In-house legal teams are the backbone of any organization, ensuring compliance, managing risks and counseling various teams from product development to sales & marketing and HR. However, legal teams are often understaffed and overburdened, leading to bottlenecks and delays that can hinder a company's progress. As founders who have experienced these challenges firsthand—one as a former lawyer and trust and safety leader at Meta and Google, and the other as an engineer in privacy programs—we understand the pain points all too well. That's why we created Ruli.ai, an AI assistant designed to be the ultimate co-pilot for in-house legal counsel teams.

The Challenge

Despite the vital role they play, in-house legal teams are frequently forced to outsource work to expensive external law firms, some of which charge up to $2,000 per hour. Ironically, these firms are leveraging AI to boost their efficiency, while only about 5% of in-house counsels are currently utilizing AI. This discrepancy contributes significantly to the escalating legal costs, which are growing at a rate of 30% per year. The intake process is particularly burdensome, causing significant delays and inefficiencies. The need for a dedicated, efficient solution to streamline intake and triaging is clear.

Our Solution: Ruli.ai

Ruli.ai is an AI-driven platform specifically designed to alleviate the pressures on in-house legal teams. Our core product, Legal Hub, automates the intake and response to common legal questions using the company’s documentation and policies. Legal teams have reported being overwhelmed at intake and needing triaging support for legal FAQs and routing of legal inquiries. But that’s just the beginning. Our CoPilot capabilities extend far beyond basic automation:

• Document Review and Analysis: Ruli.ai can examine documents and images to identify legal issues and omissions, marking up documents to highlight potential legal risks.

• Knowledge Management with AI:

  • Draft with your Knowledge: Speak directly to your documents and receive assistance with drafting based on past language and templates.

  • In-depth Document Research: Easily locate sections and summaries from your existing document archives for instant retrieval.

• Generate Intelligent Legal Playbooks (coming soon):

  • Automated Playbook Generation: Automatically generate legal playbooks from your precedents.

  • Intelligent Playbook Updates: Surface new regulatory impacts and conflicts in knowledge base content or archives, ensuring knowledge management consistency and compliance

By automating routine time-consuming tasks, and presenting important issues forward, Ruli.ai allows legal counsel to focus on the most complex, high-risk, and relationship-oriented aspects of their work. This not only enhances efficiency but also improves overall career satisfaction for legal professionals.

Why AI Agent-to-Agent Interfaces Are the Future

The idea for Ruli.ai emerged from our own experiences with technology inefficiencies and high costs of legal processes in large tech companies. But we also have a hypothesis about the near future. 

AI technology is rapidly transforming all company teams, and agent-to-agent interfaces are at the forefront of this revolution. We are seeing an explosion of GenAI content from product, engineering, and marketing teams that will exponentially overload the intake bottleneck for legal review. 

At Ruli.ai, we will seamlessly communicate and collaborate between different AI systems, delivering and scaling the legal guardrails of the company from Ruli directly iterating with other AI agent systems. We believe embracing legal AI for in-house counsel teams is crucial in building and scaling tomorrow’s AI first enterprises. We are excited to be at the cutting edge of this advancement. 

Company Overview

Ruli.ai was founded in 2024 and is a remote-first team. Our mission is to reimagine the in-house counsel experience by developing an AI Counsel teammate for unparalleled efficiency and collaboration. 

We are excited to announce that Ruli.ai has secured $2.2M in pre-seed funding round, led by SignalFire, with participation from investors including Foothill Ventures, Genius Ventures, Mana Ventures, PJC, and Bruce Gibney (early Founders Fund partner who backed DeepMind, Palantir, and PayPal). 

We are delighted to welcome Claire Hart and Danielle Simmons to our advisory team. Claire Hart, formerly CLO of Blizzard Entertainment and GC at Genies, and 10+ years at Google Legal. Danielle Simmons, founding partner at Kelly & Simmons LLP, with over 20+ years in law and business, and previously at Skadden, Helena and NIH.

Bryan Lee is Cofounder and CEO, formerly led trust and safety for several products at Google and Meta, prior experiences in product, partnerships, and program management, with deep expertise in computer engineering and law. Xi Sun is Cofounder and CTO, with extensive experience in security products, distributed systems and machine learning infrastructure at Meta, Airbnb, Linkedin, and Amazon.

This funding will be pivotal in accelerating our product development and expanding our market reach. Our core product, Legal Hub, is officially launching, bringing unprecedented efficiency to legal teams.