Rowan McNamee
Co-Founder & COO at Mary Technology
Rowan McNamee is co-founder and chief operating officer of Mary Technology, a Sydney-based legal-tech startup he founded in 2023 with Daniel Lord-Doyle, Harry Raworth and Luke Abagi after working as a junior lawyer frustrated by the manual, disorganised process of building a case chronology. The company, named after his aunt, Melbourne barrister Mary McNamee, builds a fact-management platform that helps litigation teams extract and organise case facts faster, and counts firms including Shine Lawyers, Maurice Blackburn and Hall & Wilcox as customers. Mary Technology closed an A$7 million seed round led by OIF Ventures in 2026 after achieving tenfold annual recurring revenue growth in 2025, and is expanding into the US market. He discussed this on Founders in Motion.
In their own words
From AI for Lawyers: 300 Features, They Used One | Rowan McNamee, Mary Technology · Founders in MotionThe customers make you undeniable — not the founders.
Key moments
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- 0:20 Notes From a Divorce Case
- 2:13 Why Lawyers Skipped Standard Note-Takers
- 4:37 What Mary Technology Is Today
- 5:30 The Big Red Button: First Prototype
- 6:42 The Pivot: Stop Building for Everyone
- 9:07 Solving AI's Memory Hallucination Problem
- 12:24 Why AI Won't Replace Lawyers
- 14:47 Litigation Only: Drawing the Hard Line
- 17:29 The Hardest Fundraise: 18 Months In
- 20:51 Round Two, Round Three, and Getting "Undeniable"
Connections
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