Forbes contributor Geri Stengel — who focuses on women entrepreneurs and social impact — profiles Darrow co-founder and CTO Gila Hayat in a piece that frames Darrow's mission through two lenses: the technology it has built and the rarity of what Hayat represents in the industries she operates in.
Stengel opens with the numbers that contextualize Hayat's position: female founders receive only 7.6% of global venture capital, and women represent just 22% of AI professionals worldwide. Against that backdrop, Hayat has co-founded and scaled a company that sits at the intersection of both worlds — legal technology and AI — and done so while building a team with notably strong female representation at the technical and leadership levels.
The article traces how Darrow uses AI to surface legal violations that would otherwise go undetected, scanning public data sources across areas including finance, consumer protection, employment, healthcare, and the environment to identify patterns of harm and match them with plaintiff attorneys equipped to act. The technology replaces what was previously an impossibly manual process — or one that never happened at all — with a systematic, continuously running intelligence operation.
What Darrow found most meaningful about the piece was how its law firm clients articulated the platform's value in their own words. Lewis Kahn, founding partner of Kahn, Swick & Foti, described Darrow as the best legal technology partner his firm had seen in 30 years of practice. Jon Loevy, founding partner of Loevy + Loevy, called the team unbelievably smart and praised the cutting-edge nature of the data work they do together.
