Why Sandstone picked in-house law over Harvey's billion-dollar bet

sandstone raised $30m in a series a led by lightspeed to differentiate its ai platform for in-house legal teams, moving away from the crowded private practice sector. the platform focuses on workflow automation, routing requests from channels like slack and jira to generate custom workflows for drafting and review. this strategy aims to serve a market underserved by general ai, countering recent expansions from frontier labs like anthropic's claude for legal. the round, which follows a $10m seed in january, highlights a shift toward vertical-specific ai solutions requiring granular workflow understanding.