What Inhouse does

Inhouse (Inhouse AI, Inc.) is an AI-native legal technology platform that targets small and midsize businesses and startup founders who cannot economically retain traditional law firms for routine legal work. The platform combines a custom large language model trained on proprietary expert lawyer playbooks and decision frameworks with a verification feedback loop, in which affiliated attorneys from Inhouse Counsel P.C. and a network of more than 8,000 AI-enabled lawyers across all 50 U.S. states validate and correct AI outputs. Capability surface spans natural-language legal Q&A, generative drafting of contracts (MSAs, employment agreements, licensing agreements, founder vesting, statements of work, employee stock plans), redlining and review, compliance workflows, and a transition toward autonomous AI agents that proactively monitor contract and internet risk.

The product is delivered as a self-serve SaaS application at platform.inhouse.ai and via mobile apps, distributed through a product-led growth model with no sales interaction. Monetization is a four-tier subscription: a free Advice tier for AI-only legal Q&A, an Unlimited Documents tier at $49 per month for AI drafting and review, a Lawyer-Backed tier at $149 per month adding one hour of attorney finalization, and a Lawyer-Backed Plus tier adding five hours of attorney time. Additional out-of-scope legal work is billed separately through the affiliated law firm. The company was founded in 2025 by Ryan Wenger (CEO) and Aarshay Jain, is headquartered in Santa Monica, and closed a $5 million seed round in February 2026 led by Run Ventures with participation from Royal Street Ventures, Switch, and Brian Liu. The company reports 7M+ legal tasks handled, 100K+ active business users, 4,000+ companies as customers, and 1,500% revenue growth, though it operates with only 3 full-time engineers and is actively hiring.

Name

Inhouse

Legal name

Inhouse AI, Inc.

Website

https://inhouse.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2025

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Inhouse is an AI-native legal platform that drafts, reviews, and redlines contracts and answers legal questions for small and midsize businesses, combining a lawyer-trained language model with its affiliated law firm and a 8,000+ lawyer network across the United States.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Legal Technology Software

NAICS

Legal Services (5411), Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Responsible AI, AI Governance & Compliance Services (BPAEAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industries

Responsible AI Policy, Controls & Workflow Management (HDAAAMAG), Human Oversight, Review & Content Moderation Tooling (HDAAAMAH), Documentation & Reporting Automation (Model Cards, Datasheets, Impact Assessments) (HDAAAMAJ)

Keywords

• Legal AI software
• Contract automation
• AI legal assistant
• Legal document drafting
• Legal compliance tools

Headquarters

HQ city

Santa Monica

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Subscription SaaS: Three-tier subscription model: Free Advice tier (lead generation), Unlimited Documents at $49/mo (AI document drafting/review/redline), and Lawyer-Backed at $149/mo (adds 1 hour of lawyer time per month). Annual billing available. Auto-renewing subscriptions with monthly or yearly terms.
2. Additional Legal Services: Fees for Additional Legal Services beyond the allotted Lawyer Tasks, confirmed separately before work begins. May be flat-fee, hourly, or as otherwise agreed. Earned as work is performed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Inhouse provides an AI-powered legal platform that drafts, reviews, redlines, and edits legal documents (MSAs, employment agreements, licensing agreements, stock plans, SOWs) and answers legal questions for small to midsize businesses. The platform combines a lawyer-trained AI built on expert legal playbooks with on-demand access to licensed attorneys from its affiliated law firm (Inhouse Counsel P.C.) and a nationwide network of 8,000+ AI-enabled lawyers across all 50 U.S. states.

Product overview

Inhouse is an AI-powered legal platform for small to midsize businesses that combines a custom AI legal assistant with an affiliated law firm (Inhouse Counsel P.C.) and a marketplace of over 8,000 AI-enabled lawyers across all 50 U.S. states. The core product is the Inhouse AI Legal Assistant, which provides text-based legal question answering, document drafting, review, and redlining. Users can subscribe to tiered plans: the free Advice tier for instant AI answers, the Unlimited Documents tier ($49/mo) for AI-driven document generation, the Lawyer-Backed tier ($149/mo) adding one hour of attorney finalization per month, and Lawyer-Backed Plus for five hours of dedicated attorney time. The Inhouse Counsel module provides on-demand access to licensed attorneys from the company's affiliated law firm for document finalization, legal questions, and representation. The platform also offers Playbooks — expert-authored legal tutorials that serve as both educational content and training material for the AI. The company integrates AI agents across contract lifecycle management, compliance workflows, and proactive risk management.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Inhouse Counsel P.C. Affiliated law firm providing legal services alongside the AI platform. Attorneys are former in-house attorneys at top companies.

Products and services

• Inhouse AI Legal Assistant The core AI-powered legal assistant that provides instant answers to legal questions, drafts and reviews legal documents (MSAs, employment agreements, licensing agreements, stock plans, SOWs), and routes matters to human attorneys. Built on expert lawyer playbooks with continuous improvement through lawyer verification of AI outputs. Targets small to midsize businesses and startup founders.
• Inhouse Counsel (Attorney Access Service) On-demand access to licensed attorneys from Inhouse Counsel P.C. and a network of 8,000+ AI-enabled lawyers for finalizing documents, answering legal questions, and acting on behalf of users. Attorneys are former in-house attorneys at top companies, licensed in California, Michigan, and New York, with the broader network covering all 50 U.S. states.

Quantifiable outcome

• 7M+ legal tasks handled
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• LegalZoom: LegalZoom is the dominant direct-to-consumer legal services platform for SMBs and individuals, offering business formation, contracts, and attorney services — the closest large-scale analogue to Inhouse's SMB legal customer base.
• Clio: Clio is the leading cloud-based legal practice management platform for law firms — an adjacent incumbent whose recently launched Clio Duo AI assistant directly competes with Inhouse's AI-for-legal thesis.
• Casetext (Thomson Reuters CoCounsel): Casetext was acquired by Thomson Reuters to power CoCounsel, an AI legal assistant — a deep-pocketed broad incumbent that competes in AI legal Q&A and document review with vastly greater resources than Inhouse.

Regional players

• Smokeball: Smokeball is a legal practice management and document automation platform primarily serving U.S. small law firms — adjacent to Inhouse's SMB/contract automation pitch and increasingly bundling AI capabilities.

Direct peers

• LawGeex: LawGeex provides AI-powered contract review and automation for businesses — directly comparable to Inhouse's contract redlining and review functionality with a similar SMB/mid-market orientation.
• Rocket Lawyer: Rocket Lawyer provides online legal documents, attorney access, and compliance tools on a subscription basis to SMBs — directly competing with Inhouse on freemium contract drafting and on-demand lawyer access for small businesses.
• Spellbook: Spellbook is an AI copilot for lawyers and legal teams drafting contracts using LLMs — overlapping directly with Inhouse's AI drafting/redlining pitch, though more focused on law firm users than SMBs.

Emerging players

• Ironclad: Ironclad is a contract lifecycle management (CLM) platform with AI-powered drafting and review — directly comparable to Inhouse's contract automation thesis, though primarily targeting in-house legal teams at mid-market and enterprise companies.
• Harvey: Harvey provides AI legal assistants to elite law firms and enterprises — an emerging AI legal competitor with deep funding, focused upmarket but increasingly moving downmarket into Inhouse's SMB-adjacent customers.

Others

• Glean: Glean is an enterprise AI search and assistant platform — thematically related as a workplace AI assistant, with overlap only in the broad "AI for knowledge work" category rather than legal-specific functionality.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/inhouseai
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/inhouseai

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors4 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

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

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