# AI.Law Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/ailaw/ · added 2026-11-05 · updated 2026-11-06 **In short.** AI.Law (AI drafting and case analysis software for civil litigators, United States): Paid plans live since October 2023, November 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 1 founder, the litigator Troy Doucet, per the company's December 2023 contest entry; headcount not published. Launched October 2023; still running. AI drafting and case analysis software for civil litigators · United States · AI-native · solo founder · still running · group: Legal and law firms - Outcome: Paid plans live since October 2023, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure) - Launch: October 2023; months from launch to the outcome: 37 - Team: 1 founder, the litigator Troy Doucet, per the company's December 2023 contest entry; headcount not published - Outside funding: None, as the company stated in December 2023 - Main factor: Domain expertise - Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 2, capital needed 1 - Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Bootstrapped, Running, B2B, Legal tech Links: - Visit ai.law: https://www.ai.law/ **The product.** Web software for lawyers in civil lawsuits. The lawyer uploads the case file, and AI models classify the documents, find the parties and witnesses, build a dated timeline, and draft complaints, discovery requests and responses, and motions as Word documents with citations to the source pages and to published court opinions. A free tier gives practice management tools such as a calendar, a client list and intake; the paid plans add the AI drafting. **Why it worked.** The founder is a practicing litigator who, in the company's words, built it inside his own firm because he needed it. Drafting litigation documents takes many hours of a lawyer's time, and the company's December 2023 entry says the tool does such work in about two minutes. Its pages answer the main fear of lawyers about AI, invented case citations, with citation links that open the source and a written credit guarantee. Evidence grades: A = disclosed by a public company, a filing or a payment processor, or verified by one; B = two or more independent reports agree, or a journalist confirmed it; C = a founder claim that no one else verified; D = reported, not verified: one founder claim or a third-party estimate with no second source; E = no revenue figure found, so the headline is a non-money fact and the other facts carry their own grades; calc = computed on this page from graded facts. ## Summary AI.Law is litigation software, a program for lawyers who handle lawsuits, that uses AI models to draft court documents from the lawyer's own case file. The case file is the set of documents, emails, notes and transcripts that belong to one lawsuit. Each answer and draft links to the page it came from, and case-law citations link to the published court opinion, so the lawyer can check them. The founder is Troy Doucet, an Ohio litigation attorney whose firm, the company says, has handled more than 2,200 matters. The company's entry to the LawNext Startup Alley contest in December 2023 gave its founding date as 1 May 2023 in Columbus, Ohio, said it fully launched in late October 2023, was adding about 25 registrants a day, and had no outside funding. U.S. Patent No. 12,461,932, granted on 4 November 2025, is assigned to the company. No revenue figure was found, so the page is grade E. In November 2026 the pricing page lists three paid plans and a free tier. ## Pricing AI.Law prices in November 2026, from the company's pricing and FAQ pages (grade C) | Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit | |---|---|---|---| | Free Forever | 0 | 0 | practice management: CRM, calendar, billing, documents, conflict checks, intake; no paid AI seats | | Core | 136.58 | 149 | 1 seat; case evaluation, lawsuits and answers, chat across the matter | | Litigator | 274.08 | 299 | 2 seats; adds motions, discovery, legal research, Evidence War Room | | Advanced | 640.75 | 699 | 5 seats; adds depositions, medical analysis, trial strategy | | Enterprise | | | 10+ seats; Advanced for a year at the price of 11 months plus a setup package | The pricing page says annual billing means 'pay for 11 months, get 12', so the yearly column is the monthly price times 11 divided by 12, calculated on this page. The FAQ gives the price of extra seats: US$149 on Core, US$139 on Litigator and US$99 on Advanced. In December 2023 the company's contest entry gave different prices: monthly subscriptions at US$89, US$249 and US$649. ## How much revenue does AI.Law make? The numbers, graded A litigator's own AI drafting product, live with paid plans since October 2023 and protected by a 2025 patent, with no published revenue figure | Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources | |---|---|---|---|---| | Founded | 1 May 2023, Columbus, Ohio | C | The company's December 2023 Startup Alley entry: 'Founded: 5/1/2023, Columbus, Ohio'. | [2] | | Full launch | late October 2023 | C | Same entry: 'having fully launched in late October 2023'. | [2] | | Founder | Troy Doucet, Ohio litigation attorney | C | The About page names him as founder, with Ohio bar admission since 2010, and says the product was built inside his 2,200-matter litigation practice. The citation guarantee page calls him 'AI.Law founder'. | [3, 7] | | Team | 1 founder; headcount not published | C | The 2023 entry speaks of 'The founder'. The patent lists a second inventor. A customer quote on the pricing page mentions 'Troy and his team'. No source gives a headcount. | [2, 8, 4] | | Outside funding | none, as of December 2023 | C | The 2023 entry: 'No outside funding.' No later funding announcement was found. | [2] | | New registrants, December 2023 | about 25 a day | D | One company