Merlyn Honeywest was built for small law firms.

Your cases, checked at the courthouse every morning.

Merlyn pulls the Register of Actions for every case in your practice — Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino — and tells you only what changed since yesterday.

• New filings — including what opposing counsel filed, and when.
• New hearings set on your matters.
• Hearing dates that moved. The one that matters most.

A hearing gets continued and nobody calls you. It's on the Register of Actions the day it happens — and in your morning summary the next.

It watches the trust account the way an auditor would.

Merlyn keeps real double-entry books — billing and IOLTA trust, in cents, on your firm's own ledger. It doesn't move money. It watches what you record and tells you when something is wrong.

Compliance is still yours — it's your license, your account and your signature on the reconciliation. What Merlyn changes is that you find out about a problem when it happens, instead of at the annual reconciliation, or from the bar.

Merlyn checks every trust entry against the rules that actually produce State Bar referrals, and warns you before the entry lands:

• One client's funds covering another's. The most common serious trust violation, and the easiest to commit by accident.
• Disbursing against uncleared funds. The deposit hasn't cleared and the check is already written.
• An overdrawn trust account — the event your bank reports to the State Bar.
• An unresolved shortfall sitting on the books.
• Open reconciliation exceptions. Merlyn won't let you sign off while they're outstanding.

What we won't pretend.

Merlyn sends the text it is working on to the AI model you have chosen. That is how it does the work, and it is how every AI tool works — including the ones that don't say so.

It means the same thing your practice management system, your email host and your research service already mean: you're relying on a vendor, and your duty of confidentiality under Rule 1.6 continues to apply.

What we can do is make that a decision you're equipped to make. You choose which model handles your work, and before general availability every model will be listed with its operator, where it runs and what it retains.

Reasonable precautions are your obligation. The information you need to take them is ours.

What it costs, against what it replaces.

A part-time paralegal runs several thousand dollars a month fully loaded. Merlyn's total — subscription plus usage — comes in at a fraction of that, and the usage portion is attributable to the client it was spent on.

Less than a day of paralegal time, for the month.

Merlyn's work runs on AI models, and those cost real money. What you'll spend depends on which model you choose, how hard you work it and how many attorneys are working — so we bill it as it's used rather than guessing at an average that would be wrong for you.

Two things keep that from being a surprise:

• You set the ceiling. Choose a monthly limit. Merlyn warns you as you approach it and won't quietly run past it.
• It's itemized by matter. Every dollar is attributed to the matter it was spent on, so it lands where you already account for costs advanced — and can be billed on accordingly.