Rutvik Rau

A few months ago, engineers reviewed every PR our agents produced and 80% required more work. Today, engineers only review code for 20% of tasks our agents generate. Only 10% of those require actual changes. We realized that great engineers now no longer build the product, they build the system that builds the product. That’s a much harder but more leveraged problem to be solving. And it freed up the rest of our team ti also ship code. Every non technical person is expected to ship and make changes.

@ShashiTharoor Check out @august__law We work with leading law firms and chambers across India and globally providing legal AI

Singapore's AI-powered legal research platform, #Lawnet, is a game-changer. Its Gen AI features allow legal professionals to conduct research more efficiently by asking questions in natural language and getting instant, sourced answers from case law and legislation. With over 5 crore cases pending, India's legal system is in urgent need of innovation. The Indian government, judiciary, and legal community must explore the possibility of a similar AI-driven platform. This could be a powerful tool to significantly reduce judicial pendency and the inordinate delays that plague our justice system. #India #JudicialReforms #Law #AIForGood #DigitalIndia

When we first started building @spurtest_ , the office was just a couple of laptops a kitchen table. A lot of late nights, duct-taped code, and a vision we were not sure anyone else would see. Fast forward to last week, standing in our new space in New York, and it hit me how far we have come. The room was buzzing with energy, with teammates swapping stories, customers sharing feedback, and friends cheering us on. It felt like the product and the people behind it had all grown together. What excites me most is that this new office is not just more square footage. It is a sign of what is ahead: bigger problems to solve, more experiments to run, and more opportunities to build something that really matters. I am grateful to everyone who has believed in us from the start, and even more excited about what we will create next. Here is to the journey forward 💙.

@twbueler @domlee590 is the guy she tells you not to worry about

We now spend $500 per day on AI for every engineer. With 3 engineers, we’ve scaled to law firms on 4 continents. With 10 engineers, we believe we can scale to $1B. Every engineer on our team uses Cursor, Claude Code, Cognition, and Spur, running agents in the background all of the time. It’s like having 10 versions of yourself working in parallel. The game is trusting the right one and shutting down the rest. We are looking for people who spend more time managing agents than typing code know when to pivot know which critical parts outweigh everything else featuring @domlee590 Help us build the future of law. @august__law

@twbueler @domlee590 is the guy she tells you not to worry about

@dhaber Great post, context brings defensibility by providing the best experience and integrations along with tech for the customer. In another world, the “domain expert” would have been said customer ;)

In the past, many vertical software companies were started by domain experts who added technical capacity later. Now it’s the inverse. AI-native startups are led by technical founders who hire for context early. AI delivers differentiation. Context drives defensibility.

🎉 Congratulations, @august__law --$7M to Deliver High-Impact Configurable Legal AI to Midsize Firms! NEA’s @lucktm, @annbordetsky, @MaanasiGarg and @jamesekaplan discuss why we believe the legal industry is primed for AI disruption, and why we believe @RauRutvik, @twbueler, and Joseph Parker are building the platform to reshape mid-market law. nea.com/blog/august-hi…

Congrats to @august__law on their launch today! August is purpose-built for the unique needs of midsize law, offering modular agents and configurable AI workflows that seamlessly adapt to each firm’s day-to-day operations It’s super agency for legal AI Excited to partner this insightful, high velocity team @RauRutvik @twbueler Joseph et al 🔗⬇️

@balajis Great idea, take this a step further and make your lawyers use AI built for legal work with Vecflow (vecflow.ai)

