— SLATE WATER · WARM LIGHT · COLD MORNING — REFERENT · DIRECTION 12 · PACIFIC — FOR THE PRACTICE THAT TOOK THE LONG WAY —
Referent EST · MMXXVI
i.

The wordmark.

Display · App · Favicon · Lockup
Referent
Plain. Patient. Coastal.
— A SMALL FIRM’S LEGAL AI · ESTABLISHED 2026 —
R
App icon · 88px
Referent
Display lockup · 38px
R
Favicon · 32px
ii.

The landing.

Hero · Pull-quote · Pillars
For the practice that took the long way

Built like the coast you can see from your office window.

Referent reads, drafts, and reasons alongside you — quietly, with the patience of a practice that survived a decade and isn’t in a hurry to grow. Plainspoken. Footnoted. Built for the small firm you actually run.

Open a matter Read the manifesto →
— SLATE WATER · 9AM —
“The kind of legal AI you’d trust to watch the office while you take a long lunch.”
— A trusts-and-estates partner who renovated the loft above her firm
For
Solo + small-firm (1–10)
Pace
patient
Citations
every claim, sourced
Annual minimum
none
i.
Plain.
No platform-speak. No quarterly business review. No partner-success-engineer. The voice that comes back is a senior associate who’s been writing briefs for fifteen years.
ii.
Patient.
It reads the forty-page packet so you don’t have to. Marks the four pages worth pushing back on. Footnotes the rest. No rush, no flag-waving.
iii.
Coastal.
A reminder that the practice you built was supposed to leave you time for the view. Referent stays out of the way of how you actually write. And of when you stop.
iii.

The palette.

Fog · Driftwood · Slate teal · A pinch of coral

Fog & slate water.

Pacific is the colour of a coastal morning at 9am — fog-linen background, driftwood neutrals, a slate teal that holds the whole composition. Coral is reserved for sunset moments — the rare flag, the active CTA on a quiet page. Cool-leaning warm. Mature. Lived-in.

Background
Fog
oklch0.945 0.013 210
hex#E8EDEF
Neutral
Driftwood
oklch0.55 0.012 70
hex#85807A
Primary
Slate teal
oklch0.5 0.072 200
hex#3F6F7A
Foreground
Deep ink
oklch0.25 0.02 210
hex#2C3438
Sunset · rare
Coral
oklch0.65 0.13 35
hex#D17B5A
Ink on fog 10.4 : 1 AAA · BODY
Fog on ink 10.4 : 1 AAA · CHROME
Fog on slate teal 5.1 : 1 AA · CTA
iv.

The product.

Sidebar · Empty state · Composer

The same shell, quieter still.

Inside the product, the teal recedes — appearing only on active rows, the avatar, and the favicon. The serif italics carry voice from the marketing site straight into the empty-state. Body type is set looser than the others; Pacific is for someone who decided not to be in a hurry.

Ortega · I-589 Tue 09:14 · continuance hearing in 14d · 38pp packet ⌘ K

Take your time. What should I read first?

A draft, a citation check, the country-conditions packet. I’ll mark the parts to push back on, footnote the rest, and stay out of the way of how you actually write.

i.
Draft A continuance motion citing the new I-589 backlog data.
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ii.
Research 9th Circuit credibility-finding standards, last 24 months.
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iii.
Read The 38-page country-conditions packet. Surface the four pages that matter.
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iv.
Intake A one-page client memo from Tuesday's call notes.
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Tell Referent what to read first… ⌘ K