Updated October 23, 2026 · checked against sources listed below
Robin AI, the London legal AI company, was listed for a distressed sale in October 2025, and we do not treat it as an active product. Status as of October 23, 2026: trade press reported the sale listing (Legal IT Insider, Oct 28, 2025), its managed legal services team was reported sold to Scissero in December 2025 (Artificial Lawyer, Dec 10, 2025), and Bloomberg Law reported in January 2026 that Microsoft hired at least 18 former employees, including the former chief technology officer (Bloomberg Law, Jan 14, 2026). We could not confirm who owns the software platform today. Current customers should ask their account contact in writing before relying on it.
Robin AI status: confirmed and not confirmed
| Item | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Distressed sale listing | Confirmed by Legal IT Insider, which said it saw the listing. Offers were due November 13, 2025. The company was described as still operational and declined to comment. | Legal IT Insider, Oct 28, 2025 |
| Failed funding round | Reported, not confirmed. The article quotes one source saying Robin “sought and failed” to raise $50m. Bloomberg Law says it was raising $50 million in 2024. | Legal IT Insider; Bloomberg Law |
| Managed services sold to Scissero | Reported by trade press, a secondary source. Artificial Lawyer interviewed Scissero’s CEO: the managed services team (about 70 people) moved; the technology group was not part of the deal. | Artificial Lawyer, Dec 10, 2025 |
| Microsoft hires | Reported by Bloomberg Law: at least 18 former Robin AI employees, including former CTO Carina Negreanu. Only the opening of the article was readable to us (paywall). | Bloomberg Law, Jan 14, 2026 |
| Who owns the software platform now | Not confirmed. In December 2025 Artificial Lawyer said the technology group was still in talks with another buyer. We found no later primary source. | Artificial Lawyer |
| Formal insolvency process | Not confirmed. Neither article we read says the company entered administration or another formal process. | none found |
| Customer data and contracts | Not confirmed. None of the sources we read says what happens to customer data, licences or service terms. | none found |
| robinai.com | The site still loads and shows a “Request Demo” button when we fetched it on October 23, 2026. We do not read that as evidence the product is on sale or supported. | robinai.com |
Scissero and Microsoft are reported by secondary sources. Neither company’s own announcement was readable to us. If a primary statement appears, we will update the table and the date.
What happened, in order
2024. Bloomberg Law says Robin AI was raising $50 million; it adds that Robin had raised at least $61.5 million by late 2024.
October 28, 2025. Legal IT Insider reported the company was listed for a distressed sale on an insolvency marketplace, with final offers due November 13, 2025. The listing, as the article relays it, claimed $10m ARR and a $16m pipeline. Those are the seller’s figures, not audited ones.
December 2025. Artificial Lawyer reported that Scissero acquired Robin’s managed services team and said the deal “brings an end to Robin AI as it was known”. Robin’s CEO was not joining; the technology group was reported to be in talks with another buyer.
January 14, 2026. Bloomberg Law reported Microsoft hired at least 18 former Robin AI employees, including former CTO Carina Negreanu, now a partner group manager on Microsoft Word, and former director of AI Diana Mincu.
What it means if you are a Robin AI customer
We cannot tell you what your contract says. We can tell you what to check, because the public record does not answer it.
Who is your counterparty? Ask in writing which legal entity now provides the service, and whether your agreement was assigned. If you bought managed services, the reported buyer is Scissero. If you bought the software platform, the public record does not say who runs it.
Your data. Ask where your uploaded contracts and extracted data sit, who can access them, and how to get a full export and a written deletion confirmation. Check the data-processing terms you signed.
Your term and fees. Check termination, assignment and change-of-control clauses, prepaid fees and any support or uptime commitments. Do not renew or expand until you have written answers.
Get an export now. Pull your contract repository, obligation data and review outputs into a format you control while the service still responds.
Alternatives we have profiled
These are other contract tools with their own pages here. We have not tested them against Robin AI, and each page lists its sources and what it does not publish. Pick by workflow, then trial on your own documents.
Ivo: AI contract review and negotiation aimed at in-house teams. See the profile for what the vendor publishes.
Spellbook: contract drafting and review inside Microsoft Word, aimed at lawyers who work in Word. See also Spellbook alternatives 2026.
GC AI: an AI assistant built for in-house legal teams. See the profile for pricing and security facts as published.
For the wider field, see best AI for contract review.
How to choose
- Ask any vendor, including a replacement, who owns the company and platform, and what happens to your data if that changes.
- Prefer a vendor with a public security page, a data export and a written deletion process.
- Run one NDA, one MSA and one messy third-party paper through a trial before you move your repository.
- Keep an export of your own contract data in a format that does not depend on one vendor.
The bottom line: Treat Robin AI as a company that was sold off in pieces, not as an active choice. The sale listing, the Scissero deal and the Microsoft hires are reported; the platform’s owner and your data’s status are not public. If you use it, get answers in writing and an export.
Sources and what we checked
Read on 2026-10-23. Primary reporting is trade and business press; we did not find a statement from Robin AI, Scissero or Microsoft that we could read.
- Legal IT Insider: Robin AI listed for distressed sale (Oct 28, 2025; sale listing, Nov 13, 2025 deadline, company still operational)
- Bloomberg Law: Microsoft brings former Robin AI legal tech employees into fold (Jan 14, 2026; at least 18 hires, former CTO; paywalled after the opening)
- Artificial Lawyer: The Scissero-Robin AI deal, interview with Mathias Strasser (Dec 10, 2025; secondary source for the Scissero deal)
- robinai.com (homepage still live with a demo button on 2026-10-23)
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AI-Assisted Research. This page was researched and written with AI assistance. Prices and product facts were checked against the public sources listed above on 2026-10-23; where a figure could not be verified it is left out. Vendors can request corrections at manuel@aivortex.io.