Building the Future of Legal Infrastructure: The Launch of Atlas Frontier Labs

A New Era of Legal Transformation

The legal industry is standing at the edge of its most significant transformation in over a century.
Across firms, a new maturity curve is taking shape, one that reflects not just the adoption of technology, but a fundamental redefinition of the business of law itself.

The evolution is clear:

1. Traditional Law Firm – Dependent on billable hours and associate leverage.
2. Hybrid Pricing – Charging for outcomes, not time.
3. Restructured Roles – Fewer junior staff, more technical and analytical talent.
4. Monetized AI Infrastructure – Turning knowledge, data, and process into products.
5. AI-Enhanced Law Firm – New, scalable revenue streams and differentiated client experiences.

Each phase represents a shift from manual to digital, from services to systems, and ultimately from reactive delivery to proactive intelligence.

This progression from efficiency to differentiation is precisely why we built Atlas Frontier Labs.

The Reason Behind Atlas Frontier Labs

For years, our team has worked side-by-side with firms to modernize knowledge management, unify data, and introduce AI responsibly into their workflows. That experience revealed a consistent truth:

“Law firms don’t need another AI tool. They need a foundation, a platform they can own, extend, and build on to power the next generation of client service.”
— Stephen Costigan, Founder, AtlasAI

Atlas Frontier Labs was created to help firms build that foundation.
It’s not a product or consultancy in the traditional sense. It’s a partnership model, a way for firms to develop private, extensible AI infrastructure that reflects their own strategy, culture, and data governance requirements.

Our mission is simple: to turn AI from a marketing concept into a managed capability that drives real competitive advantage.

Understanding the Value Spectrum of Legal Work

To unlock that advantage, firms must understand where AI creates the most value.

Legal work exists along a value spectrum:

• At one end are commoditized tasks, where automation drives cost savings and efficiency.
• In the middle sit transactional workflows, where consistency, speed, and predictability matter most.
• At the far end lies strategic, bespoke counsel, where AI enhances decision-making, reduces uncertainty, and delivers better outcomes.

“AI’s impact evolves as complexity increases. It moves from efficiency, to predictability, to differentiation. That’s the progression we help firms operationalize.”
— Stephen Costigan, Founder, AtlasAI

The challenge is that each point on this spectrum demands a different approach, different data, models, and workflows, and most point solutions can only address one layer.

That’s where Atlas Frontier Labs comes in.

From Point Solutions to Private Infrastructure

Most firms have reached a turning point.
They’ve experimented with AI pilots, redlining assistants, document analyzers, and chat tools, but the results often remain fragmented and difficult to scale.

Atlas Frontier Labs helps firms move beyond those experiments by building a unified, extensible infrastructure that connects all layers of value creation.

This means:

• Deploying AI capabilities that can be tailored and extended across practice areas.
• Embedding firm knowledge securely, not outsourcing it to public systems.
• Creating a foundation for reusable, firm-owned intellectual property data models, reasoning frameworks, and client-facing tools that become enduring assets.

“AtlasAI is designed to be extensible. Firms can build on it, adapt it, and shape it to reflect their unique strengths. That’s the difference between adopting technology and owning your future.”
— Matthew Scheetz - Platforms Director

What Atlas Frontier Labs Delivers

Atlas Frontier Labs was built to translate that vision into tangible progress.
Each engagement is structured around a firm’s strategic maturity, not a predefined product roadmap.

We partner with leadership teams to:

1. Define a Transformation Roadmap
   Identify where your firm sits along the value spectrum and outline how AI can accelerate your strategic goals from client service innovation to operational efficiency.
2. Build Secure, Extensible Infrastructure
   Design a private AI environment that’s governed, compliant, and customizable. This becomes the platform on which new applications, insights, and capabilities can be developed internally.
3. Develop Firm-Owned Knowledge Assets
   Turn your institutional experience into structured intelligence, enabling consistent, scalable expertise delivery.
4. Create New Client-Facing Value
   Partner to design new revenue-generating offerings — client dashboards, analytics products, or advisory tools powered by your own AI foundation.

“Atlas Frontier Labs gives firms the building blocks to evolve not just technologically, but strategically. We’re helping leaders reimagine what a law firm can be in the age of AI.”
— Cory Walker - Director of Applied AI

A Platform Built for Firm Sovereignty

The core philosophy behind AtlasAI is control.
Every firm has its own culture, compliance landscape, and client expectations. A one-size-fits-all AI product will never respect that.

AtlasAI’s architecture is modular, private, and extensible designed so firms can innovate on their own terms, within their own environment.

It’s infrastructure that allows for experimentation without risk, collaboration without exposure, and transformation without losing what makes the firm distinct.

“The future of law will belong to firms that control their data, their infrastructure, and their intelligence. Atlas Frontier Labs is how we help them get there.”
— Stephen Costigan, Founder, AtlasAI

The Business Case for Atlas Frontier Labs

Atlas Frontier Labs exists to address a simple business reality:
AI isn’t just about speed; it’s about strategic leverage.

For firms, that leverage takes several forms:

• Margin Expansion: Reducing non-billable work and improving realization rates.
• Client Retention: Offering differentiated insights, transparency, and responsiveness.
• New Revenue Models: Developing data-driven offerings that extend beyond traditional legal services.
• Talent Optimization: Attracting and retaining professionals who value innovation and impact.

The Future of the Firm

We believe the firms that thrive in the next decade will not be the ones that adopt the most AI tools, but the ones that build the infrastructure that enables them.

Atlas Frontier Labs is that enabler.
It’s how firms evolve from experimentation to ownership, from isolated pilots to unified systems, and from incremental gains to transformational outcomes.

“Our role is to help firms build what comes next: the private, intelligent infrastructure that powers the next generation of client service.”
— Stephen Costigan, Founder, AtlasAI

Atlas Frontier Labs: Building the Future of Legal Intelligence. Privately. Securely. Extensibly.