Michael Stresing is the co-founder of Remedy Legal, an AI-powered legal aide clinic designed to help people in housing tribunals.
In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Stresing discusses the importance of focusing on client interests and long-term value creation, avoiding a ‘grind’ mentality and why the loudest founders are not always the most successful.
What one thing do you wish you’d done differently when launching your company?
From the start, we have been obsessed with people’s struggles to access legal support. But we underestimated how intimidating the scale and complexity of that problem would feel up close.
Early on, that fear pushed us toward shortcuts. We spent too long chasing recurring revenue models, gentler go-to-market angles, and softer places to start. At one point we even explored building a SaaS product for law firms....
