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Brightflag Overview

What is Brightflag?

Brightflag's e-billing and matter management platform is the most effective solution for providing visibility into legal spend and controlling costs. The intuitive AI-powered platform makes teams more productive by taking on time consuming, manual, tasks related to invoicing, reporting, and matter management.

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Product Description

Modern e-billing and matter management software, backed by the best customer service you’ve ever experienced.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

1. Outstanding support
Confidently managing the legal team’s finances is hard. That’s why your Brightflag Customer Success Manager acts as your trusted guide. They’ll share best practices gathered from our work with hundreds of legal teams and develop practical recommendations for how you can improve.

2. Fast implementation
We know legal teams can’t wait extended periods of time to receive value from software. We implement most customers in under 45 days, while laying the foundation for them to achieve longer-term goals.

3. We think long term
To truly operate legal a business, you need to continuously level up your operations. That's why thinking long term is our number-one company value. We are committed to helping our customers to get better month over month and year over year, and to do so we invest more in R&D and customer success than we do in sales and marketing.


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Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
New York, NY
Twitter
@brightflaghq
925 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
152 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Brightflag is modern e-billing and matter management software for legal teams and their finance partners to operate like a business, backed by the best customer service you've ever experienced. Clorox, Shopify, Volvo, and other leading companies use Brightflag to create and protect business value by effectively controlling their budget. It's the only platform that has AI at its core powering e-billing, financial reconciliation, FP&A, and vendor benchmarking.


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Rhonda H.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Best Customer Service"
This software does not get stale, they are continously improving and adding features that will help you with your ebilling platform. This program ...
SC
Steve C.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Success, driven by teamwork and excelllent reporting capabilities"
Brightflag has become an integral part of our day to day lives within our legal function. We have a complete handle on all legal spend and the valu...
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Teresa O.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Very likely to recommend"
Customer service is excellent. The support team and customer service manager are always quick to reply and follow up. Their customer success team...
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Brightflag Demo - Spend Dashboard
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Brightflag Demo - Invoice Review
Take the pain out of invoicing with AI-assisted review. You get the same user-friendly review experience with PDF and LEDES invoices.
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Easily track budgets at the overall, department, or matter level.
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Verified User in Banking
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

- Easy to use, intuitive user interface and solution design

- Advanced AI capabilities that are reliable and easy to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

-Nothing in particular that I dislike. The Brightflag team are a forward thinking, innovative group so I am sure they will continue to develop the product over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brightflag:

A great company to partner with and an easy to use, easy to set up product that will help your organisation better understand and manage legal spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to track legal spend in real time and use the data available to make smarter decisions around who we partner with for legal support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Financial Services
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

How intuitive the system is. It has massively benefitted our firm in reaching our objective to better manage our legal spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

It would be helpful to incorporate some additional functionality around capturing accruals and whether these impact any upfront, pre-agreed estimates/quotes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing our legal spend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

CD
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

Based on machine learning + human, and not rule based as some other software

Interfaces are intuitive. Visuals are helpful and guiding. Invoice review page is dense but insightful

High degree of self-service

Machine learning is not done from scratch per each new customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

Minor stuff. Would like more data on end-user engagement as part of onboarding and implementation.

Some notification reminders does not make sense or are not customizable Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Issues: Challenging for lawyers to review invoices against guidelines in detail. Challenging to get granular statistics. Accruals are time consuming

Benefits: Consolidated analysis of invoices received. Automated flagging of invoices and potential savings (tbd). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marissa C.
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EVP, Global Head of Legal and Compliance
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

The AI software has made invoice review against our outside counsel policy much more effective and less burdensome. In addition, the overall spend analytics are extremely helpful and something we are looking to further leverage as we consider budget planning for deals and the general corporate spend for next year. The team has also been really great about engaging with clients on how to make the platform better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

To be a single source for engaging with law firms on the business of an engagement (budget, scope, performance), it's still missing a few elements. We'd love to see more features to allow us to launch RFPs or rate the firms post-engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our business is geographically dispersed and having a central view on legal spend was quite difficult, as was controlling the approval of all invoices by the relevant in-house attorney. We also run a lean team and making sure that the administrative work behind what we do feels minimally invasive was an important part of choosing BrightFlag. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Brightflag?

