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Enhancing Legal and Accounting Workflows with AI: Insights into Work Code Prediction

Legal and accounting firms face a turning point: adopt advanced AI to revolutionize timekeeping and billing or remain mired in inefficiency. This blog explores Laurel's breakthrough in work code prediction using Siamese Network Embeddings, showcasing a path towards unprecedented operational efficiency and strategic advantage. Join us as we delve into the specifics of our technology and its impact on the professional landscape.

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Laurel Achieves SOC 2 Type II Certification: Building with Confidence for Secure and Efficient Digital Work Management 🎉

We're excited to announce a significant milestone at Laurel: our achievement of SOC 2 Type II certification. This certification isn't just a mark of our commitment to security; it's the foundation that allows us to confidently provide services that transform your digital work footprints into accurate, secure, and compliant time entries.

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Redefining Value in Professional Services: A Data-Driven Approach

In a world where time has long been the default metric for value in professional services, we propose a groundbreaking shift. Drawing from proprietary data and real-world insights, this article explores Laurel's commitment to redefining value through data-driven intelligence. We invite you to explore how we're not just keeping time, but leveraging data to unlock untapped potential in productivity and profitability.

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Laurel, An Implementation That Doesn't Fatigue

Our journey at Laurel has been an eye-opening experience in learning about the challenges IT and Finance leadership faces to ensure a firm’s ability to operate is safeguarded; in particular the fatigue that comes from technology implementations that protract in timelines and drain resources before becoming a point of contention within a firm. 

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Meeting Users Where They Are: Embracing Modernization with Laurel

If Marc Andreessen's observation that "software is eating the world" sounded like an exaggeration a decade ago, today it's a statement of fact. Software isn't a 'nice-to-have'; it's become the vital machinery of any competitive business. Here lies the challenge: how do you upgrade the engine mid-flight without crashing the plane?

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Turning Data into Dollars: The Three Operational Levers Every Managing Partner Needs to Know

Every second without Laurel is lost profit. Don't just track time; transform it into profitability with Laurel's Revenue Operations Levers. Here's why your firm needs to measure and grow them now.

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Maximize Profit with Laurel: Turning Time into a Strategic Business Asset

In our journey as a company with a mission to return time, we've learned a lot — most importantly is to justify the business change cost of critical software.For that reason, we focus on delivering immediate value with Laurel by turning time into a strategic asset for your firm to support timekeepers in billing more time in less time, while also building up the foundation of operational data to prepare for the future.

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We're SOC 2 compliant — Here’s why that matters for you

Today, and many lines of code later, we are proud to announce that we have received our SOC 2 Type 1 report (you can check out the official press release here). The audit affirms our practices, policies, procedures, and operations all meet the SOC 2 standards for security, availability, and confidentiality. A lot of words that translate to: we now have external validation of what we’ve been doing internally since Day 1.

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Why Laurel Exists

We started the company six years ago to empower +1B knowledge workers to produce twice as much value in half the time. Ambitious to say the least, but it has been done once before.

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Goodbye Time by Ping. Hello Laurel: The Story Behind Our New Identity

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Going Beyond Fixed Rules With Machine Learning to Truly Automate Timekeeping

Although both machine learning and fixed rules fall under the umbrella of AI, they’re vastly different. These differences have implications for timekeeping.

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A Team Connected By Time

At Laurel, our team is unified by a deeper purpose: to return time. Hear from our CEO on why this mission will drive us to change the world, and then watch our Laureates speak to life at Laurel in our new video.

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