What August does

August (legal entity: Credicle Corporation) is a configurable legal AI platform built specifically for boutique and midsize law firms, with additional reach into solo practitioners, in-house legal teams, and non-profit legal functions. Founded in 2023 by Columbia University alumni Rutvik Rau, Thomas Bueler-Faudree, and Joe Parker, the company is operationally based in New York and legally incorporated in California; as of the August 2025 seed raise it had 12 employees with a plan to reach 25-30 by year-end, and reports 1,500+ users across firms on five continents.

The product is a model-agnostic AI workspace — supporting OpenAI (including private endpoints), Anthropic Claude, xAI, and Meta Llama — delivered as native add-ins inside Microsoft Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and the SOS practice management system so lawyers can research, draft, review, and redline without leaving their existing tools. Differentiated capabilities include Playbooks (firm-specific clause rules auto-generated from precedent and applied as tracked changes), Tabular Review (parallel extraction of hundreds of documents into structured tables with cell-level source citations), Personas (an AI memory system that retains lawyer preferences and reportedly improved accuracy 25%+ in internal testing), and Live Assist (real-time contradiction detection during depositions). The platform is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 certified, supports single-tenant deployment with AES-256 encryption, and is GDPR and CCPA compliant.

August monetizes via two subscription tiers: a self-serve Individuals plan at $250 per user per month (initially launched at $375/month, later repriced) with a 7-day free trial and no sales call, and a custom-priced Teams / enterprise tier with dedicated onboarding workshops, a Customer Success Manager, and a forward-deployed engineer. The company sells through self-serve sign-up, inside sales for mid-market, enterprise field sales for AmLaw 150 buyers (Hughes Hubbard & Reed signed after a four-month evaluation), co-development partnerships with anchor firms (Hicksons in Australia, Harrison Drury in the UK, ELP in India), and Microsoft marketplace distribution. Complementary programs — August Academy (free 100+ video tutorials) and the August AI Fellowship (with Stanford Law and Columbia) — build a top-of-funnel community of AI-literate lawyers. August raised a $7M seed round in August 2025 led by NEA and Pear VC, with participation from Afore Capital, Stanford Law School, and angel investors including Kevin Zhang of Bain Capital Ventures and executives at OpenAI and Ramp.

Name

August

Legal name

Credicle Corporation

Website

https://august.law

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

August is a configurable, model-agnostic legal AI platform that delivers native Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and SOS add-ins for research, drafting, contract review, and redlining, primarily serving boutique and midsize law firms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Practice Management Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) & Securities Law (BPAHAAAI)

Keywords

• Legal AI software
• Contract review automation
• Legal workflow platform
• Document analysis AI
• Law firm productivity tools

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Operations

Revenue model

1. Individual subscription (self-serve): Self-serve SaaS subscription priced at $250 per user per month (with a yearly discount option) for solo lawyers and small practitioners. Includes Web, Outlook and Word add-ins with full context; draft, research, review and redline; unlimited document uploads; email and chat support; AI Academy and CLE courses; access to product updates. Free 7-day trial.
2. Teams / enterprise subscription: Custom-priced subscription for entire firms. Includes everything in Individual plus centralized billing and user management, dedicated onboarding workshops and training, priority support, usage analytics and reporting, and a Solutions Attorney. Free trial available; sales-assisted onboarding.
3. Self-serve launch pricing (January 2026): Initial self-service platform price announced at launch was $375 per month or $4,000 annually per user, with a two-week free trial. Has since been repriced to $250/month on the current website. Used as acquisition/onboarding funnel into Teams and enterprise tiers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion6 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

August is a configurable, model-agnostic legal AI platform built for boutique and midsize law firms. It combines a conversational legal research and drafting assistant, firm-specific Playbooks that codify negotiation positions and apply redlines inside Microsoft Word, parallel Tabular Review of contracts and diligence files, a legal-domain AI memory layer (Personas), and native Word/Outlook/SharePoint/SOS integrations — sold primarily as per-seat SaaS subscriptions with custom enterprise pricing for large firms.

