Neon Law Navigator
Practice software written by the lawyers who have to live with it.
What it is
Your matters, your data, your infrastructure.
Navigator is the platform this firm runs its own practice on, and the one we deploy for the Neon Law Foundation's pro bono work. Matters, deadlines, documents, signatures, and the workflows that move them.
It is Rust-first and cloud-native — compiled services on Kubernetes, built to run wherever you put them. That is what makes the next sentence possible rather than aspirational.
It is built for sovereign software: you are not renting your practice back from a vendor. The system runs in infrastructure you control, your data stays where your jurisdiction requires, and no client confidence has to leave your tenancy to be useful. For a law firm that is not a preference — it is the confidentiality duty, expressed in architecture.
A model may draft. A lawyer decides. Nothing the software prepares leaves a matter without a licensed attorney having reviewed it.
The engagement
Fractional CTO and CISO
For firms adopting AI who need someone accountable for the decision, not a vendor demonstration.
Fractional CTO
- Technology strategy
- AI adoption
- Build or buy
What to adopt, what to refuse, and what it will cost you in hours before it saves any. We have made these calls for our own practice, which is a different exercise from advising someone else to make them.
Fractional CISO
- Security posture
- Client confidentiality
- Vendor review
A law firm's security question is not generic: it is whether client confidences survive the tools you just bought. We review the posture against the confidentiality duty you already owe.
What it costs
Quoted for your firm rather than posted here, and fixed in the engagement letter before any work starts. We would rather scope it than advertise a number that fits nobody.
What this engagement is, and is not
A fractional engagement is technology work, not legal representation.
Fractional CTO and CISO work is a law-related service rather than the practice of law. Engaging us for it does not make us your lawyers, and the protections of a client-lawyer relationship — privilege, and the conflicts rules that come with representation — do not attach to it by default.
If you want legal advice on the same subject, that is a separate engagement with its own letter, and we will say so plainly rather than let the two blur. We run conflicts before either one begins.
Tell us what your firm is trying to adopt.
What you practice, what you have already tried, and what went wrong. We will tell you whether this is work we can do.