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Nadia Dugal

Tome - Your AI powered lawyer

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The world's first AI-powered law firm.Stop paying >$1,000 per hour for common legal questions. From NDAs to SAFEs, Tome instantly demystifies contracts, recommends strategies, and gives you one-click access to expert attorneys.

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Nadia Dugal
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Hi Product Hunt! 👋 We’re so excited to launch the world’s first AI-powered law firm. In a nutshell, we’ve replaced junior attorneys with LLMs — so that you get fast, reliable answers to common legal questions. When it comes down to it, “commercial law” — the part of law that’s mostly drafting and reviewing contracts — is a field of copying & pasting legal code. Lawyers are always copying best practices, referring to their secret menu of options, and charging > $1000/hour for phone calls. Even worse, it’s hard work! Junior attorneys really have to finish hours of painstaking analysis in antiquated tools, just so a senior partner can say “yes, this looks normal.” Tome changes all of that: we built LLMs to do 95% of the basic work, so that you can get reliable legal information for common situations. And if AI isn’t enough, we give you direct access to senior attorneys who can help with unique questions. For founders, that means: > Instant AI analysis & recommendations for common startup questions > One-click access to expert attorney advice > Save 80% of the time and cost on common contracts (NDAs, SAFEs, and more) > Integrate seamlessly with your legal team — and integrate with us via Slack 🙂 Try us today - upload a document for free to try out our AI analysis. Upgrade to add attorney support, with flat-fee pricing. We started as a LLM-based contract analysis company, serving multi-billion dollar investors and startups alike. I’m super excited to hear what you think as we expand to help the whole ProductHunt community. As a thank you to the community, we’re offering one month of free Pro attorney support. Just mention ProductHunt! * We serve only U.S. startups, businesses, and investors right now. We won’t help you sue someone or represent you in court.
Antoni Kozelski
@nadssdssd Congratulations on the release of Tome! Great idea аnd we can get reliable legal information for typical situations!🦾
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@antonikozelski thank you!!
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@rahul_khinchi Thank you so uch! So we handle variations in language and nuances by having really large datasets. For instance, suppose you have a "termination" clause in a contract. Thanks to our dataset, we have almost every possibly permutation of that clause in our database. When a new contract is uploaded, there's some pattern-matching going on. And if the new contract contains a unique instance, that instance is then stored in our database for future pattern-matching. Over time, the number of unique instances starts to reduce significantly. But because of the infinite nature of natural language, the rate of reduction will be asymptotic.
Kevin Wu
I believe this would be an innovative product. The only question is its performance and safety compared to actual lawyers.
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@kevinxyz actual lawyers are humans too and therefore also commit errors :)
Kevin Wu
@nadssdssd Yeah that totally makes sense. My concern was what if the AI makes a mistake that puts an individual or business into a trouble. But still, I am aware that it's an amazing product.
Benjamin Kang
Maker
@kevinxyz Hey! I'm an engineer here at Tome, and I'd love to provide some more clarity on your questions on accuracy. It's absolutely something we have top of mind here. The majority of the productive work we do at Tome is actually the whole extract => label => fine-tune/prompt => evaluate loop that is constantly improving our product. Every output on our reports and referenced in the responses reflects a system that's working underneath. We have tens of thousands of attorney-hours' worth of work that has gone into painstakingly labelling, prompting, and evaluating outputs. We routinely have customers send us contracts that they've already had their counsels look at, and we're able to flag things that they had no idea were present beforehand.
Kevin Wu
@benjamin_kang Hey Benjamin, thanks for your detailed explanation and it sounds really awesome that the accuracy reaches high 90s. Really innovative, I could have supported with 10 votes if there was a feature on PH, but thanks for launching this!
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@benjamin_kang @kevinxyz ahhhh thank you!!!! so amazing to have your support and I'm so so excited for you to try the product!
Matthew Kershaw
Looks incredibly valuable, great idea. But I have two questions: 1. contracts I might upload are extremely confidential and may have very valuable trade secrets. What reassurances can you give that they won't fall into the wrong hands? 2. How/why is this better than GPT4o which can also analyse contracts and give advice
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@mattski2000 Important questions, thanks for asking! 1) We take your privacy, confidentiality, and security very seriously. We've designed our system from the ground up with that in mind. And our Terms of Service provides a strong NDA in your favor. :) 2) We actually use GPT4o in one step of our pipeline! In a nutshell, our biggest value-add is knowing what the right questions are to ask, and we ask those questions in our own fine-tuned models, trained our our database of >100,000 pieces of legal text.
Benjamin Kang
Maker
@mattski2000 Hey! First of all those are absolutely valid thoughts to have. I'm an engineer here at Tome, and I can provide some more insight on those two topics as well. 1. We're currently SOC2 certified, and all your information is siloed and encrypted. As Nadia said, we're bound by confidentiality agreements in the Terms of Service. We have very specific procedures in which our team is able to view your data, such as when responding to matters that require lawyer assistance. Otherwise, that data is kept in our vault. 2. This is a wonderful question, and I'd love to answer in depth. We started off as more of a research company, tackling this without the aid of LLMs with a rather complicated system of regexes and pattern matching utilities to aid our labelling and clause recognition processes. When we added LLMs in this years, we took the same approach of scientific rigor to it, and there's honestly probably 10,000s of hours of attorney-labeled work going into the product. Every output you see on our reports and in the responses have been trained/fine-tuned/prompted based on those painstakingly hand-labeled contracts. Almost 80% of our productivity is actually going into the internal tools we have that support the whole extract => label => fine-tune/prompt => evaluate loop, and we are very very strict about what outputs we enable based on accuracy numbers.
