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DoNotPay

AI chatbot that drafts legal letters, appeals parking tickets, files small claims paperwork, and cancels subscriptions for consumers, no lawyer required.

DoNotPay was founded in 2015 by Joshua Browder, then a Stanford dropout who built a free tool to help London drivers contest parking tickets by mail. The idea expanded into a subscription app branded as the "world's first robot lawyer," using template generation and chat prompts to help consumers dispute charges, request refunds, and draft legal correspondence across dozens of everyday situations. In February 2025, the Federal Trade Commission finalized an order against DoNotPay requiring it to pay $193,000 in consumer redress and barring the company from claiming its AI performs like a licensed attorney. The FTC found DoNotPay had never tested its outputs against the work of a real lawyer and employed none, despite marketing language suggesting it could replace legal services. The company continued operating after the settlement and has kept expanding its library of consumer-dispute templates. DoNotPay is privately held and has raised roughly $28 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Coatue, Founders Fund, and Lux Capital, reaching a peak valuation near $210 million in 2021.

Founded

2015

Headquarters

San Francisco, United States

Sector

applications