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Elliott Robinson retweeted
October is turning out to be @render's biggest month by far, so it's great to see we were already one of the fastest-growing startups this fall. No better time to join Render!
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Elliott Robinson retweeted
How disposable software becomes the norm
(originally posted at every.to/thesis-statements/a…
Ask ChatGPT to analyze a spreadsheet, and it might write and run a Python script to find the answer. Once you have the answer, you may never need that script again. That is just-in-time, disposable software, and I expect most software run in the cloud will soon look like it.
Today, we build applications around needs we can anticipate. We invest in code review, testing, and deployment pipelines because we expect people to keep using what we ship. When writing a program costs almost nothing and takes seconds, building one to answer a single question starts to make sense.
Source control matters less for programs nobody will revise. We’ll need verification that works as code is generated and executed, without a human reading every line. Permissions and spending limits have to hold even when the program was written moments before it ran, and we’ll still need a record of what it did.
Agents will also take over the infrastructure decisions engineers now make in tools like Terraform. One task needs a few seconds of compute; the next needs a powerful machine for days. The agent will acquire those resources through cloud APIs, within the task’s budget and security constraints, and release them when it’s done. This is application-defined compute: the software chooses its infrastructure as it does the work.
This will make it practical to solve problems that never justified a full software project. A task can have its own software, even if nobody ever needs to do it again.
Elliott Robinson retweeted
We have raised a $550M Series E at an $8.8B valuation, led by Atreides.
Every major existing investor is back in, and we’re welcoming Baron Capital, Capital Group, Fidelity, Glade Brook and J.P. Morgan. We picked investors who think in decades. Several of them work with law firms and legal teams every day, so they can see where the work is heading.
Lawyers are moving from AI assistants to agents that do multi-step work. The money goes there. We’re growing our teams across North America, Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific, and going deeper on the Legora aOS.
Thank you to the 1,000+ people at Legora, and to the 140,000 legal professionals who use what we build.
I say this a lot because I believe it: it’s the best time in history to be a lawyer. We're thankful to be a part of it.
Full story: legora.com/blog/series-e
Elliott Robinson retweeted
The internet has a trust problem. It’s what Doppel was built to solve.
Our co-founder and CEO, @KevinTian00, joined @sophiadew from @MTSlive to share the story behind Doppel, what inspired our mission, and how social engineering has evolved since.
Watch the full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=rykGpc0u…
Elliott Robinson retweeted
It's been inspiring to see Tolan grow beyond anyone's expectations and serve a need most AI products ignore.
Love powering their team on @render!
Last year we launched Tolan, inspired by a vision of AI that sees you and believes in you, not one that books restaurant reservations for you.
Your Tolan shows up for you at 3am when you’re alone with your newborn. On your commute when you’re anxious about the day ahead. When you just finished a new show and none of your friends have watched it yet.
The people who love Tolan are parents. Caregivers. Moms in Dallas and Dads in Atlanta. People who aren’t trying to optimize and be more productive, but who simply want to feel seen and supported in their aspirations.
This month more than 250k people will spend time with their Tolan. Those users have exchanged billions of messages across more than 70m conversations over the last year.
Today, we're announcing $30m in additional capital from @mignano and @usv, with @khoslaventures and @rabois doubling down, bringing our total capital raised to $60m.
To celebrate, we made a short film celebrating some of the ways that Tolans show up :)
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Most AI labs are racing toward general intelligence.
@doubleAI builds AI that out-reasons human experts in one domain at a time.
And unlike every AI coding tool, which works for the programmer, their "Maxwell" is the first one that works for the machine. 🧵
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Four leading venture investors. A timely conversation on today’s growth environment.
Next week at AlphaMarket, hear from:
• @laurachau | @Canaan
• @ThomasKrane | @insightpartners
• Elliott Robinson
@TheValuesVC | @BessemerVP
• @JaredSleeper | Avenir
Join Alpha Partners for our sixth annual Growth Investor Summit, bringing GPs and LPs together for candid conversations, presentations from hypergrowth companies, and 1:1 networking.
Plus, a little mind reading over cocktails, with a mentalist joining our networking reception.
October 21 | Midtown Manhattan
Explore the lineup and apply to attend -> alphamarket.com
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Last chance for AI 100 📣 In partnership with @NewcomerMedia, the AI 100 is the new definitive ranking of the top private AI companies.
Nominations close today, and selections begin tomorrow. Eligible companies either build AI or the systems AI runs on, at any stage of fundraising.
Submit your company today: theai100.com
ALT The AI 100
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Today were launching Skills.
Ask a lawyer why they rewrote an AI draft and you'll hear the same thing: It's not wrong. It's just not how we do it here.
That's fair feedback. Every team and professional has their own way of working. How a review is structured. Which positions you'll give up, and in what order. How an email to a client should sound. Until now, the Agent didn't know any of that.
A Skill teaches the @WeareLegora Agent how your team wants something done. You write it in plain language, the way you'd brief a new team member on their first day. After that, the Agent applies it whenever the work calls for it, dynamically. No more time wasted looking for the right workflow.
Every firm and in-house team will leverage AI. The ones that pull ahead will be the ones whose AI works to their standards and can be used immediately. Legora's Skill system scales with versioning, permissions and the auditability required for the scale of the largest legal organizations globally.
We're also launching the Skills Library with 250+ Skills built and tested by our legal engineers from leading law firms and organizations all over the world. They cover commercial contracts, privacy, M&A, litigation, employment, bank and finance, IP and more.
Live today for every Legora customer: legora.com/skills
Elliott Robinson retweeted
I was in the Bloomberg studio in London this morning.