Davor Kolenc
Nice. This is going to save someone a bunch of money! Question, how does it handle US state-specific laws?
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@davor_kolenc Tome helps you understand and negotiate your contracts. While state specific laws apply, in 99% of cases users are just looking to negotiate the particulars of the contract. In other words, asking “does termination in 30 days notice seem standard?” Is a lot more common than “does this contract violate Texas law?”
Elke
This is a game-changer, @nadssdssd! Finally, a way to tackle legal questions without breaking the bank. 💰 Can't wait to see how this improves the legal landscape for startups on PH!
Ghost Kitty
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David Carpe
hey, i know this startup! ;) nice work stephen!
Stephen Trusheim
Maker
@busfactor thanks Dave!!
Shayan Ali Bakhsh | RoboDialog.com
I don't know when I will need this but there has been a need for this for a long time. Let's cut those large fees !! Congrats on the Launch 🎉
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@shayan_ali_bakhsh thank you so much!!! excited for you to try the product!!!
Allen
Tome looks game-changing for legal tech! 🚀 Used it for an NDA, and the speed and insights were impressive. But I've got some questions: How does Tome handle different legal systems across countries? As someone working with international clients, this is crucial. Can it adapt to local regulations in various states or provinces within a country? For global startups, how does it manage conflicting laws between jurisdictions? Also curious about keeping up with rapidly changing laws and handling complex cases needing human nuance. Despite these challenges, Tome could be revolutionary if they address these international aspects. Excited to see how it evolves!
Stephen Trusheim
Maker
@allen_xu1130 Co-founder here. We're not international yet - focused on one thing at a time. I can't wait to help you too!
Ema Elisi
This sounds promising! 🤔 How do you ensure the accuracy of the AI’s legal analysis compared to a human attorney? Also, what’s the pivot plan if a user needs more complex legal assistance?
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@ema_elisi 1) we'll be writing a longer blog piece about this, but we've reviewed every outcome of our models over the last three years and find there's no difference between humans & AI at this point. (At least for the questions we answer with AI!) 2) This is my favorite part of our platform! Every AI response comes with a button to "Review with a Lawyer" — and as soon as you click that, we connect you directly to an expert partner attorney who can help.
Atharva Bhange
This looks like a great product for lawyers and other enthusiasts. I think this industry needed a AI disruption and it is here. Maybe you can add a feature of e-signing documents that can be helpful.
Nadia Dugal
Maker
Evan Christopher
Love how you guys introduce AI to a new field. Congrats on your launch! 🚀 Excited to see how far this product will go :)
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@evan_christophers thank you!!! appreciate your support and kind words!
William Scott
This sounds interesting, @nadssdssd. I see the potential for democratizing access to legal advice, especially for startups that are often strapped for cash. However, I'm curious about the accuracy of the AI's recommendations. How do you ensure that the guidance provided matches industry standards and legal precedents? Also, what measures are in place to handle more complex legal issues that may still require human intervention? While I appreciate the focus on NDAs and SAFEs, what happens if a user needs something more extensive? Hope to see how you address these concerns, as well as how you plan to scale this service beyond common contracts in the future!
Paul Mit
Wow, this can be a game changer! Good luck with the product and launch. This can help a lot of bootstrapped founders and builder community.
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@mituhin thank you!
Daniel W. Chen
congrats Nadia. Tome is a great name, and this is probably one of those areas that LLM will overpower. I'm really excited about the future of Tome and will try to use it for my startup in the future.
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@danielwchen yay! thank you!
Tea Cindric
Wow, this could save so much time and money for startups. Can the AI be customised or trained to align with specific legal preferences or practices of a particular company? Congrats on your launch 🥂
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@tea_sakic1 thank you! And absolutely. Company specific playbooks are an enterprise level feature
Emily
What a great idea!! Is Tome fine-tuned to different jurisdictions/regions as well? Or just general/US-centric? Congrats on the launch! 🚀 (and is it pronounced tome or toe-may? 🤭)
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@_emily_daykin thank you! It’s specific to the US for now
Ghost Kitty
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Nadia Dugal
Maker
@zulkarnaim yay! thank you!! so excited for you to try the product!!
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@zulkarnaim thank you so much for your support!!! excited for you to try the product!!
Emma Lawler
This is cool! Could see it saving a lot of money on certain tasks. How do you think about buy-in from a startup's legal team? And do you consume legal contracts already developed with lawyers? For example, I could see it being useful to have a standard contract agreement drafted by my law firm once, then using Tome to generate every additional agreement.
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@emmalawler24 Emma I love this question. I operate on the firm belief that legal teams don't scale. An company constantly needs to expand in legal headcount to address legal needs as that organization grows and scales. So we see Tome as an opportunity for existing legal teams to 10x themselves. Basically, they can take more on without having to hire more. And yes, we definitely consume contracts already developed by lawyers! Your proposed use-case is a perfect one for our product and we're excited for you to try it!
Philippe Yacharel
So you're saying an AI can replace junior attorneys, but can it really understand the nuances and complexities of human judgment, wouldn't it be risky to rely only on algorithms for something as crucial as legal advice, also how do you handle confidentiality and potential biases in AI, have you tested it thoroughly in high-stakes scenarios
Nadia Dugal
Maker
@clinadentceo i love the question! To be clear, I don't think Tome replaces the advice of a multiple-thousand-dollar-per-hour M&A lawyer on a high-stakes M&A deal. But that routine board resolution a first-year attorney just copies and pastes for a deal? Tome can do that! And you shouldn't be paying $$$$$ for that!!