Law as Code: How GitLaw’s Nick Holzherr Is Building the Legal Infrastructure for AI Agents
When Nick Holzherr talks about legal inefficiency, it’s not theoretical. “I’ve spent over a million dollars on legal contracts,” he tells me from his home office in Birmingham, England. “Ninety percent of it was just someone editing a template(slowly), and charging thousands.” That frustration turned into GitLaw, a startup redefining how legal work is done by treating contracts like code, version-controlled, machine-readable, and open-source. The company’s mission is deceptively simple: make legal documents as programmable as software. Instead of static Word files that pass endlessly between lawyers, GitLaw turns them into structured, editable repositories that AI agents, and humans, can safely...



















