AI-Powered Procurement for Legal Teams, Built to Scale
Case Study: Trusli
Trusli partnered with Melt Studio to develop a scalable, AI-enhanced procurement workflow system tailored for in-house legal teams. Our agile approach enabled rapid iteration across features like approvals, document handling, dashboards, and multitenancy—helping Trusli bring clarity and efficiency to legal operations.
THE CHALLENGE
Designing Smart Procurement Workflows for Legal Ops
To complement its AI-driven contract platform, Trusli needed a new module to manage purchasing requests, approval flows, and documents—seamlessly integrated into existing legal operations. The system had to be modular, multi-tenant, and ready to scale across enterprise clients.
INITIAL STATE
OUR SOLUTION
Building a Modular Procurement Engine Inside a Legal Tech Stack
Requirements
Simplified Legal Procurement Logic
We translated complex procurement needs into a simplified user experience with clear approval flows, self-serve intake forms, and permission-controlled dashboards—reducing legal bottlenecks.
Application
Building Scalable Workflows
Using JavaScript, AWS, and Gitlab, our team developed components for multitenancy, deal tracking, budget metrics, and document management—all aligned to legal operations best practices.
Prototype
Deliverables and Final Handoff
We delivered a working MVP with modular architecture and documentation for handoff—ready for further scaling under Trusli’s new parent, Gruve AI.
DELIVER STATE
CUSTOMER FEEDBACK
Efficiency-Driven Development with Scalable Results
Trusli reduced purchasing bottlenecks and enabled real-time oversight of deal approvals. Our modular system integrated with their broader legal platform, accelerating their roadmap and contributing to their eventual acquisition by Gruve AI.
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Dustin Conrad
Returns On Demand
I feel like our team at Melt is part of our company not just another outsourced service, they are committed to helping us be successful.
January 23, 2025
Sebastien Gouin-Davis
Amatis
let me know if i can support, but i have no skin in the game.
also, if you were to bless it, i could post it (so that it's not coming from you guys) and just say something like
"These are people that I've worked with for 5 years and have become good friends with. They are doing this radical thing and it seemed like the kind of thing that could help this community. I asked Michael to bless me posting this, but this is unrelated to Establish.
I am also happy to hop on a call or slack with anyone who might be interested but looking for references or even just guidance on app development side."
but also you can just say "naw, it muddies the waters" and I'll shut up 😛
I may just have him do a talk for everyone
Sounds really great
oh that would be really cool
He has a great deck about how it's better to go to the grocery store and buy buns and tomatoes and lettuce to make burgers, and focus your energy on the "secret sauce" - where most startups spend all their time becoming tomato farmers.
February 3, 2025
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