LAWYERS AS VERIFIERS Use lawyers as AI verifiers. Here’s how. (1) First, tell the AI that it’s the named partner of the most capable law firm in your city, with expertise not just in corporate law, but tech startups, compliance, accounting, and the like. (2) Then, draft a memo to the AI describing your business goals in full. (3) Conclude by asking a list of specific questions. Make sure to add the catch-all question of “is there anything I may have overlooked.” Ask to include citations to specific sections of legal code, caselaw, or sample documents like SAFEs. (4) Next, run that prompt against several AIs (ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini, Perplexity) and assemble answers in a spreadsheet. Questions are rows, answers from each AI are in columns. (5) Now you have a survey of the space. Note in particular any new concepts or terms you’re unfamiliar with. You might rewrite the memo and resubmit it based on these initial answers. (6) Once you’re done, you have a draft game plan with citations. Next, ask each AI what legal docs you need, and put together first drafts of them individually with AI. These will have errors, but you will get the gist of what the final product looks like. (7) At this point you have the basic lay of the land. You can now go to each lawyer with the same memo you shared with the AI, ask them the same questions you asked the AIs, and compare their answers to the results of the AIs. (8) If the lawyer verifies that the AI produced the right answers, great. Then have the lawyer draft the final docs, possibly working from your AI-aided first drafts. Conversely, if a lawyer says the AI is wrong, that’s highly informative and they’ve added value. (9) This same strategy works with any service provider, from accountant to doctor. You use AI to structure your search, organize your thinking, and get initial answers to your questions. Then you run it by human specialists (lawyers, accountants, doctors) to verify whether the AI was right and complete the final step. (10) To be clear, this approach still requires skill on your end (in terms of prompting) and skill on their end (in terms of via verifying). Because AI doesn’t do it end-to-end, it does it middle-to-middle. But this approach does mean you no longer need to spend billable hours to learn the basics. And that means a scrappy startup can save money on lawyers.

We're excited to share that @spurtest_ has raised $4.5M, led by @firstround to allow teams to own high quality testing We've partnered with some of the most customer centric companies like @wander @ycombinator @LivingSpaces @flynorse to deliver the best user experiences

If only @OpenAI was using @spur_dev this could have been prevented 🫡

We had the chance to sit down with @twbueler and Joe, the leaders behind VecFlow who build the AI copilot, Oliver. They share their perspective on DeepSeek, developing with agents, and the future of legal AI:

Just had 20+ sales calls this week and keep hearing "Found you through Lightcone!" 🤯 From being in @ycombinator to @spur_dev being mentioned in pods that shaped my founder journey. Absolutely wild! 🚀 Why YC means everything to me & you should definitely apply to the upcoming X25 Batch 🧡

@martymadrid I would have to agree.com with that

Randomly ran into @RauRutvik at the FiDi WeWork -- definitely my favorite thing is meeting Twitter followers IRL! Check out vecflow.ai ... it's going to be big y'all, already some impressive traction.

📣 Huge update — I’ve started a new company! After 4 years at Ramp, I’ve started something new (and we're hiring). The past few years were incredible - being a part of the rocket ship on a ~15 person engineering team to an 1000+ person org, and growing from 100s of customers to 25,000+. The talent, ambition, and teamwork I experienced have set the bar for what greatness looks like—I’m excited to keep that standard into building this new team. Much more to come on the new company soon — but here’s a preview: Ryan Daniels + I already working with our first partners, saving our customers millions of dollars in legal costs, and there’s a ton of demand to keep up with. Long term: we’re tackling a massive vertical opportunity worth over $200B, leveraging AI to make a real impact. We’re growing the early engineering team. If you’re passionate about transforming legal with AI, I’d love to connect! Referrals welcome too!

“Alright, the tests are picking up steam. This is pretty dang good. By god! It’s alive! It’s alive!” From one of our customers on just Day 2 of using @spur_dev 🫡✨ It’s magical!

I have to say that @spur_dev is incredible. If you are building any product, and want to 10x your QA without scaling the team, you should absolutely sign up. Also @sneha8sivakumar is a great founder.

@simonlast have to checkout @spur_dev @anushkanijhawn @sneha8sivakumar

Is anybody working on an AI agent that can follow high level text scripts to perform browser tests? Ideally it could also self-generate scripts by playing with the UI, and recommend updates to scripts when UI changes. I think we would pay a lot of money for this.

@hparikh223 Great observation, definitely agree with this. What are some ways one could improve their communication?

In the Age of AI, Effective Communication is the New Currency As we navigate an increasingly AI-dominated landscape, the ability to communicate with precision and clarity is of utmost importance. An individual’s success will hinge on one’s capacity to articulate one’s needs to AI systems. In a world where machines interpret our intentions, those who can convey their thoughts with the least ambiguity will lead. ⏳🔄 #TimesRChanging