Sergey Demyanov

Sergey Demyanov

Founder. PhD. Dad. Cat butler
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Retriever is an AI intake assistant for attorneys that handles the first client conversation, gathers key details, and qualifies leads based on attorney’s criteria. It frees attorneys from repetitive intake work so they can focus on the cases that matter.
Retriever
RetrieverPersonalized AI for attorneys to handle first conversations
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Biggest challenges when building for a ā€œnon-startupā€ 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.

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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. Now I’m rethinking direction and trying to understand where smaller firms and individual attorneys actually...