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FirstLine AI was founded on a simple observation.

Attorneys spend an enormous portion of their week on work that should be automated — drafting routine documents, summarizing records, evaluating matters, chasing the same paperwork across sources. The actual practice of law gets compressed into whatever hours are left.

The legal software market is full of products that claim to fix this. Most don't, because they're built by software companies for the software companies' margins, not for the firm's workflow.

I started FirstLine AI to build the opposite: practice-specific systems, designed around how a real firm actually runs its matters, integrated with whatever case management software they already use. Every system is built in close collaboration with the attorneys who'll use it daily.

I'm based in Atlanta, building from the ground up, currently with two deployed representative builds serving personal injury firms (FirstLine for PI) and music industry attorneys (Coda). If your practice could benefit from systems that actually fit your workflow, I'd like to hear about your situation.

Founder

Gabryel
Hatchell-Van Drie

Founder, FirstLine AI · Atlanta, GA

Gabryel Hatchell-Van Drie founded FirstLine AI in 2026 to build practice-specific automation systems for legal firms, scoped to a firm's actual cases and documents rather than generic legal AI pulled off a shelf. Based in Atlanta, his focus is on building systems that fit a firm's existing workflow rather than forcing the firm to adapt. He's currently working with the first cohort of attorneys to refine each system around real case types, jurisdictions, and tools.

Not sure if this fits your practice? Most attorneys tell me they're skeptical at first, until they see how a system handles their own files.

Walk through one of the representative builds with sample data, or send me your situation directly and I'll tell you honestly whether a FirstLine build fits your firm.

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