Michael Grupp

Co-Founder & CEO BRYTER

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Michael Grupp is the co-founder and chief executive of BRYTER, an AI and automation platform built for lawyers, which he started in Berlin in 2018 with Michael Huebl and Micha-Manuel Bues. The founding observation was one all three had made from inside professional services: lawyers, compliance officers and consultants spend an enormous share of their time on repetitive, rules-based work that follows a decision tree, and the person who understands that decision tree is the lawyer, not a developer. BRYTER’s answer was a no-code environment that let legal experts encode their own judgment into self-service applications. When generative AI arrived Grupp did not abandon that position; his public argument has been that deterministic, rules-based logic and probabilistic AI belong in the same workflow, because some legal outputs must be exactly right and cannot be sampled. That is the shape of the current product, which pairs BRYTER Workflows with BEAMON AI, a suite of legal agents launched in May 2025. He came to the problem as a litigator, and he has never fully left the academic side of the profession, co-directing the BRYTER Center for Digitalization and Law at EBS Law School and lecturing on legal technology at Goethe University Frankfurt.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded BRYTER in Berlin in 2018 with Michael Huebl and Micha-Manuel Bues and has led it as CEO since.
• Raised a $66M Series B in March 2021 led by Tiger Global Management, with Accel, Dawn Capital and Notion Capital participating, bringing BRYTER’s total raised to roughly EUR 90M.
• Built a customer base spanning corporate legal and compliance departments and elite law firms, including McDonald’s, ING Bank, Deloitte, PwC, Linklaters, Ashurst and DLA Piper.
• Launched BEAMON AI in May 2025, a legal agent suite covering chat-based assistance, Microsoft Word drafting with redlining and comparison, and high-volume contract and document extraction for M&A and real estate diligence.
• Founded Thesius, an academic research platform and recruiting portal, and sold it to Persona Service AG in 2017.
• Founded Lexalgo, a legal technology and automation specialist, which BRYTER acquired in 2018.
• Began his career as a lawyer in international litigation and arbitration before moving into technology.
• Holds standing academic positions as co-director of the BRYTER Center for Digitalization and Law at EBS Law School and lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt, and previously sat on the executive faculty of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession.

Professional Journey

Grupp qualified in law and began his working life as a litigator, handling international litigation and arbitration. He has said plainly that he chose entrepreneurship over a career advising clients, and the route he took out was through legal academia and legal technology rather than a clean break. He kept a foot in the university world throughout, sitting on the executive faculty of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession and lecturing on legal technology and innovation at Goethe University Frankfurt, which put him in close contact with both the research on how legal work is changing and the practitioners living through it.

His first company was adjacent rather than central to law. Thesius was an academic research platform and recruiting portal, and he sold it to Persona Service AG in 2017. The second, Lexalgo, went straight at the problem: legal automation, encoding rules and processes so that expert knowledge could be delivered repeatedly without an expert in the loop each time. Lexalgo was acquired by BRYTER in 2018, the same year BRYTER itself was founded, which effectively folded his own earlier work into the new company.

BRYTER was founded in Berlin in 2018 by Grupp and two co-founders, Michael Huebl and Micha-Manuel Bues. Grupp and Bues came from law; Huebl came from the product side. The product they built was a no-code platform on which a lawyer or compliance officer could construct an interactive application - an intake questionnaire, a risk assessment, a contract generator - without writing code and without a development queue. The pitch to large organisations was leverage: a single specialist’s judgment, made available to hundreds of colleagues on demand. It found buyers in exactly the places where that arithmetic works hardest, among large corporate legal and compliance functions and international law firms, and investors followed, with Tiger Global leading a $66M Series B in March 2021 alongside Accel, Dawn Capital and Notion Capital, taking the company to roughly EUR 90M raised in total.

The arrival of large language models put every rules-based automation company under pressure to justify itself, and Grupp’s response has been notably unrepentant. His stated view is that no-code remains relevant and is a natural companion to generative AI, because there are use cases where a rules-based system is required for an accurate result, and the right design merges no-code and generative nodes within a single workflow. BRYTER built accordingly. The company launched AI agents for legal workflows in 2024 and followed in May 2025 with BEAMON AI, a suite comprising Assist for chat-based work, Draft for Microsoft Word drafting with redlining and comparison, and Extract for high-volume contract and document review in transactional diligence. The company now runs remote-first with offices in New York, London and Frankfurt.

Education

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Maître en droit, Law

His academic profile at the BRYTER Center styles him “Michael Grupp, Maître en droit”, confirming the French law qualification, but no source consulted names the awarding university or the year. A doctorate attributed to him by one commercial aggregator could not be confirmed and is not recorded.