在商业地产领域，速度往往决定交易的成败。报价以小时计，资金以秒计流动，但法律文书工作仍可能耗时数周。Athena 正在改变这一现状。
In commercial real estate, speed can make or break a deal. Offers move in hours and capital moves in seconds, yet legal paperwork can still take weeks. Athena is changing that.
该公司已完成一轮 250 万美元的种子前融资，由 a16z Speedrun 领投。
The company has raised a $2.5 million pre-seed round led by a16z Speedrun.
Athena 的专有 AI 智能体与其关联律师事务所经验丰富的交易律师协同工作。它们能在数小时内交付复杂的交易文件，成本仅为传统模式的一小部分。法律工作终于能跟上交易的速度。
Athena’s proprietary AI agents work alongside experienced transactional attorneys at its affiliated law firm. They deliver complex deal documents in hours, at a fraction of the traditional cost. Legal work can finally move at the speed of dealmaking.
为何更快的律师还不够 法律 AI 正蓬勃发展，但大多售予仍靠计时收费盈利的律所。当 AI 将十小时的工作压缩至两小时，这些律所面临收入减少的风险。
Why faster lawyers aren’t enough Legal AI is booming, but most of it is being sold to firms that still make money by the hour. When AI turns ten hours of work into two, those firms stand to lose revenue.
Athena 颠覆了这一经济模型。Athena 的关联律所按交易收取固定费用，通常比客户近期交易支付的费用低 30% 至 50%。Athena 工作越快，律所与客户的经济效益越高。
Athena flips those economics. Athena’s affiliated law firm charges a fixed fee per transaction, typically 30-50% less than clients paid on recent deals. The faster Athena works, the better the economics for both the firm and its clients.
对于每年完成 10 至 15 宗收购的商业地产投资者而言，这种速度能产生实质性影响。
For commercial real estate investors completing 10-15 acquisitions a year, that speed can make a material difference.
“大多数法律 AI 公司向传统律所出售工具。我们采取了不同的路径，”Athena 联合创始人兼首席执行官 Cem Ucan 表示。“我们的 AI 与一家从第一天起就围绕它设计的律所携手合作，由经验丰富的律师专注于真正推动交易前进的判断与谈判。”
“Most legal AI companies sell tools to traditional law firms. We took a different approach,” said Cem Ucan, Co-Founder and CEO of Athena. “Our AI works hand-in-hand with a law firm designed around it from day one, with experienced attorneys focused on the judgment and negotiation that actually move deals forward.”
Athena 如何运作 对客户而言，与 Athena 合作的体验与传统律所无异。他们将文件发送给律师，收回法律成果。幕后则由专有 AI 智能体承担大量繁重工作。
How Athena works For clients, working with Athena feels like working with a traditional law firm. They send documents to their attorney and receive legal work back. Behind the scenes, proprietary AI agents handle much of the heavy lifting.
Athena 的关联律所为商业地产收购、出售及融资提供咨询。其业务涵盖购买协议、尽职调查、贷款文件以至交割。
Athena’s affiliated law firm advises on commercial real estate acquisitions, sales and financing. Its work runs from purchase agreements and due diligence to loan documents and closings.
当新协议送达时，Athena 的智能体会将其与交易条款进行比对，识别出不一致之处。它们准备修订标记并起草客户沟通文件。它们还会借助过往交易，了解每位客户的谈判偏好。
When a new agreement comes in, Athena’s agents review it against the deal terms and identify inconsistencies. They prepare redlines and draft client communications. They also draw on previous transactions to understand each client’s negotiating preferences.
资深律师审核工作成果，作出法律判断，并在所有内容送达客户前予以批准。
Experienced attorneys review the work, make the legal decisions and approve everything before it reaches the client.
早期成果 成果已初现端倪。在一笔早期交易中，团队在 48 小时内完成了一份购买协议的处理。客户表示，这是他们经历过的最快周转速度。
Early results The results are already showing. On an early transaction, the team turned around a purchase agreement in under 48 hours. It was the fastest turnaround the client said they had experienced.
“我们行业里很多公司只有 AI 工作组的名号而已，”总部位于得克萨斯州、从事多户型房地产投资、物业管理和开发业务的 Mox 公司首席执行官 L. Miguel Arce 说，“Athena 与众不同之处在于，系统能从每一笔交易中学习，无论是律师的修改还是我们的偏好。速度只有在保证工作质量的前提下才有意义，而 Athena 平台两者兼得。”而且平台随着每笔交易不断优化。律师的修正和客户的偏好会反馈回系统，减少未来交易所需的工作量。在前六周里，Athena 将律师审核时间缩减了 70% 以上。
“A lot of firms in our industry have an AI task force in name only,” said L. Miguel Arce, CEO at Mox, a Texas-based multifamily real estate investment, property management, and development company. “What stood out about Athena is that the system learns from every deal, from what the attorneys change to what we prefer. Speed only matters if it’s quality work, and the Athena platform gets us both.”And the platform gets better with every deal. Attorney corrections and client preferences feed back into the system, reducing the work needed on future transactions. In its first six weeks, Athena cut attorney review time by more than 70%.
“我衡量进展的标准是：律师能多快审完 AI 智能体的工作成果，并有信心为其背书，”Athena 联合创始人兼首席技术官 Kieran John Keenan 说，“几分钟生成的初稿，仍可能让律师花上数小时审核。让这一审核过程更高效，正是我们平台助力提供更快法律服务、同时满足大所品质期待的方式。”
“I measure our progress by how quickly an attorney can review an AI agent’s work and confidently stand behind it,” said Kieran John Keenan, Co-Founder and CTO of Athena. “A draft produced in minutes can still leave a lawyer with hours of work. Making that review more efficient is how our platform helps us deliver faster legal services with the quality clients expect from Big Law.”
