Praxis follows law firm paperwork from first inquiry to payment

Winning a new client is only the beginning of a law firm’s administrative work. Praxis is building AI agents to carry that work through the rest of the relationship, from qualifying an inquiry and gathering documents to following up on an unpaid invoice.

The startup is targeting the handoffs that surround legal advice. Its launch describes software that screens prospective clients, supports conflict checks and prepares engagement letters for a lawyer to approve. Once a matter is underway, the system requests documents, checks what has arrived and follows up when something is missing.

That continuity is the point of the product. A missing document is not just an isolated email to answer; it can hold up the next stage of a matter. Praxis aims to keep track of those dependencies so that the firm does not have to rediscover the outstanding request every time someone opens the file.

Watch the original launch video.

Clients can see progress through a portal, while the system handles routine updates and, later, invoice reminders. In the workflow described by the founders, a lawyer still approves the engagement letter. The agents take on coordination around the matter rather than assuming responsibility for the legal advice itself.

Praxis says it is already working with law firms in the United States. Its website offers early access, and the launch does not provide a customer count, revenue figure or independently measured reduction in administrative time. The evidence so far is therefore a description of the workflow and the company’s account of deployment, rather than a published benchmark of results.

The founders have experience building software that handles customer interactions at scale. Diana Khramina says she helped grow Gorgias’s AI agent product from zero to more than 1,000 customers and $8 million in annual recurring revenue in under a year. Her background also includes McKinsey. Those figures describe her previous work, not Praxis’s current business.

Her co-founder, Maxence Guegnolle--Santi, has worked at Uber, BlaBlaCar and SightCall. His public background includes computer science studies at 42 and Stony Brook, and the founders cite experience with lawyers in his family as part of their connection to the problem. Praxis is in Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 batch.

For this kind of product, the difficult cases are likely to be the exceptions: a client sends the wrong attachment, a response changes the scope of the matter or a reminder needs to wait for a lawyer’s decision. A useful administrative system has to preserve that context as work moves from intake to an active client relationship.

Praxis’s launch presents a connected workflow rather than a single writing assistant. That gives the company a clear ambition, but also means buyers will need to judge how well it fits the steps their particular firm follows. The announcement does not establish that every practice area or every existing firm system is supported.

The final stage in the company’s proposed workflow is a paid invoice. Reaching it requires a series of smaller tasks to happen in the right order. Praxis wants its agents to keep those tasks moving while lawyers decide what work the client actually needs.