Ariadni’s Thread is a legal consulting company for in-house teams: how the work flows, how you buy outside counsel, and the technology under both. It is run by a practicing lawyer who builds and runs his own automated practice, so the advice comes from an operator, not a slide deck. We find the through-line from tangled workflows to systems that hold.
A fixed-scope, two to three week diagnostic: what your team actually needs, what the market sells, what you could build instead, and the honest cost of each path.
Requirements, market scan, weighted scoring, demos, and a recommendation memo. Independent advice; any vendor interest is disclosed up front.
When the analysis says build, we build it. Intake flows, document automation, review workflows, and the glue between your existing tools, through to custom applications and integrations when nothing on the market fits (or you're just tired of paying for another subscription). Scoped and priced before a line of code is written.
Tools you already bought, set up the way your team actually works. Milestone-based and fixed fee, set in writing before kickoff.
Ongoing tuning of the stack you run: prompts, templates, integrations, and metrics, kept sharp on a monthly retainer.
Zapier, Make, and AI workflow automation designed, configured, and documented, with managed support if you want it kept running.
Do you actually need a BigLaw firm for your work? Are the rates, staffing, and terms competitive? A spend and panel review, matter tiering, billing guidelines, and support when it is time to renegotiate.
Map how the work actually flows and where it knots.
Buy, build, or fix, with the numbers to defend the call.
Configure, implement, or build the system, milestone by milestone.
Fine-tune, measure, and keep it running on retainer.
Ariadni’s Thread is run by Damian Guzman, a corporate-commercial lawyer in Oakland, California who runs his own small, heavily automated practice. The workflows we recommend are workflows he has built and runs daily: automated intake, document assembly, AI-assisted review, and the operational metrics behind them. He also knows what outside counsel work actually costs to produce, because he produces it. He is CIPP/US, CIPM, and PCIP certified, so privacy and payments-security review happens in-house, and at his law practice he ran a fully financed M&A acquisition solo, letter of intent to closing, on the AI toolkit he tuned himself. The name comes from Ariadni’s thread, the line she used to lead Theseus safely out of the labyrinth. Her thread is the through-line we find in your operations.
One hour, your real workflow on the table, and at least one concrete fix you can keep whether or not we go further. You’ll deal with me directly: tell me where it’s stuck, and I’ll come back to you within one business day.