Ryanfilevine

Husband. Father of 6. Co-founder, CEO, @filevine. #verticalAI #biasedtowardaction

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

Agree re wife and kids. They come first always. Not even helpful to frame them as a priority. They are the whole point.

But after that, I think for founders, company is sits in a category that is orders of magnitude more important almost anything else. (Health rolls up to company btw)

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

just adding my voice here. I think many founders assume the idea, often reinforced very young founders, VCs, and the narratives, that building a company should be their entire life, and everything else should pretty much be ignored.

But I don't think you should ignore your family and children.

No matter how successful your company becomes, your children will only be this small once. You don't get that time back. The time you spend with them, and the relationship you build, will last a lifetime. Likely much longer than the success of your startup.

The irony of this situation is that founders generally have more control than most people over how they work and how they design their companies. Their schedules, what they work on and the help they can have.

And if everything is constantly on fire, and only the founder can resolve it, maybe the company needs to be designed differently

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

We are confident LOIS search and retrieval is more accurate and complete than any ai native.

Here’s how @jakub_zovi and his amazing team built it:

[Jakub Žovák @jakub_zovi]

Most retrieval solutions stop at hybrid search, combining vector and keyword retrieval. In my new article on Advanced Legal Retrieval, I explain why that’s only the starting point. At @filevine, we’re continuously experimenting with state-of-the-art retrieval approaches and bringing the best of them into production. This is what lets #LOIS deliver frontier legal performance.
https://t.co/uteXiKz3DF

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@scarfburner 💀

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

My daughter at BYU informs me there are only three tribes on campus:

SoCal
Alpine
SLC

From anywhere else? You must get adopted in.

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@GeorgeBessenyei Haha.

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

US defense tech:

“We will spy on you from space.”

Chinese defense tech:

Hotties

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@DerekjAndersen Adoption polices are liberal but cross tribe fraternization rare

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@mariamsulakian He’ll fit right in.

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

I hate to admit this, but the atmosphere @Utah_Football today was pretty fun.

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@sonasulakian Somebody has to.

😉

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

Product log:: 11/6/26

We announced cross case intelligence at LEX. But this week we added the activity MCP so you can take agentic actions across 100 cases at once-- but make granular changes inline, right inside of LOIS Console.

You can also now use LOIS and Filevine as connectors in @perplexity_ai to pull weather data for the time and place of an incident, or to put an opposing expert’s licensing board history straight into your deposition prep folder. Bring your tech stack into LOIS, or take LOIS with you.

LOIS can also take a CSV and update Filevine records in bulk. It checks every row and changes nothing until you approve. One cool example: we've had customers fully implement from legacy CMS' (Clio) completely agentically with LOIS Console. All in a single conversation with LOIS.

More updates: https://t.co/ClQ0wjXIbc

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@sonasulakian @mariamsulakian more like the manning bros.

[Sona Sulakian @sonasulakian]

Filevine's building some really cool stuff

Walked out to NFL music last week at @filevine LEX

I'd like to think I'm the Tony Romo of the group 💁‍♀️

@WasatchWatch covered 30+ products in his keynote. In many places, we're first in market 🔥

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

We are not serious people

[Mariam Sulakian @mariamsulakian]

Watched someone prompt this on the train today:

> Help me improve this message: “This is really good”

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@mariamsulakian @AttyFariz 😂

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@sonasulakian @filevine this was SO good

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@bryce I think it might be right. But it’s very depressing

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

Now do lawyers

[CG @cgtwts]

anthropic's claude code engineer btw.

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

@bryce @moo_hax @monoxgas @bradpalmtree @indievc LFG

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

this has always been the kind of idea VCs think will work but doesn't.

Also, shouldn't the models be good enough that all firms can become AI native?

[Raad @R44D]

atrium launched in 2017 and raised $75.5M on a simple pitch that software would let a law firm do the work with fewer lawyers. in january 2020 it let most of its lawyers go, and two months later it shut down.

since 2025 a new wave of AI-native law firms has been raising on the same pitch, with agents instead of software, and the best funded one has already raised more than atrium did.

the models actually work now, which makes it worse. atrium at least owned its software, but today every incumbent firm can buy the same agents and keep the clients it already has.

in 10 years of matching lawyers with clients, i've rarely seen anyone switch firms to save money. a GC who picks the cheaper firm and loses has to explain the decision, while one who picks the firm they've trusted for a decade and loses just had bad luck.

the models changed, and the buyer didn't

[Ryanfilevine @RyanM_Anderson]

This is me for sure. Yes to proofread. But that’s it.

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

I find it significant that the most AI-pilled people I know use AI for basically everything…except for writing

It’s remarkably consistent. Why? Because to write is to think. And outsourcing your critical thinking to AI is intellectual suicide