BriefCatch did not wake up one morning and decide to chase AI. It did what the legal profession actually respects, earning authority the hard way. Years in the trenches. Sentences sharpened until they could stand in front of a federal judge without flinching. That discipline shows up everywhere now, including a $6M Series A that feels less like a surprise and more like a receipt.
Founded in 2018 by Ross Guberman, BriefCatch grew out of decades spent teaching lawyers and judges how to write with clarity and force. Yale. University of Chicago Law School. Big Law. Federal judicial training. Bestselling books. Tens of thousands of attorneys later, the product lives exactly where lawyers live, inside Microsoft Word, catching weak prose, bloated sentences, fuzzy logic, and citations that quietly embarrass firms long before opposing counsel does.
On December 22, 2025, Full In led the Series A. Elodie Dupuy backed a company that stayed profitable before VC ever showed up. The numbers speak with lawyerly precision. 99% customer retention. 100% gross retention across law firms and courts. 126% net revenue retention. 45+ AmLaw 200 firms. 80+ federal and state judicial chambers. This is software that sticks because leaving would slow you down, not because contracts say so.
BriefCatch 4 tightened the screws. AI-powered Bluebook citation compliance that sweats the details lawyers hate losing time on. 11,000+ legal specific writing suggestions grounded in real judicial prose, not internet sludge. BriefChat trained exclusively on Ross Guberman’s body of work. Real-time editing. Express editing. Built to assist, not hallucinate, and to respect the lawyer who still signs their name at the bottom of the page.
The leadership bench reflects the same bias toward earned credibility. Jim Brock scaling operations with a product and growth lens forged in real software battles. Lydia Flocchini bringing decades of legal tech go to market experience. Darren Schleicher driving adoption inside firms that do not buy hype. Kyle Bahr focused on AI that behaves itself. This is a team designed to grow without forgetting why clients trusted them first.
What makes this moment matter is not just capital. Law firms are digitizing faster than their comfort levels, chasing efficiency while fearing mistakes that travel faster than apologies. BriefCatch sits inside that tension, acting as a check, a balance, and sometimes a quiet tap saying tighten that sentence before a judge does.
Full In did not invest in a pitch. They invested in proof. BriefCatch is catching more than typos. It is catching the future of legal writing as the profession learns that speed without precision is just noise, and the sharpest advantage is still saying exactly what you mean, every time.
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