不断扩大的市场 在商业地产领域，速度往往决定谁能赢得交易。部分 Athena 客户每周会发出多份报价，每成交一笔交易要提交几十份报价。一旦房产进入合同阶段，每一天都至关重要。
A growing market In commercial real estate, speed can determine who wins a deal. Some Athena clients make several offers a week and submit dozens of offers for every deal they close. Once a property goes under contract, every day counts.
这种紧迫感很快可能会蔓延至整个市场。许多在2021年和2022年收购的商业地产，是通过三到五年期贷款融资的，这些贷款现正临近到期。
That urgency could soon extend across the market. Many commercial properties acquired in 2021 and 2022 were financed with three-to-five-year loans now approaching maturity.
随着再融资压力加大，Athena的创始人预计将有更多房产易手。这将推动新一轮交易和法律业务的浪潮。Athena正致力于应对这一业务量。其目标是让投资者享受到AI带来的速度和成本优势，同时由经验丰富的律师对每笔交易负责。
As refinancing pressure builds, Athena’s founders expect more properties to change hands. That would drive a new wave of transactions and legal work. Athena is positioning itself to handle that volume. It aims to give investors the speed and cost advantages of AI, with experienced attorneys accountable for every deal.
Athena的创始人在Legora相识，两人都看到了AI的潜力，也看到了将其推销给传统律所的局限性。
The origin story Athena’s founders met at Legora, where they both saw the potential of AI and the limitations of selling it to traditional law firms.
Cem Ucan曾在大型律所工作多年，一度年计费工时达3000小时，随后转向法律创新领域，先后在贝克麦坚时和Legora任职。
Cem Ucan had spent years in Big Law, at one point billing 3,000 hours annually, before moving into legal innovation at Baker McKenzie and Legora.
Kieran John Keenan学习过法律，随后在自己的初创公司构建了自动化法律推理系统。该系统将法律理解与实际的AI工程和评估相结合。作为Legora的创始评估工程师，他随后建立了系统，以评估和提升AI在起草、研究和智能体工作流方面的表现。
Kieran John Keenan studied law before building an automated legal reasoning system at his own startup. It combined legal understanding with hands-on AI engineering and evaluation. As Legora’s founding evaluations engineer, he then built systems to assess and improve AI performance across drafting, research and agentic workflows.
Athena的构想源于Kieran构建的一个原型，该原型能将数百份文件转化为首份尽职调查报告草稿。创始人们看到了围绕这项技术打造一种新型法律服务的机会。
The idea for Athena took shape when Kieran built a prototype that could turn hundreds of documents into a first-draft due diligence report. The founders saw an opportunity to build a new kind of legal service around the technology.
曾开发Legora法律研究智能体及更广泛法律研究能力的José Braz作为创始工程师加入。Kieran和José共同构建了如今Athena自有的端到端交易平台。
José Braz, who developed Legora’s legal research agent and broader legal research capabilities, joined as founding engineer. Together, Kieran and José built what is now Athena’s own end-to-end deal platform.
a16z Speedrun 合伙人 Troy Kirwin 表示：“随着 AI 能力的增强，客户仍将希望由经验丰富的专业人士对工作负责。Athena 正是围绕这一需求构建体系，拥有一个能够通过真实法律工作不断改进的系统，以及一支痴迷于快速扩张的团队。”展望未来商业地产只是起点。Athena 计划拓展至更多物业类型、更多地域，并最终延伸至交易法的其他领域，其雄心是从根本上改变商业办事的速度。
Troy Kirwin, partner at a16z Speedrun, said: “As AI becomes more capable, clients will still want experienced professionals who take responsibility for the work. Athena is building around that need, with a system that can improve through real legal work and a team obsessed with scaling fast.”Looking ahead Commercial real estate is just the beginning. Athena plans to expand across property types, geographies and eventually other areas of transactional law, with an ambition to fundamentally change how quickly business gets done.
“我们希望法律工作的计量单位变成秒和分钟，而不是周和月，”Ucan 说。“我们的雄心是让 21 世纪的经济摆脱 19 世纪的法律服务交付模式。”关于 Athena Athena 助力商业地产投资者更快完成交易。其专有 AI 代理与其关联律师事务所的资深交易律师协同工作，涵盖收购、出售和融资等环节，从购买协议、尽职调查到贷款文件和交割文件。
“We want legal work to be measured in seconds and minutes rather than weeks and months,” said Ucan. “Our ambition is to free a 21st-century economy from a 19th-century legal delivery model.”About Athena Athena helps commercial real estate investors close deals faster. Its proprietary AI agents work alongside experienced transactional attorneys at its affiliated law firm on acquisitions, sales and financing, from purchase agreements and due diligence to loan documents and closings.
法律服务完全由 Athena Circle 提供，采用固定费用定价，律师对每项法律决策负责，所有工作成果均交付给客户。在 a16z Speedrun 的支持下，Athena 正在构建一种法律服务新模式，使复杂交易更快、更实惠。
Legal services are provided exclusively by Athena Circle, which offers fixed-fee pricing, with attorneys responsible for every legal decision and all work delivered to clients. Backed by a16z Speedrun, Athena is building a new model for legal services that makes complex transactions faster and more affordable.