Parachute

The contract layer of legal work is being eaten by foundation models – and that's a feature, not a threat. Parachute's job is to orchestrate, test, secure and adapt that work to your jurisdiction, then keep it improving as the models do. But a law firm is more than contracts. Notes, meetings, trust accounts, payables, project management, house templates, the daily line of contact with clients that actually powers the work – none of that runs itself.

Legal is a US$400B+ market in the US alone, and the vast majority of that spend sits below the largest global firms – in the mid-market practices, boutiques and growing firms that are themselves multi-hundred-million-dollar businesses running the day-to-day of client work. Ryan Zahrai (CEO, ex-head of legal at Eucalyptus, founder of Zed Law) leads Parachute alongside Dave Berner (CTO, co-founder & ex-CTO of Kinde) and Vivienne Chan (CPO, ex-Rent the Runway). They're building the operating system Ryan wished he'd had when he was running a firm – one that scales with a practice from solo to enterprise, plugs into the rails firms already trust (Clio, InfoTrack), and earns the firm's confidence on security, workflow and trust before it earns its keep.