01 / MISSION
Nelle was Built by Practioners.
Nelle was built by corporate legal leaders who lived the daily pain of manual contract redlining and bottlenecked internal approvals. We created Nelle to give lean legal and operations teams a faster, smarter way to screen agreements, enforce company legal standards and rules, and get internal signoffs that keep up with business speed—all inside Microsoft Word, without adding headcount, losing quality, or giving up human control.
Built by legal professionals for the people behind the legal function.
02 / TEAM
Built by Legal Operators Who Know the Practice
We aren't tech founders trying to reinvent law from the outside. Nelle was built by corporate legal practitioners with decades of in-house and law firm experience, paired with enterprise technology leaders who have engineered complex software across AI, legal tech, and fintech. That combination means we actually understand the work—and know how to build software that makes it faster and safer.
Greg Ramsay
Founder & CEO
Greg founded Made It Legal, the company behind Nelle, and brings nearly two decades of legal experience across top corporate law firms, multinational enterprises, and fractional General Counsel roles for high-growth tech companies. A corporate, privacy, and technology lawyer, Greg designed Nelle to solve the exact challenges he faced in the GC seat.
Jaime Hart
Head of Ops
Jaime leads operational strategy, customer success, and platform deployment at Nelle. With a background spanning decades of enterprise project management in banking, fintech, and legaltech, she specializes in translating complex software implementations into reliable, high-speed execution for scaling teams.
Gabriel Mesquita
Head of Design
Gabe leads UX and product design at Nelle, focusing on creating seamless, zero-fatigue software that fits naturally into existing legal workflows. With a deep background in workflow design and user experience strategy, he ensures Nelle remains intuitive, sleek, and frictionless for scaling legal and operations teams.
Nova
Vice Pawsident
Our beautiful rescue, Nova, is a masterclass in delightful paradoxes: a calm snuggle bug with the perfect pinch of sass. Goldfish cracker-loving mouser and squirrel enthusiast, she brings effortless charm to every day. When inspiration strikes, she unleashes NASCAR-level zoomies, and brightens the room just by trotting into it.
Murphy
Head of Pawsitive Impact
Murphy is a lovable 5-year-old, 80-pound bundle of joy who loves swimming, car rides, and good snuggles. More than just a beloved pet, Murphy brings comfort, happiness, and calm to his family. His goofy personality, unconditional love, and constant companionship do wonders for mental health wherever he goes.
03 / ORIGIN STORY
Born in the In-House Trenches, Not a Tech Lab.
The In-House Compromise
As an in-house General Counsel, your job is to keep the business moving without taking on unmanaged risk. But traditional workflows force an impossible three-way compromise:
Move fast and accept unseen risk and inconsistency
Skim contracts, miss non-standard terms, and risk costly exposure just to keep deal momentum going.
Review thoroughly and become the bottleneck
Spend endless hours line-by-line redlining routine agreements, buried in manual work that slows down revenue.
Bridge cross-functional gaps manually
Trapped in endless email chains chasing Finance, Sales, and Ops, while critical context gets lost.
The Market Gap
The problem with existing legal tech isn’t the quality of the AI—it’s who the tools were built for. Popular enterprise platforms are tailored primarily for law firms or isolated drafting, requiring team-wide behavior changes and leaving non-legal stakeholders in the dark.
Nelle was designed specifically to fix how mid-market companies actually process contracts:
Built for In-House & Mid-Market
Designed for the exact operational tempo of in-house legal and RevOps teams.
Zero Implementation Friction
Deploys in minutes so you see value on day one, not month three.
Built-in Approval Workflows
Eliminates lost context by building internal signoff workflows directly into the review process.
Built for Both Legal and Business Teams
Gives business stakeholders an intuitive, plain-English interface right next to in-house counsel.
Absolute Human Oversight
Guarantees the in-house legal team stays in full control of the AI system, ensuring speed without losing control.
THE NELLE PROMISE
— Greg Ramsay, Founder & CEO
04 / TRUST
Built for Uncompromising Security, Privacy, and Trust.
Your Data Belongs to You. Period.
In-house legal teams manage their company’s most sensitive assets: contracts, trade secrets, and deal terms. We designed Nelle from the ground up with strict data isolation, zero model training on customer IP, and modern cloud infrastructure so you can move fast without compromising control.
Core Security & Privacy Foundations
Zero Third-Party Training
Your contracts and proprietary inputs are never used to train third-party AI models. Your business data remains exclusively yours.
AWS Cloud Infrastructure & Data Isolation
Built on cloud infrastructure with segregated customer environments to ensure complete data boundary protection.
Identity & Access Management
Secure, seamless authentication via Microsoft and Google SSO, paired with role-based access control (RBAC) so the right team members see only what they need.
Continuous Monitoring & Quality Assurance
Backed by a dedicated software development team performing continuous security updates and continuous AI output validation for total reliability.
THE NELLE SECURITY STANDARD
05 / VALUES
The way we work
01
Human-Led AI Over Black-Box Automation
AI should augment legal judgment, never replace it. We prioritize defined rules, explicit guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows to ensure every output is predictable, relevant, auditable, and firmly under your team's control.
02
Zero Friction, Immediate Value
Enterprise software shouldn't require a months-long onboarding program or massive behavioral shifts. We build Nelle around existing workflows and integrate her directly into Microsoft Word—enabling teams to see measurable value on day one.
03
Built for Both Legal and Business Teams
Legal velocity depends on business clarity. We design our platform to speak both legal rigor and plain-English business logic, eliminating communication silos and lost context between Legal, Sales, Finance, and Operations.
04
Enterprise Governance Without the Overhead
Lean mid-market teams deserve top-tier risk management without the complexity of legacy tools. We deliver enterprise-grade security, policy compliance, and approval tracking in a streamlined package built for growth.
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