For our viewers in the legal technology space, you may have heard of Gordon Cassie, whose company, Closing Folders, was acquired by iManage in 2020. Now that he knows what it takes to build legal tech that gets adopted and acquired, he’s back with Eno PDF (Eno). Eno is an offline application that takes a different approach to AI-assisted document review, and a product Nick wished he had for his master’s classes. Anyways… here’s what we discussed.
Gordon was a corporate lawyer in Toronto, closing deals in boardrooms with the occasional champagne in hand. After making a niche tool that automates legal transaction processes, he created another product that anyone with a PDF can use, turning every “I know I’ve read that somewhere" into “I know exactly where that is.” That product is Eno.
Most AI tools answer your questions with generated summaries and vague citations, but Eno is what Gordon calls “evidence-based AI.” It’s a zero-retention desktop app that surfaces the actual document snippets on screen so you can find what you’re looking for in your source material at 10x speed. Think of it as a “fuzzy Control+F.” Because attorneys can’t afford to communicate paraphrases of the law to clients, this distinction is critical. Gordon’s goal is to get another business acquired and make Eno big enough to be in a crossword puzzle!
Watch the episode to get in-depth insight about Gordon, why locally run apps are becoming legal tech’s latest trend, and how he’s deciding to run Eno in comparison to Closing Folders.
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