We’re Ryan, Javed, and JP, and we’re building General Legal. Previously, we built AI products for lawyers at Casetext where Ryan was CTO and Javed led AI. Javed and JP went to Harvard Law and practiced at Fenwick and Cooley.

General Legal is an AI-native law firm solving commercial contracting for founders. We save founders $100s–$1000s per contract, turn around contracts in hours instead of days, and our clients love the practical, real-time guidance they get from our experienced attorneys.

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The scenario:

Congratulations! your B2B startup has its first customer ready to buy! What happens next? Your customer sends you a Cloud Services Agreement. This 30-page document is dense with complex legal terms.

You might be tempted to just sign this deal and get the revenue now. The problem is that there are often very harmful, and sometimes even company-ending, terms buried in the first turn of an enterprise contract. Some of these terms are so aggressive that VCs won’t even count the contract toward your ARR. You need a lawyer to find and negotiate those out.

At this point, most founders ask the same law firms that did their incorporation for help. These firms will charge $500–$2000 per hour, won’t estimate how many hours they’ll need to do the job, and will take days or even weeks to turn around your agreement.

What your lawyers are doing behind the scenes is a shockingly inefficient process of passing work between partners and associates over email, unassisted by AI or technology generally. It’s a highly manual process where “data-driven” means “whatever the partner thinks they saw on the last five deals.” If you look closely at the work product, you’re quite likely to find embarrassing errors.

In short, you’re paying a lot for a poor result, delivered slowly. In the age of LLMs, this is inexcusable.

The solution:

General Legal is rebuilding the law firm for the AI era like Tesla rebuilt the car for the EV era. We hire top-tier attorneys and equip them with proprietary AI workflows that enable them to operate at 10× the efficiency of traditional attorneys. This tech advantage allows allows us to offer our clients:

• Flat, all-inclusive pricing

  • $500 per contract for review services and negotiation on existing paper

• Turnarounds in hours not days or weeks

  • Guaranteed contract turns within 3 hours, with typical turns delivered in 1 hour

• Highest-quality legal work

  • Our AI workflows eliminate common contracting errors
  • Our expert attorneys spend time focused on substantive risk and providing tailored advice

Our Ask:

Since announcing our private preview last month, we’ve had over 20 growth stage companies move commercial contracting to our firm.  We want more founders to run commercial legal through us. Don’t let your founder friends pay traditional law firms for routine contract review! Send them to us. We’ll do any company’s first contract review for free until demo day.

Visit our website, email us, or book a demo.