[USA][LAW][7]Seeking a legal co-founder for a next-gen modern legal search tool.

Hi all!

I'm solving a pain point that I've found most legal professionals have. I'm helping lawyers search hundreds of their files with just a few key-words allowing them to shorten their discovery and information gathering process and saving billable time.

Currently, they use off-the-shelf document management solutions that helps them organize and find the right file but its doesn't help them in searching whats in the files. It's a very specific problem that means the difference between multiple business days of reading hundreds of pages to find the right information vs a few hours.

I feel the competition in this market is providing wholesale solutions that falls short in the tech space because they don't address specific problems and provide an entirely antiquated user experience that's frustrating enough to make you roll your eyes when getting hit with a "contact sales" page. I believe the next-gen legal applications should follow the prescribed problem approach the same way an array of these solutions have been proven in other markets. Examples like Docusign and Stripe are just a few of these models that I think did it right.

From a tech perspective these are the things that I envision in a modern legal tool.

• integrate with multiple platforms and services to compose various solutions in a unified and cohesive way. This is pretty much the standard in developer tooling but seems to be fairly far behind in other markets like legal.
• Transparent and clear pricing structure. I see most legal tooling extremely secretive in this area when theres so many clear models that benefit both the user and the business. I.e subscription based with pay-per-usage with certain features ( per MB of compute. AWS and other cloud providers have perfected this model)
• Unix philosophy mindset of doing one thing and doing it well. I mentioned Docusign and Stripe earlier because I think this is the way the tooling culture is heading and legal seems to be still stuck in 2005. Smaller, specialized tools should be composable in nature so businesses and firms of all sizes can shop for the tools that deliver them the most business.

All in all, this market is under served and what I’m actually trying to put together is really a two-fold solution. One, a product that solves a clear business problem and saves lawyers billable time and two, a modern and next-gen tooling user experience for legal professionals. I would love to partner with another entrepreneurial co-founder to make this vision a reality and be the team that builds the right solution. I'm looking for someone who has plenty of domain expertise in an area of law and understands the problem we'd be trying to accomplish. Someone that can not only help improve the product but also has good relationships across their legal network to really connect with our users and navigate the legal landscape pertaining to the business.

I'm a technical founder with a software engineering background and have built an MVP that I released this past week. This has been a fully bootstrapped venture with goals of fundraising when the time is right. This is my first startup venture, but plenty of technical experience specifically in the cloud native/infrastructure/automation area from big Fortune 25 companies to venture backed startups.

Although I’ve been prototyping and gathering lawyer info, feedback, and questionnaires since late Jan 2023, I’ve recently incorporated this September. The main focus I have now is to build the right team and begin getting our early customers.

If this is something that resonates with you I'd love to chat more!