Enterprise DNA

Instead of LEAP

Stop paying LEAP per lawyer. Own your firm's practice system.

Enterprise DNA builds your version around your matter types, your file opening checks and the way you bill, brings your LEAP records across, and runs it for you. Every new hire is a new colleague, not a new line on the invoice.

LEAP does not publish its price. It charges a monthly subscription for every user, quoted after you fill in a form, and says a one-time setup fee may apply for data migration, configuration and training.

Get your version built See it working
  • check_circleYour data in a database you own
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Where the subscription goes

What a LEAP subscription actually buys

Your clients and matters were always your firm's. What the monthly bill keeps paying for is the platform wrapped around them, and the right to keep looking at them.

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A charge for every person who logs in

LEAP's own pricing page says it bills per user, per month. Take on a graduate or a part-time conveyancing clerk and the invoice grows with the headcount.

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A number you only get through a form

There is no price on the pricing page. You complete a form to get pricing information, and the figure depends on user count, migration, implementation and training.

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A setup fee to get started

LEAP says a one-time setup fee may apply, covering data import from your old system, initial training sessions and setting up your firm's templates.

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Forms and content you rent, not keep

The court forms, precedents and research are a real part of the value. They live inside the subscription, and so does every document your firm built on them, until you copy it out.

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Thirty days after you leave

LEAP's own transitions FAQ says access ends when the agreement does, getting your data out is your job, and you have 30 days from termination to arrange it.

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A seat just to look at old files

To keep reading your own history through LEAP after you move, the same FAQ says you keep paying for at least a single user for as long as you need access.

What you get instead

A practice system your firm owns and talks to

Deadlines

Every date that can hurt the firm, counted down

Limitation dates, settlements, filing days, hearings and personal undertakings sit in one list with the days left, so the partner sees what is urgent before the morning coffee.

  • check Limitation dates always rank first, with the number of days remaining
  • check Undertakings recorded in the exact words given, with who gave them and to whom
  • check A matter will not close while one of its undertakings is still open

File opening

Conflict checks across everything the firm has ever touched

Type one name and it is searched against every client, other party and matter description on record, open or closed, before a new file goes ahead.

  • check New matters are refused when a name on the other side hits an earlier file
  • check The client care file tracked per matter: engagement letter, scope, fees, conflict decision, identity checks
  • check Each check cites the conduct rule or statute it comes from
  • check No bill goes out on a matter with no engagement letter recorded

Fees

The numbers a managing partner runs the firm on

Time recorded the way people say it out loud, bills drafted from the time ledger, and straight answers about where the money is stuck.

  • check Unbilled work per matter, with the oldest entry flagged
  • check Lock-up by client, adding unbilled time to billed and unpaid
  • check Each fee earner's real recovery after write-offs
  • check A warning when a matter passes the estimate the client was given

Ownership

Records that do not expire with a contract

Plain records in a database the firm controls, readable by any tool, on a laptop for a sole practitioner or shared across every office.

  • check No access window when you change your mind about anything
  • check Old matters readable forever without paying for a seat
  • check Rename fields and rules to match how your firm talks
  • check Open source under the MIT licence

Make it yours

Design your own LEAP replacement

Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from LEAP. Try it here, and we build the real one.

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Answered from your own database

Build my version

We build it from the open-source base, bring your LEAP data across and run it for you.

Switching

How to switch from LEAP

Moving off LEAP mostly means getting your matters, time and documents out while the subscription is still live, mapping them into the new system, and running both side by side until you trust the new one enough to cancel.

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    Export your records from LEAP

    Pull your reports out through Microsoft Excel and export your documents from each matter, while your subscription is still active. LEAP's own transitions page allows 30 days from termination to do this, and will export your correspondence on request, though that may cost extra. Do not wait until the account is closed to start.

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    Load the export into the new system

    Bring your exported files into Matters for Claude Code. The importer was built for a different vendor's export, so your LEAP columns need mapping first, which Enterprise DNA does for you. Run a test pass before anything is saved, so you can see what would come across without committing to it.

  3. 3

    Review what the import flags

    Every imported client arrives with no compliance date and every imported matter with an empty client care file, on purpose, because the old system never confirmed those were complete either. The compliance check then lists exactly what is missing so you know what to backfill before you rely on the record.

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    Run both systems side by side

    Keep LEAP running for a short stretch while you use the new system for real work. Enter key dates and undertakings by hand rather than trusting them to the import, since those are the records too important to get wrong. Use this period to confirm the numbers and dates match before you commit fully.

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    Switch off LEAP

    Once your records are in, checked and matched against what LEAP showed, cancel the LEAP subscription. Remember the 30 day window to finish any exports first, and that keeping access to your data through LEAP after that means keeping at least one user on the account.

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Where the real effort goes

The real work is not moving the data, it is deciding what your own matter types, fields and rules should look like once they are not LEAP's, and how much history is worth bringing across rather than left behind. Enterprise DNA handles the mapping, the test run and the cleanup when they install and run it for you.

Not ready for a call?

Get your LEAP switch plan by email

We will send you the step-by-step plan for moving your business off LEAP, what the move really involves, and how we would do it for you.

One email with your plan. No spam, and you can unsubscribe any time.

Two ways to switch

Try the free version yourself, or have Enterprise DNA build and run yours

Open source

Run it yourself

Free

  1. 1 Download the free version from GitHub
  2. 2 Load the demo law firm and open it in Claude Code
  3. 3 Ask which key dates and undertakings need attention this week
  4. 4 Map your LEAP report exports into it when you are ready
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Have Enterprise DNA build it for you

One setup fee, then a monthly retainer

  • check We bring your LEAP clients, matters and time across from its reports
  • check We keep your trust account where it belongs and connect your documents, email and accounting
  • check We set up your own matter types, file opening checks and billing rules
  • check It runs inside Omni, our managed Command Center, with the rest of your business
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Questions

Instead of LEAP, answered

LEAP does our trust accounting. What happens to that? expand_more

The free version deliberately keeps no trust ledger: trust money belongs in a dedicated trust accounting system that your auditor signs off. It records everything around the money, the matters, time, bills, dates and undertakings. When Enterprise DNA builds your version, we connect it to whichever trust accounting system your firm settles on.

We rely on LEAP's court forms and precedents. Do we lose them? expand_more

The free version does not come with a forms library. Your own precedents stay in your document store, and the system drafts letters as text for a lawyer to finish. If forms from a publisher matter to your practice areas, that is part of what we scope when we build your version.

How do we get our records out of LEAP? expand_more

LEAP's own transitions FAQ says reports can be taken out through Microsoft Excel, documents can be exported from each matter, and you have 30 days from termination to do it, so run the exports while your subscription is live. The free version's importer was written for another vendor's export, so LEAP's report columns need mapping on the way in. Enterprise DNA does that, and a test run shows what would come across before anything is saved.

Is this made for Australian or New Zealand firms? expand_more

The rule book it ships with cites New Zealand conduct rules, limitation periods and anti money laundering duties. An Australian firm's rules are written in plain language and swapped in, and when we build your version we load the rules for the state you practise in.

Is the compliance checking legal advice? expand_more

No. It checks your own records against a written list of rules, each with its source, and names the files missing something. The rules are yours to read and change, and your judgement stays in charge.

Own your firm's history, not a seat to look at it

30 minutes with Sam. We look at what your firm pays LEAP, which parts your people use every day, and what your own version would look like. If it is a fit, we build it and run it. If it is not, take the free version and run it yourself.

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Matters for Claude Code is free and open source, published by Enterprise DNA.

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