AttiFin Raises £5m Seed Round to Build the UK's First AI Legal Platform Trained on British Law

December 10, 2025

AttiFin AI, a UK legal technology startup, has closed £5 million in seed funding ahead of its planned launch in early 2026. The round was backed by the founders of Scrumconnect, a technology consultancy with extensive experience building digital systems for the UK public sector, including programmes commissioned by His Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service and the Ministry of Justice. That institutional grounding is central to AttiFin's founding proposition: building AI tools that reflect the genuine complexity and jurisdictional specificity of British law, rather than adapting general-purpose models for a legal use case.

The UK legal sector presents a substantial and growing market for AI-native tools. PwC estimated the sector's total value at around £40 billion in 2024, with steady growth forecast over the following five years. At the same time, investment into legal technology is accelerating rapidly: LawtechUK data shows that UK lawtech companies raised £116.6 million in the first half of 2025 alone, almost matching the full-year total for 2024. Enterprise legal teams — including in-house counsel, barristers' chambers, and large law firms — are increasingly under pressure to improve throughput and reduce costs, but remain sceptical of AI tools that cannot demonstrate accuracy, proper citation, and jurisdictional reliability. That scepticism has created an opening for purpose-built platforms.

AttiFin's platform is designed to serve that precise requirement. It is trained on UK and devolved law — covering England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland — and is built to provide legal professionals with sourced answers and case-ready drafts rather than general-purpose text generation. The system is engineered with guardrails intended to reduce hallucinations, keeps citations prominent throughout, and operates within UK data centres to comply with data residency standards expected in legal environments. Co-founders Shilpa Kaluti, who serves as CEO, and Praveen Karadigudd are leading a build that draws on Scrumconnect's track record in delivering reliable public-sector technology at scale.

The £5 million will primarily fund a significant hiring programme and an operational relocation. AttiFin has committed to creating at least 25 technical roles over the next year, spanning AI engineering, platform engineering, and data expertise, alongside commercial positions in business development, marketing, and legal subject-matter research. The company is also relocating from London to Newcastle, a decision the founders frame as both a practical and strategic choice: the region has a growing pool of AI talent, established universities with strong computer science programmes, and a concentration of legal service providers operating nationally and internationally. The move also positions AttiFin as a signal that world-class legal technology does not need to originate in the capital.

The funding arrives at an inflection point for AI adoption in legal services. General-purpose language models have demonstrated that AI can assist with legal research and document review, but enterprise buyers in the legal sector remain cautious, particularly around accuracy and jurisdiction. AttiFin's thesis is that a model trained exclusively on British law, deployed in a UK data centre, and built by a team with direct experience of national justice infrastructure, can earn the trust that generic tools have struggled to acquire. With £16.6 million invested into lawtech in just the first half of 2025, the market is clearly receptive; the question is which platforms can deliver the reliability that legal professionals require in client-facing work.

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