Presentation Software for Attorneys

There’s a small law firm in town that was bought by a big law firm overseas. The attorneys at this firm aggregate terabytes of case data to present in graphs and charts during courtroom presentations and litigation meetings.

And you’d think this would be well and good, right?

What about those graphs that have a lot of ways to represent different sets of data, or scatter plots with variable ranges of time? How does an attorney display that in Powerpoint in front of a group of people in real-time? Turns out they either take a lot of screenshots and make a lot of slides to accommodate.

Sapling, a four-person shop right here in Austin has a platform that helps attorneys visualize this data and interact with it in real-time. One graph can have the parameters changed to reflect all sorts of ways that the data it’s connected to represents. This allows attorneys to respond to questions by showing fluctuations or changes as they happen. Sapling makes a powerful product, but attorneys can only take advantage of it when they quit Powerpoint and load up their website, but they want to change that.

And that’s where we come in. Sapling wants to build a minimalist presentation web app that allows attorneys to incorporate real-time interactive visualized data in their slide decks to eliminate the number of hurdles before they can show the hard work of the information they’ve aggregated.

But there’s one major stopgap — the software is not being written for the attorneys at this firm, but for one attorney: a man named Ben. Ben is our only point of contact and the only attorney at the firm that we’re permitted to talk to.

So, we’re still figuring that out.