Olive uses AI to summarize client medical records for personal injury lawyers. We're at $5k MRR after launching five weeks ago, and law firms choose us because we double paralegal efficiency.

Sam's ex-girlfriend introduced him to Greg back at CMU in 2017, and while that relationship didn't last, their friendship has. After undergrad, Greg went to Harvard Law School, while Sam worked for three years at Jane Street, including a year in Hong Kong where he built out a satellite dev team for the algo options trading desk.

Greg graduated, Sam quit, and we founded Olive with a big idea: use AI to make the law more accessible. We started with AI in corporate law given Greg's background, but quickly realized the space was crowded, and turned our attention to the under-competed $65B personal injury market.

AI disruption makes a lot of sense in personal injury because the incentives are aligned—plaintiff lawyers are paid on contingency, and therefore love time-saving tools. We have competitors who have proven substantial demand for medical chronologies, but they operate at best on hybrid human/AI approaches with multi-day turnarounds. We think there's space for an AI solution that cuts humans out of the loop entirely with instant turnarounds, and we think we're the right team to do it.

Up next, we will capture an increasing share of the value paralegals provide personal injury lawyers. We also see Olive expanding beyond just personal injury—interpreting unstructured medical data is critical for insurers to defend malpractice claims, class action firms to assemble plaintiffs, claimants to appeal insurance denials, providers to improve outcomes, the Social Security Administration to process disability applications speedily—we could go on. We're on a mission to remove barriers to information transfer, and therefore make justice more accessible.
AI medical summaries for personal injury lawyers.
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### AI medical summaries for personal injury lawyers.

Olive uses AI to summarize client medical records for personal injury lawyers. We're at $13k MRR after launching eight weeks ago, and law firms choose us because we double paralegal efficiency. Sam's ex-girlfriend introduced him to Greg back at CMU in 2017, and while that relationship didn't last, their friendship has. After undergrad, Greg went to Harvard Law School, while Sam worked for three years at Jane Street, including a year in Hong Kong where he built out a satellite dev team for the algo options trading desk. Greg graduated, Sam quit, and we founded Olive with a big idea: use AI to make the law more accessible. We started with AI in corporate law given Greg's background, but quickly realized the space was crowded, and turned our attention to the under-competed $65B personal injury market. AI disruption makes a lot of sense in personal injury because the incentives are aligned—plaintiff lawyers are paid on contingency, and therefore love time-saving tools. We have competitors who have proven substantial demand for medical chronologies, but they operate at best on hybrid human/AI approaches with multi-day turnarounds. We think there's space for an AI solution that cuts humans out of the loop entirely with instant turnarounds, and we think we're the right team to do it. We're focusing on the medical malpractice niche within personal injury, because there's a massive access to justice problem: medical malpractice lawyers decline most cases under $250k since they're too expensive to litigate. An estimated 80% of medical malpractice victims can't secure representation right now, and we're on a mission to change that by making the litigation process cheaper, at the same time unlocking a massive market of latent demand.



Olive Legal

Founded:2024

Team Size:2

Location:San Francisco

### Active Founders

### Greg Volynsky, Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Olive. Greg graduated Harvard Law School cum laude, where he focused on administrative law, comparative electoral systems, and avoiding contract law. Greg was a summer associate at Cravath. He bootstrapped his first company, which continues to operate, as a freshman at Carnegie Mellon. Greg was a fellow at BRI Excel Ventures. Greg is interested in 20th century political history, Soviet bard music & climbing.



### Sam Damashek, Founder

Sam is the co-founder and CTO of Olive. He worked for three years at Jane Street on the options trading desk writing algorithmic strategies using applied ML, for two years in NYC and then one year in Hong Kong, where he built out a satellite dev team for the Asia options markets. He graduated with a BS in Computer Science from CMU, where for some reason he led a fledging constitutional law debate team, never to victory though frequently to Ohio.



### Company Launches

[### Olive Legal: AI summaries of medical records for personal injury lawyers](

**tl;dr:** Olive uses AI to summarize client medical records for personal injury lawyers. We're at $5k MRR after launching five weeks ago, and PI firms choose us because we double the efficiency of their paralegals.

Hi everyone! We’re [Sam]( and [Greg]( and we’re the team behind [Olive](



Sam's ex-girlfriend introduced him to Greg back at CMU in 2017, and while that relationship didn't last, our friendship has. After undergrad, Greg (left) went to Harvard Law School ⚖️, while Sam (right) worked for three years at Jane Street, including a year in Hong Kong, where he built out a satellite dev team for the algo options trading desk 📈.

Greg graduated, Sam quit, and we founded Olive with a big idea: use AI to make the law more accessible. Given Greg's background, we started with AI in corporate law but quickly realized the space was crowded and turned our attention to the under-competed $65B personal injury market.

Why personal injury law?
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The incentives are aligned—plaintiff lawyers are paid on contingency and, therefore, love time-saving tools. Paralegals are expensive, and LLMs are getting good enough that, with care, they can replace specific paralegal tasks.

Why Olive?
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We have competitors who have proven substantial demand for medical chronologies, but they operate at best on hybrid human/AI approaches with multi-day turnarounds. We think there's space for an AI solution that cuts humans out of the loop entirely with instant turnarounds, and we think we're the right team to do it.

Okay, but actually, why call it Olive 🫒?
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I guess we liked the color scheme?

What’s next?
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We will capture an increasing share of the value paralegals provide personal injury lawyers. We also see Olive expanding beyond just personal injury—interpreting unstructured medical data is critical for insurers to defend malpractice claims, class action firms to assemble plaintiffs, claimants to appeal insurance denials, providers to improve outcomes, the Social Security Administration to process disability applications speedily—we could go on. We're on a mission to remove barriers to information transfer, and therefore make justice more accessible.

Our ask 🙏
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If you know any personal injury lawyers, send them over to [our website]( or have them [book a demo directly](
