Last reviewed: October 2026
Working with us
Are you a law firm?
Yes. We focus on commercial work: contract review, drafting, fundraising and finance documents, negotiating with the other side. All legal work is carried out by SRA-registered solicitors practising in England and Wales. We do not take on reserved legal activities such as litigation, conveyancing, probate or notarial work, so the firm itself is not regulated by the SRA; our solicitors are regulated by the SRA in their individual capacity.
What don’t you do?
We do not take on litigation or disputes, conveyancing and property, probate, notarial work, or anything else that is a reserved legal activity. We also refer out work governed by a law other than English law, to firms we trust. Everything commercial and corporate that a startup or scaleup runs into, from a first customer contract to a funding round and the team’s equity, we do. If you are not sure, ask: you get a straight answer within hours, and if it is not our area we say so and point you somewhere sensible.
What types of companies do you work with?
UK startups and scaleups from pre-seed to Series B and beyond. Founders, general counsel and finance leads who sign more than a handful of contracts a quarter. Our clients are backed by investors including a16z speedrun, Antler, Techstars, Passion Capital and Circle, and most of them had no in-house lawyer when they first sent us a brief.
What jurisdictions do you cover?
English law primarily. We can handle cross-border commercial contracts where English law is the governing law. We refer overseas-law work to firms we trust.
Can I actually talk to someone?
Yes. You can reach a real solicitor on Slack, email or WhatsApp during UK working hours, and you can get one of our solicitors on the phone whenever you need to talk something through. No call centres, no ticket queues, no 'we'll get back to you within five business days.'
Can you deal with the other side?
Yes. We negotiate directly with counterparty counsel on your behalf, usually over email, and we'll join calls with them when that's the faster way to land a point. You stay in the loop only when a decision is yours to make.
How fast is turnaround?
Every message is answered within 24 hours, whether it is a first enquiry, a question in the middle of a matter or something after it has closed, and usually much sooner during UK working hours. On the work itself, most routine contracts come back within hours. Larger pieces of work (a shareholders’ agreement, a master services agreement negotiated with counterparty counsel) usually take days, and some depend on how quickly the other side moves. We tell you the turnaround at quote stage.
How do we get started, and what happens in the first week?
Send us a brief or a document by email or the enquiry form, and we come back with a fixed fee quote, usually within hours. Before the first matter starts we send a short engagement letter and terms to sign; these cover confidentiality so you can share information freely, and they set out the insurance behind the work. Payment is taken in full on acceptance of the quote, and we then set up a shared Slack channel or WhatsApp thread with your solicitor. Most clients have their first deliverable back within the first week, often the first day.
Pricing
How does pricing work?
Every matter is fixed-fee, quoted in pounds before any work begins. Typical ranges, plus VAT: Simple contracts: £500 – £1,000; More advanced contracts: £1,000 – £3,000; Funding round, including SEIS/EIS: £5,000 – £10,000. Where you land in a range depends on how complex the matter is. If the brief materially changes mid-flight, we agree a revised fee with you in writing before we continue. No timesheets, ever.
Is the fixed fee genuinely fixed?
Yes. The number in your quote is the number you pay. It does not move because a matter took us longer than we expected, because a call ran over, or because you emailed us a question on a Sunday. The only thing that changes a fee is a material change to the work itself, and we agree that with you in writing before we carry on.
Do you ever bill by the hour?
No. We do not keep timesheets, so there is nothing to bill from. Hourly billing pays a firm more for taking longer, which is exactly the wrong incentive when you want the work done well and done now.
What if my matter sits above the range?
Then we tell you that at quote stage, before you have committed to anything. The ranges on this page are what we quote most often, not a cap and not a promise. A round with four investor groups and a complicated cap table costs more than a clean one, and you will know that before we start rather than after.
We only need a quick check on a template. Is that worth quoting?
Yes, and it gets priced as the small piece of work it is rather than folded into a bigger project fee. Send it over, tell us what you are worried about, and we will quote it.
Can you handle ongoing work rather than one-off matters?
Yes. Most of our clients send work as it comes up, over Slack, email or WhatsApp, and each matter is quoted at a fixed fee before it starts. If your volume makes a standing monthly arrangement more sensible than matter-by-matter quotes, say so and we will work it out with you.
Is there a minimum commitment or retainer?
No. There is no minimum commitment and no retainer. You send work when you need it, each matter is quoted as a fixed fee before it starts, and you only pay for what you ask us to do. If your volume makes a standing monthly arrangement more sensible, we will work one out with you, but it is never a condition of working together.
Data and AI
What’s your AI platform?
The closest analogy is Cursor for legal documents: the AI does the heavy lifting end to end, with a qualified solicitor in the loop on every output. The platform is our own. We built it specifically to do legal work, and it plugs into all of the major frontier models, so we can route a given task to whichever model is best suited to it. On top of that, we run a network of agents that handle the specialised pieces: drafting, redlining, clause-by-clause comparison against your playbook, risk flagging, and writing up the short commercial summary the rest of your team will actually read. It is also deeply context-aware: when we onboard a client, we build a dedicated agent around their business, their commercial positions, the clauses they care about, the redlines they'll accept and the ones they won't, and whatever playbooks their team has built up. By the time a contract comes in, the review is already tuned to how that specific client thinks about risk, rather than running off a generic template.
What does “AI-native law firm” mean?
It means the firm was built around AI from day one rather than adding tools to a traditional model. Our own platform and agents take the first pass at every piece of legal work: drafting, redlining, clause-by-clause review, risk flagging. A qualified solicitor then applies the judgement, signs off the output and is your point of contact throughout. You never operate the software yourself; you deal with a lawyer. The practical difference for you is speed, usually hours rather than weeks, and fixed fees, because the work costs us less to produce.
Where is our data stored, and who are your sub-processors?
Your data is held with SOC 2-certified hosting providers, with encrypted backups in the London region. AI analysis runs through enterprise APIs from established providers, and every sub-processor is covered by a data processing agreement. We keep an up-to-date sub-processor list and send it to any client who asks. You can also ask us to delete your data at any time in writing; we do so within ten business days, subject only to anything we are legally required to keep.
Who reviews the work?
Every output is verified by a qualified solicitor with a practising certificate in England & Wales. The AI handles drafting and first-pass review; a human applies legal judgement before anything reaches you. All of our work is backed by our professional indemnity insurance.
Is Kyra Law right for us?
When do I need a solicitor rather than a template platform?
Template platforms give you documents; they do not give you legal advice, and nobody stands behind the document if it is wrong for your situation. For incorporating, a first basic contract or a standard early-stage round, a template can be enough. You need a solicitor when the other side has lawyers, when the terms are being negotiated rather than accepted, when a mistake would cost more than the fee, or when the document is specific to how your company works: shareholders’ agreements with real leaver terms, a master services agreement you will sell on for years, a round with investor-specific side letters. Many of our clients use a template platform for the standard documents and send us the negotiation and the review of anything that departs from standard.
Still have a question?
Send it to enquiries@mail.kyralaw.co.uk or use the enquiry form below. A solicitor replies within 24 hours, usually much sooner during UK working hours. For what things cost, see Pricing; for how we handle your documents, see Security and confidentiality.