Irys, the company behind the legal AI platform

A matter is not a question. It is years of documents, facts, correspondence, deadlines, and the judgment calls somebody made along the way.

Most legal software scatters all of that across email, Word, a document system, a research tool, and a chat window that forgets everything the moment you close it. So the context gets re-explained, over and over, by the people who can least afford the time.

Irys gives the matter itself a home. Load it once and the context carries from intake through the last filing, with permissions and provenance attached. Nobody starts from zero on Monday because they were out on Friday.

Sabih Siddiqi practiced as a BigLaw trial attorney and transaction counsel before starting Irys. He knew the tax on the work: the same context typed into five different tools, and the demo that dazzled in a conference room then fell apart the week a real deadline hit.

Devansh came at it from the other side, as an AI researcher who writes publicly about how these systems actually behave. His read was that the problem was architectural. One more chat window pointed at a general-purpose model was never going to fix it.

They started Irys on a single conviction: nobody should have to trade rigor for speed. Today the team is lawyers, AI researchers, engineers, product people, and the folks who sit with customers, all pointed at the same question. Does this hold up when someone has to file it?