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Chamelio launches 'always on' AI Agent Hub. Legal intelligence platform, Chamelio, has launched Agent Hub, which lets inhouse lawyers use a suite of 'always-on AI agents' that can work independently, monitor what is happening inside the business, and act when needed. The approach means that lawyers don't need to always manually 'log in, open a matter, run a workflow, or ask an AI a question' for an agent to roll into action. They are set to run whenever they are needed, with their activities controlled through a central hub, hence the 'Agent Hub'. As they explained: 'Legal teams can now create agents with ongoing responsibilities, much like you would assign work to a member of your team.' Chamelio added that this means inhouse lawyers can expand what they are able to do, but without having to hire more staff. The company provided several examples of instructions an always-on agent could be set up to follow: * Tell me if a contract has been waiting for signature for more than five days. * Every week, tell me how many agreements were signed, what is still outstanding, and where something appears stuck. * Watch for this customer hitting its contractual milestone. When it happens, prepare the amendment and send it to me for approval. * Monitor this regulation and tell me when something changes that affects its obligations. * Make sure every agreement coming up for renewal is reviewed 60 days in advance. Once organised, the agents will go and do what they are told to do - and as noted: without someone having to trigger each and every action. Moreover, they noted that you can get the agents to do things such as 'observe information across Chamelio and connected systems, reason about what it means, create documents, initiate workflows, request approvals, update data, notify the right people, and determine the next step based on instructions defined by the legal team'. In short, this goes a very long way beyond the early days of legal AI where lawyers made a prompt, got back an answer, and resumed their work without any other assistance from the AI tools on their desktop. Alex Zilberman, CEO and co-founder of Chamelio, commented: 'Legal technology has spent decades giving legal teams better tools. Artificial Lawyer think the next step is giving them actual capacity. 'Agent Hub changes the relationship between legal teams and their software. Instead of logging into a system to do the work, you can delegate a responsibility and expect the system to keep it moving. That's a fundamentally different model for how a legal department can operate.' And picking up on the point about staffing and inhouse workloads, he added: 'The real promise of AI isn't helping lawyers do the same work a little faster. It's taking work off their plate entirely.' Also don't miss the upcoming Chamelio and AL Webinar - On Wednesday, September 16, 4 PM BST, 11 AM ET, 8 AM PT, Chamelio and Artificial Lawyer will be holding a live webinar to explore the increasingly important topic: 'Why is the Legal AI ROI Conversation Still Broken?' And where Artificial Lawyer will also come up with some answers to solve this challenge! Speakers include: Every legal team can tell you what they spent on their tech stack. Almost none can tell you what it actually bought them. That's not for lack of trying. Legal leaders have spent years bolting together dashboards, contract counts, and 'time saved; estimates to prove the function is more than a cost center. But most of these metrics were never built to measure impact - they were built to justify a purchase. Counting signed contracts or logged hours tells you activity happened. It doesn't tell you whether legal moved the business forward, reduced risk, or got out of anyone's way. This session digs into why that gap exists and why it's gotten more urgent as legal teams adopt AI. When the tools change but the measurement stays the same, leaders end up defending spend with numbers that don't hold up in a budget conversation, and legal keeps getting treated like overhead instead of a function that drives outcomes. Artificial Lawyer'll break down: * Why traditional legal ops metrics (contract volume, turnaround time, tool logins) measure motion, not value * What 'impact' actually looks like when legal is proactive instead of reactive, fewer bottlenecks, faster deal velocity, risk caught before it's expensive * How to build a data narrative that connects legal's work to business outcomes leadership already cares about * What changes about ROI measurement once AI is doing part of the work and how to avoid just automating the same broken metrics See you at Legal Innovators New York - Nov 17 and 18 - join Artificial Lawyer at the intersection of legal AI and the business of law in New York for the most important legal innovation event of the year! Day One: law firms, Day Two: inhouse. Top speakers from across the legal AI world, leading law firms, and major companies. All for one purpose: to describe and explore the frontier of legal technology. See you there! UK and New York event links are here:

Enterprise weekly #546: fastest growing Github repo, the importance of community, and more. Work-Bench is a NYC-based $160M enterprise software Seed stage VC fund. If you are or know anyone thinking about founding an enterprise software, SaaS, or infrastructure software startup - we'd love to meet! Please reach out to chat. Platform shifts in technology enables growth that has just one word to describe it: vertical. This graph above shows the rise of OpenClaw (previously known as Clawd). It's become the fastest-ever growing repository on Github, representative of what's possible in today's AI era. Peter Steinberger, the founder, made 6,600 code commits in the month of January alone. But what's more fascinating is not just OpenClaw's incredible growth, but how it was built to make this possible: * Peter always uses between 5-10 agents in parallel. * He doesn't read all of the code he ships, reflective of his belief that a lot of code is plumbing. * He outsources the line-by-line code understanding to Codex and assumes the role of the architect of the code. While time will tell which habits persist, one thing is for certain: the broader theme of "agent-nativity" is diffusing across the enterprise ecosystem, and adapting to it is a must for continued survival. It's one thing we're talking to our portfolio about and encourage everyone in the ecosystem to think about: as the capability frontier gets pushed out every 2 months, how are your organization's habits evolving with it? How would you change your roadmap if the models were all of a sudden an order of magnitude better? While it's impossible to predict the future of the labs, that ambitious thinking may not need to wait as long as you'd think. Speaking of our portfolio, we had an incredible week of announcements: Spring Health announced their acquisition of Alma, who has done remarkable work in building provider-centric infrastructure that enables clinicians to serve patients with less administrative friction. Spring's vision since inception has been to democratize access to mental health, and joining forces with Alma is a huge step in that direction. Chamelio also announced their $10M fundraise, including a $5.7M seed led by Work-Bench. Chamelio is building an AI context layer for in-house legal teams with a platform that transforms contracts, policies, and negotiation history into a living intelligence layer to power end-to-end legal workflows. Their market pull is some of the best we've seen in legal tech, and we're incredibly excited for what's ahead. Lastly, on Wednesday we hosted ~40 of our founders for a dinner in NYC. It was a terrific way to kick off the year, and once again reminded us of the power of community. When you bring a number of like-minded people who are at different stages of a structurally similar journey and are able to connect over a shared feeling, magic happens. From Engineer to Founder: Building and Selling Developer Tools with Extend & Authzed (Feb 11th): Work-Bench is hosting an intimate fireside chat with Kushal Byatnal, Co-Founder & CEO of Extend, and Jake Moshenko, Co-Founder & CEO of Authzed, for a candid conversation on building and scaling enterprise software. We'll go deep on Extend & Authzed's founding stories, Kushal and Jake's transitions from engineer to founder, and the lessons learned along the way from finding product-market fit and cracking go-to-market, to fundraising and building with AI inside a complex enterprise landscape. It's a small, curated gathering designed for thoughtful conversation and high-signal connections with NYC founders and operators. Sign up here. 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Chamelio, the legal intelligence platform designed for in-house legal teams, today announced that the company raised $10 million in seed funding. The round w...