The bridge, priced.
For the CFO running the numbers on a first legal hire, here are the numbers, and here is what the line item buys you.
Technology companies typically run legal at 0.2% to 0.6% of revenue. Far under that, the work is either being skipped or quietly absorbed by executives who have other jobs. Far over it, the work is being bought badly.
| What it looks like | |
|---|---|
| Full-time general counsel | $330K to $470K fully loaded, plus a 20% to 30% recruiter fee. Fixed either way. Right when volume is sustained, commonly $5M to $10M ARR. |
| Hourly outside firms | Unpredictable by design, and priced for the questions you already know to ask. Right for episodic, well-defined work. |
| Outside general counsel | Typically $60K to $180K a year, agreed up front. Scales with volume. Right for the two or so years in between. |
A named owner the board can hold accountable. A number that holds for the whole year, with no invoice lag, no rate surprises, and no associate rotating onto your account in month four. And legal translated into metrics you already report: contract cycle time, deal velocity, diligence readiness, incident exposure.
When your volume justifies the seat, the bridge ends on purpose. We help you scope the role, sit in on the search, and hand over a working function: the playbooks, the templates, and the legal record, all of which were already yours the whole time.
Your procurement process will ask for an engagement letter, a conflicts procedure, professional liability insurance (carried, with a certificate of coverage available on request), a security posture, and references. All of it already lives on the standards page, so you can just send the link.
Fifteen minutes. No pitch.
You talk, we diagnose. You leave with the two or three exposures worth addressing first, along with a straight answer on whether you need counsel now, including "not yet."