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We talked to more than a dozen fast-growing startups about how they build with Claude Code, and found five core practices they've adopted. As a result, ClickHouse now ships 30% more features than before, Omni increased engineering productivity 2-3x, and Clay automated its entire bug triage process. Read the full guide: https://lnkd.in/gA9UQf5M
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DevX and CI are on the critical path to revenue for every Neofirm. We’re growing exponentially, which means running more experiments and shipping more code every month. Our agent infrastructure has to keep up with customer growth, and our engineering tools/stack have to keep up with a growing team/codebase. Each manual experiment or slow deployment hurts the iteration loop. Slower feedback means slower growth. So, we’re hiring for our Infrastructure + DevX team. You’d work on: - Building better tools for development and experimentation - Making CI and verification faster - Designing agent/document infrastructure that can support 10x, 100x our current scale We’re looking for experienced engineers who want to shape the systems we’ll need for our next stage of growth. Send me a message or apply here: https://lnkd.in/eMEJhkQn Base: $240K–$360K, ++ equity We’re hiring across the company too, so feel free to reach out about any of our technical roles!
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This year, I've been writing 'field studies from the frontier,' where I embed into early stage companies and write about how startups are run in the age of AI. Crosby is one such company I was fascinated by. It is a "neofirm," equal parts lawyers from elite law firms like Kirkland and Ellis and Wachtell, and engineers from top startups like Ramp and Stripe. They employ lawyers, own liability, and sell outputs, not hours. They're growing fast, and serve the contracts of Ramp, Cursor, Clay, Listen Labs and more. They’ve raised $85M from Sequoia Capital, Lux Capital, Index Ventures, Elad Gil, Bain Capital Ventures (BCV). I spent weeks embedded fully in Crosby in New York - seeing their time trials (internal contests where lawyers race to redline a contract), All Hands, eng meetings, hung out in their Slack. I even shadowed lawyers. Over 25 conversations later, I'm excited to share this field study going deep on solving unverifiable problems in law, digging into the backgrounds of CEO Ryan Daniels (Stanford-trained attorney) & CTO John Sarihan (early employee at Ramp), and how "misfit lawyers" feel about the role of the lawyer changing. Link in the comments below. Thanks to convos with Ryan Daniels, John Sarihan, Billy Gallagher, Emily Zhang, Hana Yen, Kush Pandey, Amy Danoff, Anthony Corletti, Steven Lai, Aveek Duttagupta, Ariba Khan, Raymond Lin, Sharan Ramjee, Hunter M., Ross Weiser, Bijan Motiwalla, Tenzin Dolkar, Aidan Cleary - and interviews with lead investors and customers Grace Isford (Lux Capital), Ryan K. (Bain Capital Ventures (BCV), Sarah Zeng (Braintrust).
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This is surreal. One of my favorite writers spent over a month writing an in-depth profile of Crosby. This included several weeks in our office, 25 meetings, endless hours of research. The end result is sensational. We'll be re-reading Nicole Seah's work in a generation. She is archiving the companies "on the frontier," telling vivd, layered stories about what's really going on in the AI revolution. I can't believe we were lucky enough to be one of them. Link is in the comments below. I can't wait for the world to better understand what we've been up to in our frenetic, bustling Soho office!
Crosby has been named to Forbes' Next Billion Dollar Startups list alongside some of our favorite customers like Gumloop & Pace (who wisely chose today to onboard to Crosby). We are grateful to be recognized alongside companies we deeply respect like Juicebox, Fortell, Netic, Cogent, and Valthos. Our team has worked hard over the past year to deliver high quality legal work to some of the fastest growing companies in the world, including Cursor, Cognition, and Ramp. We have an ambitious roadmap and are hiring across engineering, research, legal, and many more roles.
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📣 We are starting on the next chapter of Crosby: taking out professional liability insurance for our agents, so that they can do autonomous legal work. Today, our lawyers review every single work output. As agents have improved in leaps over the last few months, it's become clear this won't be necessary in the future. We are one of the first law firms to attempt this. Over the next few months, we'll continue working closely with auditors to define evals, as well as with bar associations, state regulators, and insurance providers. If you are in legal AI and interested in partnering with us on this, please reach out!
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Had an awesome time yesterday chatting with Ryan Daniels from Crosby and Jamie Cuffe from Pace about building the neofirm. I thoroughly enjoyed getting their perspectives and thoughts on: - Why build the firm instead of selling software to incumbents (or rolling up existing firms), - What actually makes a neofirm defensible beyond being a wrapper on the models, and - Whether software margins are the end state for neofirms or just a local maximum from being early Was a great crowd of vertical AI founders + operators who earned my respect showing up despite the NYC tornado warning. Looking forward to doing more in vertical AI here in NYC. Thanks to Billy Gallagher and the Crosby team for hosting us!
"If we wanted to take the mission seriously of truly innovating on the way lawyers do their jobs with agents, we had to do the entire service end to end. We had to start our own law firm." - Crosby CEO Ryan Daniels sits down to discuss the early days of Crosby with Bain Capital Ventures (BCV)' Christina Melas-Kyriazi
Before Ryan Daniels built Crosby, he boarded a flight to India. At the time, Ryan was exploring his next company as an Entrepreneur in Residence at BCV. He had already practiced law, helped build legal AI companies, and served as a general counsel. But even with that experience, he believed the best way to understand the problem was to see it firsthand. That trip reinforced an idea he couldn't shake: drastically improving legal work would require building a drastically different kind of law firm. Ryan and co-founder John Sarihan went on to build Crosby, an AI-native law firm that combines experienced attorneys with proprietary AI agents to review, redline, and negotiate contracts. Instead of billing by the hour, they charge by the contract, so being faster aligns incentives for the client and the firm. In our latest Outlier Briefing, Ryan joins our partner, Christina Melas-Kyriazi, to share why rethinking the business model mattered just as much as the technology, and what it takes to build a law firm for the AI era. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gAC8Txf2
AI got good at math, code, and chess because you can verify the answer. Legal negotiations are different. They're closer to poker: incomplete information, unspoken positions, and the best move depends on who's across the table. Great lawyers will rehearse high stakes negotiations against simulated counterparties. But LLMs make weak foils out of the box; they concede too quickly, fail to hold strategic positions, and don't swap concessions like a veteran attorney. That's why we launched the Crosby Intelligence Fellowship. Two Fellows will each receive a $25K stipend & $12.5K in Codex credits with support from OpenAI to spend six months on frontier problems in legal AI. Fellows may focus on these simulated negotiations, reward models under expert disagreement, or a problem of their own choosing. Fellows get direct access to practicing attorneys, labeled contract data, and full publication rights. No legal background required — just strong ML/NLP chops and an appetite for messy ground truth. Applications close July 31: https://lnkd.in/dkQEiPx5