Breaking Silos: How Ruli Is Redefining Collaboration Between Legal, Business, and Technology
- cosmonauts
- Oct 23
- 5 min read
Our latest interview features Ruli, a rising star among in-house legal technology providers. Ruli is an all-in-one legal intelligence platform built for modern in-house teams, and they’ll be joining us as a Start-Up Sponsor at Future Lawyer USA 2025.
In this exclusive conversation, Ruli shares what sets them apart - and how their platform bridges the gap between legal, business, and technology teams to drive alignment and measurable results. Their powerful suite of tools tackles the most time-consuming workflows through AI-driven legal assistance, bulk document analysis, AI-powered contract review, and instant legal support.
At Future Lawyer USA 2025, Ruli will exhibit across both days, showcasing their cutting-edge solutions designed to empower legal professionals. Don’t miss your chance to experience their technology firsthand and meet the team behind one of the most innovative platforms reshaping the in-house legal landscape.
Enjoy the interview and see you at Future Lawyer USA.
Legal operations are increasingly turning to AI to drive efficiency. How does Ruli’s platform transform the way legal teams manage workflows and communication?
We built Ruli to be the ultimate AI teammate for legal - not just another chatbot, but an assistant truly trained for legal work that deeply understands your company's unique knowledge, policies, and way of operating.
Think of it like hiring an exceptional junior lawyer who already knows your playbooks, precedents, and institutional knowledge from day one. Ruli integrates with your knowledge base, learns your company's policies, and handles legal work with the context and judgment that makes it genuinely useful - providing cited, reliable answers rather than generic responses.
This also extends to contract intelligence and tailored automated redline reviews, tailored to your playbooks. Including even the attorney's comment!
This matters because the reality for in-house counsel is stark: one lawyer typically supports 100+ employees. With Ruli, you have an Assistant helping you through your daily work, and an AI teammate acting as business support for your entire organization, handling routine questions, triages requests intelligently, and routes complex matters to the right person—all while working in the tools your team already uses like Word, Slack, and Teams.
Beyond efficiency, what strategic advantages can automation bring to law firms and in-house teams looking to scale their legal operations?
The real strategic advantage is leverage without headcount.
Traditional scaling forces you into a false choice: become a bottleneck or outsource to $2,000/hour firms already using AI themselves. But there's a reason companies built in-house legal teams in the first place - a general counsel who deeply understands your business, culture, and risk appetite will always provide better guidance than outside counsel working across dozens of clients.
That's why we focus exclusively on in-house teams. We built Ruli to be an AI that truly knows your company - your policies, precedents, risk tolerance, and business context—the same way a great GC does. This enables three strategic advantages:
Company-wide self-service - Business teams get fast, accurate answers grounded in your specific policies, freeing legal counsel to focus on strategic advising rather than answering the same questions repeatedly.
Institutional knowledge preservation - Your precedents and playbooks become accessible instantly. New team members tap into decades of wisdom, turning legal knowledge into a compounding asset rather than something locked in individual lawyers' heads.
Expanded legal coverage - A legal assistant that knows your company enables generalists to confidently handle specialty areas and experts to cover more ground as generalists. Legal teams can flex across the full spectrum of company needs, as other teams also increase their use of AI and compound their output.
Many lawyers’ fear automation may “dehumanize” legal work. How does Ruli’s design philosophy ensure technology empowers rather than replaces human decision-making?
Our philosophy is AI-first, human-intuitive. We designed Ruli like onboarding a junior associate - you give it policies and precedents in plain language. No complex configuration required.
Critically, Ruli doesn't make legal decisions - it handles research tasks, first draft redlines, or other administrative work like answering the same FAQs over and over. This frees lawyers for what humans uniquely bring: judgment, strategy, relationship-building, and complex high-stakes matters.
Every answer includes citations. Lawyers see exactly where information comes from and can verify it. We're providing an intelligent legal assistant that shows its work.
As one solo GC told us: "Ruli is a force multiplier. I can respond within hours on requests that previously took days to handle with outside counsel support.
Collaboration across teams and departments remains a major challenge. How does Ruli bridge the gap between legal, business, and technology teams to drive alignment and results?
The collaboration problem is structural. Business teams need fast answers but lack legal terminology. Legal teams drown in intake without visibility into business needs. Tech teams want speed but create compliance risks.
Ruli creates a shared language and transparent pipeline.
Business teams get immediate answers in Slack, Teams, and email - grounded in approved policies. They self-serve confidently with citable, current information.
Our Assistant can also translate legal advice into easy "Business Memos" or generate issues lists explaining the most critical matters for Sales, Marketing, or Tech teams to track post-deal.
Legal teams gain visibility through real-time dashboards showing question trends and knowledge gaps, transforming from reactive to strategic.
For tech and product teams, legal guidance integrates into development workflows. Legal becomes an enabler rather than a last-minute blocker.
Looking ahead, what role do you see Ruli playing in shaping the next generation of connected, AI-driven legal ecosystems?
We're building toward what I call an agentic operating system for legal - a fundamental shift from today's landscape of narrow point solutions.
Most in-house legal tech today does one thing: a CLM for contracts, a tool for sales enablement. But legal doesn't just serve one stakeholder. In-house teams support product, marketing, engineering, operations, HR, sales - the entire company. You need an assistant platform that understands all these relationships and can operate across all of them intelligently.
That's where Ruli is heading. Not just being a contract redlining or research tool, but creating an AI that can support every type of work request from internal stakeholders alongside the legal team. FAQ questions from Sales inform playbook updates. Product team inquiries surface compliance gaps. Contract patterns from sales generate risk insights that inform engineering guidelines. It's an interconnected system where context flows across the entire organization.
We're also pioneering continuous legal intelligence. Instead of static playbooks, imagine AI that surfaces regulatory changes, identifies knowledge base conflicts, and proactively suggests updates. Your legal infrastructure evolves in real-time with your business and the regulatory landscape.
More broadly, this agentic approach will fundamentally reshape legal's value proposition. When routine tasks are automated across every department, lawyers reclaim their role as strategic counselors. In-house teams gain BigLaw capabilities without the costs. Legal gets measured by strategic impact, not hours billed or tickets closed.
As a sponsor of Future Lawyer USA, what excites you most about engaging with this year’s audience, and what message are you bringing to the conversation around the future of legal practice?
What excites me most is that we're past the "whether" question and deep into the "how" question around AI in legal terms.
This audience understands AI adoption is here - and that those who are AI-enabled legal professionals will be the leaders of tomorrow. The question is how to do it thoughtfully while maintaining judgment and ethics, and ensuring technology continues to serve the roots and mission of the legal profession.
Meet Ruli and other tech innovators at Future Lawyer USA on October 29-30, reserve your spot now.
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