 So welcome everybody and in this demonstration style of that my name is Aaron Ford and I'm learning and development manager here at TechSoup. I'm also an organizer of AlphabetSoup which is TechSoup's LGBTQ Plus Affinity Group. Next up we have Jessica Hubley who will talk a little about Story LLP. I'm Jessica's the founder and CEO of Story LLP which makes software to translate legalese and serve as anyone's lawyer friend. Story LLP uses inclusive user design alongside a proprietary legal issue taxonomy to help clients understand how to choose and use lawyers efficiently. Take the right action at the right time to optimize their legal position and to connect and manage an alliance of rock star female and minority specialist attorneys to ensure a great ROI on legal spending. Jessica was previously founder and CEO of the nonprofit Annie Cannons which transforms survivors of human trafficking and gender based violence into software engineers. And Jessica will demonstrate how Story LLP helps all humans translate legalese and get their legal rights from the start. Again, my name is Jessica Hubley. I spent the last 15 years or so as the primary lawyer to hundreds of startups and also as a serial entrepreneur. And as you hear, I also ran a nonprofit and through that time I learned a key lesson, the kind of founders who are not lucky enough to have lawyer friends who are helping them translate legalese for free are facing way higher costs and money and time and that includes pro bono. As well as much more pain to get their organization off the ground. And that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter whether the most talented founders I know or not. The lack of lawyer friends is coming from the same kind of systemic barriers that make it harder for founders to raise funding, get equal opportunity or get equal respect and this part probably doesn't surprise you. But it might surprise you to hear that historically underrepresented lawyers are facing a strikingly similar problem. So I founded Story LLP to help underestimated lawyers and clients cooperate to get more of what they deserve. Today our cooperative comprises over almost 600 lawyers at 34 law firms, as well as hundreds of clients, our organization and our fiscal sponsor. So to quickly frame today of the people in this world who could use a lawyer's help for themselves or their business, only about 30% are even trying to reach out to a lawyer. And as a result, really preventable mistakes cost even successful organizations very dearly can be millions in legal fees for a for profit. If you're exiting. Not to mention sort of lowering your purchase price for a nonprofit. This is staff time and headache and sort of precious funder dollars, but it can't be used to do good. So the platform we created is targeted to help all founders no matter what kind of organization you found, or what your story is to get your legal right from the start by serving as a friendly legalese translator and a general council, even if you don't know what that means yet. We have three types of services. So first we have a free web app, which here's a plain language shory, can submit through an email form and calculates the kind of legal service you might need the kind of cost you might expect and surfaces some affordable alternatives for you. You can opt into more from there. Finally, we offer standard services that are designed to be super high quality but also super affordable, including things like document forms and an automatic general counsel subscription service, which sets organizations up to get legal right from the start more affordably, and prevents the most common kinds of IP employment and governance problems that inexperienced founders might might make. And our clients need custom help from an actual human lawyer. We are connecting great lawyer from our attorney alliance and sharing in their fees. So clients today are paying significant invoices to these lawyers but only at the point where they actually benefit from getting human lawyers help. This actually raises to a huge market opportunity. Most people look at the legal services market and think it's as big as it's going to get because it's serving all the people who have money to pay and that's not true. I've had a lot of people in my life in my time at Annie cannons who had an opportunity to be incredibly productive numbers of our society at huge value to add didn't have job because they hadn't had opportunities. So stories about helping to make opportunities including opportunities to start companies happen so that we can make a bigger and more equitable legal services market. So the team said that I started off my my entrepreneurship journey at a nonprofit organization. So I know that actually the kind of challenges that I faced at my nonprofit and the kind of challenges that I'm facing at story as a for profit founder and that those of you who are out there finding different kinds of social enterprises also face are actually almost all the same. So the kind of solution that we've developed to help for profit companies works just as well for nonprofits and that's that's what we're out to do more of. So the first thing to know is there are about a million and a half nonprofits in the United States. The software that we will launch in about a month will be able to help all of them find things like employment classification issues in the people that they hire show them litigation risks because nonprofits can be sued just like for profit companies particularly for employment claims. What we do is actually offer our subscription service with a Tom's model where you if you buy a subscription for your for profit company you get to choose a nonprofit and we'll give a subscription to them too. So we're definitely open to hearing more about more from folks if people are looking for sort of overarching legal help for a nonprofit and as a nonprofit founder I know that I often had big law firms that were super fancy and want to work for me, and I also would often have do a ton of work to repair a project outline, have an introductory call here that we are moving forward, be promised an engagement letter and a conflict check and then never hear from that law firm again. So we understand that if you do have to pay for a lawyer you might have to pay for a lawyer to get them to work timely. And that's why we built this alliance of super affordable specialists, many of which will discount their rates for nonprofits and also work on a timely model. In the future, the AI model that we're building to power all of this general counsel service. Actually remember is meant to help people figure out what lawyer they need and what their context is for free in the end. And that includes over 40 million people living in poverty in the US, including survivors of trafficking of gender based violence. It also includes the same function for legal aid and pro bono attorneys who do this full time every day who are specialists and experts in nonprofit needs to to make sure that they can spend less time screening out the clients they can't help, and more time actually providing legal services because those lawyers are incredibly precious in this role and see the rare. We also use the same system that we use to screen manage clients for our attorney allies can be used to manage and screen clients for legal aid to they get there for 20 to 30% of their budget back because they have to spend $0 on screening clients that they can't help and on experiencing traumatic stories both from the client reaching out and the person listening to the story. We can cut that out of the whole of the whole game. This is our sort of nonprofit initiative this is what we established our physical sponsorship to power. If you want to get involved in what we do we would adore that. There are a few different ways we can do that. We are open to equity investment to hire the kind of engineers who have lived experience like that of our clients and of our target demographic meaning they need a salary to work. We are hiring more people at solid market salaries from diverse backgrounds to join our engineering team. We also are happy to help your for profit your social enterprise or your nonprofit organization as a client. If you are a nonprofit organization or historically underrepresented founder we have an option for fiscal sponsorship to have somebody actually donate funds tax deductibly to help you. If you have other ideas about how we might work together or if you run a legal aid pro bono organization please reach out to me I would love to be connected and help out.