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A legal team on day one
You don’t have a lawyer yet. You have a Lawyer-Supervised Legal AI Team. Legal AI Counsel does your legal work: formation, contracts, hiring and funding. Legal AI Firewall is legal autocorrect for your email, Slack and calls: it flags legal risk while it can still be fixed.
$100 a month with five hours included, then $20 an hour. No retainer. No partner. No surprise invoice.
Startups pay a law firm by the hour, or they go without
A law firm bills $500 to $1,000 an hour, so an offer letter, a customer contract or a set of SAFEs can each turn into an invoice you could not predict. Many founders put the work off instead. The gaps stay hidden until investor diligence or a dispute, when they cost the most to fix.
A law firm
Lawyers’ judgment, billed by the hour. Each task is a new bill, and often a new person learning your company.
Templates and general AI
Fast and cheap. No lawyer checks the result, and nothing remembers what your company already agreed.
Doing without
The contract signed as it came, the missing IP assignment, the unrecorded stock grant. Each one surfaces later, in diligence.
Most startup legal work does not need a law firm
Forming the company, founder stock, an NDA, a customer agreement, an offer letter, a SAFE: lawyers have done this work the same way many times. Your Legal AI Team does it for your company, following a process lawyers approved. Work that needs a lawyer’s judgment goes to a lawyer. $20 an hour, billed by the minute it works.
| Compared on | Law firm | General AI tool | FinePrint Counsel |
|---|---|---|---|
| How you pay | $500 to $1,000 an hour | Subscription | $20 an hour, by the minute it works. Each task’s cost is shown before it starts. |
| Lawyer involvement | A lawyer on every task, billed | None | Lawyers approve the process, check samples, and review work that needs judgment. |
| Knows your company | What you explain each time | No | Yes, from your Legal Room |
| Your record | In the firm’s files | None | In your Legal Room, and you can export it |
Your first year, task by task
The legal work arrives in the same order for every startup. Each step is a request in your own words. Counsel shows the plan and the cost, hands each part to the right teammate, and files the finished work in your Legal Room.
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Start the company
“Form our Delaware C corporation and issue the founder stock.”
Formation documents, founder stock, the 83(b) elections, the IP assignments, and the company’s first record.
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The first customer
“Draft a master services agreement for our first enterprise customer.”
Your paper, with the terms you will stand on. When they send theirs, a redline against your playbook.
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The first hires
“Prepare an offer letter and equity grant for a senior engineer in Colorado.”
The offer, the equity grant, the confidentiality and invention assignment, for the state the person sits in.
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The round
“Prepare the SAFEs for our angel round.”
The SAFEs, the board consent, the Form D and state notices, the cap table updated.
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Diligence
“Check our cap table and contracts for gaps before investor diligence.”
A list of what is missing or inconsistent, and the data room ready to share.
Lawyers approved the process each task follows and sample-check the work. Work that needs a lawyer’s judgment waits for review.
Walk into diligence with the record already in one place
Every document FinePrint Counsel prepares, every answer it gives and every decision your team makes stays in your Legal Room. When investors run diligence, the record is already there. If you leave, you can export all of it.
$20 an hour, billed by the minute it works
Plans from $100 a month. Counsel and FineShield draw on the same hours, and extra hours are $20 an hour. Counsel shows what the task will cost before it starts, and you decide.
Founder
$100
per company per month.
5 hours included.
For a solo founder forming the company and building its record.
Startup
$300
per company per month.
15 hours included.
For a startup signing customers and making its first hires.
Growth
$1,000
per company per month.
50 hours included, with priority lawyer review.
Questions
Does a lawyer review every answer?
No. Routine work follows a process lawyers approved, and lawyers check a sample of it. Work that needs a lawyer’s judgment waits until a lawyer has reviewed it.
How do I know what a task will cost?
Counsel shows what the task will cost before it starts, and you decide. Messages and calls have a set pace: an email takes 2 to 3 minutes, a Slack message 30 seconds, a call the length of the call.
Do I need a lawyer already?
No. If you already have outside counsel, your Legal Room gives them the record.
Can I form the company with it?
Yes. Forming the company can be your first task. Tell us where you plan to operate.
What about an urgent task?
Tell us the deadline when you apply, and we will tell you when the work can be done.
What happens to my records if I leave?
You can export your Legal Room: every document, answer and decision.
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