Drafty AI: Product, team and how it was built

Team of 2 to 10 · sold 17 months after launch

Four founders, two of whom had built the drinks-delivery start-up Winelivery, looked for a profession that works with a large, fast-changing body of rules and had not yet adopted AI, and chose Italian accountants and labour consultants. They tested a first version with practitioners and sold monthly subscriptions. In October 2025 TeamSystem, an Italian maker of software for accountants, bought the majority of the company; its press release said Normo.ai had €1.3 million of revenue in 2025.

Team of 2 to 10 · 15 months after launch, revenue growing

It sells one narrow job to one profession in one country: missed calls at small Belgian law firms. The site, the blog and the terms are written for lawyers at the Belgian bars, in French, with answers about professional secrecy and GDPR that this buyer asks first. A small firm pays a fixed 90 euros a month instead of a part-time secretary.

Team of 2 to 10 · 6 months after launch

The founders are lawyers who built the legal departments of two Berlin startups, and the CEO writes that he knows the frustration with old legal software from that work. LawX replaces the whole office system instead of adding one more AI tool, it charges one price per user for the whole team, assistants included, and every AI suggestion waits for a person to approve it. tech.eu reported in May 2026 that the next step was the broader law firm market.

Team of 2 to 10 · 21 months after launch

One founder had worked as a corporate lawyer and the team sold directly to law firms and banks that it already knew. The product was built on Indian court material, which global tools cover less well. Customers made it part of daily work: when the platform went down for maintenance, users called and messaged the team to ask when it would return.

Team of 2 to 10 · sold 28 months after launch

Three founders built it without outside money in 2023, and the first message, that it replaced lawyers, scared the customers away. They changed it into an assistant for lawyers, connected it to the Spanish official gazette and court decisions, and had it take the Spanish judiciary entrance exam in front of a notary. According to Merca2, that public test turned a handful of customers into hundreds a month. Doctrine, a French legal AI company, bought it in February 2026.

Team of 2 to 10 · 6 months after launch

The founder is a New York trial attorney with about fifteen years of practice, and the company's pages say he built the platform inside his active trial practice and wrote the prompts and templates himself. General legal AI tools are not built for one task such as contested litigation; this one is built only for that. Its pricing page says usage is designed to be passed to clients as a disbursement, like research time on Westlaw or Lexis.

Team of 2 to 10 · 32 months after launch, revenue falling

It sold one promise that a customer can measure: a first reply to every new lead within 10 seconds, to businesses that already pay for many leads through Meta ads. A demo on the website brought sales calls through organic search before the product was built. Revenue then fell from US$9,000 to US$12,000 a month in late 2025 to under US$2,000 in September 2026, in the same months in which the founder launched other products.

Started small, grew after funding · 46 months after launch

The CEO had met the pain of RFPs at his earlier startup, Viewics, which Roche bought, and the two other co-founders came from Google's LaMDA language-model team and from Stanford AI research. They started in 2023, went through Y Combinator's Summer 2023 batch and, according to the August 2024 press release, raised a US$4 million seed round to grow the team.

Team of 2 to 10 · 45 months after launch, revenue falling

Said US$19K a monthRecords US$9.6K in JulyDid not hold

It appeared in January 2023 inside Google Slides, a program where people already work, when writing slides from one sentence was new, and users showed it to each other without paid advertising. A blog about presentation topics then brought about 80% of new users from Google search, by the founder's account. Both channels weakened: search traffic fell, and Google added the same function to Slides. The verified total is real, and so is the fall: monthly revenue fell by half between February and July 2026.

Solo founder · 7 months after launch, revenue growing

It went where the users already were: an app in ChatGPT's app store, a plugin in Claude's directory and in Claude Code, and setups for Cursor and Codex, in the months when these directories were new. It charges per tool call instead of a share of ad spend, so a small advertiser starts at US$49 a month. And it applied to the platforms' own API programs; the company says Google approved it in June 2026 and Amazon admitted it to its partner network.