I’m a lawyer based in the U.K. working on a B2B legaltech AI solution. Thus far I have a simple MVP that’s been made using a Python script that can generate a contract in a second (rather than weeks). I’ve conducted customer validation with many SMEs (40 pages worth of transcripts from conversations) but my entire network is non-technical people.
How did you guys find a technical person to be a co-founder? I’ve tried adverts online and YC co-founder match but with little luck.
My guess is that, because we’re pre-revenue, few people want to join (despite offering equal equity). Legal is also not sexy in the AI space and given the economic conditions, people aren’t as incentivised to join startups.
Any ideas would be fab :)
I met my business partner through in an e-commerce software forum, many years ago. We collaborated and traded work for a while before starting a company together.
That was a natural process over a few years. We ended up building and eventually selling our business for a decent amount of money.
So a few ideas:
Seek out forums that are more domain specific and see if there are any software engineers / technical people there (yes, I can attest personally, tech people can also be into law / legal practice)
there are communities where tech people and specifically CTOs hang (slack groups, email lists, etc) - network with technical people and see if someone can post there for you
go to in-person events and rub shoulders with tech leaders - lots of events like this on meetup
I would strongly advise playing the long game and not jumping into a potential long term relationship with a technical co-founder until you get to know then and ideal do some real work together