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How Ben McMillan saved $1M with AI

$1M legal bills saved since 2022

since ChatGPT launched in November 2022

savedMaker claim

Ben McMillanIDX Advisors in-house legal and software automation

The CIO of a small investment firm used LLMs to run an in-house paralegal function and replace outsourced developers.

Team
10-person firm
Tools
ChatGPT · Claude · Claude Code · Codex · OpenClaw
I did the math: we easily saved a million dollars in legal bills since the launch of LLMs, which is material.

How solid is this number?

The founder's own estimate in a paid interview, not an audited figure; he gives a $75,000 LP-docs example and $7 in AI compute for a task that used to take 40 hours.

Sources

Reported Mar 2026

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