The AI legal agent for founders who cannot afford a lawyer yet

Lex drafts and reviews your SAFEs, NDAs, and contractor agreements. A practicing attorney approves every document before you sign.

Every deliverable is reviewed by a named human expert before it reaches you. You set the autonomy level per function: Red for draft-only, Yellow for human-approved, Green for autonomous with a full audit trail. Legal cannot be set to Green.

Your lawyer bills at six hundred an hour and you need a contractor agreement by Friday. So you pull a template off the internet, change the names, and sign it. Almost every founder at your stage has done this, and most have signed at least one document they did not fully read.

Lex is the legal agent on your Marskel team. It reviews a SAFE and tells you which terms are outside market. It drafts NDAs, contractor agreements, and IP assignments from your actual situation rather than a generic form. It reads your incorporation documents and flags what is missing. It surfaces the clause that will matter in eighteen months, not just the one you are looking at now.

The review gate matters more here than anywhere else on the platform. Travis Distaso covers corporate and M&A, Joseph Z. Perkins covers crypto and regulatory, and one of them approves every Lex document before you act on it. Legal cannot be set to Green autonomy. That is a product decision, not a setting: a legal document that ships without a human reading it is the exact failure this company exists to prevent.

Lex surfaces information and flags risk. It does not tell you whether to sign, and Marskel is not a law firm. For anything consequential, the output ends where a licensed attorney begins.

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Questions founders ask

It can identify terms that fall outside market norms and surface what each one means for your future dilution. Whether to accept them is a legal judgment, which is why an attorney reviews the output.
For a genuinely standard YC SAFE with no side letter, many founders proceed without one. The risk sits in the modifications, which is exactly what a review catches.
Missing or vague IP assignment. The work gets done, the company does not clearly own it, and the problem surfaces during diligence two years later.
Review a SAFE or NDA free. No signup, paste-only, results in under a minute.
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