How it works
OptiSeat brings all trainee rotation data into one place, giving trainees and Early Careers teams easy access to everything they need.
Trainees can explore available seats, learn about each practice area, and submit their preferences - while also reviewing past choices to make more informed decisions.
Early Careers teams gain a complete overview of trainee preferences, comments, and historical allocation data.
Leveraging advanced mathematical techniques that balance trainee preferences and business requirements, OptiSeat generates an Optimal Allocation such that each trainee is allocated their highest possible seat preference and no better overall distribution exists.
The Early Careers team use this Optimal Allocation as the starting point for the process. They retain full control over final allocation decisions, enabling them to incorporate individual nuances and career goals into the process.
Smarter. Fairer. Simpler
Centralised view
Smarter
OptiSeat utilises advanced mathematics to produce the provably optimal allocation of seats given the business constraints, so you always start from the best possible outcome.
We believe that the expertise of the Early Careers Team is invaluable in this process. Therefore, OptiSeat is designed to take on all the heavy computational burden freeing them to deal with the nuance of each individual situtation.
Efficient and fair allocation
Fairer
OptiSeat's initial allocation is produced without unconscious bias. All adjustments made by the Early Careers Team are active decisions, reducing the risk of unjustified bias.
OptiSeat highlights any potentially unforeseen consequences of each decision that is made, thus ensuring you always reach an equitable final allocation.
Maintains human oversight
Simpler
Everything is contained and managed through an easy-to-use platform. Trainees submit their preferences and comments directly. The Early Careers Team then view everything in a customisable dashboard.
With everything in one place you are in complete control. No back and forth with spreadsheets. You work when and how you like.
Since adopting OptiSeat, our seat allocation process has become more efficient, saving us valuable time. The platform provides us a clear and visual overview of all the relevant information across multiple offices, making the management of the data effortless.
The team at OptiSeat are a pleasure to work with, very proactive and responsive. They have quickly implemented an idea we suggested for the user interface within 48 hours. This display and ease of access is a game changer, and I would highly recommend the platform to any Early Careers team who are still adopting a manual approach to a time-consuming and complex seat allocation process.
Early Careers Development Advisor, International Firm
About us
Our story
Founded by a Cambridge PhD mathematician and an ex-lawyer with 25 years experience in the legal sector, we have combined our technical and market expertise to create a unique product that ensures trainees have the best chance of achieving their desired career path.
We are innovative and responsive, continually adding new features to meet the differing needs of the leading international law firms that we work with.
Our vision
Our challenge was to enable Early Careers teams to combine intelligent compute power with their knowledge and understanding of individual trainees to create the best possible outcome for all.
We believe that a computer alone should not determine a trainee's career path. So, our system has been designed to ensure the Early Careers Team remain at the heart of the process.
Our technology
Our platform collates trainee preferences and allows your team to run our intelligent proprietary algorithm at every step of the allocation process to ensure optimal outcomes.
You are in complete control, no need to share information externally and with everything in one place you can utilise our analytics to discover trends and patterns otherwise unseen.