Quddus Pativada - The world doesn’t need another Harvey. It needs a Mike. Our AI legal

01 · Hook · 0:00–0:00

A man in a dark jacket and sunglasses stands at a street corner holding a brown paper bag, filmed through a car window whose reflection and blur clear to reveal the sidewalk, wooden doors, and orange mesh fencing.

Camera: Static

02 · Hook · 0:00–0:01

A bright overexposed street frame settles into a locked-off profile of a man in glasses and a dark jacket on a dusk city corner. A small caption reads at the bottom, then a large still title appears.

On-screen text: “Behind me is Harvey.”, “Harvey”

Camera: Pan

03 · Hook · 0:01–0:02

A locked-off shot frames the white Harvey sign on a louvered office building, with a blurred vertical shape at the right edge. White captions appear at the bottom as the voiceover introduces the company.

On-screen text: “Behind me is Harvey.”, “They build AI for law firms.”

Camera: Static

04 · Hook · 0:02–0:03

A woman in a beige coat walks past the louvered glass facade of a Harvey office building. A white serif “AI FOR LAW FIRMS” tagline sits on the windows, and a caption is centered at the bottom.

On-screen text: “AI FOR LAW FIRMS”, “They build AI for law firms.”

Camera: Static

05 · Hook · 0:03–0:06

A man in a dark jacket walks toward the camera on a city sidewalk, office buildings and a Harvey sign behind him. White serif text appears line by line on the right, with the phrases building AI and the same set in blue, synced to the voiceover.

On-screen text: “We're building AI to make sure you never hire one the same way again.”

Camera: Static

06 · Problem · 0:06–0:11

A man in a dark jacket sits in a warm, lamp-lit living room, speaking directly to camera and gesturing with both hands in a locked-off medium shot. A bold white lower-third with his name and title appears at left while centered subtitles track his speech.

On-screen text: “This year, lawyers nearly bankrupted me.”, “Quddus Pativada”, “Founder & CEO of Index Law”, “Commercial disputes, family legal battles.”

Camera: Static

07 · Problem · 0:11–0:14

A man in a dark jacket sits centered before a warm bookshelf, lamp and plant, speaking to camera in a static medium shot. A white name lower-third holds at left while white subtitles change at the bottom.

On-screen text: “Quddus Pativada”, “Founder & CEO of Index Law”, “Commercial disputes, family legal battles.”, “And I lost my childhood home”, “because of a lawyer's mistake.”

Camera: Static

08 · Problem · 0:14–0:17

A bearded man in a dark zip jacket speaks to camera in a warm interior, a bookshelf and leafy plant blurred behind him. The locked-off close-up holds as white subtitles appear at the bottom, then cuts to a wider shot of him seated in a green armchair.

On-screen text: “because of a lawyer's mistake.”, “So I decided to go and build a lawyer”, “I wish I'd had.”

Camera: Static

09 · Product intro · 0:17–0:19

A man in a dark jacket sits in a green armchair in a warm living room, speaking to camera. White lines fade in beside him: “The world does not need” left, “another Harvey” right, the last word large.

On-screen text: “I wish I'd had.”, “The world”, “does not need”, “another”, “Harvey”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

10 · Product intro · 0:19–0:21

A bearded man in a dark jacket sits in a warm, wood-paneled study with bookshelves and a plant, speaking to camera. White captions appear on either side of him: “it needs a” on the left, then “Mike Ross” on the right.

On-screen text: “The world”, “does not need”, “another”, “Harvey”, “it needs a”, “Mike”, “Ross”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

11 · Product intro · 0:21–0:25

A cream hero page for the Mike site loads: the bold headline Hey, Mike. fades in with subhead and two buttons, a tilted 3D face card rotates up above the headline, then a black cursor drags a stack of white document cards across the text.

Techniques: Kinetic type, 3D mockup, Cursor demo

Camera: Static

12 · Feature reveal · 0:25–0:29

Six document cards sit at the ends of thin spokes radiating from a center circle on a cream background. A rounded robot mascot hops from card to card around the diagram, and at the start a large black cursor drags a stack of documents toward the center. A bold caption scrolls along the bottom.

On-screen text: “Mike understands your business, your contracts, company contracts, and legal matters.”

Techniques: Cursor demo

Camera: Pull out

13 · Feature reveal · 0:29–0:31

The words “All in one” then “Workspace” scale in in black serif on a cream field, with a blinking block cursor. The type shrinks away as a tilted chat interface slides in, showing file chips, a customer message and a typing indicator.

On-screen text: “All in one”, “Workspace”

Techniques: Kinetic type, 3D mockup

Camera: Static

14 · Feature reveal · 0:31–0:32

A white chat card tilts in 3D perspective, showing a customer message and two PDF pills. A contract review panel slides in from the left with clause headings and a small robot icon, splitting the frame while the chat fades to the right.

