# Blueshoe

> Blueshoe is an AI-native law firm that pairs licensed attorneys with proprietary legal reasoning software to make quality legal help affordable and always-on for individuals and small businesses. Founded in 2025 by Harvard Law graduate Casey O'Grady and MIT-trained engineer Kai Yee Wan, the Y Combinator-backed company started as a legal-reasoning research platform piloted at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law schools, then extended into a full-stack firm covering employment, housing, consumer, personal injury, and product-liability matters without billable hours.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- **Founders:** Casey O'Grady (Co-Founder & CEO), Kai Yee Wan (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** 2
- **Products:** Blueshoe legal reasoning platform, AI-native law firm, Law school research pilots
- **Notable:** Accepted into Y Combinator's 2025 (X25) batch., Signed pilot programs with Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law schools within its first year., Publicly launched an AI platform positioned to challenge entrenched legal research incumbents.

## Products & services

- **Blueshoe legal reasoning platform** — An AI platform that ingests thousands of documents, organizes them into claims, filings, and costs, then analyzes them against relevant statutes and caselaw to build auditable, source-grounded reasoning chains rather than plain summaries.
- **AI-native law firm** — A full-stack, tech-powered law firm where clients get guidance via a web app or AI interface and licensed attorneys take cases through resolution using Blueshoe's internal tooling - no billable hours, transparent pricing.
- **Law school research pilots** — Free access for students, researchers, and faculty at partner law schools to build and test legal arguments within the platform's caselaw logic.

## Achievements

- Accepted into Y Combinator's 2025 (X25) batch.
- Signed pilot programs with Harvard, Yale, and Columbia law schools within its first year.
- Publicly launched an AI platform positioned to challenge entrenched legal research incumbents.
- Reported ~$500K seed raise in 2025.
- Featured by Artificial Lawyer as a YC-backed legal research challenger.

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Reported seed funding round; part of Y Combinator's 2025 (X25) batch.
- **2025-09** — Profiled by Artificial Lawyer as a YC-backed legal research challenger; public product launch messaging around legal reasoning.
- **2025-10** — Pilot programs live at Yale, Columbia, and Harvard law schools.
- **2026** — Website repositioned to an AI-native, tech-powered law firm for individuals and small businesses - 'justice that never sleeps.'

## Links

- Website: https://blueshoe.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueshoelaw
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/blueshoelaw

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Last updated: 2026-07-31