Product overview

August is a configurable legal AI platform-plus-modules architecture rather than a single product. The August Legal AI Workspace is the core platform covering the practice of law and the business of law, on top of which sit the named modules: August Assistant (conversational research and drafting), August Playbooks (firm-specific clause rules and redlining), August Tabular Review (large-scale document extraction), August Integrations (native Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and SOS connectors), August Academy (training library), and the August AI Legal Fellowship program. Platform-level features include the Personas AI memory system, Live Assist for real-time deposition support, and Clause Drafting inside Word. The offering is targeted at boutique and midsize law firms (typically 5-150 lawyers) and is delivered as a flat monthly subscription with configurable AI workflows and model-agnostic LLM support.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• August Academy: Free library of 100+ video tutorials covering legal AI workflows, available to both customers and non-customers.
• August AI Legal Fellowship

Products and services

• August Legal AI Workspace Configurable legal AI workspace covering both the practice of law and the business of law; unifies research, drafting, document review, deposition support, billing, and client communication in one system with model-agnostic AI and native Word/Outlook integration; sold as flat monthly per-seat subscription.
• August Assistant Conversational AI cockpit for legal research, analysis, and document drafting; pulls from Outlook, SharePoint, and SEC EDGAR without switching apps; generates work products (tabular reviews, playbooks, documents) directly from conversation.
• August Playbooks No-code configuration that lets firms encode negotiation starting positions, fallbacks, and hard limits from past agreements; auto-generates structured rules from uploaded precedents (e.g., MSAs) and applies them in Word with redlines and tracked changes.
• August Tabular Review Parallel processing of hundreds of legal documents into structured spreadsheets where each document becomes a row and each question becomes a column; every cell links to source text for verification and supports follow-up chat over the table.
• August Integrations Native integration layer embedding August's AI tools directly into Microsoft Word (chat with document, apply playbooks, generate tracked changes), Outlook (search, summarize threads, draft replies), SharePoint (search files, pull into Assistant context), and SOS (sync matters, contacts, case data).
• August Self-Service Platform (Individuals Tier) Self-serve SaaS subscription priced at $250 per user per month (with yearly billing discount) for solo lawyers and small practitioners; includes Web, Outlook, and Word add-ins with full context; draft, research, review and redline; unlimited document uploads; email and chat support; AI Academy and CLE courses; access to product updates.
• August Academy Free on-demand educational library of 100+ video tutorials covering legal AI fundamentals through advanced August workflows, with structured courses such as the August Certification (30 lessons across 9 modules); open to non-customers as a marketing and pipeline-building asset.
• August AI Legal Fellowship Application-based fellowship program for early-career legal professionals from partner universities (Stanford Law, Columbia) to build durable AI fluency; ~2 hours/week commitment; includes complimentary August access, completion of August Academy lessons, and engagement with founders and practitioners.

Quantifiable outcome

• 90% faster document review at Hicksons (5,000 negligence files reviewed in a fraction of the prior time)
• +7 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability8 records

Feature10 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship (anchor uk client), flagship (amlaw 150 reference customer), flagship (anchor australian client), flagship (anchor indian customer / genai pioneer), core technology partner (native add-ins), core technology partner (model provider), moderate technology partner and moderate (data source integration).

