Donellus · software for small firms on Clio and ChatGPT

The work happened. Is it in Clio?

Each day, Donellus compares your saved Clio time with your calendar, email and files, in your firm’s ChatGPT, and lists work that may be missing. You say how long each item took. Nothing is saved to Clio until you approve it.

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Donellus with a sample firm and sample data. No sound needed.

Why time goes missing

In a small firm, the owner is also the billing desk.

You bill your own time, run billing, and chase everyone else’s entries. Time often gets entered at night or at month-end, from memory. A quick call or a contract read between meetings is easy to leave out, and finished flat-fee work can sit without an invoice.

Donellus makes the check a daily habit, inside the ChatGPT workspace your firm already uses.

How the daily time review works

Compare. Ask. Approve.

01

Compare

Donellus checks your saved Clio time against your connected calendar, email and files, and lists work that may be missing.
02

Ask

For each item, it asks how long it took. It never guesses your minutes.
03

Approve

You approve each entry. Donellus checks the matter, the rate and duplicates before it saves to Clio.

Sample day (fictional firm)

An hour reviewing a contract and half an hour on a client call never made it into Clio. The daily time review asks how long each took. The lawyer confirms 60 and 30 minutes and approves both entries. My time then shows 90 more minutes saved and unbilled. At a sample $400 hourly rate, that is $600 of work the firm can now bill and collect.

Also in Donellus

See where your hours stand.

My timeSaved Clio hours (billable, no charge, flat fee), pace toward your weekly hours goal, and flat fees still waiting for an invoice.
Billing chatReviews unpaid invoices for follow-up. Invoicing itself stays in Clio.
Firm operating loopPriorities, work, time and next steps, each in its own ChatGPT work chat.

What Donellus won’t do

Your judgment. Your records.

Guess your minutes.
Save anything to Clio without your approval.
Create, send or collect invoices. Invoicing stays in Clio, under your firm’s own billing process.
Share one lawyer’s connections with another.
Provide legal services or advice.

Questions owners ask

What does it read?: Each lawyer’s own connected calendar, email and files, plus their saved Clio time, so it can compare them.
Is this another app to learn?: The review runs in your firm’s ChatGPT workspace, and approved entries go into your Clio. My time is a single dashboard.
What do we need?: Clio, and a ChatGPT business workspace your firm owns. Each lawyer connects their own accounts.
Who makes it?: Collateral Base, a software and business consulting company.

Start with one workflow

The Donellus starter

The starter sets up the daily time review on your firm’s own accounts. After the starter, Donellus continues as a software subscription. We’ll cover terms on the walkthrough.

What’s included

Setup of the daily time review.
A 60-minute call each month for three months.
Email help on the workflow between calls.
Written tutorials and instructions for your team.

15-minute walkthrough

See the daily time review on a sample firm.

15 minutes. We’ll show the review, the approval step and My time on sample data, then talk about whether it fits how your firm records time.

Book your walkthrough

Pick a time that works for you. It’s 15 minutes on Google Meet, using a sample firm with sample data.

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