Years inside law firms. Decades building software.
Kacti AI, Inc. is the company behind Kacti, the messaging app for law firms and their clients. We're based in Richmond, Texas.
Why we built Kacti
One of us spent years inside law firms and saw how case work really moves between a firm and its clients: through email, attachments, and a lot of filing by hand.
Another spent more than two decades building enterprise software, the systems large companies run their finances and customer records on.
Put side by side, the gap was hard to miss. No company would run its finances out of an inbox. Yet a law firm's most sensitive conversations, the ones with its clients, still live in one. Kacti is what you get when you give that conversation a proper system of its own.
The founding team
Andres Martinez
24+ years building software, 17+ of them on enterprise platforms across ERP, CRM, and financial systems. Former Microsoft architect on Dynamics 365 and enterprise AI; earlier at Capital One and Kostal Group. Second-time founder.
Hanh Huynh
Years inside private law firms and government law enforcement as a law clerk and judicial intern, conducting legal research, analyzing case law, and drafting and organizing legal documents. She knows firsthand how case work moves between a firm and its clients, and what attorneys and their staff need from the tools they rely on.
Ricardo Perez
Founding Engineer
Self-taught engineer who has worked with Andres since their previous startup. Today he builds much of Kacti, from the screens people use to the code underneath. He's analytical, quick to pick up new technology, AI included, and will stay with a problem until he solves it. Outside of work, he makes music and rock climbs.
Our values
Clarity above all.
We explain how things work in plain words, to the firms we serve and to each other. It is why our Security page includes a list of what we don't claim.
Correctness earns trust.
Legal work has little room for "mostly right," and neither does the software that carries it. We would rather do a few things well than build a product bloated with features that half work or that nobody needs. Trust comes from doing what we said we would, every time.
Embrace creative thinking.
Good solutions often start with a simple question about something everyone has accepted. Ours was: why does a firm's conversation with its client live in the same inbox as everything else? We keep asking questions like that.
Building it with law firms
We're early, and we're building Kacti with design partners: lawyers and paralegals who use it and tell us what to fix. What they tell us decides what we build next.
If you'd like to be one of them, or just want to know more about us, talk to us.