Tempello is a narrow, practitioner-facing billing/timekeeping product for law firms that converts email activity into draft billable time entries for Clio and 8am MyCase. The core value is not generic law-firm automation; it is plugging one very specific revenue leak: lawyers do substantive work in email, forget to start timers, and then reconstruct time later from memory. Tempello’s public positioning is unusually concrete for an early-stage vendor. First-party schema on the live site exposes pricing at $0.39 per matched email with no monthly fees, highlights 99.9% matter matching accuracy and a two-minute setup claim, and frames the product around automated email billing rather than broad AI claims. Clio’s app-directory listing independently corroborates the integration and workflow. Third-party review depth is moderate rather than deep: Capterra and GetApp product pages exist, Reddit mentions are light, and most customer/outcome evidence still comes from vendor-led resources or promotional coverage. Security disclosure is also limited: public snippets state confidentiality obligations and no training of public-facing LLMs on client data, but no public SOC 2, ISO 27001, or SSO details surfaced in this pass.
Company Info
- Founded: 2022
- Team size: 1-10 employees
- Funding: $550K
- HQ: United States
- Sector: Revenue Management
What We Haven’t Verified
This page was assembled from publicly available information. Feature claims and workflow mappings are based on what the vendor and third-party listings publish — not hands-on testing or practitioner feedback.
Workflows
Based on practitioner evidence, Tempello is used in these workflows:
What practitioners struggle with
Real frustrations from legal professionals — the problems Tempello addresses (or should address). Sourced from practitioner reviews, Reddit threads, and case studies.
Attorneys reconstruct their day at 9pm, guessing at time entries — studies show 10-15% of billable hours vanish when you don't track in real time
Attorney drafts a 20-page brief and spends 45 minutes composing emails to the client and opposing counsel about it — but the email lives in Outlook, the document lives in the DMS, the time entry lives in the billing system, and none of them know about each other, so the 6 minutes spent on that email never gets billed because the attorney forgot to switch to the time tracker
Associate or paralegal spends 2-3 hours daily on repetitive administrative tasks — entering time, filing documents to the right matter folder, updating case status fields, sending routine client update emails — and the firm can't hire more support staff at current margins, but the billable-hour leakage from this admin work costs more than the hire would
Where it fits in your workflow
Before Tempello
An attorney sends or receives billable client email throughout the day while drafting, advising, negotiating, or coordinating a matter in Clio or 8am MyCase. Because the work happens inside inboxes rather than in a timer or billing screen, time capture is inconsistent and often delayed until the end of the day.
After Tempello
Tempello matches emails to matters and generates billable time entries so firms can review, post, invoice, and collect against more complete time records with fewer manual edits and less billing leakage.
Integrations & hand-offs
Attorney email activity -> Tempello matter matching and draft time capture -> billing coordinator / attorney review -> Clio or 8am MyCase time entry -> invoice and revenue realization.
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