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2025

Bot Mediation: AI-Powered Mediation for Efficient Legal Dispute Resolution

Bot Mediation

Summary 

  • Legal tech startup Bot Mediation launches first-of-its-kind artificial intelligence mediation platform at ABA TECHSOW 2025 and introduces the legal industry’s first AI Bot Mediator. 
  • Bot Mediation makes dispute resolution more efficient, cost-effective, and accessible. Cases can be mediated within days rather than waiting months for a human mediator.
  • Bot Mediation guides parties toward fair settlements based on actual case data, with the help of AI technology.
Bot Mediation: AI-Powered Mediation for Efficient Legal Dispute Resolution
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Startup Alley Booth# 06 at TECHSHOW 2025

Company Overview

About Bot Mediation

Bot Mediation is a Southern California-based legal technology company transforming online dispute resolution with cutting edge AI. Committed to making mediation more efficient, accessible, and fair, Bot Mediation enables parties to resolve disputes in real time with AI-powered avatars informed by data from comparable case types.

Founders & Leadership

  • Curtis Holdsworth, Co-Founder
  • Darren Fancher, Co-Founder
  • Nick Hikita, Director of Product Management

Product & Services

AI-Powered Mediation Platform: Bot Mediation offers a cutting-edge Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that transforms traditional alternative dispute resolution through artificial intelligence. The platform introduces the legal industry's first AI mediator, designed to facilitate settlements more efficiently and cost-effectively than conventional mediation methods. Cases can be mediated within days rather than waiting months for a human mediator.

Bot Mediation's platform reimagines dispute resolution through:

  • AI-Driven Analysis: Bot Mediation analyzes disputes and guides parties toward fair settlements based on actual case data
  • Always Available Virtual Environment: Secure, synchronous platform enables parties to mediate at their convenience
  • Real-Time Progress Tracking: Sophisticated toolkit helps parties monitor settlement progression and maintain momentum
  • Data-Driven Approach: AI technology helps ensure consistent evaluation of cases based on settlement data, thereby reducing the risk of both failed negotiations and human bias
  • Significant Cost Reduction: Reduces legal fees and eliminates mediator fees associated with traditional human mediated sessions

Quotes

Darren Fancher, Co- Founder:

"The legal industry is ready for innovation in dispute resolution. While virtual meetings helped during the pandemic, they didn't address the fundamental challenges of traditional mediation – scheduling conflicts, high costs, and potential bias. We've created a solution that makes mediation accessible 24/7 while significantly reducing costs and ensuring consistent, data-driven outcomes."

Curtis Holdsworth, Co- Founder:

"As someone who has spent a considerable amount of time in mediation, there are major inefficiencies and delays associated with scheduling and engaging in mediation with a human neutral, much of which can be eliminated with the help of artificial intelligence.  Bot Mediation is strikingly different from any other form of online dispute resolution -- it offers a fully synchronous, data-informed platform which mirrors the dynamics of a live mediation more so than any other ODR system.”

Company Milestones

  • Selected as a Startup Alley Finalist at ABA TECHSHOW 2025.
  • Secured early-stage industry funding under a SAFE.
  • Provisional patent pending on AI mediation platform.

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Media Contacts

Katy von Treskow
Onsite Media Relations, Bot Mediation
[email protected]
1 (310) 963-9037
www.society54.com

Nick Hikita
Head of Communications, Bot Mediation
[email protected]
1 (562) 753-1972
www.botmediation.com