Wingman Law, a Y Combinator Fall 2026 startup, has opened a San Francisco personal injury firm in which attorneys direct AI agents in place of case managers, according to its YC Launch post. The company is two people strong, and it is betting that a firm built around AI from the first day can outrun one retrofitting the technology onto an existing operation.
The timing is pointed. The launch arrives weeks after Morgan & Morgan, a major U.S. personal injury firm, announced it would spend $1 billion on AI over the next decade.
What the firm does
Wingman handles personal injury cases on contingency. "We only get paid when our clients win," the company wrote in its post.
Its pitch rests on a blunt diagnosis: "Personal injury is bottlenecked by humans." The firm says cases move faster, and clients see more of their attorney, when lawyers rather than case managers run the work.
To make that happen, the company says it built its own operating platform. "We built our own operating platform for the firm, where attorneys can direct AI agents in plain English," the post said. YC's launch materials describe the system as coordinating agents across communications and evidence. As of Oct. 30, no technical documentation, vendor list, or architecture details had been published, so how much of this works as described remains untested outside the company.
Wingman Labs and the data
The firm's website names Wingman Labs as the engineering team behind the practice. According to the site, Labs turns claim data, policy language, medical evidence, and insurer behavior into systems for building cases and challenging low settlement offers.
The site also offers a "case constellation," a data explorer built on SetCalc's Personal Injury Settlement and Verdict Database. SetCalc lists more than 17,000 publicly available settlements and verdicts, last updated Aug. 4, 2026, under a CC-BY-4.0 license. Wingman credits the dataset as a source; it does not describe a formal partnership.
Who is behind it
Sun Woo Lee is founder and CEO. The firm's team page says Lee worked in litigation at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Fish & Richardson, and holds a JD from Harvard Law School along with a BA and MS from Stanford. Lee's YC profile adds that Lee was previously CEO and co-founder of Cromatic and "built and sold $350K of legaltech to law firms during law school."
Nicholas Le, founder and chief product officer, is also the firm's managing attorney. His YC profile lists him as employee No. 2 at StrongSuit, a litigation AI platform, with plaintiff-side personal injury experience at Habbas Law and insurance defense experience at Kern Segal & Murray. The profile and the firm's bio both cite work on more than 700 personal injury cases. He holds a BA and JD from Creighton University, and the site says he is licensed in California, though a State Bar search did not conclusively turn up a match.
Lee framed the firm's philosophy on LinkedIn: "We are a personal injury law firm built on the principle that cases should not depend on people remembering what to do."
Coverage and funding
Wingman says it serves clients across California, including all 101 incorporated Bay Area cities and towns. It takes car, truck, motorcycle, Uber and Lyft, pedestrian, and bicycle accidents, along with slip and falls, dog bites, premises liability, defective products, catastrophic injury, and wrongful death. The website interface is available in Korean, Spanish, and Vietnamese.
The company has not disclosed a funding round, revenue, or user numbers. YC's standard deal is $500,000: $125,000 for 7% on a post-money SAFE (a simple agreement for future equity) plus a $375,000 uncapped MFN SAFE. CB Insights lists an unclaimed $0.5 million convertible note dated Jan. 1, 2026, with YC as investor. That entry is unverified until the company confirms it.
A crowded and regulated field
Morgan & Morgan announced Sept. 14 that it would spend $1 billion on AI over the next decade, Bloomberg Government reported. The firm plans to sell its in-house agentic product, MX2, to other firms in 2027. "The law firms that survive and lead will be the ones that don't just license an AI tool, but whose attorneys inform the AI models with their own knowledge and experience," the firm said, per Bloomberg Government.
Others are moving as well. Justpoint Law said on March 10 that it had become the first AI-native mass tort firm approved under Arizona's alternative business structure rules. Ricci Law Firm and Jeffrey Glassman Injury Lawyers announced adoption of the Eve platform in January and February, respectively. Within YC, Blueshoe (X25) runs an AI-native consumer and plaintiff firm, and General Legal (W26) runs a transactional one.
California may be a harder place to attempt this. The state continues to apply Rule 5.4-style limits on fee-sharing and ownership with nonlawyers, according to the State Bar's rules, and a DLA Piper update in October 2026 pointed to tighter restrictions on investor control in litigation practices.
Hiring
Wingman is recruiting. A litigation attorney role pays $101,000 to $250,000 plus 0.50% to 5.00% equity, based in San Francisco or remote within the U.S., and new graduates are welcome. A legal operations engineer role pays $81,000 to $190,000 plus 0.50% to 3.00% equity, hybrid in the Bay Area or remote, and requires at least one year of experience.
For now, the team listed in YC's directory numbers two.
