GC at Scaleup
AI recommendation signal analysis across 274 domains for the GC at Scaleup persona in Legal Services for Businesses.
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See the searches AI runs for itself
When an AI model needs the web to answer, it writes its own search queries. These are those queries, word for word. They show how machines translate buyer questions into searches, so make sure your pages answer the queries the models actually run, not just the ones humans type.
Where the numbers come from
During the LLM runs that used web search, we captured every search query each model issued for this segment's questions. Counts are small by nature: a model typically runs only a handful of these searches per question.
What's on this page
A side-by-side comparison of any two models' queries, and a table of every query with the models that used it.
Compare two models' fanout queries
The exact web searches each model ran while answering GC at Scaleup questions. Pick a model for each column. Lists are short by nature: a model issues only a handful of searches per question.
- best law firms startups emerging companies venture capital outside counsel scaling companies Chambers Startup & Emerging Companies USA 2025
- Cooley emerging companies outside counsel startups venture capital legal services
- Gunderson Dettmer emerging growth companies venture capital startups law firm
- Wilson Sonsini emerging companies venture capital startups law firm
- Goodwin emerging companies venture capital startups legal services Chambers 2025
- Orrick technology companies group startups venture capital Chambers 2025
- Perkins Coie emerging companies venture capital startups legal services
- DLA Piper emerging growth and venture capital startups legal services global
- Morrison Foerster emerging companies venture capital startups legal services
- Sidley emerging companies venture capital startups legal services
- Legal 500 startups emerging companies venture capital Cooley Gunderson Wilson Sonsini Fenwick 2026
- best outside counsel law firms scaling companies general counsel
- top law firms for startups scaleups first legal hire
All fanout queries
Every fanout query for this segment, with how many models used it and which ones. Overlap between models means they translated the same buyer question into the same search, a strong signal that ranking for that query matters.
| Query | LLM Count | LLMs |
|---|---|---|
| "latham watkins" "simpson thacher" "skadden" "cooley" law firm websites 2026 | 1 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| best law firms for scaling startups in-house general counsel outside counsel | 1 | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| best law firms startups emerging companies venture capital outside counsel scaling companies chambers startup & emerging companies usa 2025 | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| best outside counsel firms websites "fenwick" "goodwin" "wilson sonsini" startup technology | 1 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| best outside counsel law firms for scaling startups general counsel first legal hire | 1 | DeepSeek V4 Pro |
| best outside counsel law firms scaling companies general counsel | 1 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| best outside counsel law firms scaling in-house legal teams | 1 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| cooley emerging companies outside counsel startups venture capital legal services | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| dla piper emerging growth and venture capital startups legal services global | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| goodwin emerging companies venture capital startups legal services chambers 2025 | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| gunderson dettmer emerging growth companies venture capital startups law firm | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| legal 500 startups emerging companies venture capital cooley gunderson wilson sonsini fenwick 2026 | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| morrison foerster emerging companies venture capital startups legal services | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| orrick technology companies group startups venture capital chambers 2025 | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| outside counsel firms specializing in venture-backed startups financing m&a commercial | 1 | DeepSeek V4 Pro |
| outside counsel specialized expertise high-growth startups venture | 1 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| perkins coie emerging companies venture capital startups legal services | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| sidley emerging companies venture capital startups legal services | 1 | GPT 5.5 |
| top law firms for high growth technology companies lean in-house legal team | 1 | DeepSeek V4 Pro |
| top law firms for startups scaleups first legal hire | 1 | Gemini 3.5 Flash |
| top law firms m&a financing employment privacy ip litigation | 1 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| top startup law firms venture financing m&a employment privacy ip litigation "outside counsel" | 1 | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| wilson sonsini emerging companies venture capital startups law firm | 1 | GPT 5.5 |