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Robin AI

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Robin AI provides AI-powered contract software that helps legal teams review, draft, search, and automate contracts.

HQLondon, England, United Kingdom
Employees51-200
Funding$70.9M
Valuation$1.5B
Revenue$30.8M
Profile 6mo agoJobs checked 22h ago
Legal TechAI ApplicationB2B SaaSSeries A$50M-$200M

About

Robin AI builds AI-powered contract software for legal teams and global business leaders, supporting contract review, drafting, search, and workflow automation. Its differentiation is a hybrid model combining legal AI with legal professionals, engineers, and educators to accelerate legal work.

Market

Robin competes in legal AI and contract intelligence/automation, helping in-house legal teams understand, review, search, and act on contract data. It differentiates through a combination of AI-powered contract review, rapid clause search, a broader Legal Intelligence Platform, and support from legal professionals, engineers, and educators rather than offering only a standalone review or contract-lifecycle tool.

Target Customers

Robin AI primarily targets in-house legal departments and legal operations teams at businesses, especially enterprises that need to process, review, search, and manage large volumes of contracts. Its buyer profile is legal leaders seeking faster contract workflows and scalable legal operations.

At a Glance

Problem

Robin AI addresses the time and labor involved in legal contract work. Legal teams must review agreements, process large volumes of contractual language, and locate specific clauses quickly; the company’s claimed performance metrics—80% faster contract review and three-second clause search—indicate that reducing this bottleneck is the core economic value proposition. The main use case is accelerating contract review and retrieval of relevant language, particularly for in-house legal departments handling recurring contract workflows.

Product / Service

Robin AI provides AI-powered contract software for legal teams, delivered through a SaaS model to in-house legal departments and law firms. Its tools support contract review, clause searching, and legal-document workflows, with the product historically centered on a Microsoft Word add-in that works within lawyers’ existing drafting and review environment.

The benefit is faster review and easier access to contractual information without requiring lawyers to search manually through every document. Robin AI positions the product as making contracts simpler for legal teams, while its Word-based workflow and SaaS delivery model make it suitable for organizations that need repeatable contract-processing support rather than a one-off document-analysis tool.

Market

Robin AI competes in legal artificial intelligence and contract-management software, serving legal departments and law firms. Its competitive set includes Harvey, Spellbook, Sirion, Agiloft, Clio, Ironclad, Icertis, Luminance, and other legal-tech platforms; the market spans focused contract review tools as well as broader legal-service and contract-lifecycle products.

The available evidence shows product traction in the form of quantified performance claims—80% faster contract review and three-second clause search—but does not provide revenue, customer-count, or funding figures. It therefore cannot establish whether Robin AI is pre-revenue; the clearest supported signal is that it has a commercial SaaS product targeted at professional legal users and has been identified by market directories and competitor analyses as an established London-based legal-AI company founded in 2019.

Founders & Leadership

Richard RobinsonFounder
CEO & Founder, Robin AI
James CloughFounder
VP of Engineering, Encord; former CTO and Co-Founder of Robin AI
Allan WaltersChief Revenue Officer
Bassel NamihVice President, Product
Travis SchmeisserVP of Design

Funding History

2020-05
Pre-Seed$430K
2021-07
Seed£1.8M

SoftBank, Tom Blomfield

2021-12
Seed$3.3M
2023-02
Series A$10.5M

Plural

2024-01
Series B$26M

Temasek

2024-11
Additional customer-led financing, announced November 2024$25M

Robin AI customers and existing investors, PayPal Ventures, University of Cambridge

Recent News

2026-05-12
Robin AI acquired by Microsoft

PitchBook reported that Robin AI was acquired by Microsoft on 2026-03-26. The transaction followed reports that Microsoft planned to acqui-hire Robin AI’s technology team.

2026-01-09
Microsoft 'To Acqui-Hire Robin AI Tech Team'

Artificial Lawyer reported that Microsoft was expected to acqui-hire Robin AI’s technology team, following Robin AI’s financial difficulties and strategic sale process.

2025-12-16
Scissero buys managed services team of rival Robin AI

Scissero acquired Robin AI’s managed services team. The deal was positioned as a way for the London-based legal business to expand its international operations and human-in-the-loop AI services.

2025-12-11
Why AI-Forward Law Firm Scissero Bought Robin AI's Managed Services Team

Legaltech News covered Scissero’s acquisition of Robin AI’s managed services team, emphasizing Scissero’s plan to scale human-in-the-loop AI tools and workflows.

2025-11-07funding
Robin AI faces financial difficulty after funding round falls through

Coverage reported that Robin AI encountered financial difficulty after a major funding round fell through and subsequently made headcount reductions. The company was also subject to an HMRC winding-up process, according to the report snippet.

2025-11-04
Is the Collapse of Robin.AI a One-Off or a Sign of a Legal Tech AI Bubble?

GeekLawBlog reported that Robin AI had missed its funding round, cut approximately one-third of its staff, and been placed on a distressed-sale marketplace.

2025-10-27
Robin AI Lays Off Staff as Growth Disappoints

Artificial Lawyer reported that Robin AI’s expected rapid revenue expansion had stalled during 2025. The coverage also referenced the company’s prior revenue growth and continuing funding pressure.

2025-10-05product
Use Case: Using AI to accelerate M&A Due Diligence

Robin AI published a use case describing how AI-powered contract review and risk identification can accelerate M&A due diligence.

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Business Model

Robin AI sells AI-powered contract software through a tiered B2B model, with a free entry tier and enterprise pricing available by direct quote. Its services cover contract drafting, review, AI insights, analysis, search, and playbook automation for legal teams.

Products

Robin Legal Intelligence PlatformAI-powered contract review and editingLegal Library with conversational AI for precedent and contract queriesRobin Legal AI Assistant for Microsoft Word

Customers

UBSGEPfizerAbbVieKPMGPwCBlue OriginPepsiCoPayPal VenturesUniversity of Cambridge

Tech Stack

Large language models, including Anthropic Claude 3 and Claude 3.5 SonnetAmazon BedrockGenerative AI for contract analysis and editingMicrosoft Word add-in integration

Competitors

Luminance
LawGeex
Casetext
LegalSifter
Juro
Ironclad

Key Investors

Temasek, Google, Episode 1, Plural, Forward Partners