James Ding

James Ding is the co-founder and CEO of Draftwise, a New York-based legal AI company building contract drafting, review, and negotiation software for elite law firms. A former engineering lead at Palantir with a computer science degree from Emory University, Ding started Draftwise in 2020 after interviewing about 100 lawyers and concluding that repetitive contract work was ripe for automation. The company went through Y Combinator, raised a $5M seed in 2023 and a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures in 2024, and now serves clients among the world's top-tier law firms from offices in New York and London.