To our early visitors, viewers and customers:

Hi, I’m Cecilia. As the CEO and Co-Founder of Talking Tree, I want to extend a heartfelt welcome to our blog, The Branch. I’m deeply grateful for your unwavering support and sponsorship, without which we could never have turned our vision into the reality it is today.

Why We Made Talking Tree

Talking Tree began with a desire to improve access to legal resources for small and midsize companies. When I transitioned from Meta to a smaller publicly traded company, I saw firsthand just how challenging legal scaling could be for growing businesses. Faced with exorbitant costs, small teams, and a mountain of mislabeled, unsearchable documents, we found ourselves constantly racing against time and battling inefficiency. And this wasn’t just our struggle—it was the reality for many small businesses and startups. They had to choose between bottlenecking their business with slow processes or incurring significant overhead costs for legal and compliance. Fast growth was simply not an option, and every headcount mattered.

That’s why we made Talking Tree. Our idea is simple: we want to make legal services affordable for small businesses. Our AI-powered platform reduce organizational burdens and overhead costs by taking L1 and L2 legal tasks in-house, while our network connect them to a quality outside counsel that is right for their industry and budget. For example, Redwood, our AI-guided repository that enables small businesses, startup lawyers, and entrepeneurs to tackle house keeping legal tasks such as drafting contracts and writing collection letters in a matter of minutes. Redwood also helps interpret lengthy agreements into plain english action items, and use natural language to extract key terms, create tables of terms, and compare multiple documents to keep your business information at your fingertips. Essentially, it’s a startup legal garage where the contract manager is built right into the repository.

What’s on the Horizon: Roble, Fir, and Teak

We’re also working on other products, including Roble, Fir, and Teak. These tools are being designed with the same mission in mind: to provide affordable legal help and direct-to-consumer legal service products that empower small businesses and startups. When these beta products are ready, I’ll be excited to share more details. For our existing customers, we’ll be offering these beta products to test for free, along with a discount on the final market-ready versions.

A Sincere Thank You

Thank you again for your belief in us and our mission. Your support drives us to keep innovating and providing affordable legal solutions that truly make a difference. Whether you’re seeking to address one-off tasks or looking for affordable legal services for your startup, we’re here to help.

All the best,

Cecilia