-on.

Will my law firms actually adopt this? Yes — and they already have. PERSUIT has strong AMLAW adoption. BillClear makes compliance easier for firms, not harder. Onboarding is days, not quarters.

Is this another system to integrate? No — it's done for you. PERSUIT handles the integrations. Your team is not the project manager. You're the beneficiary.

Do we have to rip and replace our current system? No. But you probably should. Most teams run PERSUIT alongside existing tools first and migrate as confidence builds. The numbers usually make the case quickly.