About QuarterHour
QuarterHour is AI software that reviews every outside counsel invoice before it is approved. It reads the bills your law firms already send, audits each one against the rates, staffing and billing terms you negotiated, and traces every flag back to the page it came from.
What QuarterHour does
Reads every invoice
Scanned bills, multi-document packets, foreign-currency invoices and handwritten approval caps are read down to each time entry, timekeeper and disbursement, wherever they arrive today.
Audits against your terms
Ten audit levers check each bill against the rate caps, rate cards, staffing rules, billing increments, expense rules and discounts you negotiated with that firm.
Scores every firm
A running scorecard for each firm shows where it stands on every lever over time, so a firm drifting over its cap is caught on the second invoice, not at year-end.
What makes QuarterHour different
Your firms change nothing
There is no billing portal or file format for firms to adopt. QuarterHour reads the PDF invoices they already send.
Your terms, not generic guidelines
Every check is set from your own engagement letters and MSAs, firm by firm, with sensible defaults only where nothing is written down yet.
Every flag shows its evidence
Each number traces back to the line and page of the original invoice, so a question to a firm comes with the proof attached.
Inside the workflow you have
Invoices are read where they land today, from an accounts-payable inbox to SharePoint, NetSuite, an S3 bucket or a matter-management system, and flags are delivered there too.
Customized to your approvals
Levers, thresholds, approval rules, reports and where flags go are configured around your policies. If you need a check nobody else has, we build it.
Your team stays in control
QuarterHour never rejects or disputes a bill on its own. It flags what to question before you approve, and the conversation with the firm stays with you.
Who QuarterHour is for
- In-house legal departments that work with several outside law firms
- General counsel and legal operations teams who negotiated rate caps and billing guidelines and want them enforced
- Finance and accounts-payable teams that process law-firm invoices
- Companies that want to know whether the efficiency firms gain from AI is reaching their bills
The team behind QuarterHour
QuarterHour is built by DeepVelocity, an AI product development and consulting firm founded in 2026 and headquartered in New York. The founders pair top-tier strategy experience with the ability to ship real software.
Colton Heil
Co-Founder
Former Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, leading growth, marketing, and sales transformations across Fortune 500 and middle-market companies.
LinkedInJosh Uhlfelder
Co-Founder
Former Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company and Columbia University computer science graduate with a background in statistics and machine learning.
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How QuarterHour works
- 01
Book a demo
Pick a preferred date and 30-minute time slot and we confirm by email. We walk through how your team reviews legal invoices today.
- 02
Share invoices and terms
Bring a handful of recent invoices and your engagement letters. These set the rates, rules and discounts each firm is audited against.
- 03
Connect where invoices arrive
QuarterHour is set up to read invoices from the inbox or system they already land in, with the levers and approval rules configured for you.
- 04
Review flags before approval
Each invoice is audited as it arrives. Your team reviews the flags and evidence, decides what to raise with the firm, and approves as usual.
Key facts
- Product
- QuarterHour
- Type
- AI legal invoice review and legal spend audit software (SaaS)
- Company
- DeepVelocity
- Founded
- 2026
- Founders
- Colton Heil, Josh Uhlfelder
- Headquarters
- New York, NY
- Website
- quarterhour.ai
- Core offering
- Reviews outside counsel invoices before approval and audits each one against the terms negotiated with that law firm
- Audit levers
- 10: blended rate, rate card, rate escalation, staffing mix, billing increment, prohibited disbursements, discount realization, invoice transparency, narrative quality, internal conferencing
- Invoices read
- Scanned and digital PDFs, multi-document packets, foreign-currency invoices, handwritten approval notes
- Contact
- hello@quarterhour.ai
Frequently asked questions
What is QuarterHour?
QuarterHour is AI legal invoice review software. It reads every outside counsel invoice your company receives, audits it against the terms you negotiated with that firm, and flags what to question before the bill is approved. Every flag links back to the page of the invoice it came from.
Who makes QuarterHour?
QuarterHour is built by DeepVelocity, a New York-based AI product development and consulting firm founded in 2026 by Colton Heil and Josh Uhlfelder, both formerly of McKinsey & Company.
What does QuarterHour check on each invoice?
Ten audit levers. Seven come from your engagement terms: blended-rate caps, timekeeper rate cards, rate escalation, staffing mix, billing increments, prohibited disbursements and agreed discounts. Three are billing-hygiene checks: invoice transparency (such as block billing), narrative quality and internal conferencing.
Do our law firms have to change how they bill?
No. QuarterHour reads the invoices firms already send, including scanned PDFs, multi-document packets and foreign-currency bills, so there is no new portal or file format for them to adopt.
Is QuarterHour right for my team?
QuarterHour is a fit if your company uses several outside law firms, has negotiated rates or billing guidelines with them, and wants every invoice checked against those terms without adding review work for the legal or finance team.
How do I get started with QuarterHour?
Book a demo and bring a handful of recent invoices and your engagement letters. You can also reach the team at hello@quarterhour.ai.