Individual
Solo
£59/month
1,000 pages per option · 1 user
Up to 50 documents a monthStart free trial →Cost comparison
Retyping a document can cost £140. Rebuilding it here costs £13.26.
A scanned agreement has to come back editable, correctly numbered and in the firm's style. Firms buy that three ways: an add-in licensed per fee earner, an outsourced retyping service paid per document, or a secretary retyping it.
One document means 20 pages of scanned PDF. Staff time costed at £35 an hour.
Monthly cost at 60 documents
Retyped in-house£8,400
Licensed Word add-in£4,700
Outsourced retyping£4,125
LexForge Practice£899
Side by side
The same document, four ways.
Retyping produces no invoice, which is why it rarely gets counted. It is the most expensive column here.
| Measure | Word add-in | Outsourced retyping | Retyped in-house | LexForge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you pay | £3,000 per user, per year | £60 per document | Nothing, on paper | £59–£399 a month, pooled |
| Before you start | Quote, rollout, training | 2–3 weeks onboarding, usually a monthly minimum commitment | Nothing | Sign up and upload |
| Time per document | Two hours | 15 minutes | Four hours | 20 minutes |
| Cost of that time | £70.00 | £8.75 | £140.00 | £11.67 |
| Total per document | £70.00 + licence | £68.75 | £140.00 | £13.26 on Practice |
| Scales with | Headcount | Volume | Headcount | Pages used |
Time costed at £35 an hour. Excludes the per-seat licence, charged whether or not a document is processed.
Your volume
Put your own number in.
Set the slider to the documents your firm turns around in a month. Every total includes staff time.
- Pages a month
- 1,200 pages
- Plan that covers it
- Practice · £199 a month
- Tidy-up time, all in
- 20 hours
Monthly cost, time included
Retyped in-house£8,400
240 hours of staff timeLicensed Word add-in£4,700
2 seats at £3,000/yr · 120 hours of correctionOutsourced retyping£4,125
£3,600 in feesLexForge Practice£899
£199 plan plus 20 hoursAt 60 documents a month, LexForge costs £3,226 a month less than outsourced retyping, and 220 hours a month less than retyping in-house.
Plans
Priced by the page, not by the seat.
Allowances are pooled across the firm and renew monthly. Nothing is charged for setup, onboarding or template preparation.
Most popular
Practice
£199/month
2,500 pages per option · 10 users
Up to 125 documents a monthStart free trial →Higher volume
Firm
£399/month
5,000 pages per option · 20 users
Up to 250 documents a monthStart free trial →Page packs top up any plan from £499 for 5,000 pages, valid for 12 months.
Full pricing and packs →A document means 20 pages. Every plan has two options, Reconstruct and Reconstruct with House Style, and each option gets its own allowance of the size shown.
Line items
What you stop paying for.
Charged by the alternatives
- A licence per fee earner.
- Onboarding before the first document.
- Template preparation, billed as a project.
- Usually a monthly minimum commitment.
- Hours of correction on every document.
- Rollout, training, renewal negotiation.
Charged by LexForge
- Pages used, pooled across the firm.
- Nothing else.
Working
Every figure on this page.
Stated so you can check it, or substitute your own. Add-in and outsourced retyping rates are typical of what firms report paying, not quotes. Neither category publishes pricing.
- One document
- 20 pages of scanned PDF
- Human time
- Costed at £35 an hour
- Licensed Word add-in
- £3,000 per user, per year, quoted on request. One seat per 50 documents a month. Two hours of manual work per document.
- Outsourced retyping
- £60 per document, usually with a monthly minimum commitment. Two to three weeks of onboarding and template preparation. 15 minutes per document to brief and check.
- Retyped in-house
- Four hours per document to retype and reformat. No software cost.
- LexForge
- Published plan price, counting the house-style monthly allowance. An equal, separate plain Reconstruct allowance is also included. 20 minutes of tidy-up per document.
FAQ
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Why compare against categories rather than named products?
Add-ins and outsourced retyping services are quoted, not published, so a named price would soon be out of date. Swap in your own quote and the comparison still holds.
What does the twenty minutes of tidy-up cover?
Reading the rebuilt document, checking the flagged words, and fixing anything the house style got slightly wrong. Longer or poorer scans take longer.
Is there a minimum spend or a setup fee?
No. The trial covers 200 Reconstruct pages and 50 house-style pages, plans start at £59 a month and cancel monthly, and House Styles is included rather than sold as a template project.
What happens in a month where volume spikes?
Page packs top up any paid plan from £499 for 5,000 pages, valid for 12 months. A per-seat licence cannot flex that way, and an outsourced retyping service charges the same rate however many arrive.
Check it on your own documents
Run one through before you spend anything.
Start free trial£0 · 200 Reconstruct pages and 50 house-style pages · no setup fee