Common Counsel is a technology platform that connects individuals and small businesses with independent partner attorneys for affordable legal services. The platform combines AI-powered legal intelligence with human attorney review to deliver faster, lower-cost legal work, including demand letters, business legal architecture, and personal legal matters. Services are delivered through written channels like SMS, WhatsApp, and email, with flat-fee pricing starting at $75 per month for subscriptions.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Legal Technology
- Software Only
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Problem
Legal advice is expensive, gatekept, and difficult to access for individuals and small businesses, with 2.5 million small businesses skipping attorney help due to cost each year and 40 million Americans having unmet legal needs. Traditional law firms require in-person meetings, charge high hourly rates, and often use complex jargon that makes the process intimidating and opaque.
Solution
Common Counsel provides an admin and technology platform that pairs AI-powered legal intelligence with a network of independent partner attorneys, delivering elite legal services at significantly reduced prices. The platform handles intake, uses next-gen technology to speed up legal work, and enables attorneys to work 4x faster by starting from shared legal reasoning and insights rather than scratch. Clients communicate through written channels like SMS, WhatsApp, and email, making counsel always accessible, and the platform tracks the user's entire legal life automatically so attorneys are fully up to date on every matter. All legal advice is reviewed and signed off by licensed partner attorneys with malpractice coverage, ensuring accountability while keeping costs low through flat-fee pricing and subsidized attorney rates.
Target Audience
Primary customers are individuals and small businesses seeking affordable legal help for common issues like demand letters, corporate operations, personal legal rights, and asset management, who would otherwise skip attorney assistance due to cost or accessibility barriers.
Features
- AI-powered legal intelligence layer trained on real workflows and patterns for common legal problems, not generic automation
- Shared expertise system where all partner attorneys work on the same reasoning foundation, ensuring consistent quality and faster turnaround
- Feedback loop that improves the system with every attorney engagement, learning across jurisdictions and use cases with anonymized client data
- 24/7 written communication via SMS, WhatsApp, and email, with optional video or phone meetings on request
- Flat-fee pricing with attorney rate subsidization—if an attorney charges more than the published price, Common Counsel covers the difference
- Free demand letter generator tool and flat-fee quick legal question service through the partner attorney network
- AI-assisted features that require human review, with explicit exclusion of user content from AI model training and no solely automated decisions affecting legal services
- Subscription plans starting at $75/month, including 30-minute or 1-hour partner attorney video consults per year