Intelligence,
Routed.

AI-powered professional intelligence for
every knowledge worker who can't afford to be uninformed.
$3M Seed Round  ·  cbrp.ai
The Problem

Knowledge workers are drowning.
Critical decisions are being made without context.

⚖️

The General Counsel

4.7 hrs

average time per week a GC spends on regulatory monitoring — time stolen from strategy, leadership, and judgment.

"I find out about a major regulatory change from outside counsel — who billed me $800 to tell me something I should have already known."
🏛️

The Board Director

3–5

average boards a public company director sits on. Each one has different industry exposure, regulatory risk, and committee obligations.

"I get the board pack 48 hours before the meeting. I'm expected to arrive with strategic insight. There's no tool built for how I actually work."
🏪

The Small Business Owner

$37B

annual cost of regulatory compliance violations for small businesses in the US — the majority preventable with timely awareness.

"I got hit with a $4,200 fine. The rule changed six months ago. Nobody told me. I didn't have time to check."

The problem isn't intelligence. It's routing. The right information exists. It just never reaches the right person, in the right context, at the right time.

The Insight

The market built a process layer.
Nobody built the judgment layer.

The Process Layer
Tools that make legal work faster
  • Harvey — AI contract review & drafting
  • GC AI — Chat with your legal documents
  • CoCounsel — Legal research automation
  • Ironclad — Contract lifecycle management
  • Diligent — Board document management
These are factory-floor tools. They make execution faster. They don't help you think better.
VS
The Judgment Layer
Tools that make legal thinking better
  • Proactive — surfaces what you should be asking about
  • Curated — filters signal from noise before it reaches you
  • Contextual — cross-maps risk to your role, company, industry
  • Anticipatory — alerts before regulatory exposure, not after
  • Multi-role — sees the same event from GC, board, and CFO lens
This gap is the market. Every dollar invested in the process layer widens the demand for the judgment layer. CBRP owns the corner office, not the factory floor.
The Solution

One engine. Every professional role.

📰 Regulatory Feeds
⚖️ Case Law & Rulings
📊 SEC / Agency Filings
🌐 Industry News
🏢 Company Intelligence
CBRP Platform
Intelligence
Router
Role-aware relevance scoring
Regulatory graph mapping
Persona + context injection
⚖️ CounselBrief
General Counsel
🏛️ DirectorBrief
Board Directors
🏪 RegulatorPulse
Small Business
+ CFO, CISO, HR…
Expanding
🎯
Role-Specific
Persona-aware. What matters to a GC is noise to a director.
⚡
Proactive
Delivers intelligence before you know to ask for it.
💬
Chat Stream
On-demand analysis for situational questions. Context-aware.
🔌
Modular
New vertical = swap content + persona. Weeks, not months.
Lead Product

CounselBrief — The GC's intelligence layer

$49–99
Per month · self-service
100K+
US GCs & senior legal leaders
0
Enterprise sales cycle
Expense
Report purchase — no procurement
What it delivers
  • ▸ Daily AI-curated regulatory & industry briefings
  • ▸ Regulatory radar — early-warning on relevant rule changes
  • ▸ Competitive intel on peer companies' legal exposure
  • ▸ Board & exec meeting prep materials
  • ▸ Chat Stream — situational, context-aware on-demand analysis
Competitive Context
GC AI $555M valuation · $60M Series B
Pricing$500/seat/mo (enterprise)
ARR$10M+ · 1,400 companies
What they areReactive chat, process layer
GC AI is the factory floor. CounselBrief is the corner office. They automate legal tasks. We improve legal judgment. Different buyer moment, different value, different price point. We're not competing — we're complementary.
Positioning

Reactive → Proactive. GC AI answers questions you think to ask. CounselBrief surfaces what you should be asking about before you think to ask it. That's not a feature difference — it's a category difference.