Techniques: 3D mockup, Split screen

Camera: Static

15 · Feature reveal · 0:32–0:34

A white contract card on a gray background receives three red highlight boxes in sequence, each labeled with a risk note. A tiny robot icon with a magnifier bounces from corner to corner. The card then shrinks toward the top right as a wide red pill slides in below.

Camera: Pan

16 · Feature reveal · 0:34–0:35

A white review card fades in on a beige background, its title, a red risk pill and a flagged row appearing in sequence. Two line-art envelope icons drift around the card, one settling at the left and one at the bottom right.

Camera: Static

17 · Feature reveal · 0:35–0:36

A white card listing three flagged risks sits on a cream field, flanked by sketchy magnifying-glass icons. The frame tightens on the card as the last row fades in and a green check pill drops onto the bottom edge.

Techniques: UI zoom

Camera: Static

18 · Feature reveal · 0:36–0:37

A tilted 3D UI card with a Sub-processor notice row and a green Redlines ready badge rests on a pale background. The badge shifts from solid green to pale mint, then the card slides up and off screen, revealing a small caption line at the bottom.

On-screen text: “When you do need a lawyer,”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Static

19 · Feature reveal · 0:37–0:38

A 3D-tilted mockup of a legal chat app on a light gray field. A sidebar lists AI and human contacts; the main pane shows a Mike-1 question and an Employment Lawyer reply. Black rounded outlines frame the agent icon and the lawyer's avatar, then shift to the sidebar row.

On-screen text: “When you do need a lawyer,”, “Mike vets specialists,”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Pull out

20 · Feature reveal · 0:38–0:40

A tilted handoff card and a flat chat window float on a light gray field as a black rounded-square icon with two white slots scales up and drifts across the center. A bottom caption swaps from 'Mike vets specialists,' to 'negotiates fees,'.

On-screen text: “Mike vets specialists,”, “negotiates fees,”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Static

21 · Feature reveal · 0:40–0:42

Tilted chat cards float in 3D space as the camera glides forward, reframing onto the Employment Lawyer-Berlin reply and a green confirmation pill. A caption line sits in the input bar along the bottom edge.

On-screen text: “and keeps the work moving.”

Techniques: 3D mockup, Parallax, UI zoom

Camera: Push in

22 · Problem · 0:42–0:46

A man in a dark jacket sits in a green armchair in a warm-lit home office, gesturing with both hands as he speaks to camera. A bookshelf, a two-bulb lamp and a leafy plant fill the background. The locked-off medium shot holds steady as captions appear at the bottom.

On-screen text: “You're never going to pay $800 an hour”, “just to bring a lawyer up to speed again.”

Camera: Static

23 · Problem · 0:46–0:49

A man with dark hair and a beard in a dark jacket sits in a softly lit room, bookshelf and plant blurred behind him. He speaks to an off-screen interviewer, his expression shifting to a faint smile. White subtitles change at the bottom with his speech, on a locked-off close-up.

On-screen text: “Mike gives them that context,”, “and that knowledge stays with you,”, “even if the lawyer doesn't.”

Camera: Static

24 · Problem · 0:49–0:53

A man in a dark buttoned shirt sits in a green armchair in a warmly lit room with bookshelves and a plant, speaking to camera and gesturing with his hands. White subtitles appear at the bottom of the frame.

On-screen text: “We're here to come for the billable hours,”, “not the lawyers themselves.”, “We brought in people like Dominic Raab,”

Camera: Static

25 · Social proof · 0:53–0:54

A man with dark hair and a beard sits in a green armchair in a warm-lit room, speaking to camera in a locked-off medium shot, gesturing with his hands. A white subtitle caption sits at the bottom. The shot then cuts to a horizontal split screen pairing him with a second man in a brighter room, with a name lower-third and sponsor tags added in the edit.

On-screen text: “We brought in people like Dominic Raab,”, “PRESENTED BY deel.”, “SCALING EUROPE”, “QUDDUS PATI”

Techniques: Split screen

Camera: Static

26 · Social proof · 0:54–0:55

A two-panel video call shows two men in a room on the left and a man in a grey tee on the right. A dark blue lower third names them, then swaps to a yellow highlighted caption over a dark bar.

On-screen text: “PRESENTED BY deel.”, “SCALING EUROPE”, “QUDDUS PATIVADA & DOMINIC RAAB”, “FOUNDER & FOUNDING ADVISOR OF INDEX LAW”, “SPONSORED BY”, “AND IF YOU COULDN'T ACCOUNT FOR YOUR FIVE”

Techniques: Split screen

Camera: Static

27 · Social proof · 0:55–0:57

Four men appear in a split-screen video call, two in suits with studio mics flanking two in a home office, talking and smiling. A yellow caption banner cycles phrases across the lower third, above a blue title bar naming the guests.