Brightflag has a very user friendly and intuitive interface, meaning it's very easy to track legal spend with minimal effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

Not major, but the ability to integrate with existing systems within the business (i.e. Finance systems) would be a good feature going forward (as opposed to logging in to a standalone Brightflag platform). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brightflag:

If you need an easy to use, 'off the shelf' platform to track and control your external legal spend, Brightflag is the platform to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Put simply, the benefit of being able to see all legal supplier spend in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Vishnu Thyagarajan of Brightflag

Thank you for submitting your feedback about Brightflag! We sincerely appreciate the time to write a review and are happy to hear your experience has been positive.

Regarding integrations, Brightflag does offer integrations with the most common platforms for Finance, SSO, etc. If you'd like to discuss this further, please reach out to me (vishnu.thyagarajan@brightflag.com) or your current CSM, and we'd be happy to explore options with you.

Best,

Vishnu

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What do you like best about Brightflag?

Excellent customer service & support. Always improving the technology to adapt to clients' needs & requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

A lot of employee turnaround in a short period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gain clarity on vendor billing. Gain speed in processing and paying invoices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Kevin Cohn of Brightflag

Thanks so much for your review, and in particular calling attention to our excellent customer service and support! Overall, Brightflag has fantastic employee retention—95% in the last 12 months—but we acknowledge you may have been impacted disproportionally recently. Thanks again for your patience as we work to iron this out for you!

Verified User in Maritime
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

Invoices are centralised, platform is efficient and workable, matter history and invoices are easily accessible. It's so time efficient and the automated invoice reviews really work. The platform saves time for both the administrator and reviewer of invoices. Very worthwhile. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

In our organisation Brightflag is not interfaced with our accounts payable system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Because we split some of our invoices across business units, we have worked with the Brightflag team to facilitate effective reporting at the matter level in Brightflag so these variations can be reflected in reporting. The Brightflag platform is very user friendly and, from an administrative perspective, a great benefit is the central deposit for all legal matters and legal invoices and the quick and efficient business unit reporting. From an invoice reviewer perspective the flagging process saves time and is very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

Brightflag is a fantastic one-stop-shop for monitoring and reviewing our legal spend. The platform itself is intuitive and easy to use, and no stone has been left unturned when it comes to providing a brilliant user experience. The Brightflag team are second to none when it comes to providing support, training and 'best practice' of the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

I can't think of anything - we are very happy with the product and the service that we receive! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

The flags against an invoice allow our lawyers to immediately identify potential cost savings without ever needing to trawl through pages of narrative, line by line. We're saving both money and our lawyers' time, which is extremely important.

Vendors are also able to see live updates on the status on their invoice(s), so our Accounts Payable team are no longer being chased on whether the invoices have been received or scheduled for payment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SK
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

Brightflag did not work with us as a vendor providing a SaaS product but worked as a real partner who care for our business as their business. They saw every change requested by us as a potential enhancement which will benefit every clients they have. Their intention to grow with the client will help them grow their business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

Location and timezone difference. However to overcome this challenge, Brightflag employed a permanent onshore Customer Success Manager and also temporarily deputed Implementation Manager and Product Configuration Manager during the Implementation phase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Legal spend validation against the agreed SLA and full visibility of the legal spend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain
AL
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Brightflag?

Ability to monitor your legal spend via detailed reports, flags raised when potential issues with invoices are identified, a central repository of all of your business' legal matters, with the ability to quickly download all associated invoices (which the business often wants to see!). The fact you can set a budget and the platform lets you track if you have adjusted the budget. Brightflag also means you can track 'lost' invoices when followed up by external counsel for late payment of invoices that you never in fact received! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Brightflag?

Currently, our business has not linked our accounts payable to Brightflag as we use a couple of different systems. While this is not Brightflag's fault, this does involve an extra 'step' in our payments' process. Having said that, the approved invoices are emailed direct to the 'actioner', so time is saved in that aspect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Brightflag:

If you don't have a platform to centrally understand your legal spend, then you need to seriously consider Brigthflag as a way to manage this process efficiently and effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Brightflag solving and how is that benefiting you?

Brightflag are helping us to identify all open matters, so we can look at internal versus external spend and how we best allocate resources. We have been able to compare the spend of different vendors for similar matters and this further assists with resource allocation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.