Second Product

DirectorBrief — Intelligence built for the board seat, not the boardroom

$149
Per month · individual director
50–60K
US public company board seats
<24hr
Ideation to live product
0
Existing competitors serving directors
What it delivers
  • ▸ Cross-board intelligence — monitor all your companies in one view
  • ▸ Committee-contextualized alerts (audit, comp, governance, risk)
  • ▸ Regulatory alerts relevant to board-level governance obligations
  • ▸ Competitive intel across portfolio companies
  • ▸ Pre-meeting prep briefs — arrive ready, not reactive
The Unserved Market
Diligent$600M+ — sells to Corp Secretary
AlphaSense$4B — $10K+/seat, for analysts
NACD$2–5K/yr — education, not intel
The entire board tech market sells to the corporate secretary — workflow tools, minute-taking, document management. Nobody sells intelligence to the director. DirectorBrief is the first product built for that person.
Proof of Velocity

DirectorBrief went from concept to live product in under 24 hours. A competitor building DirectorBrief from scratch would need $5–10M and 12 months. The platform architecture is the moat.

B2SMB Product

RegulatorPulse — Compliance intelligence for Main Street

$29–49
Phase 1 · awareness tier
$199–799
Phase 2 · full compliance platform
$37B
Annual SMB compliance violation cost
33M+
US small businesses — initial targets: wellness, fitness, beauty
Phase 1 — Intelligence
  • ▸ State & local regulatory monitoring — jurisdiction-aware
  • ▸ Plain-English compliance briefings (no legalese)
  • ▸ Industry-specific alerts: med spas, salons, gyms, studios
  • ▸ Deadline tracking and renewal reminders
Phase 2 — Full Compliance Platform
License Management
Track, renew, and monitor all business licenses in one place
Audit Trail
Documented compliance history for inspections and claims
Staff Compliance
Certifications, training records, and expiration alerts
Multi-Location
Chain operators managing compliance across locations

RegulatorPulse converts the Phase 1 awareness customer into a Phase 2 platform customer. High-volume, low-touch, SaaS economics. The intelligence layer is the acquisition funnel for the compliance platform.

Market Opportunity

A $2B+ serviceable opportunity — addressable at $99/month

$12B+
TAM
US professional
intelligence market
⊃
$2.1B
SAM
GCs + directors +
compliant SMBs @ $99/mo
⊃
$120M
SOM (3yr)
~100K subscribers
across first 3 verticals
10,000
subscribers @ $99/mo avg
= $12M ARR
150K+
identifiable buyers across
CB + DB + RP combined
$49–$149
monthly price range —
expense-report territory, no procurement
Competitive Landscape

CBRP occupies the uncontested quadrant.

REACTIVE ←            → PROACTIVE
ENTERPRISE → ↑ ↓ ← INDIVIDUAL
Enterprise · Reactive
Enterprise · Proactive
Individual · Reactive
✦ CBRP TERRITORY
GC AI
$555M
HRV
Harvey
DLG
Diligent
AS
AlphaSense
$10K+/seat
NACD
NACD
News
Newsletters
CBRP
CBRP Co.
$49–149/mo
CBRP Co.
Individual-first · Proactive · $49–149/mo · No enterprise sales cycle
GC AI
Enterprise · Reactive chat · $500/seat/mo · $555M valuation
AlphaSense
Enterprise · Market intelligence · $4B · $10K+/seat
Diligent / Harvey / CoCounsel
Enterprise · Process layer · Workflow automation
NACD / Newsletters
Individual · Passive · Education or generic news
Platform Architecture

One engine. Near-zero marginal engineering per vertical.

CBRP Engine
Content Ingestion Layer Regulatory feeds · news APIs · SEC/EDGAR · case law · agency rulings
Intelligence Processing LLM summarization · relevance scoring · entity extraction · trend detection
Regulatory Graph Regulations mapped to roles · jurisdictions · company types
Persona Engine Role-specific framing · context injection · committee awareness
Delivery Layer Daily briefs · real-time alerts · Chat Stream · API
Swap content
+ persona
→
Live
CounselBrief
General Counsel · Legal Leaders
$49–99/mo
Live
DirectorBrief
Board Directors
$149/mo
Live
RegulatorPulse
Small Business Owners
$29–49/mo
Next
CFOBrief
CFOs · Finance Leaders
$99–149/mo
Planned
CISOBrief
CISOs · Security Leaders
$149–199/mo
Planned
HRBrief
CHROs · HR Directors
$79–99/mo
⚠️

Honest CAC reality: Each vertical requires independent user acquisition — replicable economics, not transferable distribution. The platform advantage is speed and capital efficiency, not shared audience. A competitor building DirectorBrief from scratch needs months and millions. We built it in a day. Near-zero marginal engineering. Full marginal CAC. That's the model.

