An employment law platform which has helped 12,000 people bring their own tribunal claims – providing unbundled services – has raised 2m in seed funding, mainly to further develop its use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).

Danae Shell, founder and chief executive of Valla, said GenAI could already develop a “hunch” as to what people’s employment claims were really about and pass this on to Valla’s ‘legal coaches’, who are either solicitors or HR professionals.

Ms Shell said people could often run their own employments cases but “struggle to identify in legal terms what has happened to them”.

GenAI could not only summarise documents but develop a “hunch” based on them as to what the claims really were and brief Valla’s coaches.

“The coach can then validate the hunch. Rather than spending time getting up to speed, the coaches can get to the heart of the matter so much faster.”

Ms Shell said GenAI could also take notes of the conversation between worker and coach, which takes place through a video call on the Valla platform, and write a report.

“All the legal professional needs to do is check and revise the report before sending it off, rather than drafting it.

“It’s classic unbundling. It’s important for people to be able to talk to someone with experience of employment law. How can we make it as affordable as possible?”

Valla, which helps people bring employment tribunal claims but does not represent them, charges 225 for a preliminary hearing preparation...

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