The Unlikely Marriage of Humanities and Tech Startup

I met my co-founder on a random Tuesday. He happened to become my husband. We happened to start a company together. None of it was planned.

I'm Joyce — a humanities person. Art history, literary theory, years of seminars arguing over Foucault and Bataille. "Tech" was something I wrote about, not something I built.

My husband is a founder. And the thing I kept watching him do — between meetings, late at night, before deals closed — was drown in contracts. 40-page Word documents. Clauses copy-pasted into ChatGPT one by one. Weeks lost to negotiation because there was no legal team, no budget for one, and no good alternative.

It looked like a design problem to me. Turns out, that's exactly what it was.

So we built Fusial — AI-powered contract redlining for founders and lean teams closing real deals without legal backup. Upload a contract, get a clause-by-clause analysis in minutes. Every risk flagged. Every redline explained in plain English. Accept, counter, reject, export clean to Word. Done.

No lawyers. No $500/hr invoices. No losing momentum because the paperwork got in the way.

We're launching on Product Hunt on May 5. First contract is free.

If you're a founder who's ever stared down a contract alone — this is for you. Would love your support on launch day. 🌱