DraftPilot

DraftPilot enables in-house legal teams to deliver contract mark-ups quickly and accurately, so that you get more time back in your day. 

Time that you can spend on what matters most to you.

Before DraftPilot, my co-founder Chris and I had founded Lexoo. At Lexoo, our team of lawyers negotiated thousands upon thousands of vendor contracts, NDAs and SaaS Sales contracts on behalf of our in-house legal team customers.

We have deep empathy for the fact that in-house legal teams are almost always stretched. On top of that, the business usually wants the mark-up to be delivered yesterday!

We believe that Legal AI can be a force of good. AI can free you up to spend more time on the tricky bits, the human relationships and apply the unique context that only you have. The AI can do the heavy lifting on the standard parts of every contract.

Lexoo

Lexoo is a legal tech and services provider for in-house legal teams.

Chris O'Sullivan and I founded Lexoo in 2014. We raised over $6M+ from VCs (Earlybird and Forward Partners) and sold the business to Kalexius in 2024.

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, London

I learned a lot at De Brauw. I ended up providing legal advice on a wide range of finance and M&A related matters, including cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions. 

Finance deals included a number of whole loan sales, bilateral and syndicated corporate loans, acquisition financings and debt restructurings, as well as a number of derivatives transactions. 

I learned how to draft and negotiate a lot of contracts such as loan facility agreements, shareholders agreements, cash-pool agreements, share purchase agreements and ISDA agreements. Also provided advice on intellectual property law. 
(Until August 2011 in the Amsterdam office)

Seconded to GDF SUEZ in Brussels in 2010.

Senior Associate | Lawyer

I quit my stable law firm job in 2014. It was a hard decision at the time. I wanted to see if I could build a business doing law differently…

During my law firm days I always thought that it should be possible to deliver legal services in a dramatically more efficient way. 

But it felt like the “billable hour” always prevented that. 

What gets measured, gets improved - and billable hours was always the top metric. 

For me, it’s one of the biggest reasons why law lags behind other sectors in the impact technology has made to date. To be blunt (I'm Dutch after all), the last big innovation adopted by legal teams was DocuSign, a company founded in 2003.

So, together with Chris O'Sullivan (he’s an amazing software developer), I founded Lexoo to turn things upside down. 

It hasn’t been easy - turns out I had a lot to learn! But over the years we raised a number of VC rounds, pivoted the company twice, and ultimately sold to Kalexius in 2024.

Now Chris and I are working together again to build a Legal AI company.

The world often pushes us to achieve things alone.

Growing up, we take school tests by ourselves.

We try to get into the right university by ourselves.

We apply for jobs by ourselves. 

You get the idea.

Yet, big things in life are often achieved together with others. 

Any big project has a higher likelihood of success with the right partner.

Creating a solid family unit is easier together than alone. 

Starting a business is much much easier (and more fun!) with the right co-founder.

But the opposite is also true: better to be alone than in a toxic relationship. This is just as true in your personal life as it is in business.

So you have to choose carefully, and when you find the right partner or co-founder, keep hold of them! 

In my business life, my co-founder Chris O'Sullivan and I have been working together for over 10 years now. 

We founded Lexoo together in 2014. This year we decided to keep working together and started DraftPilot. Couldn't imagine doing it as a sole founder! 

Chris lives in Nashville and I live in London, so we're used to working together remotely (have done it since 2018).

But there's nothing like working together in person whenever we can!

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