Wordsmith has raised more than £50 million to help companies to run their in-house legal teams.
The Scottish startup is reducing the reliance on outside legal counsel and is now used by more than 500 companies to organise, route and complete legal work.
Alongside recent customer wins Sage and Starling, its clients include BT, the Financial Times, Trip.com and Canva.
The Series B funding is from Highland Europe and Index Ventures, among others. The funding will be used to accelerate development of its AI platform, scale towards 300 people globally by the end of the year and double down on the US market.
Wordsmith was founded by CEO Ross McNairn, CTO Volodymyr Giginiak and COO Robbie Falkenthal. McNairn is a former lawyer turned technology executive who helped scale Perk from $1m to $200m in ARR and previously held senior roles at Skyscanner before its $1.7 billion exit.
Giginiak spent more than a decade at Facebook and Instagram and over six years at Microsoft. Falkenthal spent more than six years at KPMG Dublin and later held senior leadership roles at Perk.
“Legal does not need another filing cabinet, and it does not need another copilot that simply helps one lawyer work faster,” said Ross McNairn, CEO and co-founder of Wordsmith. “Wordsmith is the front door that does the work.
“Requests come in, AI agents process the routine, lawyers approve what needs judgment, and every step is recorded as it happens. We are building the system Legal runs on: one place where work comes in, gets owned, gets completed and measured.”
The platform is organised around four actions: Receive, Route, Resolve, and Record. Every request, whether it starts in email, Slack, Salesforce, Teams, or an informal business question, lands in one place. Each request arrives with ownership, priority, and context attached.
Wordsmith applies the legal team’s playbook and handles the routine work, while stopping and handing work to a lawyer when real risk or judgment is required. Every step is captured as it happens: what was decided, by whom, and on what basis.
Jean Tardy-Joubert, partner at Highland Europe, commented: “What is most exciting about Wordsmith is that this is a tool built for companies, rightfully involving all employees in legal affairs, in coordination with the in-house legal team.
“By taking a vertical approach, Ross and the Wordsmith team have established themselves at the forefront of the sector, with demonstrable market traction, impressive growth and more than 500 satisfied customers.”