Platus (YC F24)

Platus is making legal services easier for small and medium-sized businesses. Alex and Felix started Platus to provide quick and reliable legal help through a simple platform and API. This makes important legal tasks like notarization, document drafting, e-signing, and workflow automation easy to access.

Key Features

Platus offers many tools to make legal work simpler:

1. Instant Online Notarization:
Get your documents notarized in different regions within 1 to 24 hours. This includes things like Powers of Attorney, Trust Certifications, and Apostilles.

2. Notarization & e-Signatures via API:
Keep control over customer relationships while making sure document notarization and signing are done right. The API now includes AI-powered signature field detection.

3. Automation with Workflows:
Choose from predefined playbooks or create your own workflow to automate legal processes.

4. AI-Driven Document Intelligence:
Get detailed insights from your company''s legal documents.

Other features include a Notarization API, Signing Functionalities, KYC Processes, Data Collection, Document Generation Agents, and a Smart Document CRM. These tools help speed up contract sending and closing, making Platus essential for modern legal teams.

Benefits

Platus solves the problems of traditional legal services, which are often slow and costly. For example, notarizations in Germany can take hours, and legal help in the U.S. can cost $200–$400 per hour, with complex cases exceeding $10,000. Platus makes these processes faster and more affordable.

Use Cases

Platus is great for law firms, startups, and mid-sized enterprises that need to handle many legal and compliance tasks. The platform is already trusted globally by various organizations for its efficiency.

Cost/Price

The cost of using Platus is not mentioned. But it aims to make legal services more affordable for small and medium-sized businesses, suggesting it is a cheaper option than traditional legal services.

Funding

Platus is supported by Y Combinator and is one of the fastest-growing companies in the Fall Batch 2024. It has customers around the world and plans to present at the Y Combinator Demo Day on December 4, 2024, to get more funding.

Reviews/Testimonials

Users love Platus for its big impact on legal operations. One review highlights the Analyzer Agent as a game changer, showing how the platform boosts productivity and efficiency for legal teams.