Clerx Co-Founder Michael Brunman Featured by TechRound Among 10 Successful Harvard Alumni Founders

We are proud to share a special milestone for Clerx and our co-founder and CEO, Michael Brunman.

TechRound has featured Michael in its new article, “Harvard University: Successful Alumni Who Founded Startups,” highlighting ten Harvard-connected founders whose companies span technology, finance, healthcare, construction, energy, and other industries. Michael was featured as the founder of Clerx alongside entrepreneurs including Bloomberg founder Michael Bloomberg and Intuit founder Scott Cook.

For a company still early in its journey, seeing Michael and Clerx included in that group is an honor we are excited to celebrate.

An unconventional path to Clerx

The TechRound profile highlights something that has shaped Clerx from the beginning: Michael did not take a conventional route into entrepreneurship.

Before founding Clerx, he worked as a software engineer, practiced commercial litigation and intellectual property law, moved into product management at PayPal, management consulting at McKinsey, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Those experiences eventually came together around a problem Michael knew firsthand: law firms are full of highly skilled professionals, but the systems surrounding client intake and communication often create unnecessary friction.

That insight became Clerx.

Today, Clerx is focused on helping law firms strengthen the earliest stage of the client journey across calls, website chat, and SMS. The goal is straightforward: help firms respond faster, qualify inquiries more consistently, and make it easier for the right prospective clients to move toward a consultation.

It is the same philosophy behind much of Michael's writing on topics like why intake is really a law firm growth system, how modern law firms can perfect intake in 2026, and how AI intake can help firms scale without adding the same level of overhead.

A recognition for Clerx, too

While TechRound's feature is centered on Michael, this milestone reflects a much broader Clerx journey.

Clerx is being built together with co-founder and CTO Eldar Damari, our team, the law firms that have trusted us with their intake, and the partners that have helped Clerx become part of a growing legal technology ecosystem.

TechRound specifically highlighted Clerx as an AI-powered intake and reception platform built for law firms and noted the company's growth through partnerships with legal software vendors.

Those partnerships matter because Clerx has never been about adding technology for its own sake. The company is being built around the way law firms already operate, with a stronger intake layer around the systems, people, and workflows firms rely on every day.

That thinking also shapes our work on practice management software versus intake software, law firm intake metrics, and the role of AI receptionists alongside human intake specialists.

Building around a simple idea

The technology behind legal services is changing quickly, but Clerx's underlying thesis remains simple.

A law firm can invest heavily in reputation, referrals, search, advertising, and content, but someone still needs to respond when a prospective client reaches out.

That is why Clerx continues to focus on the space between visibility and representation.

It includes questions like:

• How quickly should a firm respond to a new inquiry?
• What information should be collected during intake?
• How should qualified prospects move toward consultation?
• What happens when someone calls after hours?
• How should website chat and SMS fit into the same workflow?
• Which parts should be automated, and which should remain human-led?

Those questions have become central to our work, from response-time benchmarks for new law firm leads to website chat for law firms, SMS intake, and why consistent law firm growth requires a stronger intake funnel.

A milestone worth celebrating

Harvard was once a distant ambition for Michael, which makes this recognition especially meaningful.

In his LinkedIn post, Michael reflected on how surreal it feels to be featured among ten Harvard alumni founders, thanked Eldar, the Clerx team, clients, partners, and the HBS professors and mentors who encouraged him to pursue entrepreneurship, and emphasized that there is still much more to build in legal tech.

See Michael's LinkedIn post here.

The recognition is also motivation to keep building.

Clerx already supports law firms across their intake and client communication workflows, helping teams respond to inquiries across calls, website chat, and SMS, qualify prospective clients, and move the right matters toward consultation. As we continue expanding the product and deepening our integrations, the goal remains the same: help law firms build stronger, more responsive intake operations.

For now, though, we are taking a moment to celebrate.

Congratulations to Michael, Eldar, the Clerx team, our clients, our partners, and everyone who has supported the company along the way.

You can read the full TechRound feature here.

And if you are curious about what Michael and the team are building at Clerx, explore the Clerx blog or book a short demo.

Q&A

Who is Michael Brunman?

Michael Brunman is the co-founder and CEO of Clerx. His background spans software engineering, law, product management, management consulting, and entrepreneurship, and he earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

What recognition did Michael receive from TechRound?

TechRound included Michael in its September 2026 feature highlighting ten successful Harvard alumni founders. The article profiled founders and companies across several industries, including both established entrepreneurs and founders of younger startups.

What is Clerx?

Clerx is an AI intake platform for law firms. It helps firms strengthen client intake and communication across inbound calls, website chat, and SMS, including structured qualification and consultation workflows.

What does Michael write about on the Clerx blog?

Michael regularly writes about law firm intake, client communication, AI implementation, conversion, and legal operations, including topics such as intake systems, law firm growth, and AI-supported intake.