Who buys the AI decides whether it cheapens your work or takes it. Sold to your firm, you get repriced. Sold around you, to your client, you get replaced. The line between them is whether your client can do the work without you.
Tap a practice to see its funded companies.
Source: Upshift analysis of 170 funded legal-AI companies.
What the map measures
Every funded AI legal product is sold to someone, and who buys it decides what it does to a firm. Sold to the firm, it is a copilot that compresses the hours under a matter the firm keeps, and the firm gets repriced. Sold around the firm, to the in-house team or the client directly, it moves the work inside the client, and the firm gets replaced. Each named competitor below is placed by its own stated buyer.
Where the companies came from
The field was built by systematic web research, one sweep per legal practice plus a completeness pass to catch what the sweeps missed. A company earns a place only with a sourced account of what it sells and who buys it, and anything that could not be tied to a primary source was dropped rather than estimated. That produced 210 evidenced entries, which dedupe to about 170 distinct companies, because one company often sells into several practices.
How each one was classified
Each company's direction is read off its own stated go-to-market rather than our judgment of it. A product sold to law firms and their lawyers counts as sold to the firm; one sold to in-house teams, businesses, or consumers counts as sold around it. A company that genuinely does both is counted on the sold-around side.
What counts as a practice
A company is attached to a practice only when it targets the work that practice bills for, not a slice of scaffolding underneath it. Applying that rule took three practices off the map entirely, because their apparent competitors turned out to be compliance or document-review tools aimed at adjacent work. What remains is 19 practices and 136 company placements.
What this does not cover
Back-office tooling (billing, intake, practice management, docket analytics) is excluded as adjacent to the firm rather than a threat to a practice. Several categories were under-covered by the sweeps and are still being filled in, so treat the counts as a floor on the field rather than a ceiling. The map also does not weight practices by their share of a firm's book, because that weighting would be editorial judgment rather than a sourced figure.
How to read it
A funded competitor is not realized revenue loss. The capital is placed and the buyer is chosen; the billing has not fully moved yet. Read the field as the leading indicator it is, not as work already gone.
Sources
The augment-versus-disintermediate distinction this map is built on.
Adoption running ahead of repricing, the lag described above.
Legal's task-level exposure, and why most of it lands as complement rather than substitution.
Every company named on the map links to its own site, so each entry can be checked at the source.
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Dated 2026-07-20. Free to cite with attribution. Not a forkable open dump.
Corrections and additions
This is a living census, not a closed report. If a company is missing, mis-placed (to the firm vs around it), or has a better primary source, send it with a link. Useful for practitioners who see a gap in their practice, and for vendors who want the record accurate.
Half the field is built to make your work cheaper rather than take it. The calculator turns that half into your revenue at risk, in dollars.
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