General Legal

General Legal is an AI-native law firm for high-growth startups and SMBs, offering flat-fee commercial, corporate, and employment legal work delivered by U.S.-barred attorneys augmented with proprietary AI workflows. The firm focuses on contract review, redlining, negotiation, and drafting with transparent flat pricing (from $250) and fast turnaround (median under three hours), positioning itself as "outside counsel that scales like software." Practice areas include technology transactions, employment, data privacy, financial regulatory, blockchain/cryptocurrency, and emerging companies / VC. Founded in 2026 by Ryan Walker (ex-Casetext CTO), J.P. Mohler, and Javed Qadruddin, the company is a Y Combinator (W26) portfolio company that raised $11.5M across pre-seed and seed rounds. This profile was surfaced as a Y Combinator portfolio lead and enriched from public sources; General Legal is a legal-services company and does not currently publish a developer API.

General Legal is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Legal, Law Firms, Legal Tech, and Contracts.

General Legal’s developer surface includes pricing, engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 11 more developer resources.

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20.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 69/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 20.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 11.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 9/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

12 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

General Legal MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.general.legal over HTTP; 6 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

General Legal API pricing

Prices published by General Legal, read 2026-10-07 from general.legal/pricing.

Plan	Price
Simple Contract Review	$250/ contract Includes: Contracts 3 pages or fewer; NDAs, simple SOWs, LOIs, and similar; Initial review and redlines
Standard Contract Review	$500/ contract Includes: Contracts 3–25 pages; initial review and redlines; one round of internal revisions; Negotiation Guid
Full Negotiation	$1,000/ contract Includes: Everything in Standard Contract Review, plus unlimited negotiation turns, counterparty call support
Drafting	$2,000/ document Includes: Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, MSA, DPA, or BAA
Long (25+ pages) or non-standard contract	From $1,000
Smaller drafting projects	$1,000–$1,500
Playbook development	$1,500
GC as a service	Custom Includes: Recurring legal support across contracts, employment, and business questions

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

General Legal Plans Pricing

13 plans

PLANS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

General Legal Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

Newsroom

Careers

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: general-legal
name: General Legal
description: General Legal is an AI-native law firm for high-growth startups and SMBs, offering flat-fee commercial, corporate,
  and employment legal work delivered by U.S.-barred attorneys augmented with proprietary AI workflows. The firm focuses on
  contract review, redlining, negotiation, and drafting with transparent flat pricing (from $250) and fast turnaround (median
  under three hours), positioning itself as "outside counsel that scales like software." Practice areas include technology
  transactions, employment, data privacy, financial regulatory, blockchain/cryptocurrency, and emerging companies / VC. Founded
  in 2026 by Ryan Walker (ex-Casetext CTO), J.P. Mohler, and Javed Qadruddin, the company is a Y Combinator (W26) portfolio
  company that raised $11.5M across pre-seed and seed rounds. This profile was surfaced as a Y Combinator portfolio lead and
  enriched from public sources; General Legal is a legal-services company and does not currently publish a developer API.
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- Company
- Legal
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- Legal Tech
- Contracts
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- Startups
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- Company
- Legal
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- Legal Tech
- Contracts
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- type: DomainSecurity
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- type: Website
  url: https://general.legal
- type: About
  url: https://general.legal/company/about
- type: Pricing
  url: https://general.legal/company/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://general.legal/resources/blog
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://general.legal/newsroom
- type: Support
  url: https://general.legal/company/contact
- type: Careers
  url: https://general.legal/company/careers
- type: SignUp
  url: https://portal.general.legal/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://portal.general.legal/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://general.legal/misc/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://general.legal/misc/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/general-legal
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/general-legal-llms.txt
maintainers:
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General Legal API — frequently asked questions

How much does the General Legal API cost?

General Legal publishes its prices; its Simple Contract Review plan is $250/ contract as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 13 pricing plans for General Legal, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does General Legal have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for General Legal: Remote MCP server at mcp.general.legal over HTTP; 6 tools listed.

Is the General Legal API ready for AI agents?

General Legal has a Kin Score of 20.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 8.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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