Founded in 2025 by CEO Sanay Shajith and CTO Meeth Naik, Lawdie is aiming to become the AI-powered back office for law firms. The startup automates operational tasks ranging from billing and matter management to document generation and file routing. Lawdie is betting that the future of legal AI lies not just in helping lawyers practise law, but in removing the operational burden that gets in the way.
How would you describe your company to a friend?
Lawdie is the AI back office for law firms. Billing, matter management, routine document generation, file routing, and general operational stuff that eats a firm’s time. We automate it. Every firm gets a custom email address with all their workflows baked in. Need something done? Send an email describing it, and the right workflow fires. No prompt engineering, no new tool to learn, just email like you already do. That handles the on-demand stuff. Everything else runs invisibly in the background, no email needed at all. We built it with the mission of giving lawyers their time back, recuperating money that slips through the cracks and cutting the non billable hours nobody wants to do.
And to a techy?
Lawdie is an agentic back office for law firms. A set of workflow agents wired into the standard legal stack, for example Filevine, Tabs3, Aderant, iManage, Outlook, and it handles the repetitive operational work that normally eats staff and associate time. Triggering works two ways. Autonomous workflows watch for events, a new matter opened, docket entry, a filing deadline, and act without a human in the loop. On-demand workflows fire from a dedicated email address per firm. No natural language request needed, attorneys just drop the relevant files in or forward an email, and we handle parsing and routing internally. Since we’re touching sensitive client and financial data, we run full SOC 2 & HIPAA compliance and carry dedicated insurance on the AI agents themselves.
When were you founded?
2025
By who?
Sanay Shajith (CEO) and Meeth Naik (CTO)
Who are your key managers/senior execs?
N/A
Who are your target clients?
Law firms with north of 20 attorneys. We serve all practice areas, from IP boutiques to general litigation to personal injury, the platform’s built to handle the operational back office regardless of specialty.
What is your plan (growth strategy)?
Our growth strategy really comes down to two things working together. First and foremost, we’re focused on just building a genuinely good product, that’s what drives most of our growth organically, since happy users end up referring us to their friends and colleagues at other firms. On top of that, we lean heavily into events, especially CLEs, since they’re a great way to build trust and get in front of attorneys directly.
Key achievements?
We’re in the AmLaw 200, a firm has recuperated over a quarter million in revenue, and we secured key partnerships with the GA Bar & Berkeley Center of Law & Business.
Have you received investment?
Yes. We raised our first venture round at the beginning of this summer at a $10M valuation. We’re gearing up to raise another round shortly to support our strong growth.
Have there been any key changes in direction since you were founded?
No.
What are the key challenges in your market?
Key challenges in the market come down to procurement timeline and trust, and those two go hand in hand. Firms are naturally cautious about letting an AI system near client data and billing, so trust is really the bottleneck, not interest in the product. We tackle that by coming in with a clear playbook from day one, exactly what we need from the firm, exactly how the rollout works, so there’s minimal guesswork and minimal lift on their end. The less work it takes for them to say yes, the faster procurement moves. On the trust side, we back that up with substance. We carry the industry standard compliances firms expect, and we’ve gone further and insured our AI agents themselves, so there’s real peace of mind if something goes wrong.
Tell us something people don’t already know about the company?
The co-founders were actually on the same dance team back in middle school, then reconnected years later in college. Lawdie also started because a single mother needed help finding legal assistance and couldn’t get it. That’s what made us realize access to justice isn’t just an individual problem, it’s a systems problem. Law firms are buried in operational overhead, and that overhead is exactly what keeps legal help slow, expensive, and out of reach for people who need it. So we built the back office that frees firms up to actually practice law
