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- AI Evaluation
- Legal Tech
Vals AI is the San Francisco startup building independent, expert-graded benchmarks for how AI actually performs on professional work — law first, then tax, finance and healthcare. Its 2025 finding that AI systems out-scored human lawyers on legal research made it required reading across the legal industry.
How we do it.
Most "AI market intel" is a summarized crawl of press releases. This Altis research is built from our knowledge graph of sector expert calls, synthesized with public sources.
Vals AI
- Year founded, by two Stanford AI graduates
- 2024
- First Vals Legal AI Report (VLAIR) released
- February 2025
- Scope of the initial VLAIR evaluation
- seven core legal tasks
- Blind legal-research evaluation, October 2025 study
- 210 questions
- AI accuracy on legal research in that study
- 79-81%
- Human lawyer baseline accuracy in the same study
- 71%
- Estimated 2025 revenue (third-party estimate)
- ~$1.3M
- Estimated headcount, 2025 (third-party estimate)
- 12-person team
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What's in the report
Most "AI market intel" is a summarized crawl of press releases. This is what customers, competitors, and former employees actually told us.
Market Overview
Market structure, where the company sits, and growth drivers.
- market map
- AI Evaluation landscape
- AI Evaluation growth rate
- CAGR
Total Addressable Market
Bottom-up TAM / SAM / SOM.
- Vals AI TAM
- AI Evaluation market size
- market opportunity
Company Overview
What the company does and how it operates.
- what does Vals AI do
- Vals AI product
- business model
Product / Go-to-Market
Product, GTM motion, ICP, and who buys.
- Vals AI customers
- who uses Vals AI
- Vals AI ICP
- go-to-market
Competitive Dynamics
The Altis Market Map and the Altis Win-Rate Index.
- Vals AI competitors
- Vals AI alternatives
- who competes with Vals AI
- Vals AI win rate
Customer Signals
Retention, satisfaction, and win/loss signals.
- Vals AI reviews
- Vals AI NRR
- Vals AI churn
- current customers
- switching costs
Investment Debates
Investment thesis, moat, bull/bear, and key risks.
- Vals AI investment thesis
- Vals AI moat
- bull case bear case
- Vals AI risk factors
Monetization & Financials
Business model, revenue model, and unit economics.
- Vals AI ARR
- Vals AI revenue
- Vals AI valuation
- unit economics
Team and culture
Founders, leadership, and org.
- Vals AI founders
- Vals AI CEO background
- leadership team
- headcount
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Based on public reporting and third-party estimates as of July 2026.