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GC AI

gc.ai

GC AI provides purpose-built artificial intelligence software for in-house lawyers and corporate legal teams.

HQSan Mateo, California, United States
Employees11-50
Funding$71.5M
Valuation$555M
24 active roles
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 4h ago
Legal TechAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries B$50M-$200M

About

GC AI builds an AI platform for in-house legal teams that supports contract drafting, document review, legal research, and legal questions. It differentiates itself by focusing on company-specific legal workflows, playbooks, stakeholders, and risk tolerances rather than offering a general-purpose legal tool.

Market

GC AI competes in legal technology and enterprise AI software, positioning itself as a dedicated AI operating platform for in-house legal departments rather than a tool for a single legal workflow. Its differentiation is the combination of multi-model RAG, document and link-based question answering, word-processor integrations, cited legal research, and reusable workflows in one in-house-focused workspace.

Target Customers

GC AI targets in-house legal teams across industries such as technology, finance, manufacturing, electronics, apparel, and retail. Its users range from solo general counsel to enterprise legal departments, making the primary buyers general counsel, legal operations leaders, and in-house lawyers.

At a Glance

Problem

In-house legal teams are expected to support commercial growth while handling a broad, repetitive workload spanning contract review, drafting, employment, privacy, compliance, and business enablement. Slow legal turnaround can delay sales and product launches, while overreliance on outside counsel raises costs. GC AI’s customer research reports an average saving of 14 hours per lawyer per week and a 14% reduction in outside-counsel spend, while the company says customers have collectively saved an estimated 600,000 hours. The clearest killer use case is commercial-contract work: quickly identifying red flags, obligations, and compliance issues, then producing usable reviews or drafts.

Product / Service

GC AI is an AI platform delivered to in-house legal teams. It converts plain-language requests into more sophisticated legal prompts, drafts contracts, reviews uploaded documents, and researches legal issues using authoritative sources, including more than 13 million U.S. court opinions. Its workflow includes multi-model retrieval-augmented generation, character-level clickable citations, commercial-contract agents in Microsoft Word, reusable skills and playbooks, and integrations with more than 20 work applications. The intended benefit is faster, more traceable legal work without sacrificing confidentiality: GC AI says customer data is not used for commercial model training.

Market

GC AI competes in legal AI and vertical legal-tech software, with a specific focus on the in-house-counsel segment. Its own market materials identify LegalOn as a leading in-house-first platform alongside GC AI, while its comparison content positions Harvey, Spellbook, CoCounsel, and Legora as alternatives or adjacent competitors. The company differentiates around in-house workflows rather than law-firm-centered work, particularly commercial contracts and day-to-day Word-based legal operations.

GC AI is operating commercially rather than being pre-revenue. By July 2026, the company reported more than 1,900 in-house legal teams across 53 countries, including more than 200 public companies and 25 unicorns. It previously announced a $60 million Series B after reaching 1,000 customers, a 70 NPS, 1.75 million prompts, and more than $10 million in ARR; it also reported 23% month-over-month revenue growth during 2025.

Founders & Leadership

Cecilia ZinitiFounder
Co-Founder & CEO
Bardia PourvakilFounder
Co-Founder & CTO

Funding History

2024-06
Seed$1.5M

Not publicly disclosed

2025-05
Series AUndisclosed

Not publicly disclosed

2025-11
Series B$60M

Scale Venture Partners, Northzone

Recent News

2026-07-30product
GC AI Launch Week: API is now live

GC AI announced that its API is now live, expanding access to its legal AI capabilities for integration into other workflows and products.

2026-05-01
Rewriting the Rules: Cecilia Ziniti and the Future of Legal Work

Engage published an interview or profile covering GC AI CEO Cecilia Ziniti and her perspective on how AI is reshaping legal work.

2026-04-15
GC AI powers legal workflows for 1,500 companies, saving lawyers 14 hours a week with Claude

Claude featured GC AI as a customer using Claude to support legal workflows. The customer story reports that GC AI serves 1,500 companies and helps save lawyers 14 hours per week.

2026-03-24
The most innovative artificial intelligence companies of 2026

Fast Company included GC AI among its most innovative artificial intelligence companies of 2026, providing external recognition of the company's legal AI platform.

2026-03-10
Inc. Names GC AI CEO Cecilia Ziniti to Its 2026 Female Founders 500 List

Inc. named GC AI CEO Cecilia Ziniti to its 2026 Female Founders 500 list, recognizing her leadership and entrepreneurship.

2025-11-12funding
GC AI Raises $60 Million Series B to Give Every Company a Legal Advantage

GC AI announced a $60 million Series B led by Scale Venture Partners and Northzone, with participation from existing and strategic investors. The round valued the company at $555 million and brought total funding to $73 million.

Active Roles

24
San Mateo, California/HR & Recruiting/7d ago
San Mateo, California/Product/10d ago
Remote - United States/Finance/10d ago
San Mateo, California/Product/21d ago
Strategic Account ExecutiveRemote$250k – $300k
Remote - United States/Sales/33d ago
Solutions Attorney$150k – $240k
San Mateo, California/Legal/33d ago
San Mateo, California/Solutions Engineer/33d ago
San Mateo, California/Legal/33d ago
Provo, Utah/Sales/33d ago
R&D AttorneyRemote$150k – $240k
Remote - United States/Legal/33d ago
San Mateo, California/Engineering/33d ago
Remote - United States/Design/33d ago
Remote - United States/Engineering/33d ago
San Mateo, California/Engineering/33d ago
San Mateo, California/Engineering/33d ago
Remote - United States/Forward-Deployed Engineer/33d ago
Remote - United States/Engineering/33d ago
San Mateo, California/Engineering/33d ago
Head of Pre-Sales & SolutionsRemote$250k – $285k
Remote - United States/Sales Engineer/33d ago
Head of EMEA, GTM200k – 250k
EMEA/Sales/33d ago

Business Model

GC AI sells subscription access to its legal AI platform, with individual plans starting at $500 per month and monthly or annual billing. Its sales model also includes demos, trials, procurement, and account executives serving legal teams and larger customers.

Products

AI workspace for in-house legal teamsLegal document drafting, review, and analysisContract redlining and editing through word-processing integrationsLegal research with cited source materialReusable skills and workflows for agreements and policies

Customers

News CorpNextdoorSkimsZscalerLiquid DeathVercelTIME Inc.Arc'teryxWebflowBass Pro ShopsHitachi

Tech Stack

Multi-model retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)Word-processing integrations for contract redlining and editingLegal-source retrieval with exact-quote citationsReusable AI skills/workflow library

Competitors

Harvey
Spellbook
LinkSquares

Key Investors

Northzone Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, Aglaé Ventures, News Corp