statement in the contest entry, about two months after launch. Registrants are sign-ups, not paying customers. | [2] | | Prices, December 2023 | US$89, US$249 and US$649 a month | C | The 2023 entry: 'Monthly subscriptions based on usage at $89, $249, and $649.' | [2] | | Prices, November 2026 | US$149, US$299 and US$699 a month, plus a free tier | C | Pricing page and FAQ. The FAQ says 11 tools are free forever. | [4, 5] | | AI models | 10 models, including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and the company's own legal model | C | FAQ. The company does not say which model is used for which tool. | [5] | | Patent | US 12,461,932 B1, filed 25 October 2024, granted 4 November 2025 | C | Google Patents record: 'Method and system for transforming data using artificial intelligence to generate content', assignee WwwAiLaw Corp, two inventors including Troy Doucet. Google says the status is an assumption, not a legal conclusion. | [8] | | Who the terms allow | legal professionals and other commercial customers, aged 18 or over; not a consumer product | C | Terms of Service, updated 24 October 2026: 'The Service is not intended for personal, household, or family use'. | [6] | | Time from launch to this page | 37 months | calc | Calculated: October 2023 to November 2026. | [2, 1] | How to read this table: grade C values are statements on the company's own pages or in its contest entry; grade D is a single company statement that no one else checked; the patent row is from the Google Patents record. A "calc" value was computed on this page. No revenue figure exists in the sources. ## When did AI.Law launch, and how did it grow? Timeline From a founding date in May 2023 to a patented litigation platform with three paid plans, in about three and a half years. Each entry carries its grade. - **1 May 2023** (grade C [2]): Founding date in Columbus, Ohio, as the company later gave it. - **Late October 2023** (grade C [2]): Full launch of the AI drafting platform for litigation documents. - **December 2023** (grade C [2]): Entry on the LawNext ballot for Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024: about 25 new registrants a day, three monthly plans, no outside funding, and demos with attorneys starting. - **25 October 2024** (grade C [8]): WwwAiLaw Corp files the patent application for generating legal documents from case files with AI. - **4 November 2025** (grade C [8]): U.S. Patent No. 12,461,932 is granted. The Google Patents record also lists a 2026 court case in the Northern District of California for this patent family. - **November 2026** (grade C [1, 4]): The site describes a 'litigation operating system' with 62 tools, a free practice management tier and paid plans from US$149 a month on its pricing page. ## Why did AI.Law work? ### A practicing lawyer as the builder The company says the product was built inside the founder's own litigation practice, and its tools follow the steps of a civil lawsuit: the complaint, discovery, motions, depositions and trial. The About page presents this as the difference from tools built by technologists. ### Answers from the case file, with links The tools work on the documents the lawyer uploads, not only on a prompt. Each answer cites a file and page, and the FAQ says case-law citations come from a research pipeline, not from the model's memory. This is the company's answer to invented citations. ### Free tools first, AI seats later Calendar, client list, intake and billing are free, so a whole firm can join at no cost. The pricing page then sells AI seats only for the people who draft. ## How it was built These details come from the company's own pages and its patent. They are grade C. - The FAQ says the product connects 10 AI models, including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and the company's own legal model, to the uploaded case files. - The patent describes converting the unstructured case narrative into structured fields (claim, jurisdiction, client, relief, facts, contested issues) through function calls to an AI engine, and then drafting each section of a complaint from them. - The FAQ says every prompt includes instructions against invented facts, and that legal citations come from published federal and state opinions. - The home page claims SOC 2 Type II controls and encryption in transit and at rest, and says the company never trains on customer data. - The FAQ says Enterprise customers are billed by Stripe invoice. Sources: [5, 8, 1] ## Who tried this before AI.Law, and why did they fail? Three companies in our database of failed startups promised to automate legal work with software and failed. The values below are from that database and are not independently verified. The failed startups come from our database of dead startups, retold here in our own words; Its entries are AI-assisted summaries of public sources, so they carry no evidence grade. ### ROSS Intelligence (2015 to 2018; funding US$13M; cause: Competition) - Promise: AI legal research faster than the established databases. - Why it died: Lawyers stayed with the established research providers, which had decades of data and high switching costs. - Record: ### Atrium (2017 to 2021; funding US$75M; cause: Product/Tech Failure) - Promise: Automate legal work for startups with software and a law firm. - Why it died: The automation could not handle real legal complexity, so costs stayed like those of a traditional firm. - Record: ### jEugene (2015 to 2018; funding US$120K; cause: Competition) - Promise: Software that finds errors and inconsistencies in contract drafts. - Why it died: Better funded AI contract tools offered more, and law firms adopted new tools slowly. - Record: ## What changed ROSS and jEugene had to build their own language technology and lost to larger providers. AI.Law uses general AI models that others build and sell, and puts its own work into the litigation steps, the case file and the citation checks. Atrium mixed software with a law firm; AI.Law sells software only, and its terms say it is not legal representation. The risk that remains is the same as theirs: the large legal research providers, which the company itself named as competitors in 2023, can add the same features to products that lawyers already use. ## Can one person copy AI.Law now? **Verdict: Yes, if you work in the field yourself.