Fixed fees, quoted before any work starts

04 / In-house

We become your in-house legal team

On-demand legal support embedded in your team, as your in-house legal function or alongside the one you have. Senior solicitors, our own AI platform, and a client brain that learns how your business thinks about risk.

Senior solicitors

Embedded in your team

Hours, not weeks

Turnaround confirmed in the quote

Fixed fee

Per matter, or monthly

How we help

Most startups reach a point where legal stops being occasional. Contracts arrive every week, the round needs documents, the team is growing, and nobody has time to brief a new firm from scratch each time. Hiring a full-time lawyer is the traditional answer, but it is a senior salary for a role that is busy in bursts. We sit in the gap: a general counsel function you can call on as you need it, for a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.

We start by learning your business. When we onboard you, we read your existing contracts and build what we call your client brain: your commercial positions, the clauses you care about, the redlines you will accept and the ones you will not, and whatever playbooks your team already has. Every matter after that is reviewed against how you think about risk rather than a generic template, so we negotiate faster and your team holds a consistent line. Some people call this fractional general counsel or GC as a service. We call it being your legal team.

How it compares. A traditional firm bills by the hour, so every question costs money and you ration them. A template library looks cheap until the one clause you did not understand costs you the deal. A full-time hire is a senior salary for work that comes in bursts. We give you senior solicitors on demand, at a fixed fee you know before we start, with most routine contracts back within hours and every message answered within 24 hours. What you get:

  1. 01

    A solicitor who knows your business

    The same senior solicitors on your matters, reachable on Slack, email or WhatsApp during UK working hours.

  2. 02

    Your client brain

    Your positions, playbooks and past redlines, learned at onboarding and applied to every contract after that.

  3. 03

    Your existing contracts, read

    A review of what you have already signed, to find the risk, map where agreements drift from your standard terms and build the playbook.

  4. 04

    Fixed fees, agreed upfront

    Each matter quoted before we start, or a standing monthly arrangement when your volume makes that more sensible.

Questions

We become your in-house legal team, answered.

Last reviewed: October 2026

  • Each matter is quoted as a fixed fee before it starts, from £500 for a simple contract to £5,000 to £10,000 for a whole funding round, plus VAT, and you pay only for what you send us. There is no retainer and no minimum. If your volume makes a standing monthly arrangement more sensible, we work one out with you, but it is never a condition.

  • It is a private profile of how your company thinks about risk: your commercial positions, the clauses you care about, the redlines you will and will not accept, and the playbooks your team already has. We build it when you onboard, from the documents you share, and every piece of work after that starts from it rather than from a generic template. It is used only for your matters and never to improve work for another client.

  • A fractional general counsel is one person, for a set number of days a month, at a day rate. You get a team of senior solicitors with our own platform behind them, reachable on Slack, email or WhatsApp, at a fixed fee per matter rather than per day. Most routine contracts come back within hours rather than waiting for the next scheduled day, and the knowledge of your business sits in your client brain rather than in one person’s head.

  • Yes, and many clients use us that way. A general counsel sends us the contract flow and keeps the strategic work; a founder with a trusted outside firm sends us the day-to-day commercial documents and keeps that firm for the matters it knows best. We fit around whoever is already there and keep them in the loop where you want us to.

  • Point us at the signed agreements and our platform reads them at scale, with a qualified solicitor verifying what it finds. You get a clear picture of the genuine risks across the portfolio, a map of where individual agreements drift from your standard or market terms, and a negotiation playbook so your team holds a consistent position next time. It is quoted as a fixed fee once we know how many contracts there are, and it is the work that matters before a fundraise, an acquisition or a counterparty’s due diligence.

Make an enquiry

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Tell us what you need. We’ll get back to you within hours during UK working hours.

Email

Email us at enquiries@mail.kyralaw.co.uk
or fill out the form.

We’ll reply within hours during UK working hours. Once you’re a client, we run live matters on Slack, WhatsApp or email, whatever suits your team.

Speed

A fixed fee quote within hours. Most routine work back the same day.

We scope matters Monday to Friday, 09:00 to 18:00 UK time, and answer every message within 24 hours. Larger matters take days, and we tell you the turnaround with the quote.

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Tell us what you need

Send us the document or just describe the problem. We’ll scope it, quote a fixed fee, and get to work. You can use the form, or email us at enquiries@mail.kyralaw.co.uk.

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What needs drafting or reviewing
  • Commercial contracts
  • Fundraising and investment
  • Team and equity
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Funding stage
  • Bootstrapped, no external funding
  • Early-stage (pre-seed or seed)
  • Later-stage (Series A or beyond)
  • Established, funded by revenue
How did you hear about us?
  • A recommendation from a founder or investor
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  • An event or an accelerator
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We treat your matter confidentially and do not train models on your data. All legal work is carried out or supervised by individually regulated solicitors in England & Wales.