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Cooley
Cooley: 6 tracked AI moves since 2024 across GenAI Assistant, agentic & workflow and legal research, involving 2 named technologies.
Activity Index
48
Rising
Market rank
10
of 162 tracked firms
- Tracked since
- 2024
- Evidence records
- 6
- Capability areas
- 8
- Named technologies
- 2
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Cooley shows rising visible AI activity, with the strongest recorded concentration in genai assistant. 2 named technologies appear across the evidence.
Analysis based only on published evidence tracked by TVPi; it is not a claim about unobserved firm activity.
Capability intelligence
Tracked capabilities and adoption
Areas inferred from public moves, with recency and supporting evidence visible at a glance.
Agentic & Workflow
2 movesCooley Launches 'Cooley AI' Subsidiary and GO Public With OpenAI
Contract Review & Drafting
1 moveCooley GO Lab launched with Legora and Y Combinator — client-facing AI workspace for YC startups
Knowledge Management
1 moveCooley GO Lab launched with Legora and Y Combinator — client-facing AI workspace for YC startups
Other
1 moveCooley Serves as Recurring Legal Counsel to Harvey Across Three Funding Rounds
Compliance & Regulatory
1 moveCooley Publishes Firmwide AI Principles / Innovation Manifesto
Activity intelligence
Momentum and strategy mix
Activity by quarter
Strategy move mix
- Other17%
- Partnership17%
- Key Hire17%
- Product Adoption17%
- Spinout / New Venture17%
- Policy / Governance17%
Technology ecosystem
Named platforms in the evidence
A vendor appears here only when it is connected to a tracked move.
Outcome evidence
Proof points and verified case studies
“We're entering a new era in how legal insights are delivered and applied. Having built our firm alongside many of the world's most innovative companies, we understand how quickly they move and what they need to scale. Cooley GO Lab reflects that experience, as our lawyers continue to directly shape and refine the underlying content." — Matthew Bartus, Partner & Global Co-Chair, Emerging Companies & VC Practice, Cooley”
Evidence ledger
Tracked activity
Every published record for this firm, newest first.
- Product AdoptionSep 17, 2026Observed
OpenAI launches Astra for Law
OpenAI released Astra for Law, a legal-tuned GPT-6 Astra configuration with a 230M+ URL legal search index (via Free Law Project/CourtListener), a zero-data-retention trusted access program, 26 launch-partner plugins (Thomson Reuters, Intapp, Harvey, Legora, DeepJudge, iManage), and ChatGPT for Word GA. Early co-development partners include Cooley, Ropes & Gray, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Latham & Watkins.
Vendor Announcement · Confirmed confidence
- Spinout / New VentureSep 16, 2026Observed
Cooley Launches 'Cooley AI' Subsidiary and GO Public With OpenAI
Cooley launched Cooley AI, a wholly-owned AI services subsidiary, whose first product 'GO Public' works with OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise to streamline IPO/Form S-1 preparation via purpose-built AI agents; Cooley served as an OpenAI design partner and plans to expand the model to private companies, funds and M&A practices.
Firm Press Release · Confirmed confidence
- PartnershipJun 23, 2026Observed
Cooley GO Lab launched with Legora and Y Combinator — client-facing AI workspace for YC startups
Cooley, Legora, and Y Combinator jointly launched Cooley GO Lab, an AI-powered workspace for startups, debuting exclusively with YC's Summer 2026 cohort. Built on Legora Portal (Legora's white-labeled workflow platform), the tool lets startups query AI agents about their corporate documents, run contracts against market terms, and access Cooley GO's curated knowledge base of startup forms. The initiative marks a new model of delivering legal intelligence directly into company-building workflows — and a full-circle moment for Legora, itself a YC-backed company.
Vendor Announcement · Confirmed confidence
- OtherJun 23, 2025Observed
Cooley Serves as Recurring Legal Counsel to Harvey Across Three Funding Rounds
Cooley advised legal-AI platform Harvey on three consecutive funding rounds (Series C $100M in 2024, Series D $300M in Feb 2025, Series E $300M in June 2025), with the same core deal team (partners Bartus and Capsuto) each time -- a sustained institutional relationship with the leading legal-AI vendor beyond one-off deal work.
Firm Press Release · Confirmed confidence
- Policy / GovernanceMay 19, 2025Observed
Cooley Publishes Firmwide AI Principles / Innovation Manifesto
Cooley published a set of firmwide AI Principles governing internal and client-facing AI use, organized around quality/trust, respect for clients and people, and ethical/transparent standards, showcasing Cooley-built platforms including Cooley GO, GObot, IPO GO, Vanilla, and Cooley D+O.
Trade Press · Confirmed confidence
- Key HireJul 25, 2024Observed
Cooley Hires David Wang as First Chief Innovation Officer
Cooley hired David Wang -- previously Wilson Sonsini's first Chief Innovation Officer, where he built the Neuron platform and led early agentic-AI contracting work -- as its first-ever Chief Innovation Officer, leading technology, business innovation and AI strategy.
Trade Press · Confirmed confidence
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