The General
Counsel
in your pocket.
Most startups don't hire their first in-house lawyer until Series B. Until then, the founder is the General Counsel — without the training, the playbooks, or the time. FoundersCounsel changes that.
Tools built for lawyers don't help the founder who isn't one.
GC AI built a beautiful product for in-house counsel. Their workflows, their tone, their pricing — all of it speaks to someone who already thinks like a lawyer.
That leaves the much larger, much more anxious audience completely unserved: the founder juggling a vendor MSA at 11 PM, an IRS notice at 8 AM, and an investor SAFE in between.
GC AI gives a General Counsel superpowers.
FoundersCounsel makes the founder the General Counsel.
Four products, fused.
Workspace
What's due, what's open, what's at risk. The single pane of glass.
Assistant
Chat-first AI grounded in US, UK and EU commercial law and your own playbook.
Registry
Every contract, notice, IP, filing and matter — structured and searchable.
Network
A vetted bench of attorneys, solicitors, CPAs and IP agents — already briefed.
A 25-person SaaS founder
in San Francisco. Tuesday.
8:42
Dashboard
Compliance health: 96%. Two things matter today: a vendor MSA review came back with three flagged clauses, and Delaware franchise tax is due in 11 days.
10:15
Contract review
Sales lead forwards a new procurement template. By the time her coffee arrives, it's parsed, classified as high-risk, compared against her playbook, and a redline draft is waiting.
13:30
IRS notice
She photographs a CP2000 notice that arrived in the mail. In 90 seconds: classified, deadline pulled, response drafted, panel CPA looped in with one click.
16:00
Board pack
She types: 'prepare consent and resolutions for Q3 board, plus issuance of 2,500 ESOPs.' The agenda, written consents, 409A reference, and cap table update — all generated.
19:55
Trademark
A trademark she filed nine months ago has received a USPTO Office Action. The system explains the §2(d) refusal, drafts a response argument, and offers to route it to a panel agent for a flat $450.
Two years ago, this was a deck.
Today it ships.
- 01
Frontier LLMs can now reliably summarise, redline and reason over US, UK and EU commercial documents — across the agreements founders actually sign.
- 02
State Secretary, Companies House, IRS, HMRC and EU registries expose enough public data to track entity status programmatically.
- 03
DocuSign, Stripe Atlas, Mercury, Carta and Gusto have made the last mile of incorporation, equity and execution almost fully digital.
- 04
Outside-counsel rates in the US and UK have risen 30–50% in five years. Partners now bill $400–$1,500 per hour. The arbitrage is no longer subtle.