We previously featured an article by Bintang Hidayanto, CEO and co-founder of Gani.ai, on how AI is transforming the legal industry, not replacing lawyers but redefining how they work (and just as importantly, how people work with them).
Founded by Bintang Hidayanto and Timur Nugroho in 2023, Gani.ai is developing AI-driven legal intelligence solutions designed to bring efficiency and clarity to a traditionally complex industry.
As Gani.ai embarks on its mission to transform the legal industry, here are five key reasons underpinning our conviction in its potential:
II. 5 Reasons We Are Investing in Gani.ai
(1) Founder-Market Fit in Bintang Hidayanto’s Expertise as a Lawyer
Gani.ai was co-founded by Bintang Hidayanto, whose 15-year career as a lawyer, including setting up a distinguished law firm in Indonesia (counting over 70 accomplished attorneys and 15 partners in 2023).
Gani.ai isn’t just a tech solution looking for a problem; it’s a lawyer-driven initiative addressing deeply understood inefficiencies and pain points within the legal profession. Bintang’s firsthand experience ensures Gani.ai is focused on practical, impactful solutions for real-world legal challenges.
(2) When APAC’s massive legal industry meets AI (with proven outcomes globally)
Legal tech tools and platforms streamline processes, improve efficiency, and enable data-driven decision-making. The rapid advancements in technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation, have paved the way for innovative solutions in areas such as contract analysis, legal research, e-discovery, and case management.
Existing players like LegalZoom (founded in 2001 in the US, IPO in 2021), Clio (founded in 2008 in Canada, most recently raising a US$900 million round in 2024 at US$3B valuation), and Casetext (founded in 2013 in the US, acquired by Thomson Reuters for US$650 million in 2023) have been role models for legaltech globally.
Then you have new entrants like HarveyAI (founded in 2022 in the US, most recently raised US$300 million in a Sequoia-led round as the company targets US$100 million ARR) introduce themselves as generative AI players in the legal space.
On the other hand, the APAC legal market is estimated at US$128.71 billion in 2025, and is expected to reach USD 161.01 billion by 2030, at a CAGR of 4.58%.
From a bottom-up perspective of looking at lawyers in specific markets and the average revenue from each lawyer (research from 2023), you have a roughly US$2 billion market in each Singapore (US$1.8 billion), Indonesia (US$2.5 billion), and Malaysia (US$2.37 billion), and a US$21 billion market in a more developed market like Australia.
When you factor in the market sizes of corporate secretarial services, fund administration, corporate transactions (M&A, debt restructuring, reorganization, etc.), and litigation, you have a significant market opportunity for legal tech in APAC, with proven outcomes in North America.
The rise of vertical AI, which specializes in specific industries like law, and agentic AI, capable of more autonomous and complex task handling, signals a new frontier. Gani.ai is poised to capitalize on this, moving beyond generic AI to offer the specialized, reliable intelligence demanded by the legal sector.
(3) Gani.ai’s Multi-Model Approach: Specialized, Secure, and Not a Generalist LLM
Gani.ai’s platform combines generative AI, natural language processing (NLP), and legal expertise to automate and enhance legal document workflows. The platform offers intelligent contract drafting, review automation, and legal risk assessment, allowing lawyers, businesses, and enterprises to save time and reduce errors in high-stakes legal work.
The platform differentiates itself by not acting like a generalist LLM-powered chatbot or AI assistant. It employs an agentic approach, leveraging multiple specialized LLMs that work in unison to provide accurate, context-aware legal insights.
Critically, Gani.ai is trained on rigorous, industry-standard data (for example, like publicly available filings) and ensures user data from chats is not incorporated into its models. From a product perspective, preventing chat inputs from being incorporated into the AI does not only protect users by guaranteeing data privacy and trust but also reduces the risk of hallucination.
(4) Wide Range of Practical Use Cases Across Industries and Jurisdictions
The practical value of Gani.ai is consistently demonstrated through various use cases across jurisdictions and languages that Bintang Hidayanto often shares, including via his LinkedIn posts. Specifically, he shares outputs of Gani based on regulatory developments and legal scenarios:
- Gani.AI Alert – Legal Implications of Indonesia’s Amended State-Owned Enterprise Law
- Terms and Conditions for AI Platform Services 利用規約 – AIプラットフォームサービス
- Review Of Conditional Share Purchase Agreement (Gani draft)
- Mabo Case Impact on Australian Contracts – by Gani.AI
- Conditional Share Purchase Agreement – Drafted by Gani
- LEGAL BRIEF: PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO INDONESIA’S STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISE LAW
Gani.ai is designed to serve a diverse range of users, from law firms and in-house counsel to multinational corporations, ensuring scalable solutions tailored to various legal needs. Its AI-driven capabilities include real-time contract analysis, contextual legal suggestions, and seamless integration with existing legal workflows, making it a powerful tool for modern legal practitioners.
(5) Alignment with Insignia’s Thesis: AI Disruption in Traditional Industries
Our investment in Gani.ai is a direct reflection of Insignia Ventures Partners’ strategy to back companies using AI to fundamentally disrupt traditional industries.
The legal field, often characterized by long-standing practices and high barriers, is a prime candidate for such transformation. Gani.ai embodies this disruptive potential, bringing sophisticated AI to modernize legal services, enhance accessibility, and drive efficiency.
As our managing partner Yinglan shared in a CNBC article: “…find what may be “seen as a traditional business, but [injecting] AI into it, to make it more efficient, increase margins, optimize revenue, open up new products, and have an online, offline experience.”
While Gani.ai does not have any offline component to its business and is a pure platform play, the goal is to be able to embed this tool in transactions and operations that will necessarily have an “offline” or face-to-face component (e.g., speaking to lawyers, meeting with different stakeholders, etc.).
Insignia Ventures Partners is proud to back Gani.ai in its journey to revolutionize the legal industry. With Bintang Hidayanto’s deep legal expertise, a significant market opportunity driven by specialized AI, a unique agentic and secure technological approach, strong alignment with our AI disruption thesis, and a wealth of practical use cases, Gani.ai is exceptionally positioned to make legal intelligence more accessible and efficient.
Paulo Joquiño is a writer and content producer for tech companies, and co-author of the book Navigating ASEANnovation. He is currently Editor of Insignia Business Review, the official publication of Insignia Ventures Partners, and senior content strategist for the venture capital firm, where he started right after graduation. As a university student, he took up multiple work opportunities in content and marketing for startups in Asia. These included interning as an associate at G3 Partners, a Seoul-based marketing agency for tech startups, running tech community engagements at coworking space and business community, ASPACE Philippines, and interning at workspace marketplace FlySpaces. He graduated with a BS Management Engineering at Ateneo de Manila University in 2019.
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