Law Firm Cooley Launches Agentic AI Tool for IPO Workflows

Cooley, an international law firm that advised on 180 deals totaling over $51.5 billion in 2025, has developed a proprietary AI product called GO Public. [1] Built on ChatGPT Work, the tool utilizes an agentic harness to analyze information for lawyer review and validation. [1] Cooley's legal engineers, innovation counsel, and practitioners collaborated to translate the firm's capital markets expertise into this agentic system. [1] The workflow generates a customized starting point for an initial public offering. [1]

Prior to implementing GO Public, legal teams typically began with precedents from comparable companies and adapted them to the client. [1] The new system allows Cooley to start directly with the client's information, combining it with public sources and curated precedents. [1] According to Dave Peinsipp, a partner at Cooley, the tool helps teams move through intensive preparation faster. [1] This efficiency allows lawyers and management to focus more on strategic decisions and market judgment. [1]

Cooley’s deployment of GO Public illustrates the shift from generic AI applications to highly specialized, agentic workflows in the legal sector. By integrating ChatGPT Work directly into the grueling IPO preparation phase, the firm is attempting to change the baseline of how capital markets transactions begin. Instead of manually adapting comparable precedents, teams can automatically synthesize client data and public sources into a first draft. Cooley leverages its historical volume advantage—handling more venture-backed IPOs than any other firm over the last 20 years—to curate the precedents feeding this system. What the sources don't address: How much time or cost GO Public actually saves per IPO compared to the traditional precedent-based method.