Tali, a product that allows lawyers to track their time through voice commands using Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, is shutting down, effective June 30.
The company notified customers by email of the news this morning. Customers will have until the end of June to download any data that have stored with Tali.
Monthly subscribers can continue to use the product through the end of June at no cost. Annual subscribers will be issued refunds.
“We gave it everything we had,” cofounder Matthew Volm told me yesterday. “We’re ready to move on and take all that we’ve learned with us.”
Volm and two friends — Matt Anthes-Washburn and Matt Hoiland — started Tali in 2017 after Volm saw his lawyer-wife struggle with time entry. “Our goal is to eliminate the pain and frustration for attorneys associated with logging time, which saves the firm money by decreasing administrative costs and increasing revenue by capturing billable time that was previously lost,” Volm told me at the time, when the product was still in pre-beta development.
Tali formally launched in September 2017 at the Clio Cloud Conference, also then announcing its integration with Clio. It later added integrations with Rocket Matter and PracticePanther.
At the 2018 Clio Cloud Conference, Tali won the $100,000 prize in the inaugural Clio Launch//Code competition as the best new integration with Clio. (I was a judge for that competition.)
Although Tali raised nearly $1 million, the company was not able to establish a sufficient user base to keep going. “We ran out of money before we found a product-market fit,” Volm said. “We got to the point where cash was running low and we didn’t have the traction to go out and raise more funding.”
In the email to customers, the three founders wrote:
Unfortunately, Tali’s story ends
