EP360 Can AI Settle Your Dispute? Meet Adri, the AI Mediator — Frank Goldberg of Dyspute.ai
The Intersection of Law, Tech & Conflict Resolution
Traditional mediation works — when you can afford it and wait for it. For a huge share of everyday disputes, the cost and the calendar are the whole problem. On this episode of the LMI Podcast, I sat down with Frank Goldberg, Co-Founder and COO of Dyspute.ai, to talk about what happens when you hand the scheduling, the summaries, and the first draft of a settlement to an AI mediator named Adri — and keep a human in the loop for the moments that need one.
Watch the full conversation:
About Frank & Dyspute.ai
Frank is an attorney with 20+ years in-house and at law firms — roles at the Gap, Zynga, Wish, and head of IP at Clorox — where he saw firsthand how inefficient litigation can be. He co-founded Dyspute.ai with CEO Renee Jackson (the two met as employment and IP lawyers at Zynga) to close the access-to-justice gap. Their flagship, Adri, is a 24/7 asynchronous AI mediator: it runs each side through a chat intake, drafts a shareable summary of the dispute, makes the first settlement proposal, and cycles through accept/reject/modify until the parties resolve — then generates a settlement agreement you can e-sign on the platform (via DocuSeal) for $299 per mediation. Enterprise pricing covers courts, law firms, and high-volume mediation providers.
What we covered
- From litigator to legal-tech founder — Frank’s path, and how he and Renee “make one complete attorney” together.
- What’s broken in traditional mediation — why cost and delay are access-to-justice problems, not just annoyances.
- Meet Adri — what “24/7 asynchronous mediation” means, and how Adri makes the first proposal instead of waiting until 5 p.m. on mediation day.
- A case, end to end — intake, AI summaries, the mediation room, and an e-signed, binding settlement agreement.
- $299 and access to justice — serving the huge class of sub-$10,000 disputes no attorney can economically take.
- Replace or empower? — plus how Adri is trained to mediation ethics standards (ICODR, ABA/AAA, JAMS, NACM) and how confidentiality and privilege are handled.
- Where ODR goes next — and how listeners can try Dyspute.ai today.
“It’s not cutting into the pie — it’s creating a new pie. This is not replacing a mediator; it’s providing a service where there’s no service currently.” — Frank Goldberg
Try Dyspute.ai
- Website: dyspute.ai
- Walk through a demo case: interactive Supademo
- Human-in-the-loop mediation with Adri: watch on YouTube
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