• Harrison Druryflagship (anchor uk client)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 April 2026Co-developing AI-driven workflows across legal practice and firm-wide operations (corporate transactions, commercial property, HR, marketing, finance). Harrison Drury chose August after evaluating multiple platforms and now serves as August's anchor UK client with priority access to new features and a direct product feedback channel. Staff across the firm will be trained and certified through August Academy.
• Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLPflagship (amlaw 150 reference customer)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 16 March 2026Selected August as its firmwide AI platform following a four-month evaluation. Deploys the technology across legal practice areas and core business functions including finance, billing, marketing, operations, and administration. The firm has a presence on four continents.
• Hicksons Lawyersflagship (anchor australian client)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Australian anchor customer that ran a rigorous evaluation including testing multiple vendors on identical complex files. Co-developed an end-to-end solution for processing complex legal matters; the August team works closely with Hicksons on workflow development.
• Economic Laws Practice (ELP)flagship (anchor indian customer / genai pioneer)Strategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Top-10 Indian full-service law firm pioneering GenAI for Indian law firms. Co-develops workflows across document review, regulatory analysis, drafting assistance, and litigation support with August's team.
• Microsoftcore technology partner (native add-ins)Technology or IntegrationAugust's Assistant, Clause Drafting, and Playbooks integrate natively into Microsoft Word, Outlook, and SharePoint via add-ins, preserving context across applications. The integration with Word lets lawyers chat with documents, apply playbooks, and generate tracked changes.
• OpenAIcore technology partner (model provider)Technology or IntegrationAugust integrates OpenAI models (including private OpenAI endpoints) as one of its supported language model providers; OpenAI executives are also angel investors.
• Anthropiccore technology partner (model provider)Technology or IntegrationAnthropic's Claude is one of August's supported language model providers, alongside OpenAI, xAI, and Llama.
• xAIcore technology partner (model provider)Technology or IntegrationxAI's language model is one of the model providers integrated into August's self-serve platform alongside OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Meta (Llama)core technology partner (model provider)Technology or IntegrationAugust supports Llama models alongside Anthropic and private OpenAI endpoints as part of its model-agnostic architecture.
• SOS (legal practice management)moderate technology partnerTechnology or IntegrationAugust integrates with SOS to pull matters, contacts, and case data into workflows and sync completed reviews, summaries, and outputs back to SOS.
• SEC EDGARmoderate (data source integration)Technology or IntegrationAugust's Assistant pulls from SEC EDGAR as one of its research data sources for jurisdiction-specific legal research.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• Harvey: Harvey is the leading vertical legal-AI platform for elite law firms (AmLaw 50/100), offering AI-assisted legal research, drafting and document analysis on top of frontier LLMs. It is August's closest direct competitor at the enterprise end of the market and the named benchmark on August's own comparison pages.
• Spellbook: Spellbook is an AI copilot purpose-built for contract drafting and review, used by mid-market and boutique law firms as well as in-house teams. It directly competes with August's Playbooks and Tabular Review modules for the same drafting-and-redlining workflow.
• Legora: Legora (formerly Leya) is a vertical legal-AI platform serving boutique and midsize law firms in Europe and beyond, with collaborative drafting and review features. It is directly comparable to August in target customer, pricing tier and product surface area.
• Robin AI: Robin AI provides AI-assisted contract drafting and review for law firms and in-house teams, with a Microsoft Word add-in and a focus on the SME/mid-market segment. It overlaps with August's Playbooks and Word-integration strategy.
• Luminance: Luminance is an AI contract analysis and review platform used by corporates and law firms, with strong traction in the UK and EMEA. It overlaps with August's Tabular Review and document-review capabilities, particularly for cross-border matters.

Broad incumbents

• Thomson Reuters CoCounsel: CoCounsel bundles AI document review, research and drafting into Thomson Reuters' entrenched Westlaw and Practical Law subscriptions, making it the default incumbent in many large firms. It overlaps with August across review, drafting and research, but as part of a much broader legal-information portfolio.
• Lexis+ AI (LexisNexis): Lexis+ AI integrates generative AI into the Lexis legal-research platform used by most large law firms. It is a broad incumbent alternative to August Assistant for legal research and drafting, leveraging LexisNexis' existing customer base.

Emerging players

• GC AI: GC AI is an emerging AI assistant built specifically for in-house counsel and outside-GC workflows, with drafting, research and review features. It competes with August's Assistant for the small-firm and solo-practitioner segments on the legal-AI side of the market.
• SimpleDocs: SimpleDocs is an AI contract review and drafting tool focused on speed and simplicity for smaller firms. It was benchmarked alongside August in independent legal-AI studies and targets an overlapping solo/small-firm buyer.

Regional players

• Ironclad: Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform with AI-assisted review and drafting, primarily serving US in-house legal teams rather than external law firms. It is an adjacent competitor for contract workflows that law firms using August's Playbooks also touch.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat7 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/august__law
• Facebookfacebook.com/meetaugustlaw
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/augustlegal

Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors3 records

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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