Legal work has looked largely the same for over a century. The biggest innovation lawyers saw was Microsoft Word. Crosby is changing that.

Founded by Ryan Daniels, a lawyer turned founder, Crosby combines experienced attorneys with custom agents to turn contract work from a slow, expensive process into something closer to instant. Clients send a contract over Slack and get back a fully redlined document within hours. Agents handle the first pass; a senior lawyer reviews and signs off. The result is consistent, reliable output at a pace traditional firms can't match.

The business model is the real departure. Where most legal software tries to make the billable hour faster, Crosby charges by the contract. That aligns incentives: when Crosby's agents get better, the economics improve for both sides. Every dollar of revenue gets reinvested into reducing how many minutes a lawyer needs per page, with the long-term goal of getting that number as close to zero as possible.

The earliest signal that Crosby was onto something came from the clients themselves. Among Crosby's first were Cursor and Clay, companies moving at a speed where delayed contracts aren't a minor inconvenience. These teams embraced an AI-native law firm as a strategic necessity. As Christina puts it, once a company's expectation is set that legal will operate at that speed and intelligence, there's no going back.

Ryan sees the opportunity extending well beyond contract review into M&A, venture financings, litigation, and beyond. The compounding advantage of a firm that reinvests in technology rather than fragments around individual partners is, in his view, what could eventually take a law firm to a scale the industry has never seriously contemplated.