Discover how Pocketlaw, an AI-first legal management startup, leverages Augment's lightning-fast, context-aware coding assistant to streamline development workflows, boost engineer satisfaction, and prototype AI-powered legal solutions more efficiently.

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The Challenge 

As a company building AI tools for lawyers, the Pocketlaw engineering team deeply understood the promise of AI for streamlining workflows, tracking knowledge and minimizing time spent on mundane tasks.

However, their search for a great AI partner for their engineering team kept coming up short. With Augment, Pocketlaw is looking to solve the time-consuming, repetitive coding tasks that hindered productivity and diminished job satisfaction. Faruk Sahin, VP of Product and Engineering at Pocketlaw, said "when you're working on a big project, you have hundreds, thousands of files organized in different folders... it becomes a challenge to know what to do and where."

Initially, the team was introduced to Augment by their CEO. Although the engineers were skeptical, given that they were already using GitHub Copilot, they were blown away after testing Augment. "Everyone had kind of an aha moment in the first couple of minutes or hours," Sahin said, emphasizing the tool's speed, accuracy, and context awareness. He noted, "If you define some types in another file and if you are coding, like you just want to get the types from the other file, it's not in the same file. And Augment was doing those suggestions." This context-aware capability quickly made Augment a favorite among the team. 

Why Augment?  

Pocketlaw turned to Augment for its unmatched speed, accuracy, and ability to enhance the developer experience.

• Speed and Efficiency: Augment provides code suggestions almost instantaneously, minimizing wait times and driving productivity. "It is extremely fast. You see the next suggestion in less than 100 milliseconds. It almost feels instant to the human eye."

• Context Awareness: Augment's deep understanding of the entire codebase enables highly accurate, relevant suggestions. "The accuracy and relevancy of the completions were much better compared to GitHub Copilot.”

• Enhanced Developer Experience: By automating repetitive tasks, Augment frees developers to focus on more meaningful, creative work. "Everyone who has been using Augment has been super happy.”

• Integrated Workflow: With its in-IDE chat feature, Augment allows developers to ask questions and get context-aware answers quickly. "I can just chat and tag the files I want to speak with... It's an immense time saver."

The Results  

With Augment, Pocketlaw streamlined their workflow, allowing developers to focus on higher-level problem-solving rather than routine tasks. Augment's lightning-fast suggestions, context-aware completions, and chat feature helped the team accelerate development and improve code quality.

‍"If Augment is down or like if I don't get any AI help, it's like, you know, I don't want to code now because like it's so mundane, so boring to actually write the code rather than just pressing the tab and get it out."

Key Benefits

• Dramatically Reduced Time for Routine Tasks: Augment's context-aware suggestions have significantly cut down the time spent on repetitive coding. "The barrier to entry to ask a question in Augment is three seconds, compared to three minutes with other tools."
• Improved Code Consistency Across Files: The tool's deep codebase awareness enabled consistency across different files and folders. "If you define some types in another file and if you are coding, like you just want to get the types from the other file, it's not in the same file. And Augment was doing those suggestions.
• Higher Developer Satisfaction: Augment's intuitive completions and reduced friction in coding workflows boosted developer morale. "Everyone had kind of an aha moment in the first couple of minutes or hours."
• Faster Prototyping for AI Solutions: As an AI-first legal tech company, Pocketlaw benefited from Augment's ability to speed up prototyping. "I feel so empowered with tools like Augment that help me to get here."

About Pocketlaw 

Pocketlaw is a next-generation legal tech solution leveraging automation and AI to empower teams and businesses across multiple sectors to work more effortlessly and confidently with legal at scale. Our intuitive platform streamlines numerous legal functions and creates a seamless end-to-end experience, including automated contract creation, real-time collaboration, integrated eSigning, efficient contract management and data-driven insights. This all-in-one approach accelerates legal processes, eliminates the need for disparate tools and allows for more teams to work confidently with legal without putting compliance at risk. Ultimately saving businesses time, resources, and cost.

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Industry: AI, Legal

Location: Sweden, EU

Team size: 38

Languages, Frameworks, Libraries: Python, Typescript, React

IDE: IntelliJ & VS Code

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