Handle legal and finance with AI
Draft contracts and stay on top of the numbers without a big spend.
2 steps to get you moving, each with a resource worth your time and more waiting underneath
Think of this as a friendly starting line, not the last word. Each step gives you the gist, then a resource worth your time from founders who've actually done it. There's always more underneath, more questions and more resources, whenever you feel like digging in.
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Legal & ContractsWhy review contracts with AI before paying a lawyer?
The gist AI reads a 20-page agreement in under a minute and flags auto-renewals, indemnities, and one-sided clauses for pennies, while a lawyer bills hundreds per hour for that same first pass. Running every contract through AI first means you walk into the lawyer conversation already knowing where the risks are, so you pay for judgment instead of reading. The pattern that works: AI-only for routine low-stakes paper, AI-plus-lawyer for anything touching equity, investors, or big money.
Are we going to pretend $750/hour law firms are business as usual in the AI age? Greg Isenberg A real founder drafts a contract with AI in 15 minutes, gets a lawyer's 'looks good', and does the math on $2,000 saved. -
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Finance & AccountingHow do founders use AI for bookkeeping, invoicing, runway and burn analysis?
The gist Founders now hand AI the boring parts of finance: reading supplier invoices from email, categorizing bank transactions, drafting collection emails for unpaid invoices, and reconciling accounts against QuickBooks, Xero or Zoho Books. They also paste in a bank statement or P&L export and ask the AI plain questions like "what's my monthly burn and how many months of runway do I have if revenue stays flat?" The rule that works: give the AI real source data and a narrow job, then review its output, it's a very fast junior bookkeeper, not a replacement for accurate books or a good accountant.
How to replace your bookkeeper with AI Dan Norris (7-time founder, East Coast Roast) A real founder documents delegating ~80% of his admin, invoice entry, daily bank reconciliation, order invoicing, to Claude, including what broke and what didn't.
