Omar Haroun
Co-Founder and CEO, Eudia · 1 appearance on the record.
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Omar Haroun is the co-founder and CEO of Eudia, an augmented intelligence platform automating legal and compliance workflows for enterprises. He previously co-founded legal AI platform Text IQ, which was acquired by Relativity in 2021, and earlier founded Sportaneous.
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Haroun: Enterprise legal budgets split evenly between law firms and internal staff
“What I've seen for the in-house enterprise legal team, which is where we've only ever sold, we haven't sold to law firms, is There's a high standard deviation, but call it roughly 50% of the budget goes to law firms, 50% goes to the internal headcount, right, …”
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Everything Omar Haroun said on A Product Market Fit Show that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Haroun: Traditional MVP methodology is obsolete in the GenAI era
“All the conventional wisdom of, like, build an MVP, start really small. Like, none of that makes sense anymore when we can all build so quickly now with Gen AI. It's more of a race. Who can actually build something useful the fastest as opposed to like startin…”
Haroun: ARR is no longer the right primary metric for AI startups
“I don't think it's actually the right metric, like the single right metric to focus on anymore, because there's a lot of examples with these LLM wrapper companies where it's like temporarily you can appear to be magic for a lot of the market who either doesn't…”
Omar Haroun: Law firms resist efficiency because they bill by the hour
“These law firms or professional services firms who have a lot of kind of perverse incentives, right? They don't really want to cut hours because they bill by the hour”
Haroun: Law firm rates increased 18% year-over-year since AI emerged
“The rates actually have gone up 18% year over year since AI came out.”
Haroun: Eudia's $100K Series A legal work now costs $1,000 with AI
“We even paid a 100,000 dollars to our law firms for our series A legal documents, right? And I now know that work can be done for a thousand dollars.”
Haroun: Markets are overreacting to AI threats against SaaS companies
“So I think in SaaS people are frankly, maybe even overreacting because they don't realize like how hard it is to get the kind of distribution.”
Haroun: Tech companies using AI tools are hiring more developers, not fewer
“Everyone in the Valley or really any tech company at this point is now using
Maybe previously cursor increasingly clod or whatever the mechanism is right to no longer write any code manually, but we're not hiring fewer developers.
We're hiring way more.”
Haroun: Eudia and TextIQ acquired 90% of customers through cold emails
“Both with TextIQ, my last company and with UDM, my current company, we've gotten 90% of our customers from cold emails that I've sent.”
Haroun: Most first-time founders play not to lose rather than win
“I think most first time founders or founders who haven't yet had a good exit deep down, they're often playing not to lose. They're not playing to win because the reality is you put so much into a startup. It's your whole life. You're making very little money c…”
Haroun: Out-of-the-box AI will never impress subject matter experts
“AI out of the box will never be that amazing to somebody who actually knows what they're doing. It's amazing to somebody who has no idea what they're doing, but to SME, they're like, this is crap.”
Haroun: 95% to 98% of enterprise budgets go to human labor
“And if you look at certain buyers in the enterprise, and I would include the chief legal officer in this category. But there's many more, by the way, the chief procurement officer, the head of HR, even the CFO. Typically, 95 to 98% of their budget goes to huma…”
Haroun: Enterprise legal budgets split evenly between law firms and internal staff
“What I've seen for the in-house enterprise legal team, which is where we've only ever sold, we haven't sold to law firms, is There's a high standard deviation, but call it roughly 50% of the budget goes to law firms, 50% goes to the internal headcount, right, …”
Haroun: Due diligence represents 50% to 70% of M&A legal fees
“M&A due diligence is like 50 to 70% of the costs of the legal fees and all that can now be like mostly automated, but not entirely automated.”
Haroun: TextIQ sold to Relativity for ~$105M cash plus matching equity
“Yeah, we sold for around a hundred and five million cash, similar amount of equity and so sizable, and we were, like, the team wasn't huge, but we did have pretty deep penetration across the Fortune 500.”
Haroun: Enterprise software faces the most resistance from middle management
“What I found with my last company is sometimes it was like the junior person who's like day to day deep in the weeds. We did really well with, and then actually when we like skipped one or two levels and went to the top, they also really loved what we were doi…”
Haroun: Eudia boosted AI model F1 scores to 95% in three weeks
“Within three weeks, we were seeing these like crazy performance improvements from like 50 to 95% F one score and efficiency gains that were very palpable.”
Haroun: Eudia capped customers at 10 and 20 before scaling to 60
“First year, only 10 customers. Second year, we expanded it to 20. And then in September of this past year, we were like, okay, we're now seeing across all 20 a lot of repeatability, and it's basically the same platform and the same solutions that are now scali…”
Haroun: Acquired legal services provider served OpenAI, Stripe, and Citibank
“It's a legal services company. They have legal professionals who are acting as an extension of the in-house teams of OpenAI, Stripe, Citibank.”
Haroun: Acquiring a legal services firm sped up sales by 50-80%
“We were suddenly signing up their customers at sales cycles that were like 50, 80% faster than if we'd gone to one of those customers on our own.”
Haroun: About a dozen competitors copied Eudia's AI law firm model
“Since we launched our AI native law firm, there's been like a dozen people who are now doing this and it's obviously becoming like a more and more crowded space.”
Haroun: Eudia grew from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months
“In the last 12 months we went from two to twenty million ARR.”
Haroun: Eudia launched its own law firm after 18 months
“The first 18 months, to be clear, we were actually only doing the internal stuff, and then we created and launched the law firm, and that was an accelerant.”
Haroun: Eudia raised a $6M seed round from Mike Maples at ideation
“Yeah, we raised a small, like, well, not small by all standards, but like a six million dollar seed round. That was Mike Maples, who's a longtime mentor, and back to my last company, you know, he basically not only funded this when it was like an idea on a nap…”
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| How he grew his AI startup from $2M to $20M ARR in 12 months. | Omar Haroun, Co-Founder of | Mar 19, 2026 | 38m |