Come build the company we wish we'd worked at

Alaro is an AI-native law firm. We were built from day one around AI and senior judgement - not a traditional firm with software added on top, but a firm designed from its first matter around the assumption that AI should do the repetitive work and experienced lawyers should do the thinking.

We're hiring. And I'd rather be straight with you about what we're building - including the parts that are still hard - than sell you a tidy pitch you'd see through anyway.

Why we started


I spent my early career as an M&A and PE associate at a top lawfirm. A lot of what I did was high-volume, repetitive work - due diligence, transaction documents, contract review - billed by the hour, often slowly, at a cost that didn't reflect how mechanical much of it was. The work mattered. The way it was delivered didn't have to be that way.

Most law firms were built for a world where legal work was scarce and slow. Their economics reward hours. Their staffing models assume layers of junior associates between the client and the answer. We built Alaro to do a specific kind of work differently - and we need people who want to build it with us.

Who I'm actually looking for

Not just AI engineers. We're looking for people who want to sit at the centre of a profession being rebuilt - whatever the title on their last business card said. Three ways in.

Three ways in


Lawyers

Licensed, sharp, and tired of billing time for work that should take an afternoon. You won't be a cog in a pyramid. You'll design how a category of legal work gets executed, hold the judgement and the sign-off, and let our systems run the rest at a scale no associate could match.

Engineers

You want your code to touch real outcomes, not sit three abstractions away from a customer. The lawyer you built the workflow with is sitting next to you, and the work it produces goes to a client today. AI, full-stack, infrastructure - if you build things that hold up, let's talk.

‍Operators

You turn a thesis into a running business. Go-to-market, client delivery, the operational spine that makes fixed fees and same-day turnaround actually hold. Comfortable owning ambiguity, allergic to process for its own sake.

The parts I'm not going to pretend away

Building this is harder than a pitch makes it sound, and you'd find out anyway, so here it is.

AI is genuinely useful for structured, high-volume legal work - and it is also confidently wrong sometimes. That's not a footnote; it's the central engineering and quality problem of the whole firm. Our answer isn't "trust the model." It's senior lawyers reviewing the output, workflows built to catch errors, and the discipline to say no to work where the technology hasn't earned its place yet. If solving that sounds like the most interesting problem you could be working on, you're the person I mean.

Regulation is the other piece. We chose to be an SRA regulated law firm rather than a software vendor selling tools, because the accountability that comes with that is the whole point. It's slower and more demanding. It's also the right way to do this.

What you can stand behind

Small team. Direct ownership. The distance between an idea and it being live in front of a client is measured in days, not quarters.

You'll work alongside lawyers who left top firms, engineers who could be anywhere. We're backed by amazing global investors. The frontier here is genuinely undefined - most of what we'll be known for hasn't been built yet.

Where this goes

I don't think the next generation of legal services will be defined by which firm has the most lawyers or the grandest office. It'll be defined by which firms can pair real legal judgement with the speed and consistency of well-built technology - under proper regulation, honestly, without overpromising.

That's the firm we're building. We're early, we're learning, and I'd rather earn your trust on the work than win it with a sales pitch. If you want to be in the room while this gets built, I'd be glad to hear from you.

— Willem