3000 Customers, One Bold Pivot: Building the First Generative AI Copilot for Lawyers | Scott Stevenson, CEO of Spellbook

Scott Stevenson is the cofounder and CEO of Spellbook. They launched the first generative AI copilot for lawyers. It"s used by more than 3,000 law firms and are growing really fast. They most recently raised $20M Series A from investors such as Inovia, Bling, and Moxxie.  Scott"s favorite book: Zero to One (Author: Peter Thiel) (00:01) Introduction (00:06) The basics of legal AI and its applications (02:57) How lawyers use AI for contract review and drafting (03:22) Inspiration from GitHub Copilot and AI’s role in legal work (04:19) AI in litigation vs. transactional legal work (06:37) Why AI adoption in legal work accelerated (07:07) The launch story of Spellbook (07:45) Finding the right problem to solve in legal tech (10:11) How GitHub Copilot influenced Spellbook’s early direction (11:42) Spellbook’s first prototype and early traction (13:11) The moment Spellbook realized it had product-market fit (14:31) Measuring actual product usage and customer adoption (15:27) Early learnings from new customers (17:59) Growth experiments: what worked and what failed (20:48) Discovering unexpected customer segments (22:50) Company building philosophy and structuring Spellbook (26:18) Avoiding over-optimization for structure in startups (30:21) How to decide what to ship in a startup (32:21) Pattern-matching vs. narrative reasoning in product development (35:39) Lessons from AI contract review and LLM usage (36:14) Rapid-fire round