What we do · The keystone

The Product Foundry

A governed pipeline of ideas that turns a law firm's expertise into products, and the strongest products into ventures. Ideas go in at one end. New revenue comes back at the other.

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The gates · Governance

Every gate is a decision

Everything moves on evidence. Each gate poses a new challenge to an idea. The foundry spends nothing on an idea that cannot make its case. The goal is to make sure it's worth investing in.

Two tracks · Internal, external

For the firm, or for the market

Some ideas become tools the firm keeps for its own lawyers. Others become products for clients and the wider market. The pipeline enables both.

The estuary · Products

Into open water

The ideas that make it through every gate go to market as products: built, put in front of real users, and already validated on a market need.

Spin-out · Ventures

Spun out as ventures

The strongest products outgrow this. They drop anchor as entities of their own, structured so the firm keeps a clear return on what its expertise created.

Capital · From investors

Investors can help fund the ventures

Outside capital optionally scales what the firm has created. The firm does not have to fund every venture itself; it can pick and choose based on its risk appetite.

Revenue · Back to the firm

And revenue flows back

Licences, subscriptions, equity, exits. Every venture sends revenue back to the firm: new income on the firm's books, and new value for the partnership, from expertise it already had.

The foundry · In full

The whole system

Ideas in, products out, revenue back to the firm. A governed pipeline the firm runs continuously, and Purple can build this for you.

The first step · Your firm

Build your own product foundry

The framework is a powerful tool to help drive the future of Big Law. Purple can help you build your own product foundry, and get it running in months, not years.