Vesence, an emerging AI platform transforming how law firms work, announced it has raised a $9 million seed round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Creandum, Y Combinator, and 20VC. The round also included angel investors Paul Graham, Anton Osika, and Jason Boehmig, underscoring strong early confidence in the company’s vision for precision-driven AI in legal workflows.
Vesence has built an AI agent platform that operates directly within Microsoft Word and Outlook, enabling law firms to review documents, emails, and projects before they are sent to clients. Unlike most generative AI tools designed to create new content, Vesence focuses on reviewing, suggesting improvements, and fixing issues while maintaining complete lawyer oversight and control.
The company’s core innovation lies in its deep integration with Microsoft Office. Vesence’s engineering breakthroughs allow its AI agents to function natively within Word and Outlook—capabilities so advanced that even Microsoft insiders were reportedly surprised by the technical achievement.
Vesence is positioning itself as the first platform to seamlessly integrate AI-powered document and email review into the daily workflow of legal professionals. The company’s early pilots have shown remarkable engagement, with one firm-wide rollout reaching 90% weekly active usage across partners, associates, and support teams. Pilot users have also reported significantly better results compared to Microsoft Copilot and similar productivity tools.
The idea for Vesence was born out of a conversation between the founders and a lawyer friend while demonstrating the AI coding tool Cursor. The discussion revealed a critical gap: lawyers don’t want “AI drafting” tools that produce inconsistent output, but rather agents that can rigorously check work against firm best practices, style guides, formatting requirements, and related documents. Vesence is building that rigor-first AI layer for professional services, where accuracy and compliance are non-negotiable.
With this new capital, Vesence plans to expand its AI capabilities, grow its team with talent from Google, BCG X, and MIT, and scale adoption across more law firms globally. The company’s long-term goal is to become the trusted AI co-pilot for the legal industry, empowering firms to work faster, smarter, and more confidently—without ever compromising quality or control.
