Purdue Innovates Accelerator is a three-month, investment-based startup program that empowers founders to transform their bold visions into disruptive impact.
Second Opinion utilizes a structured multi-AI model to provide a sanity check to AI generated work products, reviewing documents, and highlighting easily verifiable areas of concern within documents in a couple of minutes, giving every small business owner the same protection that enterprise companies pay lawyers thousands for — in seconds, not days, at a price that actually makes sense.
Second Opinion Co-Founder & CEO Samar Shah shares his experience:
The most high-impact component:
The mentor sessions on go-to-market strategy completely changed how we think about our market. Early on, we were positioning Second Opinion as a legal AI tool. Through conversations with mentors in the accelerator, we pressure-tested that positioning hard. One mentor challenged us directly: “Don’t go to SMB just because enterprise is slow — go because you have a genuine SMB product.” That forced us to articulate why small businesses are our market by conviction, not by default. We came out of those sessions with a much sharper thesis: the biggest dataset in legal AI hasn’t been built yet, because everyone is training on case law and court filings while the real intelligence — vendor history, payment patterns, negotiation context — lives inside the business’s own tools. That reframe came directly from the rigor the accelerator pushed us through.
What shifted for Second Opinion because of the program:
We stopped thinking of ourselves as a contract review tool and started thinking of ourselves as a contract dashboard. That sounds subtle, but it changed everything — our product roadmap, our pricing, our pitch, even the homepage copy. Through the accelerator, we realized the deeper pain is that small businesses have no company-level view of what they’ve committed to. Contracts are scattered across Gmail, Slack, QuickBooks, and four other tools. Terms change between renewals and nobody compares. Employees accept exceptions over email that never get logged. The real product isn’t reviewing one contract — it’s connecting all those tools and giving the business a living memory of its own commitments. That shift came from the customer discovery work the accelerator pushed us to do.
On looking forward:
We’re raising a $3M seed round and targeting $100K in ARR by end of 2026. On the product side, we’re launching our integration layer — one-click connections to Slack, Gmail, QuickBooks, and Google Drive — so the dashboard builds itself from the tools a business already uses. We have 15 beta attorneys and over 200 documents analyzed, and our next milestone is getting our first 50 paying SMB customers on the platform.
Purdue Innovates invites you to Accelerator Pitch Night, an evening dedicated to celebrating Second Opinion and the other members of the second Accelerator cohort:
