You made the case for GenAI.
Probably more than once.
The tools are live, the licenses are paid, and leadership is watching. But the results aren't there yet — and the longer that goes on, the harder it becomes to explain.
The instinct is to do more. More training, more use cases, more communication. But more of the same approach produces more of the same result. The problem isn't effort — it's that GenAI adoption doesn't work like any software rollout that came before it.
As a result, many firms have plenty — perhaps even too many — initiatives already going on, with the fundamentals still missing. Because to get value from GenAI, people need to be comfortable using it. And confidence comes from experience. And gaining experience requires new habits. Without new habits, nothing will connect.
Tools don't deliver results. People do.
It's not just that change is hard. It's that nothing connects.
Most firms don't have a tools problem or even a training problem. They have a coherence and habit problem. Fast adopters pulling in one direction, non-users overwhelmed in another, a pilot here, a training program there — and nobody quite sure how it all adds up. Because it doesn't.
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Results that hold — not just at launch.
The firms that see results aren't the ones with the best tools. They're the ones that treated adoption as a structural problem — and committed to changing habits. These numbers reflect that commitment.
Jones Walker — Lasting change.
Jones Walker LLP didn't start with a rollout plan. In 2023, O4I began working with them to explore what GenAI could actually do for practicing attorneys — and what it would honestly take to make it useful.
That exploration became a structured adoption program. That program became embedded practice. Today, approximately 80% of their licensed Copilot users are daily users — not because they were mandated to be, but because the journey was designed to build trust and confidence one step at a time.
"Thank you for keeping us focused, on track, and always bringing valuable perspective from a national and global viewpoint. Your input consistently raises the quality of our work. I especially appreciate the artful way you let us know when we're heading down the wrong path."
— Ruark Chick, CIO, Jones Walker LLPThe shift that actually matters.
The goal was never to get attorneys to use GenAI. It was to get them to reach for it on their own — before anyone told them to. That's a different problem. And it requires a different approach.
"I used to sit on certain tasks for days. Now I just open Copilot and start. That alone has changed how I work."
— Partner, midsize law firm"What participants consistently say isn't that they learned to use Copilot. It's that they stopped avoiding it."
— O4I Edge program, across 10 law firmsThree things have to be true at the same time.
O4I has been helping organizations turn promising initiatives into lasting results for more than a decade — across law firms, healthcare, engineering, and government. The context changes. The conditions for success don't. All three of these have to be in place, simultaneously, for habits to stick and results to add up.
The human side has to be designed for
Attorneys at every point on the adoption curve — fast movers, skeptics, and everyone in between — need a path that meets them where they are. One approach for everyone fails everyone.
Each project has to build on the last
When every initiative restarts from zero, nothing compounds. O4I structures work so that lessons, proof, and momentum carry forward — so the firm gets sharper with every engagement.
Commitment has to be real from the start
Most firms approve a budget, buy the tools, and hope momentum follows. It doesn't. Before any engagement, O4I uses the RISE framework to make sure the conditions for success are honestly in place.
Convinced? Curious? Either way, there's a next step.
Fifteen minutes is usually enough to know if there's a fit.
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