The IT Nerd

Today, Cilo is announcing this year’s Launch//Code Developer Contest finalists who will soon compete for the $100,000 grand prize at the annual Clio Cloud Conference. 

The finalists include: 

1. Candle: A personal injury suite that automates medical record retrieval, simplifies billing, and automates personal injury tasks and reminders.
2. Fidu: A client document platform that builds, systematizes, and delivers fixed-fee and subscription legal services to help law firms scale their business. 
3. LawDroid Builder: An automation platform that allows law firms to easily intake clients, automate documents, and build scalable tools to support your law firm. 
4. Levitate: Marketing software designed to help legal professionals drive relationship-based business by staying in touch with their clients.
5. TrustBooks: Legal accounting software that helps legal professionals easily manage accounting needs. 

What is the Launch//Code Developer Contest?

• The contest fosters a new class of breakthrough additions to Clio’s App Directory, designed to pair with Clio Manage’s robust end-to-end solution, and help meet the unique needs of individual law firms or niche requirements of particular practice areas.
• Contestants and judges from across North America will gather virtually to declare this year’s winning app and celebrate the bright future of legaltech.
• Finalists will present a seven-minute pitch on their app’s innovation, impact, and business potential to an all-star panel of industry experts. 

Who won last year?

• At the 2020 Clio Cloud Conference, Documate was announced as the winner and brought home the $100,000 grand prize. Documate is a secure and easy-to-use document automation platform that cuts drafting time by 90%, enabling law firms to turn templates into workflows that populate client data into forms. 

You can learn more about the finalists here.

Developers have until the end of July to submit apps that address a difficulty legal professionals face daily when managing their business for the chance to win a $100,000 prize through the Clio Launch//Code content. This is part of a larger investment Clio is making in the legal technology space via the $1 million Developer Fund.

The winning company or business will design and develop an app that is built against and deeply integrates with Clio’s rich API. Potential finalists will leverage the complex array of client and matter data stored in Clio to offer new, seamless processes to streamline traditionally cumbersome workflows. Contest entries can range from apps that have previously demonstrated market traction to innovative functioning ideas that have yet to be tested.

Finalists will be invited to Clio Cloud Conference 2018 and have the opportunity to pitch their ideas to the keynote audience and panel of judges. The winning company or business will receive the $100,000 prize, but all entrants who complete the necessary requirements and are approved by Clio will be featured on Clio’s App Directory, bringing their app to a growing community of over 150,000 legal professionals. Individuals interested in submitting their apps are encouraged to visit the Launch//Code contest website.