The Network Effect

The moat isn't the AI. It's the Attention Network — built by reading, not configuring.

AI interaction is private. CBRP never sees queries. What we see is what happens after — how users reorient their intelligence feed.
Reorientation is more valuable than the query. Alert topic changes, watch list additions, briefing priority shifts — these represent committed action, not idle curiosity.
The collective signal improves everyone's briefing. When 30 fintech GCs independently add the same regulatory topic, the 31st GC gets it proactively — before they even know to look.
"Nobody shares their destination. But everyone's driving behavior improves everyone else's route." — Waze model applied to regulatory intelligence
ChatGPT / Harvey
Learns from documents.
Every user starts from zero.
CBRP
Learns from attention.
Every user improves the network.
The Feedback Loop
User reads briefing
↓
Client-side AI assists  (private — CBRP never sees)
↓
Reorientation: alert changes · saves · dismissals  (server-side, observable)
↓
Network signal → improves intelligence for all users
loop repeats daily
Low-Friction Data Collection
The briefing IS the configuration interface. Users just read.
Saves · Config changes
~5% · High-conviction signal
Tap-throughs · Thumbs up/down
~10–20% · Explicit preference
Opens · Dwell time · Swipe-dismiss
100% of users · Captured passively
Even at 25% engagement — realistic for busy GCs — implicit signals are sufficient. The product doesn't depend on power users. Every tier generates usable signal.
The Data Asset

What we collect. What it becomes. What we don't touch.

What We Collect
  • 1
    Alert topic configuration changes
  • 2
    Briefing engagement patterns — open / save / dismiss / share
  • 3
    Watch list additions and removals
  • 4
    Engagement cadence shifts
  • 5
    Structured template selections
  • 6
    Periodic relevance check-in responses
  • 7
    Profile data — company, role, industry, size
What we don't collect: AI conversation content. Ever. The AI layer is private by design. This is not a policy — it's architecture.
The subscription revenue is the business today. The product architecture generates structured behavioral data as a byproduct. That data feeds back into the product immediately. At scale, it becomes a proprietary intelligence asset.
At Scale, This Becomes
Sector-level reorientation detection
What's emerging before it's news — derived from collective attention shifts across thousands of professionals.
Cross-role correlation signals
GC + director behavior at the same company = confirmation signal. Board-level attention predicts GC priority.
Temporal propagation mapping
Large company GCs reorient first. Mid-market follows 6–8 weeks later. The pattern is predictive.
Regulatory burden quantification
From actual behavioral data — not surveys, not proxies. What practitioners actually pay attention to.
Known Challenges — Intellectual Honesty
  • Self-selection bias: early adopters are more engaged than the median GC
  • Product must actively drive reconfiguration events — passive reading alone isn't enough
  • Data value scales nonlinearly — meaningful signal requires 10K+ users
Expansion Pipeline

Same engine. New persona. New vertical. Weeks, not months.

NOW
Live
CounselBrief
$49–99/mo
General Counsel · Legal Leaders
DirectorBrief
$149/mo
Board Directors
RegulatorPulse
$29–49/mo
Small Business Owners
Q3 2026
CFOBrief
$99–149/mo
CFOs · Finance · Tax Law · FASB · SEC
RegulatorPulse Phase 2
$199–799/mo
SMB Full Compliance Platform
Q4 2026
CISOBrief
$149–199/mo
CISOs · Threat Intel · Compliance · Vulnerability Alerts
HRBrief
$79–99/mo
CHROs · Employment Law · DOL · EEOC
2027
ParentPulse
$19–29/mo
Parents · Child Safety · School Policy · Education Regs
FreelancerPulse
$19–29/mo
Freelancers · Gig Workers · Tax · Contractor Law
HomePulse
$19–29/mo
Homeowners · HOA · Zoning · Property Regs
Traction

Three live products. Real users. Zero marketing spend.

