Sep 27, 2026 · 48 min
Harvey bets on speed without sacrificing judgment
Building a Team at AI Speed | Harvey’s Maggie Landers
Harvey’s rapid expansion tests whether a company can preserve experimentation, ownership, and trust while building global systems.
- 1Harvey treats progress, experimentation, and fast correction as more valuable than perfect answers.
- 2Founder accessibility and transparency help shape a leadership culture built on trust and direct ownership.
- 3The company hires for judgment, autonomy, and mission alignment as it expands across functions and regions.
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Maggie explains why Harvey’s values of decisiveness, simplicity, and trust require employees to act without overanalyzing every decision.
The brief
Harvey’s startup mindset centers on speed, experimentation, and a willingness to fail while transforming legal work. The challenge is preserving that identity as the company expands globally.
Maggie Landers argues that progress matters more than perfection: employees gain more opportunities when they experiment, learn quickly, and correct course instead of waiting for ideal answers.
The founders’ accessibility and candor about mistakes set the tone for a culture where leaders stay close to the work and employees are expected to act with ownership.
Harvey’s hiring test is less about fitting a finished system than thriving in its teenage stage: building scalable processes while solving unresolved customer and industry problems.
The standout tension is simple: growth brings more structure, offices, and open roles, but Harvey still expects decisiveness, simplicity, trust, and autonomy from its people.
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Harvey AI
Andreessen Horowitz
San Francisco
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