Guideli

Guideli is an AI-powered compliance and documentation platform for licensed legal practitioners, positioned as workflow infrastructure that integrates into existing law firm processes rather than as a standalone tool. The platform ingests case materials and organizes them through structured, compliance-aware workflows; generates documentation; flags completeness gaps; and applies quality-control checks with traceability of each output and decision point. All outputs require review and approval by a licensed attorney before use, a design intended to keep human legal judgment central and to align AI-generated content with professional responsibility standards. Stated platform capabilities include document quality scoring, filing completeness analysis, an attorney review workflow, a full audit trail, an error detection layer, and multi-domain support.

The company's earlier public positioning was consumer-facing: a settlement management platform providing personalized relocation resources and AI-assisted drafting and management of immigrant visa applications, intended to cover the full migration journey from pre-departure through settlement rather than visa filing alone. Coverage from 2023-2024 described the founders as Daniel Jayeoba and Oyebade Adepegba, both of whom qualified as attorneys with immigration law experience, and reported roughly five employees as of January 2024.

Founding story

Co-founders Daniel Jayeoba and Oyebade Adepegba moved from Nigeria to the United States for education and encountered difficulty determining their legal status, navigating the new environment and building community, citing a lack of information and the expense of legal options. After speaking with other newcomers they concluded the problem was widespread, then qualified as attorneys and gained immigration law experience before launching Guideli in 2022.

Business model

Guideli sells into law firms and compliance-focused organizations, with the platform deployed as infrastructure inside firm workflows and engagement initiated through demo requests. In its earlier consumer-oriented form, the company described a revenue strategy based on advertising from entities targeting immigrants plus a premium subscription for access to AI-assisted immigration management tools.

Earlier public statements describe advertising revenue from entities targeting immigrants together with a premium subscription for AI-assisted immigration management tools; the current platform is sold to law firms and compliance-focused organizations.

Traction

The company reports adoption by law firms across ten countries, a stated 7x improvement in case preparation speed, 100% attorney-reviewed outputs, and a measurable reduction in requests for evidence. Earlier coverage reported over 10,000 potential users on a waitlist, described by the founder as representing potential revenue of $18 million, with a first event drawing over 500 sign-ups in under an hour, and about five employees as of January 2024.

Latest developments

Guideli's public materials describe recognition by the AILA Technology Advisory Group (June 2024), selection for the Innovator's Spotlight Session at the AILA Innovation and Technology Summit (September 2024), and commentary from Yale Law School professor Scott Shapiro. The platform is presented as commercially adopted by firms across ten countries.