Saam Mashhad spent years as a litigation attorney watching personal injury clients abandon valid cases under the weight of paperwork. Demand letters took weeks, settlements stalled, and many simply walked away.
In 2019, he co-founded EvenUp with Rami Karabibar and Raymond Mieszaniec to address the issue, starting with AI that drafts demand letters in hours instead of weeks. For Mieszaniec, the problem was personal. His father was permanently disabled after a car accident, exposing the family to how slow and difficult the claims process can be.
That focus has fueled rapid growth. In October 2025, EvenUp raised a $150 million Series E led by Bessemer at a valuation above $2 billion, bringing total funding to $385 million. The company says its platform has supported more than 200,000 cases and helped secure over $10 billion in damages. It is now used by more than 2,000 firms, including 20% of the top 100 personal injury firms in the United States.
The trajectory reflects a broader shift in legal AI from document generation toward end-to-end workflow automation.
EvenUp today launched Communication Agents™ and expanded its AI Drafts Suite, with Mashhad unveiling the updates during a keynote at the National Trial Lawyers Summit in Miami. Early deployments show Communication Agents reclaim more than nine hours per case, eliminating hundreds of hours of administrative work across active caseloads.
The expansion moves EvenUp beyond drafting into automating the day-to-day work that slows cases down, including client communications, follow-ups, and case progression tasks. The goal is to enable legal teams to focus on strategy, client relationships, and outcomes rather than administrative overhead.
Mashhad framed the shift directly.
“Everyone’s asking if AI will replace people,” he said. “Wrong question. The right question is: why is your best case manager on minute 43 of a phone call, spelling names using the NATO alphabet, only to learn the account went to collections months ago? We’re not replacing people. We’re replacing friction.”