Ryan is Co-Founder at General Legal, an AI native law firm for growth stage companies that delivers contract reviews in hours for a fraction of traditional costs.

Ryan was CTO at Casetext, a legal tech company acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023, where he led AI product development and later became VP Technology for CoCounsel. He holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky.

At Casetext, Ryan built AI products including CoCounsel, the world's first AI legal assistant, and has over a decade of experience in legal tech and machine learning.

General Legal was founded in 2025 and is part of Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch, offering commercial contracting services with proprietary AI workflows that enable 10x efficiency.

Since launching their private preview, General Legal has onboarded over 20 growth stage companies for commercial contracting and offers free first contract reviews to new clients.