GitLaw, an AI legal companion built for businesses, has raised a $3 million pre-seed round led by Jackson Square Ventures, with participation from Flex Capital, Background Capital, and several angel investors.
Founded in 2025 by serial entrepreneur Nick Holzherr, GitLaw’s mission is to make legal documents radically more accessible through AI-driven automation.
GitLaw’s agent enables startups to draft, redline, and review agreements, including NDAs, SaaS contracts, and investor terms, using a library of more than 1,000 lawyer-reviewed templates. It generates ready-to-use contracts in minutes and can review or compare incoming documents against trusted legal standards.
Unlike generic AI tools, GitLaw’s agent combines community-built legal knowledge with multi-model AI reasoning that mirrors how lawyers work.
Commercially minded lawyers won’t be out of work, but most day-to-day contract tasks can now be done faster, cheaper, and often more accurately by automation,
said Nick Holzherr, GitLaw’s founder and CEO.
Over 80 per cent of US small businesses lack in-house legal support, and outsourcing can cost growth-stage startups more than $20,000 per year for contracts, compliance, and investor paperwork. GitLaw aims to automate 80–90 per cent of this work to reduce costs while maintaining high accuracy and security.
While many founders turn to general-purpose AI tools to generate or review contracts, Holzherr warns that this approach can be risky:
“Generic AI tools speak with extreme confidence, but their answers often have serious flaws. For example, some only read a fraction of a contract, but still claim to have read it all. I’ve been really surprised at how lazy some of the tools are, probably because they’re trying to save tokens (their cost), and that’s dangerous when legal precision matters.”
GitLaw takes a structured approach. Its agent coordinates multiple AI models and workflows to handle tasks comprehensively and methodically. Drawing on an expanding set of lawyer-approved templates that cover NDAs, contractor agreements, shareholder terms, and SaaS licenses, it pairs professional-grade accuracy with AI speed. Built for businesses rather than law firms, GitLaw enables teams to prepare agreements efficiently with minimal oversight and legal expertise.
Legal work shouldn’t take six weeks for a three-day project, and businesses shouldn’t have to choose between moving fast and staying legally safe. GitLaw is my way of fixing that, helping founders get professional-quality contracts instantly without needing a big budget,
Holzherr added.
The funding will support the launch of GitLaw’s AI agent, enabling businesses to draft, review, and negotiate contracts in minutes at no cost, while accelerating product development and expanding the platform across the US and UK.
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