About Us

Our Story

At GoCircl, we’re driven by a desire to transform the way legal and audit teams handle the critical, but often tedious, auditor circle-up process in capital markets transactions. Our journey began when our founder, an experienced New York attorney, found himself buried under manual circle-ups early in his career. Experiencing first-hand, the frustrating manual inefficiencies, waste of billable time and error-prone workflow, he knew there had to be a better way. He also loves legal tech!

That experience led him toward founding GoCircl Ai, a secure GenAI-led platform designed to make circle-ups faster, simpler and more accurate. An application that frees attorneys up to spend time on higher value, interesting legal work.

Our Background

We stand at the intersection of capital markets law and software. Having acted as bank counsel on numerous US offerings and collaborated closely with audit firm capital markets teams, we intimately understand the pain points around preparing and negotiating auditor circle-ups. We also understand the outsized time commitments up-front in the circle-up process and the need for speedy turn-arounds toward the end. GoCircl Ai is the result.

Founder

GoCircl was built by Aaron Massingham, a lawyer admitted in New York and Australia who began his career in US capital markets at Sidley Austin. LinkedIn · LegalQuants

Our Mission

To bring AI-led secure automation to every aspect of the auditor circle-up so that legal and audit professionals can focus on critical analysis instead of manual grunt work. GoCircl Ai applies SAS No. 72 / PCAOB AS 6101 to identify the financial figures and table data regions an auditor needs to circle, and to exclude the rest (operational metrics, contractual amounts, approximations, forward-looking statements). Shorter filings circle in two to five minutes; longer prospectuses (300+ pages) in around twenty-five, work that would take an associate hours. Our roadmap focuses on the edge-cases that don’t yield to deterministic rules: multi-jurisdictional coverage, auditor tick-mark prediction for Big Four capital markets teams, incremental circling through the deal life-cycle, and the ever-expanding universe of company-specific non-GAAP measures. Alongside the product, we maintain a public Non-GAAP metrics database drawn from SEC filings and detailed learning materials for law firm associates and audit teams.

Contact Us

To get in touch, reach out to contact@gocircl.app