Claudius.ai
Pre-SeedThe AI for PI
AI-powered legal intelligence platform that evaluates personal injury cases and produces data-backed settlement valuations.
About
Claudius Legal Intelligence uses artificial intelligence — natural language processing, machine learning, and predictive analytics — to process new personal injury cases, identify the key legal issues, and produce a data-backed valuation of what each case is worth. Named after Emperor Claudius, who legalized legal representation in ancient Rome, the platform serves as an AI co-counsel that helps attorneys pick the right cases, evaluate settlement offers, and simulate trial strategies. Spun out of Princeton University, the team has accumulated detailed records from over 50,000 modern cases across 1.5+ years, creating a proprietary data moat. The platform targets the $35.2 billion annual personal injury market, where only 4% of cases ever go to trial, leaving most attorneys without adequate data to evaluate settlement fairness.
DailyDropout Take
Claudius caught our attention as a Princeton spinout tackling one of the most data-asymmetric markets in law — personal injury settlements where insurance companies have long held algorithmic advantages over plaintiff attorneys. With 50,000+ case records and a founder who bridges law and computational research, Claudius is building the AI co-counsel that could reshape how PI cases are valued.
Discovery signal: Princeton University spinout with dual JD/PhD founder, proprietary dataset of 50,000+ case records, targeting $35.2B annual PI market with clear data asymmetry problem
What Makes Them Unique
Claudius is one of the first platforms to apply NLP and predictive analytics specifically to personal injury case valuation from the plaintiff attorney's perspective, leveling the playing field against insurance company algorithms that have long had a data advantage.
50,000+
Case Records
$35.2B annually
PI Market Size
10+
Early Adopter Firms
Target Markets
Founders
Joseph Avery
Co-Founder & CEO
JD/PhD student at Princeton University with a background in computational law. Former attorney whose dissertation research explored inequality and inefficiency in the legal system, leading to the founding of Claudius.
Zhe Chen
Co-Founder & Chief Data Officer
Graduate student in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. Co-founded Claudius to apply advanced data science techniques to legal case evaluation.
Key People
Funding History
Lead: America's Seed Fund (NSF)