We’ve Raised $25M to Build the Future of In-House Legal

Written by Ross, Founder & CEO at Wordsmith

Today, I’m proud to share that Wordsmith has raised a $25 million Series A, led by Index Ventures. This marks a major step forward in our mission: turning lawyers into legal engineers.

I started Wordsmith because I was tired of how slow and repetitive legal work felt. I trained as a lawyer, then retrained as an engineer to fix it. Wordsmith is the company I always wished existed—one that helps legal scale its thinking across the business, not just serve it.

The Problem

To legal, the work makes sense. To everyone else? It often doesn’t.

Deals stall. Procurement waits. HR repeats the same questions. Legal becomes the bottleneck. And that bottleneck slows everything down.

This isn’t about resourcing. It’s about architecture. Legal is still operating like a service desk in a world that demands scale.

The Shift

Wordsmith changes that. Legal teams use our platform to build and deploy intelligent agents—tools that review contracts, check policies, answer questions, and help drive decisions. These agents show up directly in the business’s workflow: Slack, email, Google Docs, Word.

Sales gets to “yes” faster. Procurement knows what’s in bounds. HR stops guessing. Legal stops firefighting—and starts engineering.

Just as software engineering made logic scalable, legal engineering will do the same for legal judgment. That’s the shift we’re enabling.

Want to see it in action? Here’s how Wordsmith helps procurement and legal close faster, with tighter controls:

👉 Watch the demo – Legal x Procurement in action

What We’re Building

We’re already working with legal teams at Deliveroo, Trustpilot, Remote, and Virgin. But the real unlock happens when legal logic flows into every other team—where the requests are messy and the pace is fast.

Wordsmith helps legal teams:

• Automate contract and policy reviews

• Deliver structured legal support to every department

• Extract and apply insight from past work

• Scale legal impact without adding headcount

The result: tighter cycles, fewer blockers, and a business that moves faster—with legal embedded at the core.

What’s Next

This round gives us the firepower to:

• Expand in Edinburgh, London, New York, and across Europe

• Deepen our infrastructure and agent capabilities

• Launch the Wordsmith Legal Enablement Academy

• Grow our agent ecosystem for legal teams and the business units they support

We’re not just building features. We’re redefining the role of legal. Every lawyer should have tools that scale their judgment. Every team should have seamless access to legal thinking. We’re building the bridge.

This is just the beginning.