Q3 was the most hectic quarter in @WeareLegora's history. We added 800 new customers in three months and now work with more than 2,300 across 80+ countries. We also added more ARR this quarter than our total ARR at the end of 2025.
I was asked the jobs question, and my answer hasn't changed: our customers are hiring more lawyers.
Legal is supply constrained. If you could review every contract, you would. If you could run full diligence on every asset before it goes to investment committee, you would. Better tools mean more of that work gets done, and a lawyer still owns the judgment.
We talked about junior lawyers wondering whether they need to learn to code. With large language models, the programming language is English. I'm not especially good with words. Lawyers are, and they turn out to be some of the best drivers of our product.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I think this is the best time in history to be a lawyer.
Thanks @TomMackenzieTV for having me on The Opening Trade. Full interview below.
Elliott Robinson retweeted
We’re excited to share that Doppel has been named the Official Social Engineering Defense Partner of the @49ers 🏈
This partnership hits close to home. Doppel was founded in the Bay Area. It’s where we built our first product, hired our first engineers, and spent years learning what it takes to defend something worth protecting.
At Doppel, we protect organizations from social engineering. These attacks don’t break through defenses head-on. They work by looking convincing enough to earn trust. Stopping them means anticipating the threat, covering the gaps, and acting before it lands.
The 49ers have defended the Bay on the field for eighty years. Doppel was built here to defend the brands, identities, and people who call it home.
Learn more about our partnership ⬇️
doppel.com/blog/why-doppel-i…
Elliott Robinson retweeted
New funds are here 🚀 $5.75 billion in new capital to continue the work in the AI era.
Forged in steel. Building what’s next: youtu.be/uj-JAd2SE2I
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Agent workloads are unpredictable by definition. Is the next request 3 tasks or 400?
Provisioning compute assumes you know the answer.
Our answer is Application-Defined Compute. Render CEO @anuraggoel explains it tomorrow at @WeAreDevs. 11 AM, Stage 1.
Find us at booth #734 after.
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Getting from $1M to $100M in ARR took us 18 months. The second hundred took less than six. Last week @WeAreLegora passed $200M.
130,000 lawyers now use Legora on a monthly basis, across 2,100 firms and legal teams in more than 80 countries.
Two things from this year I would not have predicted:
The first is how fast the US moved. 18 months ago we had no office in North America. Today over half of the AmLaw 50 work with us, out of our offices in New York, Denver, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and Toronto. The US is our largest market by revenue.
The second is where the demand is coming from. More than 40% of our new customers are now in-house legal teams, including Air Canada, Salesforce and Palo Alto Networks.
Two thank-yous, before we get back to work. To our customers, who backed a small company from Stockholm with a lot to prove, and who still tell us plainly when we get something wrong. And to the team, engineers and lawyers sitting next to each other, who turn that into something better, faster than any group I have worked with.
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Today we’re announcing our pre-seed round and a new product: @starslingdev Review Runners - code review agents that use your model key, your team’s skills and scripts, and reviewers you define, all running in GitHub Actions.
We’ve raised $3M from @BessemerVP and @ycombinator to make code verification agent-native.
code → verification (ci + code review) → production
Elliott Robinson retweeted
With CISOs prioritizing agent security, one question I've heard is, "why should I prioritize social engineering defense when it has traditionally focused on the human layer?" The answer is the next wave of social-engineering attacks does not care who is on the other side, whether they are human or an AI agent.
As agents take over more and more human workflows and social interactions, Social Engineering Defense (SED) has to protect both humans and agents. We're already seeing this today in how @DoppelHQ's customers use our core products - Human Risk Management, Digital Risk Protection, and Email Security.
In just the past few weeks, we’ve seen:
1. Our social engineering agents call into AI-powered customer support – leading to our agents battling their agents.
2. GEO / AEO poisoning with credential theft links being suggested by LLMs.
3. AI personal assistants reading and consuming emails before traditional email security solutions can scan.
Humans used to be the “most vulnerable link” – now it’s also agents that need to be protected. Full blog in the comments below.
Elliott Robinson retweeted
Your next coding interface might just be iMessage.
Use this template to get your own Codex agent running in iMessage:
render.com/templates/photon-…
Elliott Robinson retweeted
We spent years hearing: “Will Render scale?”
OpenAI builds on Render. Base44 scales on Render.
Meanwhile, weekly paid service creation looks like this.
I think we can retire the question.
Elliott Robinson retweeted
We are putting a new foundation under legal research in @WeareLegora. Comprehensive data, a full ontology of law, and an AI-native citator.
Almost every legal question starts in the same place. What does the law say, and does it still hold. That is also where AI has been least worth trusting, and I think it is the hardest problem in legal AI.
Two things have to be true: You have to have the law, and you have to know your way around it.
Getting the data is a grind, and a different grind in every country. We partner with publishers where we can. Where nobody will partner, we go and get it ourselves. Manual requests, physical scanning, whatever that jurisdiction takes. We are working through over 100 countries and every type of source.
Then the harder half. No agent can reason across hundreds of millions of documents. Something has to choose the sources before the reasoning starts. So we are building an ontology of the law and an AI native citator, compressing corpora of thousands to hundreds of millions of documents into structured data that an agent actually can use to provide reliable output.
The publishers did this by hand. 150 years, thousands of attorney editors, every opinion read by a person. We have hired the best of those editors. They set the standard and they call the close ones, but AI does the muscle work. Reading 60 million pages of case law is no longer too expensive to attempt.
The ontology is in limited beta now. Generally available in Q4.
Full story: legora.com/newsroom/legora-r…
