Praxis (YC F26)

AI that runs law firms entire client journey.

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

Today we’re launching @runpraxis (YC F26), AI agents that run law firm operations, from first inquiry to paid invoice.

Law firms spend 62% of their time on admin tasks they don’t bill.

With Praxis, agents do the admin end to end, and the lawyer supervises and approves every step.

Law firms, get your spot today on the waitlist at https://t.co/nbBaBJV94Q.

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

French YC founders gang about to meet the god parents of startups @paulg & @jesslivingston in the og YC office

Cc @ventiph @ThibautRegerat

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

We tried JEV on law firms email 📩. Here's what happened.

Jev is the new classification model from @typesafeai that became VIRAL in the tech community. It answers typed questions about a piece of text + gets a confidence score + it happens in a fraction of a second.

Every law firm inbox needs to get sorted:
- New lead or existing client?
- Which client, which matter?
- Document, payment, deadline or message?
- Does a lawyer need to see it?

What changed for us:
- Sorting a firm's inbox history went from 3 minutes to 1 second ⭐️
- Every classification get a confidence score 📈

Email is a law firm's unsorted system of record: client conversations, documents, signed letters, deadlines, payment confirmations. Until it's sorted, nothing downstream can run on its own.

At @runpraxis, we bring the latest technology AI to the least glamorous part of a law firm: the inbox.

We haven't seen anyone else in legal software using Jev yet. Are you?

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

🎬🎬🎬 @runpraxis

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

Happy Fleet Week to all the law firms of San Francisco from @runpraxis! See you tomorrow during the show!

#fleetweek #sftechweek #lawfirms #lawyers

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

It's SF tech week & Legal tech is having a moment!

Questions that keep coming up:
→ How do I evaluate legal tech vendors and know they fit how my firm actually works?
→ We already use Claude or ChatGPT. What does a legal tech tool add on top?
→ How do I keep client data secure and protect privilege?

My take:

🤝 The best vendors adapt to your processes, but they also tell you when a process is inefficient compared to what they see across the market. When you evaluate a vendor, check whether they push back or only try to close. Legal tech vendors should be trusted partners, don't just try to sell the tech

🔍 Most firms already have Claude or ChatGPT switched on, so the real question is what a tool does beyond them. Run both side by side on your own workflows. The differences show up in 4 places:
- depth of integrations
- depth of workflows
- ease of use
- proactive agents (Claude/GPT remain mainly reactive as you prompt them!)

🔐 Security is a very important topic in the legal space and legal tech firms need to adapt and treat it as a requirement. Firms need to know which questions to ask: where the data is stored, whether it is used to train models, and who can access it.

#law #lawyers #ai #legaltech #SFTechWeek

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

Welcome to @runpraxis

More coming soon

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[Praxis (YC F26) @runpraxis]

Welcome to Praxis

More coming soon

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[frontrun @frontrunvc]

@ycombinator F26 companies, before they're in the YC directory 👇

1. @with_kiwi_ai = the agent IDE for teams. share agent workflows, pull skills ranked by real outcomes, approve what leaves the building
2. @runpraxis = AI that runs a law firm's client journey. consult, conflict check, documents, engagement letter signed
3. @jinkohq = travel infrastructure for agents. one MCP to search and book flights on real-time inventory
4. @quivlyai = an AI workforce for B2B post-sales. onboarding, renewals and expansion without the headcount
5. @indexablehq = machines for AI agents. pay only for the CPU, RAM and disk in use, fork and snapshot any environment
6. @trynativeapp = artificial intuition for marketing. creates, publishes and improves your social content
7. @ploid_ai = people search over every human. 2B+ profiles you query in plain english
8. @superserve_ai = virtual machines for agents that need to keep working for hours, not seconds
9. @cleanailabs = an AI GTM system that maps warm paths to your buyers and runs low-volume outreach
10. @microsandbox = one command gives untrusted code its own kernel on your laptop. no daemon, no root
11. @polygres = graph, vector and full-text retrieval in one query over the postgres you already run
12. @adalat_ai = a nonprofit using AI to cut court delays in developing countries
13. Ageospatial (@maazinsf) = geospatial AI agents mapping all property, infra and land on earth
14. Bayworks (@shubhamgl2003) = a technician voice-records a car repair, it writes the OEM warranty story
15. Acyclic Labs (@ramv2003) = a cockpit for running agent swarms on tasks too big for one agent
16. Tarski Research (@nathanrs) = RL environments and evals built from research mathematics
17. Stealth (@ayyeung42) = post-photosynthetic food biomanufacturing. bioengineering and cs at stanford

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

Just finished a customer video interview with @getpancake_ai and on my way to Las Vegas ✈️

Cc @tristan_cte @will_marq

Get a Pancake 🥞 and it will run your GTM for you!

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

Day 1 at @ycombinator

Top advices:
> Build for the next 10 years, not the next 3 months
> Build a company where you want to stay
> Always be launching
> Build a strong team of athletes, not a family

@maazinsf we love your ear

[Diana Khramina @KhraminaDianka]

Exciting news: @runpraxis (aka Praxis) is joining @ycombinator!

Maxence and I have been dreaming of becoming entrepreneurs for years and this dream finally came true; we’re more motivated than ever and ready to transform the legal market.

The legal work is being automated as we speak, so what's become the law firm’s differentiator?

It's the client journey: how fast the firm responds to the first inquiry and the follow-ups, how simple the document exchange feels, and how clear the next steps are. Because this is how you build trust.

So we decided to build @runpraxis, AI that runs a law firm's client journey.

The lawyer supervises and approves, AI handles the admin work in between, and the client watches their matter move in real time.

❤️ If you’re working at a law firm, don’t be a stranger! We’re shipping fast and always looking for more feedback on what we do.

🙏 To everyone who believed in us, and challenged us: thank you for bringing us here! Special thanks @dessaigne & @nemild for your trust!

Onwards!