** The product rests on a lawyer's knowledge of how lawsuits are built, step by step, and on general AI models that anyone can rent. A professional in another document-heavy field can copy the structure; an outsider would lack the knowledge of what a correct document looks like. 1. Pick a document that your own profession drafts again and again, and build the tool for your own work first. 2. Draft from the customer's own files, and link every statement to its source so the professional can check it. 3. Give the everyday management tools away free, and charge per seat for the AI drafting. 4. Write down what the tool will not do in the terms, and keep the professional responsible for review. **What is still open.** Other document-heavy professions with fixed procedures: patent prosecution, immigration filings, insurance claims and tax disputes. ## What could go wrong for AI.Law? - **What is not verified.** No revenue figure was found. The only traction figure is the company's own December 2023 contest entry, which said it was adding about 25 registrants a day; sign-ups are not paying customers, and no later user count was found. We looked for a payment-processor profile, a founder interview with revenue figures and a funding announcement, and found none. A reader could look for a later Startup Alley or ABA TECHSHOW report, or ask the company for customer counts. - **Invented citations and the no-hallucination claim.** The home page labels its motion drafter 'Guaranteed no hallucinations', and the citation guarantee page says 'Courts are sanctioning attorneys for AI-hallucinated citations' and that the company credits the account if a hyperlinked citation is wrong. The Terms of Service, updated 24 October 2026, say: 'Generated results may contain errors, omissions, outdated information, or unsupported statements and are not individually reviewed or approved by a lawyer at AI.Law', that the user must verify authorities before submitting anything to a court, and that 'AI.Law does not promise error-free output'. - **Patent litigation listed, details not verified.** The Google Patents record of U.S. Patent No. 12,461,932 lists a US case filed in the Northern District of California, number 3:26-cv-05930, for this patent family. The parties and the claims were not verified: the Unified Patents page loads by script, and CourtListener's robots.txt does not allow our agent on its docket pages. - **Competition and dependence on model providers.** In 2023 the company named Casetext, Spellbook, EvenUp, Harvey.ai, Filevine, Lexis, Westlaw and others as competitors. Its FAQ says it runs on 10 AI models, including GPT, Claude and Gemini, so its costs and the quality of its output depend on outside model providers, and the FAQ itself compares it with lawyers using ChatGPT or Claude directly. - **Prices rose.** The 2023 contest entry gave monthly plans at US$89, US$249 and US$649. The November 2026 pricing page lists US$149, US$299 and US$699, with more seats included in the two larger plans. ## Sources 1. AI.Law home page, read 5 November 2026 — https://www.ai.law/ (grade C). Read in full. Source for the product description, the 'Guaranteed no hallucinations' label, the patent number and the security claims. 2. LawNext, December 2023: Voting Is Open: Pick the 15 Finalists to Compete at Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW 2024 in February — https://www.lawnext.com/2023/12/voting-is-open-pick-the-15-finalists-to-compete-at-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow-2024-in-february.html (grade C). Read the section on Ai.Law. The entry was written by the company. Source for the founding date, launch, registrants, 2023 prices, competitors and funding. 3. AI.Law: About AI.Law, Built by a Top-Rated Litigator — https://www.ai.law/about (grade C). Read in full. Source for the founder's name, background and the patent description. 4. AI.Law pricing page, read 5 November 2026 — https://www.ai.law/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the current plans, seats and annual billing. 5. AI.Law FAQs, read 5 November 2026 — https://www.ai.law/faqs (grade C). Read the sections on pricing, AI models, citations and Enterprise billing. 6. AI.Law Terms of Service, last update 24 October 2026 — https://www.ai.law/terms (grade C). Read the sections on eligibility, accuracy and professional responsibility, and service commitments. 7. AI.Law: Citation Accuracy Guarantee — https://www.ai.law/citation-guarantee (grade C). Read in full. Source for the credit guarantee and the founder's role. 8. Google Patents: US12461932B1, Method and system for transforming data using artificial intelligence to generate content — https://patents.google.com/patent/US12461932B1/en (grade C). Read the record header, events and the description of the complaint-drafting method. Source for filing and grant dates, assignee, inventors and the listed court case. 9. AI.Law: Attorney Success Stories — https://www.ai.law/case-studies (grade C). Read in full. Three named customer case studies written by the company. 10. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Local export. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. Source for the failed predecessors. Contact: aiolum@livyden.com. Run AI.Law? Send corrections or a verified figure to aiolum@livyden.com (subject: Correction: AI.Law).