Ranking Copilot secures £110k to automate legal rankings and proposals via Chambers
This article covers Ranking Copilot, a legaltech startup, which has received new investment of £110,000 to expand an AI platform that automates back-office business development tasks for law firms. The development aims to support law firms by automating legal rankings, capability statements and fee proposals to reduce time and cost on repeatable, document-heavy workflows.
Ranking Copilot, a legaltech startup, has received new investment to expand an AI platform that automates back-office business development tasks for law firms. The product targets costly, time-consuming processes around legal rankings, capability statements and fee proposals — areas that, if improved, could meaningfully cut operational overhead across global law firms.
Why it matters
Law firms spend more than £5 billion a year on the processes Ranking Copilot targets. Large international firms often prepare over 1,000 submissions annually, with each submission traditionally consuming more than 60 hours of work. Improving efficiency in these workflows can free fee-earners’ time, reduce costs and speed up go-to-market activities for legal teams.
The startup’s claims of reducing preparation time and cost by as much as 90 percent are significant because they address a persistent, measurable pain point across corporate law practices worldwide. Adoption of automation in these administrative parts of business development could also shift how firms staff and price certain activities.
Inside the product
Ranking Copilot automates three specific back-office tasks: submissions to legal rankings, capability statements and fee proposals. The platform integrates with Chambers and Partners to streamline preparation of ranking materials — an integration the company says has cut preparation time from five to seven days down to roughly 30 minutes.
Founded in 2025 by Dmytro Fedoruk, a former lawyer at Clifford Chance, Ranking Copilot is positioned as a productivity tool for legal teams rather than a replacement for substantive legal work. The company reports working with 30 law firms worldwide and is expanding across Europe, the United States and the APAC region. The Chambers partnership provides both distribution channels and a layer of market trust that can be important for early legaltech adoption.
Who are the investors?
Ukrainian investment firm ZAS Ventures has led the round and disclosed a total investment of $150,000 (about £110,000), provided in two tranches: an initial $100,000 (approximately £73,900) followed by a $50,000 (approximately £36,100) follow-on. ZAS Ventures told Scroll.media it invested on the basis of product-market fit, capital efficiency and the founders’ ability to scale the product internationally. ZAS currently has 18 companies in its portfolio.
In the announcement, Andrii Zinchuk, founder and managing partner of ZAS Ventures, said:
Ranking Copilot is a prime example of what we are looking for — a world-class product from a Ukrainian team that uses AI to solve a pressing global problem. The partnership with Chambers gives them an advantage in distribution and trust that almost no early-stage legal tech startup has access to
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Founder perspective
Dmytro Fedoruk built the product from the perspective of someone who has worked inside a major international law firm and seen how resource-intensive submissions and business development tasks can be. The platform’s focus on automating repeatable, document-heavy workflows reflects a narrow product strategy: target clear efficiency gains in areas that are measurable and recurring.
This approach can make early commercial traction more straightforward, because legal teams can quantify time and cost savings and compare them to subscription pricing or implementation effort.
The bigger picture
The deal highlights two converging trends: investors continuing to back AI-first products from Ukrainian founders, and growing interest in legaltech tools that address operational inefficiencies rather than pure legal analysis. For UK and European law firms — which operate in markets where legal rankings and formal capability disclosures carry commercial weight — tools that reduce the cost and lead time for these tasks can be attractive.
The investment also underscores how partnerships with established industry data providers such as Chambers and Partners can accelerate adoption for young vendors in regulated or reputation-sensitive markets. For legaltech investors, the combination of measurable ROI, integration with trusted industry players and founders with domain experience makes for a compelling early-stage opportunity.
The Ranking Copilot story is another example of cross-border innovation in legaltech emerging from Ukraine and finding routes to international markets, reinforcing the broader ecosystem ties between UK, European and Ukrainian startups and investors.
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