Robin AI

About Robin AI

Robin AI is a legal technology company that provides an AI-powered copilot designed to streamline contract drafting, review, and negotiation. Founded in March 2019 by former lawyer Richard Robinson and machine learning research scientist Dr. James Clough, the company was born from Robinson's firsthand experience with the inefficiencies of manual contract review in corporate law. Robinson, who worked at firms like Clifford Chance, and Clough, who was transitioning from theoretical physics to AI, met at university and later combined their expertise to address the legal industry's slow adoption of technology.

The company's core product is a legal AI assistant, available as a Microsoft Word add-in, that automates and speeds up the process of managing legal contracts. It leverages a hybrid model that combines large language models (LLMs) from partners like Anthropic with its own proprietary AI trained on a dataset of millions of legal documents. This is supplemented by a 'human-in-the-loop' system, where an in-house team of legal professionals refines the model's outputs to ensure accuracy. The platform can reduce the time spent on contract review by up to 85%, allowing legal teams to focus on more strategic work. Key features include suggesting edits based on client playbooks, checking for defined terms, and extracting information from entire contract repositories. In June 2024, the company launched Robin AI Reports, a product line aimed at accelerating M&A, IPOs, and other transactions by summarizing key issues across thousands of documents.

Robin AI operates on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model, serving in-house legal teams and law firms. Its clients include prominent names like Pepsico, PwC, and Clifford Chance. The company has demonstrated significant growth, with a strong revenue focus in the US market. It has secured substantial funding, including a $26 million Series B round in January 2024 led by Temasek, bringing its total raised capital to over $70 million. The company is headquartered in London, with an office in New York to support its US expansion.