Find your shape.
Five kinds of company live in the gap between "call a lawyer sometimes" and "hire a general counsel." The situations differ; the problem underneath is the same.
Solo developers
One person, real revenue, and terms that were mostly a handshake. What matters now is short: own your IP, know what your customer agreement promises, and paper your contractors. The rest can genuinely wait.
Small teams
Two to fifteen people, and the founder still reads every contract at midnight. The first enterprise deal is where that stops working, on their timeline.
Large teams
Dozens of people and several law firms, none of whom holds the whole picture. Advice comes back inconsistent and late, and the spend climbs while accountability doesn't.
Startups
Venture-backed, moving fast, and twelve months from a diligence process that will read every one of today's shortcuts line by line.
Mid-sized companies
Real revenue, real exposure, and a CFO running the numbers on a first legal hire. This is the bridge between the two, and you can put a number on it.
The signals, regardless of size
If you can check any two of those, the gap is already open.
We're probably not the right fit if…
- Your need is pure litigation. We manage litigators on a client's behalf, but we don't try cases ourselves.
- You need patent prosecution. That's a separate bar and a separate practice, and we'll point you to someone who does it.
- You're pre-product and pre-revenue. Bookmark us and come back, because right now you likely need three documents and a good template.
- You already have an in-house legal team. Call your GC. That's the whole reason the seat exists.
Fifteen minutes. No pitch.
You talk, we diagnose. You leave with the two or three exposures worth addressing first, along with a straight answer on whether you need counsel now, including "not yet."