Crosby vs HAQQ

Crosby is worth being precise about: it is not a vendor whose product you install and run yourself. Crosby Legal PLLC is a licensed law firm — described by its own CEO Ryan Daniels as a "neofirm" — where roughly 30 human lawyers work alongside AI agents to review and negotiate commercial contracts (NDAs, MSAs, DPAs, services agreements) for clients, billed per contract or page rather than by the hour. Founded in September 2024 in New York by Daniels (ex-in-house counsel, Stanford Law, Cooley) and CTO John Sarihan (ex-Ramp engineering), Crosby has built real traction: named clients include Cursor, Clay, Cognition, and Tishman Speyer.

That distinction matters more than any feature comparison. A firm evaluating "Crosby vs HAQQ" isn't choosing between two pieces of software — it's choosing between outsourcing contract review to an outside firm's lawyers, or running the same speed of AI-assisted review inside its own practice with HAQQ. Neither is objectively better; they answer different questions about who does the work and who keeps the relationship.

The genuine strength of Crosby's model is that a bar-admitted lawyer reviews and stands behind every AI-assisted deliverable, so a client gets actual professional liability on the output — something no pure AI-software product, HAQQ included, can offer on its own. That's a real advantage for a startup that wants contract review simply done and off its plate, with someone accountable for the result.

The trade-off is scope: Crosby is contracts-only by design, with no legal research or broader practice work, and no software a firm can run itself across other matter types. HAQQ is built for firms that want to do the work — drafting, review, research, and billing — across practice areas, jurisdictions, and languages, keeping the client relationship and the fee in-house.