Counsel Stack Selected for the ILTACON 2026 Startup Hub

Brown and White Ventures portfolio company Counsel Stack will take part in the International Legal Technology Association's annual ILTACON Startup Hub this month, where the legal industry will convene to discover the company's industry-leading ability to deliver grounded legal research.

ILTACON brings together legal technology professionals from law firms, corporate legal departments, and across the broader legal industry. This year’s conference runs August 23–27 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville.

The Startup Hub is ILTA’s curated showcase for emerging legal technology companies. Participants are selected through a vetting process that considers the newness of the company, the innovative nature of its technology, and its potential to disrupt the industry.

Counsel Stack has proven to be an early disruptor in the pursuit of accurate legal AI.

Large language models are already changing how legal work gets done. But there is an important distinction between using AI to support the administrative and software layers of legal work and trusting it to perform substantive legal workflows.

The difference is grounded legal research.

Without access to current, authoritative legal sources, an LLM can summarize internal documents, retrieve firm knowledge, apply policies, populate software, and automate routine processes. Those capabilities are valuable. But they do not necessarily tell a lawyer what the law is right now.

That limitation becomes increasingly important as AI moves closer to the substance of legal services.

Consider a transactional lawyer reviewing a contract provision. How does an AI system determine whether that provision is enforceable in a particular jurisdiction if it can access the firm's precedents and internal knowledge base, but not current legal authority?

Or consider a litigator relying on an AI-enabled workflow when a court issued a significant decision yesterday.

What happens when a new statute or regulation renders a longstanding company policy invalid?

In each case, the system needs more than institutional knowledge. It needs a reliable connection to current law.

The legal industry is already beginning to entrust AI with more advanced workflows. As that happens, the standard for reliability necessarily rises.

An AI system assisting with scheduling, document organization, or administrative work can operate within relatively well-defined boundaries. A system analyzing whether conduct is lawful, evaluating a contractual position, or informing litigation strategy faces a fundamentally different problem.

The underlying law can vary by jurisdiction, turn on specific authority, and change over time.

That creates a missing layer in many legal AI architectures: an accuracy layer capable of connecting the LLM to current, curated legal authority.

It is the problem Counsel Stack is building to solve.

By grounding AI systems in legal research, Counsel Stack is designed to help legal AI move beyond simply knowing what an organization has said before toward reliably determining what governing legal authority says now.

For transactional lawyers, that can mean grounding contract analysis and advice in jurisdiction-specific authority. For litigators, it can mean ensuring AI-assisted workflows account for recent cases and developments rather than relying on a static knowledge base.

And for legal technology companies building increasingly sophisticated AI products, it can provide infrastructure for expanding from the legal software layer into substantive legal workflows with greater confidence.

Counsel Stack is working toward the answer to: what becomes possible when legal AI can reliably access and reason over current legal authority?

If you’ll be in Nashville August 23–27, keep an eye out for Counsel Stack near Startup Hub Lounge 2.