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Checkbox
Checkbox is an AI-powered legal service management platform that acts as the 'AI Legal Front Door' for in-house legal teams. It captures legal requests from channels like email, Slack, Teams and Salesforce, automatically triages and routes them, resolves routine work such as NDAs and contract approvals through self-service and AI agents, and escalates complex matters to attorneys. Built on a no-code, drag-and-drop workflow engine, it gives legal departments a single place to capture, manage, automate and measure their work. Founded in 2016 by Sydney classmates Evan Wong and James Han, Checkbox serves 100+ enterprises including SAP, PepsiCo, Hitachi, Telstra, Woolworths and Xero, and raised a $23M Series A in January 2026 at a reported $100M valuation.
DraftWise
DraftWise is a New York-based legal AI company that helps lawyers draft, review, and negotiate contracts faster by turning a firm's own precedent, playbooks, and deal history into searchable, actionable intelligence. Working inside Microsoft Word, its platform generates lawyer-quality drafts and redlines grounded in institutional knowledge rather than generic AI output. Founded in 2020 by former Palantir engineers and a practicing corporate lawyer, DraftWise serves top law firms and legal departments across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
Lawtrades
Lawtrades is a New York-based legal talent marketplace that connects companies with vetted freelance attorneys, paralegals, and legal operations professionals, on demand. Founded in 2016 by Raad Ahmed and Ashish Walia, the platform lets in-house legal teams scale capacity up or down without full-time hires, offering hourly, project-based, and contract-to-hire engagements alongside newer AI tools for contract review and legal data work. Customers include DoorDash, Pinterest, Yelp, Gusto, and Headspace.
Legora
Legora is a Stockholm-founded collaborative AI platform built for legal work. It helps lawyers research, review, and draft across complex matters, running inside familiar tools like Microsoft Word and Outlook. Formerly known as Leya, the company (founded 2023) serves tens of thousands of legal professionals at 1,000+ law firms and in-house teams across more than 50 markets, and crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue before raising a $600M Series D at a $5.6B valuation in 2026.
SpotDraft
SpotDraft is an AI-native contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform built for in-house legal and business teams. Founded in 2017 by Shashank Bijapur and Madhav Bhagat, it handles the full contracting journey - drafting, negotiation, AI-assisted redlining, e-signatures, and an intelligent repository - so legal teams can move faster without giving up control. With its VerifAI Microsoft Word plug-in and a broader 'Legal OS' vision, SpotDraft serves 450+ organizations and is used by growth-stage and enterprise companies to cut contract busywork and surface risk automatically.
Wordsmith AI
Wordsmith is a legal AI company building the operations platform for in-house legal teams. Rather than helping individual lawyers draft documents faster, it captures, triages, resolves and records every legal request coming from across a business - handling routine work like NDAs, vendor reviews and privacy questionnaires with task-specific AI workers that plug into Slack, email, Word and document repositories. Founded by former lawyer Ross McNairn and headquartered in Edinburgh, the company raised a $70m Series B in June 2026 (bringing total funding to $100m) and serves more than 500 companies including BT, Canva, Financial Times, Sage, Trip.com and Starling.
LegalOn Technologies
LegalOn Technologies is a legal AI company that builds contract-review and legal-workflow software for in-house legal teams. Founded in Tokyo in 2017 by former corporate lawyers Nozomu Tsunoda and Masataka Ogasawara, it pairs large language models with attorney-authored playbooks so its flagship product, Review, flags risks and suggests edits inside Microsoft Word. Used by more than 7,000 organizations across Japan, the U.S. and the U.K. - including roughly a quarter of Japan's public companies - LegalOn raised a $50M Series E led by Goldman Sachs in July 2025 and struck a technology partnership with OpenAI to build legal AI agents.
Ivo
Ivo is a San Francisco AI company that helps in-house legal teams review, redline, negotiate and search contracts. Its tools live inside Microsoft Word and a searchable contract repository, flagging risks and suggesting edits against a team's own playbook. Founded in 2022 by former lawyer Min-Kyu Jung and ex-Xero engineer Jacob Duligall, Ivo counts Uber, Shopify, Canva, Atlassian, Reddit, Pinterest and IBM among its customers, and raised a $55M Series B in January 2026.
Sandstone
Sandstone is an AI-native operating system for in-house legal teams. It unifies a company's legal data, workflows, and business context into a single system that lives inside the tools teams already use - Slack, email, Salesforce, Jira - and deploys AI agents to handle intake, triage, drafting, and redlining. Founded in 2025 by ex-McKinsey and practicing-lawyer trio Nick Fleisher, Jarryd Strydom, and Liam Germain, the New York company launched publicly in January 2026 with a $10M Sequoia-led seed and followed with a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed five months later.
Streamline AI
Streamline AI is a San Francisco-based legal technology company building an AI-powered intake, triage, and matter-management platform for busy in-house legal teams. Founded in 2020 by former DoorDash counsel Kathy Zhu and ex-Google product leader Julian Wimbush, it replaces email threads and spreadsheets with no-code workflows, automated routing, and real-time metrics so legal departments can move faster and prove their impact. The company has raised about $14M total, including an $8.6M Series A, and supports 500+ in-house lawyers at companies like Gusto, 8x8, Acorns and Bloom Energy.