Pincites

Today, we announced the acquisition of Pincites. Pincites will become Filevine’s LOIS for Word, bringing AI-powered drafting and redlining directly into Microsoft Word as part of Filevine’s Legal Operating Intelligence System. Trusted by enterprise teams at companies like Redis, Glean, and Vercel, the entire Pincites team is joining Filevine to build the next generation of AI-driven legal workflows. This marks another step toward a unified, secure platform where contracts, matters, and workflows live in one connected system. Read the full announcement: https://lnkd.in/gg_-Saf9 #LOIS #LOISforWord #Filevine #Pincites #LegalAI #TechAcquisition

Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered contract drafting and redlining tool built natively for Microsoft Word, as the legal software company expands its AI-Powered Legal Operating Intelligence System (LOIS) into document creation and negotiation workflows. Ryan Anderson, CEO, Filevine, said, “We got to know Pincites because we were early customers and quickly expanded our contract. After getting to know Sona and Mariam, it became clear why the product is so good: they are special founders with exacting standards for quality, beauty, and engineering rigour. I’m thrilled to build the world’s best AI drafting experience side by side with them. Sona Sulakian, Co-founder, Pincites, said, “After meeting Filevine’s leadership team and seeing the strength of their technology and customer base, we knew there was no close second… Filevine has the ambition, infrastructure, and vision to redefine how legal work gets done. Joining forces was an easy decision.” https://lnkd.in/e-qVHXDD #LegalTechTalk #LegalTech #LegalAI #Legal #Law

We can confirm recent reporting that Filevine has acquired Pincites. We’re excited to welcome the Pincites team and continue our investment in AI that supports modern legal teams with a system of record and intelligence grounded in truth. We’ll be sharing more in the new year!

It’s official: Pincites is joining Filevine! 💙 Today marks a pivotal moment in our journey toward an AI-native future for legal work. I couldn't be more excited about what this means for legal teams everywhere. We started Pincites after seeing a clear gap in the market. AI promises to transform legal work, but most solutions simply layer AI onto existing workflows, creating more fragmentation. Filevine is taking a fundamentally different approach. They've built the operating system legal teams actually run on. With Pincites, contract intelligence becomes part of that core workflow, directly in Word, where lawyers already work. ✨ Together, we'll build the AI-native legal suite of choice ✨ We'll invest even more deeply in AI, reimagine how teams collaborate and negotiate, and build AI agents that unlock a whole new way of working. Thank you to my co-founder Mariam for living this adventure with me, and to every customer, investor, Y Combinator community, and teammate, past and present. Pincites exists because of you. This journey has only been the start. Our strongest work is still ahead. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gjKNaSdt

Exclusive: Legal technology company Filevine has acquired Pincites, an AI-powered contract redlining company, in a deal that moves the company further into corporate and transactional law, complementing its strong presence in litigation, and that furthers its AI strategy. The deal marks Filevine’s second major AI acquisition of 2025, following its April acquisition of Parrot, a platform for transcribing, scheduling and managing depositions, and its fourth acquisition ever. The deal also strengthens Filevine’s stated strategy to become an AI-first operating system, by building, acquiring and evolving AI technologies. Although the companies have not yet formally announced the acquisition, sources within Filevine tell me that the all-cash deal closed last Thursday, Dec. 18. I have more exclusive details at the link below.

𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗔𝗜 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲. We’ve been buying new tools for decades, but real transformation in legal rarely follows the rollout. In “The Dysfunctional Legal Tech Cycle”, Stephanie Corey and Sona Sulakian argue that the problem isn’t the technology — it’s how (and how little) we change around it. The cycle looks familiar: 👉 New software is bought 👉 It launches with buzz 👉 Adoption fizzles 👉 Workflows and habits stay the same 👉 And teams wonder why nothing changed AI isn’t a silver bullet — but it’s the first tech wave that exposes these gaps instead of hiding them. To really break the pattern, legal teams must pair tools with intentional change management, clear ownership, and ongoing enablement, not just button-clicking. Key takeaways for legal leaders: • Tools fail when workflows and expectations aren’t understood first • AI surfaces dysfunction faster than legacy tech ever did • Real value comes from pairing tech with culture, training, and feedback loops If you’re tired of the “same old legal tech story,” this piece is worth a read. 👉 Read it here: https://lnkd.in/eAGmerp3 #LegalTech #EnterpriseLegal #AIinLaw #ChangeManagement #LegalInnovation #FutureOfLaw

For anyone who’s lived through a few “this will finally fix it” legal tech cycles, this will sound familiar. 🙄 Recently, in Legaltech Hub, Sona Sulakian from Pincites and I published this article: “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙮𝙨𝙛𝙪𝙣𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝 𝘾𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚: 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙇𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙡 𝙏𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙨 𝙆𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙁𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝘼𝙄 𝙒𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙣.” The short version: most legal tech failures aren’t due to weak software. It fails because it lands in environments that aren’t ready to absorb it. Undefined workflows. Inconsistent data. No clear ownership. We’ve been repeating that pattern for more than two decades. What makes this AI moment different is not that the tools are smarter. It’s that they’re usable earlier. Lawyers can experiment, see value, and surface friction without a multi-year implementation. That immediacy changes the conversation from “Did we deploy it?” to “What’s actually broken underneath?” In the article, we share examples from CLM, AI pilots, and teams who shifted from tool-first thinking to operational readiness and why Legal Ops is increasingly central to making any of this stick. If you’re evaluating AI (or recovering from your last tech rollout), this piece is for you. Appreciate the collaboration with Sona and Pincites, and thanks to Legaltech Hub for the platform. Curious what resonated and/or where this mirrors what you’re seeing in your own department. Ready for a readiness evaluation? Talk to me and the Advisory Team at UpLevel Ops. Start the conversation here: UpLevelOps.com/contact #AIinLegal #legaltech UpLevel Ops 📖 Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gtkbD28m

Excited to share a piece I co-authored with the amazing Stephanie Corey of UpLevel Ops for Legaltech Hub! We keep asking why legal tech fails, and most of the time it isn’t the tech. It’s that we expect tools to work before teams have real operational clarity. Most software assumes the system already exists. AI changes that. It can create value while the foundation is still being built. At the same time, it surfaces gaps and dysfunction faster than anything else we’ve seen. The teams getting real results are 1/ Reinforcing skills with ongoing training and refreshers 2/ Setting clear ownership of workflows and deliverables 3/ Building feedback loops between users and the system 4/ Treating adoption as change management, not onboarding In our latest piece for LTH Insights, Stephanie and I dig into why this cycle keeps repeating and why AI might finally be the thing that breaks it. https://lnkd.in/gwQ6EB6r