Estate Planning Law Firms

Boutique Estate Planning Law Firms Intake Automation

Take on more Wills and Trusts without adding headcount.

You hear your client's story once. Aretech builds estate planning intake automation that carries questionnaire answers and design-meeting notes into your drafting software.

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  • Your attorney chooses

    every provision

  • Built on

    the software you keep

  • You own

    the system outright

  • No seats

    or subscriptions

The Problem

You Hear It Once. Your Team Types It Again.

Every new plan runs the same loop.

  1. You email a fillable PDF intake form, and key answers come back blank.

  2. Your questionnaire misses beneficiaries, shares, and successor trustees.

  3. The client fills the gaps in the design meeting while you take notes.

  4. Someone writes a summary, then retypes it all into your drafting software.

  5. Days pass between the finished questionnaire and the first draft.

  6. “Uncle Bill” turns out to be William at the signing table.

Plans sit “stuck waiting for clients to provide you with all their information.” On a flat fee, every hour of retyping comes out of your margin.

Your Intake, Without and With Aretech

Your attorney still designs every plan. The retyping stops.

Each PlanWithout AretechWith Aretech
QuestionnaireOne long form that misses factsBranching questions that ask only what applies
Asset scheduleTitling and beneficiary designations chased laterRecorded with each asset in the same record
Design meetingNotes retyped after the client leavesCaptured into the same client record
Answer fileBuilt by hand in your drafting softwareFilled from the reviewed record
Names and trusteesCorrected at the signing tableEntered once and reused in every role
Your attorney's timeProofing typed factsDesigning the plan
Questionnaire
Without AretechOne long form that misses facts
With AretechBranching questions that ask only what applies
Asset schedule
Without AretechTitling and beneficiary designations chased later
With AretechRecorded with each asset in the same record
Design meeting
Without AretechNotes retyped after the client leaves
With AretechCaptured into the same client record
Answer file
Without AretechBuilt by hand in your drafting software
With AretechFilled from the reviewed record
Names and trustees
Without AretechCorrected at the signing table
With AretechEntered once and reused in every role
Your attorney's time
Without AretechProofing typed facts
With AretechDesigning the plan
The Usual Fixes

Why Forms and Extra Staff Don't Fix It

Each common fix moves the typing somewhere else.

  • A fillable PDF intake formCollects answers, and someone still types each one into your system.
  • Your drafting software's own questionnaireFills one answer file, and your meeting notes still get typed in.
  • Estate planning intake software or a client portalHolds answers in its own product, and your team still moves them.
  • Another intake assistant or paralegalRetypes the same facts, and turnover takes their know-how.

Your tools don't share one record. Aretech builds the record they share.

The Build

How Your Intake Runs Once It's Built

Three stages, and a person signs off on each one.

Step 01

Facts Come In Once

Clients answer your estate planning intake questionnaire at their own pace.

  • Questions branch, so couples see spouse questions and parents see guardian questions.
  • Clients save, leave, and pick up exactly where they stopped.
  • A “Not sure. Let's discuss” answer moves a question to the design meeting.
  • What clients say in that meeting is captured from your recording or notes.
Step 02

Your Team Checks Every Fact

Nothing moves until a person approves it.

  • Anything the system can't point to in the source stays blank for your team.
  • Staff review each submission and fill in the sections clients never see.
  • Each relative is entered once with a full legal name, then reused in every role.
  • Your attorney answers the attorney-only design questions, with no AI involved.
Step 03

One Record Feeds Your Software

Your systems share one reviewed record, with no retyping in between.

  • The record writes to your practice-management system or CRM.
  • It fills the answer file in the drafting software you keep.
  • Uploaded deeds and statements land in your storage, named your way.
  • First drafts then assemble from your own templates, never from scratch.
The Foundation

Built Around the Software You Keep

Intake is the first workflow of estate planning law firm automation, and every build stacks the same three layers in order.

LAYER 01

A data layer under your tools. One record across your practice-management system, drafting software, storage, and e-signature.

LAYER 02

AI agents that read, never decide. They pull facts from forms and notes, then flag the gaps.

LAYER 03

Workflows that wait for a person. They move the record only after your team approves it.

The Result

What You Get Back

Here's what one shared record changes for your firm.

More plans, no new hires.

Hours once spent retyping go back into client work.

Drafting starts sooner.

Approved records flow straight into estate planning document automation.

Clients who finish.

Branching questions and reminders keep the questionnaire moving.

No surprises at signing.

Names and trustees are settled before the first draft.

Fewer avoidable errors.

Facts entered once eliminate the errors retyping creates.

An intake that outlasts turnover.

Your questions and rules stay when people leave.

Client Voice

In Our Client's Words

One client on where things stood before Aretech.

Before Aretech, nearly every part of our technology felt harder than it should have. Our automations did not work reliably, our intake form was not saving information correctly, and our website had become a jumble of disconnected, “vibe-coded” pieces. We also did not have a trusted resource we could turn to for IT support and practical advice about technology. These problems took time away from our work and left us unsure how to make lasting improvements.

