It was July 4, 2022. My co-founder Gabe and I were in our San Francisco apartment, still living on a mattress on the floor, when we dialed into a video call with the entire C-suite of OpenAI. We had cold-emailed them two weeks earlier with nothing but a rough demo and an audacious 86% accuracy claim on a Reddit legal advice test. They didn’t laugh us off the line. Instead, Sam Altman and his team agreed to meet on a national holiday. That moment felt like a strange, quiet inflection point—the legal industry was about to shift, and we had somehow secured a front-row seat to the future of the legal AI operating system reshaping the industry.

Two years later, that casual July Fourth call had evolved into a fundamental transformation of how legal work gets done. By early 2025, Harvey had surpassed $50 million in annual recurring revenue, expanded to 235 customers across 42 countries, and locked in the majority of the top 10 U.S. law firms as clients. Today, over 100,000 lawyers across more than 1,000 organizations globally run their most critical work through our platform. We didn’t just build another legal tech tool; we built the underlying operating system for how AI and law will coexist.

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