On-screen text: “Quddus Pativada (@qatindex) & Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) | Founder & Founding Advisor at Index Law”, “Quddus & Dominic | Founder & Founding Advisor at Index Law”, “AND IF YOU COULDN'T ACCOUNT FOR YOUR FIVE”, “MINUTES, IT SHOWS WHAT A”

Techniques: Split screen, Kinetic type

Camera: Static

28 · Social proof · 0:57–0:58

A four-panel split screen shows two hosts in suits flanking a video call with two guests, one in a dark tee and one in a white shirt, while a yellow caption and a blue lower-third banner sit at the bottom.

On-screen text: “PRODUCER-ORIENTED SECTOR IT WAS.”, “Quddus Pativada (@qatindex) & Dominic Raab (@DominicRaab) | Founder & Founding Advisor at Index Law”, “Quddus & Dominic | Founder & Founding Advisor at Index Law”

Techniques: Split screen

Camera: Static

29 · Feature reveal · 0:58–1:04

A small face-and-briefcase icon on the left branches through thin lines to four white pills, then to dot grids and four jurisdiction pills on the right. Green checkmarks pop onto the pills as bottom captions roll through the sentence.

On-screen text: “Behind Mike,”, “We're building data sets”, “and training environments”, “for agents to reason,”, “negotiate and act.”, “Even when there's no single right answer.”

Camera: Pull out

30 · Feature reveal · 1:04–1:07

A black hand-drawn mascot with two bar eyes and a briefcase sits left of a headline that types in word by word, while a white chat card on the right fills with a question, a lawyer reply and a green confirmation line.

On-screen text: “Even when there's no single right answer.”, “Mike works alongside lawyers.”

Techniques: Kinetic type

Camera: Static

31 · Feature reveal · 1:07–1:08

On a flat cream background, a white Request card reading Close our seed round sits beside a larger chat panel showing an AI–lawyer thread that ends with a green checkmark. The panel slides out, leaving the card centered, while a black caption at the bottom updates phrase by phrase to match the voiceover.

On-screen text: “Over time,”, “More of the work is going to happen autonomously.”

Camera: Static

32 · Feature reveal · 1:08–1:09

White task cards with a Mike agent avatar and assignment rows slide horizontally across a cream backdrop, settling into a centered layout while a thin black line links them. One card exits left, another exits right. A black caption sits at the bottom.

On-screen text: “More of the work is going to happen autonomously.”

Camera: Static

33 · Feature reveal · 1:09–1:11

A light interface of connected task cards reframes onto a central Finished work panel holding three document icons, while two chat bubbles showing agent offers appear below. A black caption at the bottom swaps from one line to the next.

On-screen text: “More of the work is going to happen autonomously.”, “Your agents are going to negotiate”

Techniques: UI zoom

Camera: Pan

34 · Feature reveal · 1:11–1:12

A white rounded chat window sits on a cream field. Two columns of message bubbles, left tagged Mike and right tagged Firm A, fill in line by line as a price negotiation plays out. A bold black caption, with the other side's agents., holds the bottom.

On-screen text: “with the other side's agents.”

Camera: Static

35 · Feature reveal · 1:12–1:13

A flat chat card showing a Mike and Firm A negotiation tilts into 3D perspective on the right as a document-list card slides in on the left, both on a beige background. A black caption sits below.

On-screen text: “Your contracts are going to get reviewed.”

Techniques: 3D mockup

Camera: Pull out

36 · Feature reveal · 1:13–1:14

Two flat UI cards sit on a light background, a document list on the left and a chat on the right. An obligations panel slides in over each, revealing a Northwind AI summary and a payment table with amounts.

On-screen text: “Your obligations will get monitored,”

Camera: Pull out

37 · Feature reveal · 1:14–1:17

A white Obligations card listing payments slides left off frame, revealing a small square mascot that plugs a calendar icon into an Outlook icon. A caption below swaps from “Your obligations will get managed,” to “and legal work will just happen.”

On-screen text: “Your obligations will get managed,”, “and legal work will just happen.”

Camera: Push in

38 · CTA · 1:17–1:20

A man in a dark shirt sits in a green chair in a warm room, speaking to the camera and gesturing with his hands. White captions appear at the bottom as he talks.

On-screen text: “Do you have a contract holding up your next deal?”, “Give it to Mike.”

Camera: Static

39 · CTA · 1:20–1:20

A man in a gray shirt fades in, seated and gesturing, then the frame cuts to a white field where rounded cards with briefcase icons move vertically.

Camera: Static

40 · CTA · 1:20–1:25

On a plain off-white background, a white rounded-square icon with two black pill eyes and a small briefcase rotates from a slight tilt to upright. A black pill badge with UseMike.com sits below, the tagline fades in, and a Backed by Y Combinator line appears, then the frame holds.

On-screen text: “UseMike.com”, “Your AI legal agent.”, “Backed by”, “Combinator”

Camera: Static