{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6645905a254df10012d1ea01/681a11fceb146d8e352063ef?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"He Has 60 Seconds to Pitch – Are These 2 Investors Into It?","description":"<p>Otto wants to build an AI platform to shake up the legacy industry of legal research. Can he get busy attorneys and legal services companies – reliant on familiar tools and workflows –- to switch over to his product?</p><p><br></p><p>On Episode 070 of The Feedback Loop, that's what we get into!</p><p><br></p><p>Otto von Zastrow is building midpage. Instead of spending weeks sifting through Westlaw or LexisNexis, he wants lawyers to search, read, and organize thousands of cases in a connected workflow – featuring LLM-fueled tags, question--asking, parallel prompting, and more.</p><p><br></p><p>Can his 'Notion or Figma-style' approach offer a big enough leap over incumbents to make this interesting to our investor panel?</p><p><br></p><p>We get into:</p><ul><li>Legal Research, Reinvented – Why building a better search bar isn’t enough to win over law firms and how a collaborative, AI‑driven approach may tip the scales.</li><li>Owning the Workflow – From daily case‑tagging to drafting briefs, Otto envisions a single tool that captures the entire journey – is that a clear pitch that venture capitalists can understand?</li><li>The Case for Data Supremacy – Scraping 500+ websites and linking case law with AI is no trivial feat, but is it the true moat that disrupts the duopoly?</li><li>Startup Pitch Essentials – Investors push Otto to share a compelling vision beyond “search.” How can midpage become the Figma of legal research and drafting?</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Want to Pitch Your Startup Live?</p><p>Apply now at afterfeedback.com and join our growing community of founders and investors.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Sherveen</p><p>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherveenm</p><p>X (Twitter): https://www.x.com/sherveen</p><p><br></p><p>More on our guest investor for the episode:</p><p>​Ihar Mahaniok is Managing Partner at Geek Ventures, which he founded in 2021 to support immigrant entrepreneurs building at the pre-seed and seed stage. He’s made more than 200+ investments over the past decade, and has invested early in companies like Instacart, People.ai, Chainalysis, PandaDoc, and Airbyte, to name a few.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Ihar</p><p>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahaniok</p><p>X (Twitter): https://x.com/mahaniok</p><p><br></p><p>Otto von Zastrow, founder of midpage: https://www.linkedin.com/in/otto-von-zastrow-631b74113</p><p><br></p><p>Drop a comment – feedback is the building block for builders everywhere!</p>","author_name":"Sherveen Mashayekhi"}