The problem
960,000 lawyers locked out of the tools that should be theirs.
The tools that would actually transform a solo practice are locked behind enterprise pricing designed for fifty-attorney firms. The rest of the market offers pieces — one platform for practice management, another for legal research, another for AI, another for billing — each with its own learning curve, its own contract, and its own way of not talking to the others.
By the time a small firm has assembled a working stack, they’re managing the software as much as the practice.
The mission
The promise of AI was always for the individual.
There are 960,000 solo and small-firm attorneys in the United States. They carry the same caseloads, navigate the same courts, and serve the same clients as the largest firms in the country. They just haven’t had the same tools.
Sqyro was built to change that. Not as a checklist of features — but as the practice a solo attorney would design for themselves if they had an engineering team at their side: research that runs while you think, forms that fill from a single record, documents that draft to your standard, billing that follows the work.
The AI paralegal isn’t a tab in the sidebar. It’s the layer everything runs through.
The team
Built by operators who know the work from different sides.
Leif-Erik Hvide
TECHNICAL FOUNDER, CEO
Twenty-five years building startups — which means twenty-five years relying on small firms to go up against BigLaw. He built Sqyro because he understood that fight from the client side, and knew exactly what those attorneys were missing.
Marcia Giordano Hansen
GENERAL COUNSEL
AV Preeminent-rated solo immigration attorney with twenty years of immigration and litigation experience and thirty trials as first chair. Marcia has earned numerous accolades and peer recognition for her work including the Judicial Nominating Commission of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court for different judicial appointments; an AV Rating from Martin Dale Hubbell; a 10 AVVO rating; Legal Elite Florida Trend awards; and an appointment by the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court as a traffic magistrate.
Paco Aspuru
Co-Founder & COO
Go-to-market and operations. Leads sales strategy, partnerships, and customer success as Sqyro brings BigLaw-grade AI to solo attorneys and small firms nationwide. Founder-operator with zero-to-one experience, having built, scaled, and exited to a NASDAQ-listed acquirer.