An employment law advice service powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and now spun out of a London law firm is looking to team up with unions, charities and advice centres.
Grapple founder Alex Monaco argued that “the law is not owned by lawyers” and that “you’ve got to disrupt yourself or someone else will”.
Grapple allows users to track their workplace grievances, assesses whether they have a case and helps write legal letters to employers.
It is the brainchild of London firm Monaco Solicitors, which calls itself the largest employment law practice in the country that only works for claimants and in recent years created its Virtual Lawyer service.
In 2020, it received a 99,000 grant from government-backed Innovate UK, to develop the service to provide representation to people whose employment rights were infringed during the pandemic. The following year, it won the Law Society award for excellence in technology and innovation/
Mr Monaco said he was in advanced talks with unions, charities and advice centres to license the technology and offer it to their members and users, and “level the playing field” with employers who have HR and lawyers to back them.
Workers can try it for free but a premium version is also in the pipeline, while he said he was open to white labelling Grapple for other law firms.
It covers all types of employment law. “That’s why it was so difficult to build… and why you had to be a law firm and tech company rolled into one,” he said.
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