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GitLaw launches AI agent to make legal documents free for millions of businesses and announces $3M pre-seed led by Jackson Square Ventures
The $3M pre-seed round, announced today alongside the Agent launch, was led by Jackson Square Ventures, with participation from Flex Capital, Background Capital, and several angel investors. The funding has fuelled GitLaw's product development and AI platform expansion across the US and UK.
Greg Gretsch , Founding Partner and Managing Director of Jackson Square Ventures, says, "The market for legal services is enormous and badly underserved, especially for startups and small businesses that can't afford traditional legal help. GitLaw is tackling that gap with a product that's as transformative as it is accessible.
"Nick has a rare combination of technical depth and market vision and we have no doubt he'll drive GitLaw to be the go-to legal infrastructure for this part of the market."
Founded by serial entrepreneur Nick Holzherr , GitLaw is headquartered in San Francisco and operates with a distributed team across the US and UK. Built specifically for startups and small businesses, the company's mission is to make access to legal documents radically more accessible through AI-driven automation – helping founders create professional-grade contracts instantly, without needing a big budget or legal background.
GitLaw's agent allows startups to instantly draft, redline, and review agreements, from NDAs and SaaS contracts to investor terms, all based on lawyer-vetted templates. It delivers ready-to-use contracts in minutes and can instantly review or compare incoming agreements against trusted legal standards.
More than 80% of small businesses in the United States do not have in-house legal support, and outsourcing that expertise can cost growth-stage startups upwards of $20,000 a year in legal contracts, compliance, and investor paperwork. GitLaw's goal is to automate 80–90% of that work, significantly reducing this cost for startups and small businesses, while preserving high accuracy and security.
"Commercially-minded lawyers won't be out of work, but most day-to-day contract work can now be done faster, cheaper, and often more accurately by automation," says Nick Holzherr , GitLaw's Founder and CEO.
While many founders are turning to tools like ChatGPT to review or generate contracts, Holzherr warns that this approach is risky. "Generic AI tools speak with extreme confidence but their answers often have serious flaws," says Holzherr. "For example, some only read a fraction of a contract, but still claim to have read it all. I've been really surprised at how lazy some of the tools are, probably because they're trying to save tokens (their cost), and that's dangerous when legal precision matters."
GitLaw takes a more rigorous approach. Its agent orchestrates multiple AI models and workflows behind the scenes, mirroring how a human lawyer would handle a task – comprehensively and methodically.
"When I founded my first startup, I was shocked by our first legal bills," says Holzherr. "We were spending thousands on contracts before we had an income. It made me realise how stacked the system is against small teams.
"Legal work shouldn't take six weeks for a three-day project, and businesses shouldn't have to choose between moving fast and staying legally safe. GitLaw is my way of fixing that, helping founders get professional-quality contracts instantly without needing a big budget."
Built for businesses rather than law firms, GitLaw delivers tools to help users prepare agreements efficiently with minimal micromanagement or prior legal knowledge, so founders and teams can get on with business, not legal busywork.
GitLaw's free plan is available now at git.law , giving startups and SMEs immediate access to its legal document library and contract automation tools.
GitLaw is the AI legal companion made for business. It helps startups and growing companies instantly generate contracts, review legal documents, and understand legal terms in plain English. Built by the team behind Whisk (acquired by Samsung), GitLaw thinks like a lawyer using structured reasoning, trusted templates and smart automation to make legal work faster, simpler, and more affordable. With instant drafting, tracked changes, secure storage, and renewal reminders, GitLaw reduces the time spent on legal busywork.
For more information, visit git.law
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