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August is expanding its addressable market in legal technology by launching a self-serve AI workspace and a two-week free trial designed specifically to lower adoption barriers for solo attorneys and small to midsize law firms. The company’s new model allows lawyers to sign up online, access the full platform and August Academy without a credit card, and immediately deploy AI across core legal workflows including drafting motions and demand letters, due diligence data extraction, and playbook-driven contract review. August positions itself as an end-to-end workspace rather than a point solution, with native document ingestion, automated data extraction, and first-draft generation, alongside deep integrations into Microsoft Word, Outlook, and SharePoint so that matters, emails, and documents are handled in a single, context-aware environment.
A central component of the push is August Academy, a library of more than 100 video lessons that train lawyers not only in how to use the tools but also in when and why to apply AI to tasks such as discovery, document review, and legal research; content is filterable by practice area, use case, and user comfort with AI, and is updated as August adds functionality and as the legal AI landscape shifts. The company is explicitly targeting the roughly three-quarters of lawyers working in solo or small firm settings who have historically been priced out of enterprise legal AI by long sales cycles, complex implementations, and BigLaw-focused pricing. Backed by $7 million from investors including NEA, Pear VC, Afore Capital, Stanford Law School, and executives from OpenAI and Bain Capital Ventures, August aims to drive broader market penetration and volume-based growth by removing onboarding friction and emphasizing productivity gains—freeing attorneys to redirect time from commoditized drafting and review to strategy, client development, and higher-value work that supports firm profitability.