Sergey Demyanov

Sergey Demyanov

Founder. PhD. Dad. Cat butler
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About

Got into AI before it was mainstream. PhD in Computer Science researching computer vision. Led ML teams at Snap building core machine learning systems. Founded Beagle (eDiscovery platform for legal teams). Now building Retriever - an AI-powered legal intake assistant that helps attorneys qualify clients faster and never miss a promising lead. And I’m not even a dog owner. 🐶

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Maker History

  • Retriever
    RetrieverPersonalized AI for attorneys to handle first conversations
    Nov 2025
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    Joined Product HuntOctober 24th, 2025

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Retrieverp/retriever-2Sergey Demyanov•

2mo ago

Biggest challenges when building for a “non-startup” audience?

Retriever is built for attorneys - a very different audience than the typical PH early adopters.
We ve learned a lot about building for a conservative, high-trust, highly regulated market.

Would love to hear from other founders: Have you built products for traditional industries? What were the biggest surprises or hurdles?

Happy to share what we ve learned from the legal side too.

Sergey Demyanov•

2mo ago

Why I Pivoted from Big-Firm Legal Tech to Something Much Simpler

For the past two years, I ve been building legal tech for large firms - mostly around eDiscovery and document review. It s been a journey.

The tech worked well, but I underestimated how incredibly slow that market moves: long sales cycles, endless approvals, multi-year vendor contracts.

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