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Felix launches to tackle “shadow AI” in legal with $1.7M backing

Felix today launches its AI workflow platform, designed to help legal, insurance and accounting teams turn complex processes into structured, reliable systems they can trust to run critical work.

The launch coincides with $1.7M in pre-seed funding led by XYZ Venture Capital, with participation from angel investors including current and former leaders and founders at Amazon, Apple, Palantir, Flexport, Yelp and Midjourney. Already deployed at major legal, finance and insurance firms, the company will use the funding to expand product capability and scale its growth.

AI adoption across businesses has accelerated rapidly, with around 70% of firms now using AI in some form. But as usage spreads, it is increasingly happening outside formal systems, with “shadow AI” and unmonitored use creating gaps in governance, consistency and accountability.

While foundation models like GPT or Claude produce probabilistic outputs that vary with each prompt and require continual input, Felix converts complex, multi-step workflows into scalable automations that are deterministic by design. The same input produces the same output every time, with full traceability across each step, a requirement in industries where decisions carry legal, financial or regulatory consequences.

Instead of relying on prompts and disconnected tools, Felix allows organisations to turn how work gets done into systems that run consistently, with full visibility and control. The platform enables professionals to build workflows that reflect how their business actually operates, combining structured logic with human checkpoints where judgement matters.

Tomas Scavnicky, Co-Founder of Felix, said:

“AI has made it easier to work faster as individuals, but it hasn’t solved how work gets done across a business. In professional services, you need consistency, accountability and control. Felix turns AI from something experimental into something you can actually run your operations on. In law, that matters. You’re not relying on black box outputs, and your clients get both the service and the confidence they expect.”

The idea for Felix grew out of Scavnicky’s experience building Parrot, a workflow automation platform for the legal industry acquired by FileVine in 2025. Following the acquisition, the team recognised that the same challenge existed across professional services, not a lack of AI tools, but a lack of systems to run work reliably at scale.

Users describe processes in natural language, which Felix translates into structured, production-grade workflows. These workflows can integrate multiple AI models, process complex documents and run repeatedly with the same logic, while maintaining a clear audit trail of every decision. Felix also enables firms to capture institutional knowledge often spread across individuals, documents and systems, embedding it into workflows that no longer depend on who is available to execute them.

Instead of acting as a productivity tool for individuals, the platform allows firms to codify their internal processes into autonomous systems that run continuously, with AI reasoning applied only where it’s needed. Felix generates and runs all of the code automatically, and offers a full audit trail for lawyers to understand exactly what is going into and out of the system.

This approach addresses the growing gap between adoption and control. While legal firms are rapidly introducing AI tools, many lack the structure needed to manage how work is executed, reviewed and validated at scale. By embedding transparency and oversight into every workflow, Felix enables organisations to scale without increasing operational risk.

Early deployments demonstrate the impact. Advocate, a New York-based risk management firm, used Felix to eliminate a backlog of over 65,000 mortgage insurance policies in three weeks, work that would have taken over 10 years to process manually. The system now runs continuously, preventing future backlogs and enabling work to operate at scale.

Matej Vetrak, Co-Founder and CTO of Felix, said:

“Most tools today help individuals move faster. What’s missing is coordination. Felix allows teams to capture their expertise and turn it into systems that run consistently, with humans involved where it matters. That’s how you scale quality in environments like law.”

Felix has been developed in collaboration with design partners across legal and insurance, where processes are often complex, documentation-heavy and difficult to standardise. By turning expert knowledge into structured workflows, the platform enables organisations to scale without relying on headcount or fragile automation tools.

The launch follows the company’s rebrand from Script.so, reflecting its evolution from a vertical automation tool into a broader platform for building AI-powered workflows across industries. Felix marks a shift from AI as a productivity tool to operational infrastructure for professional services.

Felix is available from today at felix.so.

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