Advocacy
Category: AI in Legal
AI-native, context-first litigation workspace that provides a centralized case memory layer for litigation teams. Advocacy was founded in 2024. The company is led by Téo Doremus. Based in San Francisco, California, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $3.5M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include Relentless (lead), Relativity (Rel Labs), Fenwick & West LLP, legal scholars from T14 law schools, consortium of Big Law and litigation boutique partners.
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $3.5M
Value proposition
Advocacy unifies the fragmented tools used in litigation (e-discovery, legal research, drafting) into a single context-driven AI platform with a persistent "case memory" that captures, orchestrates, and applies matter-critical intelligence across research, drafting, evidence analysis, and strategy.
Products and solutions
Associate (conversational AI assistant with full case memory), AI Editor (Microsoft Word-native drafting environment with contextual case awareness), Extract (structured data extraction from documents at scale), Version 2.0 extended case memory across all surfaces including raw audio/video evidence ingestion
Unique value
The only context-first AI litigation workspace that carries case facts and memory from complaint through trial, differentiating from generic legal AI tools by providing a persistent, matter-wide intelligence layer that understands the entire case before doing any task.
Target customer
Litigation teams at Am Law 100/200 firms, litigation boutiques, plaintiff and defense firms, and mid-sized law firms handling high-stakes cases.
Industries served
Legal (litigation practice)
Technology advantage
Proprietary "case memory" architecture that tracks an evolving web of intelligence across parties, claims, timelines, procedural history, evidentiary rulings, strategy notes, and work product. Memory layer spans all product surfaces. Founded by litigators + engineers from Meta, Dropbox, and PayPal.
How they differentiate
Unlike CoCounsel (generalist legal AI assistant), Everlaw (ediscovery-focused), and DISCO (ediscovery + AI), Advocacy is purpose-built for litigation with a context-first memory layer that persists across the entire case lifecycle. Competitors are point solutions or generic AI tools; Advocacy is a unified litigation workspace where case intelligence compounds rather than living in silos.
Main competitors
CoCounsel (Thomson Reuters, formerly Casetext), Everlaw, DISCO
Key partnerships
Relativity (via Rel Labs innovation arm), Fenwick & West LLP (Am Law 100 firm)
Major milestones
2024: Company founded, 2025 (Dec): Version 1.0 and 2.0 released, Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards finalist (Litigation Technology), 2026 (Mar): Emerged from stealth with $3.5M seed funding led by Relentless
Growth metrics
Deployed with paying clients and running active pilots with top-tier firms as of March 2026. Version 2.0 released December 2025.
Market positioning
Premium, purpose-built AI litigation workspace for elite litigation teams. Positions against generic legal AI by emphasizing context accuracy and memory persistence. Named a finalist for Legalweek Leaders in Tech Law Awards (Litigation Technology category).
Geographic focus
United States (San Francisco-based, targeting Am Law firms nationally)
About Téo Doremus
Ex-Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP (M&A litigation associate); UC Berkeley School of Law (JD); Paris XI University. Former securities litigator who practiced in China before founding Advocacy.
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Official website: https://www.advocacy.ai