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Erinys

We help lawyers start and scale AI-native law firms.

Erinys provides the technology, intake, back office, and client acquisition needed to launch and scale an AI-native law firm. Lawyers own their firms and make every legal decision; Erinys handles everything around them.
Active Founders
Sasha Zyuzin
Sasha Zyuzin
Founder/CEO
Founder at Erinys (YC S26). Presented vulnerability discovery research at Black Hat USA 2025 and spoke at the SANS OSINT Summit 2025. Undergraduate researcher at UMD working across IPv6 botnet detection, malware analysis, and hardware security. Previously taught an OSINT course at UMD and led the university's 1800+ member cybersecurity club.
Jason Guo
Jason Guo
Founder
Founder at Erinys (YC S26). Has experience in very diverse parts of the tech stack, from industrial PLCs to kernel exploitation. In-progress computer engineering degree in the University of Maryland.
Matthew Pallan
Matthew Pallan
Founder/CTO
Founder at Erinys (YC S26). Before Erinys, Matthew led greenfield development at multiple organizations, directing engineering across several product groups. He's a deep technical builder across domains, having engineered sub-290ns trading systems for HFT firms and worked in cybersecurity spanning exploitation and security systems. He scored a perfect 180 on the LSAT and studied Computer Science and Real Estate at the University of Maryland.
Company Launches
Erinys - Building the first network of AI-native law firms
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TL;DR: Erinys is building a network of AI-native law firms. Lawyers bring their expertise, judgment, and client relationships. We provide the technology and business infrastructure that lets them launch a new practice or transform an existing one.

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The problem
Lawyers spend surprisingly little of their time doing work that requires their unique expertise.

Running a practice means finding clients, managing intake, hiring staff, handling billing, overseeing marketing, and keeping the business moving. Small firms burn lawyer hours on it; large firms hire entire teams to manage this. Either way, it kills time or margins.

The legal work itself is still built around lawyers producing everything. Lawyers spend hours turning raw information into research, analysis, and first drafts, even as AI becomes capable of producing much of that work. Existing legal software makes individual tasks faster, but leaves the underlying model unchanged.

We think that model should flip. AI should produce the first pass. Lawyers should direct, review, decide, and advocate.

How we solve it
Erinys provides the infrastructure for lawyers to operate this way from the ground up.

For lawyers starting a practice, we help launch it. For lawyers with an existing practice, we help transition it onto the same model.

Our systems run the business behind the practice while AI assists with fact development, legal research, analysis, and drafting under attorney supervision.

The result is a firm where lawyers spend more time exercising judgment and serving clients, and less time producing routine work or managing the day-to-day mechanics.

One exceptional lawyer can operate with the capabilities that previously required a much larger organization.

Why us
Most legal AI is being built to make the traditional law firm more efficient. We are building the infrastructure for a different kind of law firm, AI-native at its foundation.

Before Erinys, our founding team worked in offensive security, another high-stakes, sensitive, and deeply adversarial environment. We are bringing that security-first mindset to an industry entrusted with its clients’ most sensitive information.

Our Ask

We’re looking for exceptional lawyers.

If you want to start your own practice, or already have one and want to make it AI-native, we want to talk.

Email us at founders@erinys.ai or visit erinys.ai

Erinys
Founded:2026
Batch:Summer 2026
Team Size:3
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Diana Hu