# How a 12-person legal-tech team doubled capacity without doubling headcount.

> An event-driven AWS backbone absorbed twice the volume, reduced manual work, and helped the company reach profitability.

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CASE STUDY · LEGAL-TECH PLATFORM

SITUATION

A market-leading legal-services platform had to pivot from VC funding to profitability. The question every founder recognizes: how does a company grow output and revenue without growing headcount at the same rate?

WHAT WE BUILT

- Every form submission, deal change, order, and support message became an event; queues and workers did the rest.
- Invoices generated, CRM synced, documents filed, dashboards updated, with no human in the data loop.
- Event-driven serverless on AWS: near-zero idle cost, scales with load.
- Hardened ETL pipelines: the same data correct in every system, all the time.
- Designed together with the people who run the processes; none of it works without their input.

2×

the volume, absorbed by the same team

12

people in the entire company

150/mo

orders fulfilled

The company reached profitability and was later acquired. The backbone outlived every team shape and is still running today.

STACK

AWS Serverless Custom ETL REST APIs Node.js Python Next.js Metabase Docker

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