# Midpage

Aiolum story: https://aiolum.com/story/midpage/ · added 2026-11-11 · updated 2026-11-11

**In short.** Midpage (Legal research and drafting for litigators, US): Paid plans live since 2024, November 2026. Evidence grade E: no revenue figure was checked. Team: 1 founder in 2022 (company page); four employees in January 2025 (Startup Alley entry); eight people listed on the company page in November 2026. Launched November 2022; still running.

Legal research and drafting for litigators · US · AI-native · team of 2 to 10 · still running · group: Legal and law firms

- Outcome: Paid plans live since 2024, November 2026 (evidence grade of the headline number: E; no revenue figure)
- Launch: November 2022; months from launch to the outcome: 48
- Team: 1 founder in 2022 (company page); four employees in January 2025 (Startup Alley entry); eight people listed on the company page in November 2026
- Outside funding: US$6.2M in total by June 2025, including a US$4M seed round (Artificial Lawyer)
- Main factor: Product
- Meters, 1 to 4: evidence strength 1, copyable pattern 1, capital needed 3
- Tags: AI-native, Solo founder, Funded, Running, B2B, Legal

Links:

- Visit midpage.ai: https://www.midpage.ai/

**The product.** A legal research platform for litigators. It searches US court opinions, statutes and regulations, and an AI agent drafts briefs and checks citations. The same data is also sold to other software companies through an API.

**Why it worked.** It built its own database of court opinions instead of licensing one, and it published a price per seat. LawNext reported in February 2025 that the company chose to build the database largely from scratch. That gave it a corpus it could sell to lawyers and, later, to other legal software makers.

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

Midpage sells legal research software: tools that find the court opinions and laws that support an argument. It also offers an AI citator, which shows whether later courts have overruled or criticized an opinion. Lawyers use the web platform or connect Midpage to AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity. The Professional plan costs US$100 a month per seat on the company's pricing page in November 2026.

Otto Zastrow founded Midpage in 2022, according to the company's own page. An Internet Archive copy of the home page from 21 December 2022 shows the slogan "Building a GitHub copilot for lawyers". In January 2025 the company listed four employees and US$1M to US$5M of outside funding in its Startup Alley entry. In June 2025 LawNext and Artificial Lawyer reported a US$4M seed round and US$6.2M raised in total.

No source gives a dated revenue figure that is a number. LawNext reported in February 2025 that Zastrow described "six-figure annual revenue", and this rests on one interview. The customer counts on the home page and the company page are company claims, and they differ from each other. The company page now lists eight people.

## Why did Midpage work?

### It built its own case-law database instead of licensing one

LawNext reported in February 2025 that Midpage chose to build its database largely from scratch. It started from public data such as CourtListener and filled gaps in coverage. The data page in November 2026 says Midpage holds all rights to its content and relies on no data suppliers. That is the company's claim.

### It published one monthly price and a free trial

LawNext listed US$99 a month after a two-week trial in February 2025. The company page in November 2026 states US$100 a month and compares this with Westlaw and Lexis, which it does not price on the page.

### It sold the same corpus to other software makers

The data page offers an API, a hosted MCP server and a database replica. The data page lists an entry tier of US$1,000 a month for prototypes and internal use. The company says Perplexity, Litera, Noxtua and BriefCatch use the data.

## How it was built

These details come from the company's own pages and from LawNext. They are grade C.

- The company built a case-law database from public sources and gap-filling, and it reached more than 10 million cases by December 2024, according to Zastrow.
- LawNext reported in February 2025 that the company used OpenAI's models with some fine-tuning on its own examples.
- The features reported in 2025 were AI-generated columns that filter search results, a proposition search, an AI agent and a citator.
- By November 2026 the company offers the product on its own site and inside Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Harvey.

Sources: [5, 6, 1, 9]

## Who tried this before Midpage, and why did they fail?

Two companies in our database of failed startups sold software to lawyers. The values below are from that database on 11 November 2026 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 (record); platform closed 31 January 2021 (LawNext); funding US$13.0M burned; cause: Traction against incumbents)

- Promise: AI-powered legal research that finds case law faster than traditional methods.
- Why it died: The record says it struggled to gain traction against incumbents that hold large datasets. LawNext reported in December 2020 that Thomson Reuters' lawsuit stopped it from raising money or being acquired.
- Record: 

### jEugene (2015 to 2018; funding US$120K burned; cause: Could not adapt to the legal tech market)

- Promise: Contract review that finds errors and inconsistencies with an algorithm.
- Why it died: The record attributes the failure to an inability to adapt to a fast-changing legal tech market. The same record also says the company may still operate, so the cause is uncertain.
- Record: 

## What changed

Thomson Reuters sued ROSS in 2020 and alleged that ROSS copied Westlaw content, which ROSS denied. LawNext reported in December 2020 that the lawsuit stopped ROSS from raising money or being acquired, and that ROSS shut down. Midpage says it holds the rights to its own data. That claim is the main difference, and this page could not verify it.

