A full email client
Gmail, Microsoft 365 or any IMAP account, inside Oberon. Inbound post is matched to its matter by reference every five minutes and filed as EMAIL-IN on the timeline.
The feature tour
Everything a practice runs on.
Shown, not described.
These are real screens from Oberon working real files — the matter timeline, the accounts, the diary — plus everything that works behind them.
Matters & WIP
The file that keeps itself
Every matter has one timeline — the work-in-progress file. Correspondence, calls, notes, documents and texts land on it in order, timed, costed and attributed to whoever did the work.
- Unbilled work is visible at all times — nothing leaks between bills
- Reminders and key dates live on the file, not in someone's head
- Per-department custom fields — conveyancing, litigation, probate, and more
Legal accounting
Double-entry, done right for 25 years
Client and office money are kept properly apart on every ledger card. Raising a bill pulls in unbilled time and outlays, calculates VAT, posts to the ledger and files the PDF — one pass.
- Solicitors Accounts Regulation returns from live data
- VAT 3 figures, trial balance, aged debtors — 78 built-in reports
- Bank reconciliation that doesn't wait for month-end
Calendar & key dates
One diary for the whole firm
Court listings, appointments, undertakings and statutory deadlines — colour-coded per person, tied to their matters, filterable by fee earner or file.
- Click any event to open the matter behind it
- Week, month and year views across every user
Reporting
Reports that answer back
Financial, management, compliance and AI-usage reporting — every figure computed from the live database the moment you press Run, never from last month's export.
- Aged client balances reconciled to the client control account
- Cases with no reminder — the file that's quietly going stale
- AI usage and cost per user, per model, per day
And behind those screens
The rest of the machine.
Documents from templates
Letters and precedents that fill themselves from the matter. Missing details are asked for once, written back to the file, and never asked for again.
Court-ready PDF bundles
Cover page, index, dividers, consecutive numbering and bookmarks — a paginated bundle assembled inside Oberon, no external bundling tools.
Two-way SMS, on the record
Texts to and from clients are filed to the matter timeline with delivery receipts and STOP-compliance handled. The conversation stays on the file.
OCR that feeds the AI
Scanned bundles become searchable PDFs at €0.05 a page — and once searchable, the AI can read and cite them.
Secure file sharing
Password-protected, time-limited download links for clients and counsel — no login needed, every download recorded in the audit trail.
Pipeline view
Matters as cards on a kanban board, stage by stage — see at a glance where every file in the department stands.
Webforms into matters
Intake forms that create clients and matters directly — no re-keying from email into the system.
API, webhooks & MCP
A full REST API over your own data, signed webhooks on every change, and MCP in both directions — Oberon's AI can use outside tools, and outside assistants can work your matters.
Compared, plainly
What changes when
you move to Oberon.
| Typical per-seat platform | Oberon | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | €60–€120 per user per month | Pay per operation; €25 free credit to start |
| Legal accounting | Often an add-on or an export to your accountant | Built in — double-entry, Law Society reports, 25 years proven |
| Plug-in that files messages when someone remembers | Full client; auto-filed to matters every 5 minutes | |
| AI | Bolt-on chatbot, extra tier | Included: cited answers, deep reasoning, knowledge base |
| Court bundles | Separate subscription | Included — €3.58 per assembled bundle |
| SMS | Rarely offered | Two-way, filed to the matter, compliance handled |
| Extra users | Another seat, another fee | Free — charges attach to work, not people |
Comparison reflects commonly published per-seat pricing and typical feature packaging as of 2026; individual platforms vary.