- Two roommates in LA, Winston Weinberg (a securities and antitrust litigator) and Gabriel Pereyra (a research scientist at Google DeepMind), founded the AI legal tech company Harvey after being inspired by the fictional lawyer Harvey Specter from the TV show Suits.
- Harvey's initial test involved using a GPT-3 prompt to generate answers to 100 landlord-tenant legal questions from Reddit; 86 out of 100 answers were deemed send-ready by attorneys, validating the product's potential.
- The company secured early funding from the OpenAI Startup Fund, grew rapidly from $0 revenue in 2022 to over $300 million ARR by May 2026, and reached an $11 billion valuation with clients including major law firms and corporations.
- Harvey's product, developed with input from attorneys from top law firms, performs contract analysis, document review, due diligence, and litigation support with high accuracy and features a Memory function that retains context from previous work.
- In a notable marketing move, Harvey hired actor Gabriel Macht, who played Harvey Specter, to launch its Instagram page, blending the fictional inspiration with real-world technology in the legal industry.