Midpage also sells through AI assistants and to other software makers, so a lawyer need not switch tools. The founder says the company is "focused on case law" and not on contracts. LawNext printed that quotation in February 2025.

## Can one person copy Midpage now?

**Verdict: Partly, and only with funding.**

A solo founder cannot repeat this today. LawNext and Artificial Lawyer reported US$6.2M raised in total by June 2025, and the company listed four employees in January 2025. What can be copied is the sequence: build the data first, publish a price, then sell the data to others.

1. Pick one narrow professional job, such as litigators who research case law.
2. Own the dataset the AI reads, so no supplier can cut off access.
3. Publish a monthly price and offer a free trial.
4. Sell the same data through an API once the product works.

**What is still open.** Other fields where public records are scattered and professionals pay for search: patents, building permits, public tenders.

## How much revenue does Midpage make? The numbers, graded

A funded legal research company with published prices and no checkable revenue figure. The facts below are the strongest dated ones, mostly company statements

| Fact | Value | Grade | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Company start | 2022 | C | The company page says Otto Zastrow founded Midpage in 2022. The January 2025 Startup Alley entry gives "11/1/2022" as the founding date. An Internet Archive copy of the home page is dated 21 December 2022. | [2, 8, 10] |
| Revenue, February 2025 | "six-figure annual revenue" | D | Zastrow's words to LawNext on 10 February 2025. LawNext wrote that revenue began in the past four months. No exact number is given. | [5] |
| Price, February 2025 | US$99 a month, and US$10 a month for law students | C | LawNext, 10 February 2025, after a two-week free trial. | [5] |
| Price, April 2026 | US$99 a month plus AI costs for drafting; US$25 for students | C | Internet Archive copy of the pricing page captured on 18 April 2026. | [4] |
| Price, November 2026 | US$100 a month monthly or US$80 a month annually | C | Pricing page and company page. The plan now lists unlimited AI research with an abuse limit. | [2, 3] |
| Team, January 2025 | four employees from three countries | C | The company's own Startup Alley entry, as printed by LawNext. The entry says the team is mostly non-lawyers. | [8] |
| Team, November 2026 | 8 named people | C | The company page lists a founder and CEO, a head of data, a head of product, a counsel and four software developers. | [2] |
| Outside funding | US$6.2M in total by June 2025 | C | Artificial Lawyer and LawNext, 2 June 2025. The US$4M seed round was led by an unnamed legal publishing house. LawNext reported in February 2025 that two earlier rounds were US$1M each. | [5, 6, 7] |
| Data corpus, November 2026 | 16M+ opinions and 50M+ trial dockets | C | Home page claim. The data page says all federal courts and all state appellate courts are covered. | [1, 9] |
| Customers named by the company | Perplexity, Litera, Noxtua and BriefCatch use its data | C | Company page. No named customer has confirmed this in a source read for this page. | [2] |
| Customer counts, November 2026 | 20+ AmLaw 100 firms and 500+ boutiques (home page); 300+ law firms (company page) | C | The home page and the company page give counts that do not match. The data page says it supplies 40+ AmLaw 100 firms. | [1, 2, 9] |
| Months from the start to the status date | 48 months | calc | Calculated: November 2022 to November 2026. | [2, 8] |

How to read this table. Grade C is a statement by the company or its founder, also when a journalist reports it. Grade D is one unverified statement. A "calc" value was computed on this page.

## Pricing

Midpage prices on the company's pricing page and data page, read on 11 November 2026 (grade C)

| Plan | Per month, billed yearly (US$) | Per month, billed monthly (US$) | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professional | 80 | 100 | 1 seat, unlimited AI research with an abuse limit |
| Law Student |  | 25 | Proof of US law school enrolment or employment |
| Data for prototyping and internal use |  | 1,000 | Rate limited API and MCP access, internal use only |

Professional costs US$100 a month for one seat when billed monthly, and US$80 a month when billed annually, which is US$960 a year. The company page states the annual price. The pricing page says it reserves the right to suspend accounts with abnormally high usage. The Law Student plan needs proof of enrolment or employment at a US law school. The Professional and Law Student plans do not include API access.

## When did Midpage launch, and how did it grow? Timeline

From a one-line home page in December 2022 to paid plans, a data business and eight listed people in November 2026. Each entry carries its grade.

- **1 November 2022** (grade C [8]): The company gives this as its founding date in the January 2025 Startup Alley entry. The date is a company claim.
- **21 December 2022** (grade C [10]): An Internet Archive copy of the home page shows one line, "Building a GitHub copilot for lawyers", and an email form.
- **Late 2024** (grade D [5]): Revenue begins, according to Zastrow's interview with LawNext in February 2025. Zastrow says the database passed 10 million cases in December 2024.
- **10 February 2025** (grade D [5]): LawNext reports full case-law coverage and a coming citator. Zastrow says revenue went from zero to "six-figure annual revenue".
- **2 June 2025** (grade C [6, 7]): Midpage announces a US$4M seed round, US$6.2M in total, and a Proposition Search feature.
- **November 2026** (grade C [1, 3, 9]): The home page says Midpage connects to Harvey. The pricing page lists the Professional plan at US$100 a month, and the data page lists a data tier from US$1,000 a month.