3
Live products, all in beta
<24hr
Ideation → live (DirectorBrief)
$0
Marketing spend to date
CounselBrief — Beta Accounts

Testing with GC network — real in-house counsel at recognizable companies.

Auctane
Upland Software
Trellix
YETI Holdings
8am.ai
OT Incubator
DirectorBrief — Co-Founder Signal

Kinloch (Kin) Gill, CLO at Auctane, is in equity discussions as co-founder. Sitting CLO with practitioner peer network — the ideal distribution flywheel for the GC market.

Proof of Velocity
⚡
DirectorBrief: concept → live in <24 hours
Validates the platform architecture thesis
🎯
Built by the person who lived the problem
28-year big law partner. Not academic — operational.
🔗
Domain authority acquired: cbrp.ai, counselbrief.com, directorbrief.ai, regulatorpulse.com
Infrastructure in place, not hypothetical

"The $3M doesn't build the product — the product is built. The $3M buys the customers."

Use of Funds

$3M seed — buying customers, not building product.

$3M SEED ROUND
50%
$1,500,000
Demand Generation
Content marketing · LinkedIn/X paid · Conference sponsorships (ABA, ACC, NACD) · GC & director network outreach
25%
$750,000
Product Engineering
2 engineers · Production LLM integration · Conversation memory · Real-time regulatory feeds
15%
$450,000
Sales (DirectorBrief)
2 SDRs for director outbound · Directors don't self-serve; peer-driven outreach required
10%
$300,000
Operations
LLC → C-corp conversion · Legal · Accounting · Insurance · Infrastructure
Team

Built by a practitioner.
Not a lawyer pretending to do tech. Not a technologist pretending to understand law.

ST
Steve Tyndall
Founder & CEO
  • 28 years as a Big Law partner — top-tier US firms
  • Served as outside counsel to Fortune 500 GCs across multiple industries
  • Lived the problem: experienced firsthand the intelligence gap he's solving
  • Built the initial products and platform architecture personally
  • Domain expertise gives CBRP product credibility competitors cannot manufacture
"I didn't build this because I saw a market opportunity. I built it because I lived the problem for 28 years and was frustrated there was nothing like this."
KG
Kinloch (Kin) Gill
Prospective Co-Founder · CLO, Auctane
  • Current Chief Legal Officer at Auctane (Austin, TX)
  • Sitting practitioner — validates product from an active GC's perspective
  • Peer network in the GC community: natural distribution for CounselBrief
  • Direct-to-customer credibility — the right person to open enterprise doors
Status: Equity conversation in progress — not yet committed. We're disclosing this honestly. The conversation itself is signal: a sitting CLO at a real company chose to explore this. That's validation, not risk.
Hiring with the $3M
2 Engineers (Product)
2 SDRs (DirectorBrief)
Head of Content / Growth
The Ask
$3,000,000
Seed Round  ·  CBRP Co.  ·  cbrp.ai
Milestones — This Round
1
12-month: 500 paying CounselBrief subscribers @ $99/mo avg = $594K ARR. Unit economics proven.
2
18-month: DirectorBrief at 150+ paying directors. CFOBrief launched. Total ARR $1.2M+.
3
24-month: 4 verticals live. Attention network data self-reinforcing. Series A ready at $5M+ ARR.
5-Year Vision
Yr 1–2
Build user base across CB + DB + RP. Prove unit economics. SaaS subscription revenue is the business.
Yr 3
Attention network data becomes self-reinforcing. Product differentiation compounds — briefing quality gap widens vs. any new entrant.
Yr 4–5
Anonymized behavioral intelligence products for PE firms and consultancies. Second revenue layer — data, not subscriptions.
The subscription business funds the network. The network funds the data business. The sequence matters.
Steve Tyndall  ·  steve@cbrp.ai  ·  cbrp.ai