We’ve spent years helping legal teams bring more structure to how they source and select outside counsel. One lesson we’ve learned along the way? An RFP is only as good as the organizational strategy behind it. The teams that get the most value from our platform aren’t just running more RFPs — they’ve defined clear rules of engagement before they ever kick one off. They know when to RFP, whom to include, and how to evaluate the results. That execution is what turns an RFP from a procurement exercise into a strategic tool.
The problem is that even when those rules exist, they’re rarely consistent or easy to apply. Company policies differ from one organization to another, and they constantly change and evolve. The information needed to operationalize them is scattered — firm knowledge in one place, billing data in another, institutional knowledge with Legal Ops or individual attorneys. Without a unified system to manage this complexity, even well-designed rules get applied inconsistently, or not at all. We wanted to change that.
So we built Scout.
Scout is Priori’s AI agent, embedded directly in Priori RFP. It starts where most tools don’t — long before you’ve even decided to run an RFP — learning your team’s rules of engagement and applying them to every new matter. From there, Scout carries that intelligence through the entire process: surfacing qualified firms, advising on RFP structure, and helping your team evaluate pricing proposals using structured comparisons and historical context. One continuous workflow, from “we have a new matter” to “we’ve selected counsel.”
If you’d like to learn more, you can read the full announcement here.
We’ll be walking through Scout in a live session tomorrow — we’d love for you to join us.
And as always, if you have thoughts on Scout, RFPs, or data-driven outside counsel generally, we’d love to hear them.
Warmly,
Basha & Mirra
Co-Founders, Priori
