GC AI noticed that corporate lawyers were buying tools made for someone else's job. Then it built the reply: legal research, contracts and company context in one carefully supervised machine.
DeepIP put generative AI inside Microsoft Word, where patent attorneys already spend their days. The small interface decision reveals a much larger bet: the winner in legal AI may be the system that asks professionals to change the least.
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.
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.
BriefCatch is an AI-assisted legal writing and editing platform founded by bestselling author and legal-writing authority Ross Guberman. It plugs directly into Microsoft Word to give lawyers, judges, and courts real-time, expert-informed suggestions that sharpen clarity, precision, and persuasive impact, drawing on a library of thousands of edits and examples from top legal writers. Trusted by 45+ Am Law 200 firms, 80+ courts, and government agencies, BriefCatch raised a $6M Series A in December 2025 and acquired editing-software maker WordRake in February 2026.