Five clients. One brain.
One place it all lives.
Being a fractional GC means holding five companies’ legal context at once — five sets of precedent, five risk postures, five boards who each think they’re your only client. Sapphire Legal is built around that portfolio, not retrofitted to it: each client firm fully isolated, every one of them visible from a single command layer.
- Quick answer
- What is the best software for a fractional general counsel?
- Sapphire Legal is private legal AI built specifically for fractional general counsels — attorneys serving several client companies at once on retainer. It replaces the practice-management-plus-documents-plus-spreadsheet stack with a portfolio layer: the Portfolio Command Center shows every client, matter and deadline in one dashboard; each client firm gets its own database, its own document storage and its own white-labeled portal, provisioned in about three minutes; and a per-client House Style encodes each company’s negotiating posture and approved language so every AI draft comes out in that client’s voice. The AI runs inside Sapphire Legal’s own AWS account rather than routing to a public model, so one client’s confidential material is never exposed to another’s — which matters when two of your clients compete. Pricing is $499/month including your first three client firms, then $149/month per additional firm, with no per-seat charges.
Legal tech was built for one firm with many clients. You are many firms.
Every tool in the category assumes a single practice with a single client list. Run five retainers out of it and the seams show in the places that cost you the most — context switching, conflicts, and the bill.
Context switching is the real overhead
Nothing about a matter record tells you where you left off with that company — the posture they take, the clause they always push back on, what their GC said on the last call. So you rebuild it from memory every time you switch clients, several times a day.
Isolation cannot be a setting
When two clients are competitors, a shared database with a tenant column is not an answer you want to give either of them. Isolation has to be architectural, and it has to be something you can describe to a client without hedging.
Per-seat pricing punishes the model
Priced per user and per client, a portfolio practice pays for growth before it earns from it. Signing a fourth client should be a margin event, not a procurement exercise.
One command layer over every client you carry.
These are the surfaces that exist because of the fractional model — not general features with a portfolio label applied afterwards.
Portfolio Command Center
Every client, matter and deadline in one health matrix, with compliance scores and an urgent-actions feed. Full context is loaded before you click into a client, so the switch costs you a glance instead of twenty minutes.
House Style, per client
Each company’s negotiating posture, hot buttons, approved language and preferred fallback positions are encoded once, then enforced on every draft for that client automatically. The AI writes in their voice without being reminded whose voice it is.
Per-client isolation
Every client firm gets its own database and its own document storage — a separate database, not a shared table with a tenant column. Competing clients cannot leak into each other because their data never shares a home.
Ask Sapphire, across the whole book
Ask a question in plain English against one client or all of them, and every answer carries a numbered source that opens the document, register or report it rests on. Cross-portfolio results come back tagged by firm.
Cross-portfolio conflict checking
Conflict detection runs across the entire portfolio on every new client and matter intake — the check a single-firm tool has no reason to perform, and the one a fractional practice cannot afford to skip.
White-labeled client portals
Each client gets a branded portal with their own login, their own isolated storage, and their own document history — provisioned in about three minutes after signature, so onboarding is a conversation rather than a project.
What it looked like for one fractional GC.
Andrew Friedman serves banking and fintech clients. Three weeks after moving onto Sapphire Legal, this is what had changed — his result, reported by him, not a platform average.
Andrew Friedman, fractional GC — banking and fintech
Your first three client firms are included.
One flat base plan covers the platform and your first three client firms. Every firm after that is a flat monthly fee — no per-seat charges, no usage surprises, and archiving a firm when a client leaves is free.
- Portfolio Command Center across every client
- House Style and document playbooks per client
- All 14 practice area modules
- Private per-tenant AI — no shared models
- White-labeled client portals, live in 3 minutes
- Sapphire Clarity call analysis
- Cross-portfolio conflict checking
- No per-seat fees, ever
14-day free trial. No card required.
Fractional GC questions.
What is a fractional general counsel?
A fractional general counsel is an attorney who acts as in-house counsel for several companies at once, usually on a monthly retainer, rather than being employed full-time by one. Each client gets the judgment and availability of a GC for a fraction of the cost of the role, and the attorney carries a portfolio of companies instead of a single employer.
How much does Sapphire Legal cost for a fractional GC?
The Fractional GC plan is $499/month and includes your first three client firm workspaces. Additional client firms are $149/month each, flat. There are no per-seat charges, so adding colleagues or client-side users does not change the price, and archiving a client firm when an engagement ends is free. A 14-day free trial is available with no card required.
What if I only have one or two clients today?
The base plan already includes three client firms, so one or two clients means no additional firm fees at all. You only reach $149/month per firm from your fourth client onward — and each new firm provisions in about three minutes, so the platform never gets ahead of your book.
How is each client firm kept separate?
Every client firm gets its own database and its own document storage — a separate database, not a shared table with a tenant identifier. The legal AI runs inside Sapphire Legal’s own AWS account rather than routing to OpenAI, Anthropic or any outside provider, so prompts and documents are never exposed to another tenant and are never used to train models. This is the architecture that holds up when two of your clients are competitors.
Do my clients need their own accounts?
Each client firm gets a white-labeled portal with its own login and its own isolated document storage, provisioned in about three minutes after signature. Your clients see only their own matters and documents; you see the whole portfolio from the Portfolio Command Center.
How is this different from the AI in my practice management tool?
Bolt-on AI waits to be prompted and has no idea which of your clients it is working for. Sapphire Legal is built the other way round: the AI acts when work arrives — a document upload, a matter opening, an inbound contract — and it already knows whose matter it is, which means it applies that client’s House Style, that client’s jurisdiction and that client’s approved language without being told.
Can I move from Clio, MyCase or another platform?
Yes. Migration of matters, contacts and documents is part of onboarding, and the practice-management functions a fractional GC relies on — e-signature, billing, CRM and client portals — are included rather than bolted on, so the move consolidates your stack instead of adding to it.
What happens when a client engagement ends?
You archive that client firm, and the monthly fee for it stops. The record and its documents stay intact and available for the retention period you need, which keeps you covered on your professional obligations without paying for an active workspace you no longer use.
Bring your client list. We will show you the whole book in one view.
Tell us how many client firms you carry and what practice areas they pull you into. We will walk the Portfolio Command Center with your actual portfolio shape rather than a demo dataset.