## What could go wrong for Midpage?

- **What is not verified.** No revenue figure was found. The only figure is Zastrow's "six-figure annual revenue" in LawNext on 10 February 2025, which rests on one interview. A reader could look for a payment-processor profile, a funding announcement that states revenue, or a customer confirmation.
- **Logo wall, counters and badges are the company's claims.** The home page shows counters: 20+ AmLaw 100 firms, 500+ boutiques, 5 multibillion-dollar organizations that buy its data, and 600,000+ agent calls a week. It also reports the company's own benchmark, in which a blind judge preferred the answer with Midpage on 89 of 100 questions. The data page shows the logos of Perplexity, Litera, Noxtua, BriefCatch and United States Courts, and says it supplies 40+ Am Law 100 firms. The company page says 300+ law firms. The footer shows SOC 2 Type II and HIPAA badges. No source read for this page confirms these.
- **The student plan is for law students and faculty.** The plan requires proof of enrolment or employment at a US law school. The company page describes it as an academic plan to "learn and teach legal research". The plan includes the same AI research tools as the Professional plan. The pages read for this story do not market it for writing coursework.
- **The team grew after funding.** The company reported four employees in January 2025, and the company page lists eight people in November 2026. The company raised US$6.2M in total by June 2025, according to Artificial Lawyer.

## Sources

1. Midpage home page, read 11 November 2026 — https://www.midpage.ai/ (grade C). Read in full. Company claims: counters, corpus size, prices and the Harvey integration.
2. About Midpage (company page), read 11 November 2026 — https://www.midpage.ai/company (grade C). Read in full. Source for the start year, the people list, the prices and the named data customers.
3. Midpage pricing page, read 11 November 2026 — https://www.midpage.ai/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Source for the Professional and Law Student prices.
4. Midpage pricing page, Internet Archive copy of 18 April 2026 — http://web.archive.org/web/20260418231751/https://www.midpage.ai/pricing (grade C). Read in full. Shows the earlier price of US$99 a month plus AI costs for drafting.
5. LawNext (LawSites), 10 February 2025: Legal Research Startup Midpage Passes Threshold As It Achieves 'Full' Case Coverage and Readies Citator Launch — https://www.lawnext.com/2025/02/legal-research-startup-midpage-passes-threshold-as-it-achieves-full-case-coverage-and-readies-citator-launch.html (grade C). Read in full. Source for the revenue statement, the early prices, the earlier funding and the OpenAI models.
6. LawNext (LawSites), 2 June 2025: Legal Research Startup Midpage Raises $4M, Launches Proposition Search Feature — https://www.lawnext.com/2025/06/legal-research-startup-midpage-raises-4m-launches-proposition-search-feature-channeling-the-spirit-of-casetext.html (grade C). Read in full. Source for the US$4M seed round and the US$6.2M total.
7. Artificial Lawyer, 2 June 2025: Midpage Bags $4m Seed + Launches 'Proposition Search' — https://www.artificiallawyer.com/2025/06/02/midpage-bags-4m-seed-launches-proposition-search/ (grade C). Read in full. A second report of the seed round and the total.
8. LawNext, January 2025: Startup Alley 2025 ballot, Midpage entry — https://www.lawnext.com/2025/01/voting-is-now-open-pick-the-15-finalists-to-compete-at-startup-alley-at-aba-techshow-2025-in-april.html (grade C). Read the Midpage entry. The company wrote it. Source for the founding date, the employee count and the funding range.
9. Midpage data page (For Legal Tech), read 11 November 2026 — https://www.midpage.ai/data-for-legal-tech (grade C). Read in full. Source for the data tiers, the data price and the customer claims.
10. Midpage home page, Internet Archive copy of 21 December 2022 — http://web.archive.org/web/20221221234300/https://www.midpage.ai/ (grade C). Read in full. Shows the earliest version of the site.
11. Database of failed startups, local export — /method/#dead (grade C). Record pages read on the website on the day of writing. AI-written summaries, not independently verified. The LawNext article gives the ROSS shutdown date.
12. LawNext (LawSites), 11 December 2020: Legal Research Company ROSS to Shut Down Under Pressure of Thomson Reuters Lawsuit — https://www.lawnext.com/2020/12/legal-research-company-ross-to-shut-down-under-pressure-of-thomson-reuters-lawsuit.html (grade C). Read in full. Source for the ROSS shutdown date, the Thomson Reuters allegation and the denial by ROSS.

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