Gerry McHugh
Tim Follett spent years at Slaughter and May working on high-value PE deals, reorganisations and acquisitions. The work was complex. The tools were not.
Like every transactional lawyer, he relied on diagrams to make sense of deal structures. Unlike every transactional lawyer, he couldn’t stop thinking about how badly PowerPoint did the job.
That obsession became StructureFlow, a data-driven visual workspace that turns complex structures into living, connected models. In this interview, Tim talks candidly about leaving the City, the £20k prototype he built on evenings and weekends, what it really means to build something from nothing, and why getting AI right starts with getting your information architecture right first.
Real-world impact
If there's one thing you need to know, it's everything.
Sam Whitman
Director of Knowledge Management
Holland & Knight LLP
StructureFlow significantly reduces the amount of time taken to create diagrams, making it easy for our lawyers to pivot and adapt a structure based on our clients' needs.
Walter Clark
Partner
Pinsent Masons
StructureFlow stands out because it is genuinely fixing a real problem making it so much easier for our lawyers to generate top quality group structure charts, which our clients love as well.
Nick Grandage
Global Head of Banking & Finance
Norton Rose Fulbright
The biggest benefit from StructureFlow is how it has improved our discussions with clients. It makes us a better law firm.
Nick Pryor
Director of Knowledge & innovation
Freeths
We use StructureFlow as a communication tool, a collaboration tool, with the third parties we work with - clients, accountants, private equity. There is so much room to grow and put StructureFlow in the centre of that.
Greg Baker
Global Head of Practice Innovation
Linklaters LLP
StructureFlow is now an integral part of our text workbench, enhancing the client and lawyer experience and driving efficiency.
