A hypothetical morning with a managing partner, a fresh cup of coffee, and the first day of the billing cycle. In seconds, IQ returns revenue, billed and collected totals, and WIP in one view. Each figure carries a numbered citation chip. One click opens the sources drawer and shows the exact Centerbase records behind the number.

Centerbase IQ™ is AI-powered intelligence built directly into the Centerbase platform. It reads your firm's Centerbase data, including matters, clients, attorneys, time, billing, invoices, and payments, and turns it into answers, charts, and tables you can use right away.

AI Is changing how law firms use business data. Law firms don't have a shortage of data. They have a shortage of easy ways to get answers from it. Every day, a midsize firm generates valuable business information through timekeeping, billing, payments, matters and other practice management activities. But answering a specific question can still require finding the right report, working through a dashboard, exporting data or waiting for someone to create an analysis.

New research from Centerbase finds midsize law firms are making high-stakes decisions on financial data that's slow, fragmented, and often out of date.

The firms that will have the strongest 2027 aren't necessarily the ones with the most tools. They're the ones whose operations run on a single platform where matter management, billing, financial operations, and AI work together — and where the back office runs tightly enough that attorneys can focus on clients.

A platform built on Microsoft decides your architecture for you, while a platform built to work with Microsoft adapts as your firm changes. A Microsoft 365 integration should stretch the investment your firm has already made, without committing your firm to a stack of licenses or extra consultant fees. Total the cost through year two. Then test whether the AI understands trust accounting or can analyze your firm's financial health, and time how long it takes to produce a report you can make decisions on.

A new integration with Scan Logic brings AI-powered e-billing and OCG compliance into the Centerbase platform.

Running a firm can sometimes feel like your answering a hundred small questions that come up over the course of a day. These questions shouldn't be difficult to answer, but they can slow you down, especially when the answer might mean sending an email or leaving a voicemail and waiting for a reply. That's the gap AI Assist is here to close.

Most firms already use AI. Far fewer can prove how the work got done. That distance between using AI and governing it is where your professional exposure is. This is not simply a technology problem, although the right technology can help. It is, however, a leadership decision about how your firm operates.

You've automated how the bill goes out. Here's the half of the loop nobody automated: how the money comes back. Most managing partners can tell you, almost to the day, how long it takes their firm to get a bill out the door. Pre-billing, partner review, finalization: that part of […]

The busiest attorneys lose the most time, not because they’re careless, but because reconstructing a day from memory never quite works. Firms using Billables AI capture 10–30% more billable time, and accurate records drive insights around firm profitability. Ask any managing partner who their best timekeepers are and they’ll name […]

Secure by design, reliable by architecture, and built for the business of law  this is what Centerbase IQ is delivering. The conversation about artificial intelligence in law firms has moved. It is no longer a question of if your firm will use AI. Here is what the data is telling us: attorneys at law firms across […]

Running a law firm is running a business, but the financial side of that business still looks surprisingly analog. Checks get printed and signed by hand, invoice details get keyed in twice, and payments get tracked in spreadsheets. These are the kind of manual tasks that lower efficiency: hours lost […]

Webinar: Centerbase and AvidXchange Integration In this on-demand session, we walk through the new AvidXchange integration built natively into Centerbase’s Vendor Pay module and demo the full workflow live. You'll see how AP automation works for the way law firms actually operate: selecting vendor bills, choosing payment preferences, validating with AvidXchange, and tracking everything in the Vendor […]

The partnership gives law firms a fully managed accounts payable automation solution built directly into Centerbase, eliminating manual payment workflows without leaving the platform they already use to run their practice. DALLAS, TEXAS, May 19, 2026. Centerbase, the operating platform purpose-built for midsize law firms, today announced a partnership with […]

Multi-Payor Billing is live in Centerbase. Here's what it means for your firm — and why it matters at the partner level. There's a version of this conversation that happens in law firms everywhere. A managing partner discusses with the billing director how to improve the process for multi-payor matters, […]

If your firm is already on Centerbase for practice management but still running collections through a separate payments tool, there's a quiet cost to that setup. It doesn't show up on an invoice. It shows up in the reconciliation steps your team runs at month end. It shows up in […]

There's a particular kind of frustration that billing professionals at law firms know well. It's the moment you open a multi-payor matter and realize you're about to spend the next hour doing something that should take five minutes. You've got one matter. Three payors. An insurance carrier at 60%, a […]

If your law firm handles insurance defense, co-defendant matters, or any case where more than one party shares financial responsibility for fees, you've probably built a system for managing it. Maybe it's a spreadsheet that lives alongside every multi-payor matter. Maybe it's a manual allocation process your billing manager runs […]

Law firms are under more pressure than ever to operate like modern businesses while still preserving the professional and regulatory structure that makes the legal industry unique. That tension is one reason Managed Services Organizations, or MSOs, are drawing so much attention right now. In a recent webinar, Cecy Graf, Co-Founder & […]

Multi-Payor Billing is now live in Centerbase. You can now add multiple payors directly to a single matter.  You assign each payor a percentage of the bill, designate a remainder payor to handle any rounding, and that's it. When you generate an invoice, Centerbase automatically routes the right amount to […]

Centerbase IQ™ brings natural language business intelligence directly to law firm leaders. No report requests, no waiting, no guesswork. Dallas, TX, April 13, 2026 — If you've ever needed to know how your firm was really performing: collection rates by practice group, which attorneys have WIP aging past 60 days, […]

Centerbase IQ brings managing partners and firm administrators fast, citation-backed, natural language intelligence drawn from their firm’s own billing, financial, matter, and productivity data, without building reports or administrator support. Dallas, TX, April 13, 2026 — Centerbase, a leading legal operating platform built for midsize law firms, today announced Centerbase […]

The integration pairs Centerbase’s matter data, billing workflows, and operational intelligence with Billables AI’s automated time capture, giving midsize firms a stronger data foundation and the AI-powered reporting to make better decisions on profitability, timekeeper performance, and firm growth. Dallas, TX, April 7, 2026 — Centerbase, the operating platform purpose-built […]