Sarah Rockwell, Aretech client
Control

You Stay in Control

Intake touches every fact in the plan, so every build keeps the decisions with you.

  • Your attorney makes every legal call.

    The system never signs, files, or decides anything legal.

  • You approve before anything runs.

    Each automation starts as a test run that only suggests.

  • Your staff can change the rules.

    Questions, wording, reminders, and timing, without a developer.

  • It runs in your cloud account.

    You decide who has access and whose access to revoke.

  • The system is yours to keep.

    Code, data, workflows, and documentation, with no subscriptions.

Co-founders Pratyush Raman (CEO) and Jihad Iqbal (CTO) lead the team that builds your intake. The team has deployed AI systems inside organizations like Amazon, MIT, and Y Combinator-backed startups. Each workflow is built alongside practicing attorneys with over 25 years of experience.

Fit

Made for Boutique Estate Planning Firms

Aretech fits your firm if this sounds familiar.

  • You lead a boutique firm that designs wills and trusts, as owner, partner, or operations lead.
  • Client facts get retyped between the questionnaire, the meeting, and your drafting software.
  • You review every plan yourself and want to keep your drafting software.
  • Estate planning is only part of your practice, and intake still eats your hours.

It isn't built for families writing their own wills or trusts, non-attorney document preparers, or large multi-practice firms.

The Process

Start With a Free Map of Your Workflow

You see your own intake on one page before you commit to anything.

  1. Map your intake, free. Your intake on one page the same day, and yours to keep.
  2. Keep the build plan. What gets built, in what order, and on which of your systems.
  3. Watch it get built. Working software every week for 4 to 8 weeks, plus testing and quality checks.
  4. Approve the test run. Nothing acts on its own until you say so.
  5. Take ownership. The system and its documentation, with defect fixes for up to 60 days, set per engagement.
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Read what each step involves in how the engagement works.

Questions

FAQs

What Does It Cost?

The price follows the scope of your intake, and scoping sets it before anything is built. You pay once and own the build, with no seats, subscriptions, or renewals. Your firm pays the AI model provider directly.

Is the Workflow Mapping Session Really Free?

Yes. You keep the map of your intake and the first fix it shows, even if you never hire us. No price comes up in the session, and your partner or paralegal is welcome to join.

Will It Work With Our Drafting Software and CRM?

Yes. It works with Clio, Lawmatics, and Microsoft SharePoint. It works around WealthCounsel and other estate planning drafting software, and around MyCase, Smokeball, or any estate planning practice management software. Whether or not Clio and WealthCounsel connect natively, the build carries the reviewed record between them.

We Know AI Makes Stuff Up. How Do You Keep It Out of Our Estate Documents?

AI never chooses a provision or writes legal language. Drafts assemble from your templates and your attorney's rules. At intake, the system only places facts it can point to in the source, and anything uncertain stays blank for your team. It takes instructions only from your firm, never from a document it reads.

Does the System Sign or File Anything?

No. The system never signs, files, submits, or decides anything legal. Every provision stays with your attorney, and signing stays in your e-signature tool.

Will Our Clients Actually Finish the Questionnaire?

Yes, more of them do when they see only what applies. “The fewer irrelevant fields your clients see, the more likely they are to finish,” says a 2025 New Jersey State Bar Association guide. Reminders chase an unfinished questionnaire after booking. Clients without email can answer in the design meeting or on a paper form you scan.

Where Does Our Client Data Go?

Into your firm's own cloud account, where the system lives. Hosted frontier models do the AI work, so what the system reads passes through the model provider, and no firm's data trains anything. ABA Model Rule 1.6(c) asks lawyers for “reasonable efforts to prevent the inadvertent or unauthorized disclosure” of client information. The full path is set out in how we handle firm data.

Can We Use AI on Client Intake Ethically?

Yes, within duties you already carry. ABA Formal Opinion 512 says lawyers “should review for accuracy all GAI outputs,” and every build gives that review a named step. Supervision stays yours under ABA Model Rule 5.3, and consent wording stays your firm's call under your state's rules.

Why Not Use Our Drafting Software's Own Questionnaire?

You can keep it. It fills one answer file, while design-meeting notes and uploads still get typed in by hand. That hidden cost of re-keying intake data into estate planning software adds up on every plan. The build carries all three sources into one reviewed record.

What Happens if Something Breaks After Handover?

Aretech fixes it. Defect fixes are covered for up to 60 days after handover, set per engagement. Later, a broken integration or a change of software comes back to Aretech, scoped before any work starts.
Your Next Step

Capture Every Plan's Facts Once

Your free workflow mapping session gives you:

  • A map of how a client's facts move through your firm today
  • Every point where those facts get retyped
  • Your intake redesigned in three layers
  • A check of what your CRM and drafting software can already do
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Due Diligence

Before You Choose a Builder

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