Advocat was founded to make contracting accessible to all

After an enterprise customer decides to purchase your product, getting to the signature stage and closing the deal can be a long painful process. That’s why Advocat’s mission is to provide technology businesses the expertise, speed and efficiency of an enterprise-level deal desk team, all within Advocat’s platform. Our AI-powered contracting multiplies the efficiency of cross-functional teams and shortens the time from opportunity to a signed deal by up to 10X.

Founder Story

As the founder and CEO of Advocat, Pradnya is also an attorney and was Managing Partner of Desh International and Business Law, an award-winning ten-attorney law firm in the Seattle-area. Formerly, Pradnya was a U.S. diplomat in the State Department, and a U.S. trade negotiator with USTR in Geneva. She represented the United States in international organizations, including the WTO and the UN Committee on Trade and Development.

While being a law firm attorney, Pradnya saw first-hand a broken legal process – expensive, clumsy, and negatively impacting both companies and the humans running them. She set out to solve that problem through AI technology, and Advocat was born. Pradnya’s mission is to make legal technology more accessible for all businesses so they can save time, money, and have a better work experience.

Our Values

  • We strive to make legal work joyful, not tedious.

    Work should always be engaging. We free up lawyers to focus on more important and satisfying work.  

  • We empower legal and business to work in harmony.

    We believe legal and business should never see each other as barriers, but as trusted and valued partners.

  • We believe law should be driven by purpose, not process.

    We give lawyers time to dig into the why, and go way beyond the how.

  • We re-imagine law through design.

    We accomplish our goals of transforming legal practice by leveraging design thinking and a focus on every user.

The Advocat Team

Pradnya Desh
Pradnya Desh
(she/her)
CEO
Chetan Desh
Chetan Desh
(he/him)
CTO
Luke Pendergrass
Luke Pendergrass
(he/him)
Product Advisor
Ahmad Ghabboun
Ahmad Ghabboun
(he/him)
Product Designer
James Olsen
James Olsen
(he/him)
Customer Success Manager
Abhilash Bharamappa
Abhilash Bharamappa
(he/him)
Software Engineer
Glaston Dsouza
Glaston Dsouza
(he/him)
Software Engineer
Vikas Kesakar
Vikas Kesakar
(he/him)
Senior Software Engineer
Gokul Narayanan
Gokul Narayanan
(he/him)
Software Engineer
Prashant Sail
Prashant Sail
(he/him)
Lead Software Engineer