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On Building Git for Lawyers

Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?

While it is technically possible for lawyers to draft in a git-compatible markdown language, the legal industry departing from the docx standard is about as likely as web browsers discontinuing support for JavaScript. They would work fine in demos with simple test documents, but as soon as an actual lawyer attempted to compare a 500+ page prospectus with complex tables, custom formatting, and embedded images, they would fail. We now have a differentiated product that users love and sell to top legal teams like those of Dentons, Addleshaw Goddard, Mishcon de Reya, Barings, and Pantera Capital.

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