AiLA is your external AI legal department. It toils day and night picking up the rote and routine, so every morning the work is on your desk, with the evidence and reasoning attached. You sign off, or you delegate. Should a matter escalate, our own lawyers take it on. All for a fraction of what traditional law firms charge.
The phrase that casts a bad spell on deals, launches and hires, said about lawyers who are already working nights and weekends. AiLA takes the queue away from everyone. Work starts automatically the moment the obligation arrives. The simple things come back in seconds, the complex ones within hours, and all of it reaches you prepared. And when the quarter brings a diligence request, a restructuring and a launch at once, the department scales to meet the peak. Nobody hires for it, and nothing waits.
Routine legal work has stayed inside the company - until now - because the cost of the alternative was higher. An outside lawyer starts from zero on your context, bills the briefing, and you can't see how the work was done. So companies hired a general counsel and gave them everything.
An AI harness removes both costs. It holds your policies, history and positions, so nothing starts from zero, and it logs every check, draft and sign-off, so external work becomes more visible and auditable than an employee's. Once context and control can sit outside the firm, the routine layer of the legal function can follow the others out of the building. AI does not just make things faster. It changes where work is best done and by whom.
Most legal loss in the mid-market comes from missed deadlines, renewals that lapse, notice windows that close, a deadline nobody was watching. A law firm earns when there is a problem to fix. AiLA earns by watching, so problems are pre-empted before they occur.
A firm sells matters, so a problem that occurs is revenue. On a retainer we're incentivised to prevent, which is why every contract term, statutory clock, filing and renewal is watched without being asked, and each decision reaches you prepared, evidence and reasoning attached.
The queue goes first, and then the problems stop arriving.
A law firm's hourly rate carries a pyramid, junior hours billed at a mark-up for every partner at the top, and partner profit priced into every minute of every matter. That is the business model, and it is why the routine work, the work you send most often, costs the most per unit of judgement.
AiLA carries neither. AI does most of the labour, so the price of a reviewed contract or a prepared response is low. Our lawyers get involved only when a matter escalates, and then on a quoted fee. You pay a retainer against the work, as with an accountant, so the tenth contract costs no more than the first. And the matters that never arrive, because they were caught, cost nothing at all.
All on one kernel, with official records underneath, fixed rules for anything with a date or a number in it, hard limits on what the AI may do without you, and the same lawyers behind every one. Start with one, and the department grows from there.
Their paper reviewed against your precedents and back the same day with the deviations flagged. Yours drafted from your templates. Every agreement tracked through signature, renewal and the notice window nobody was counting.
See it on your contractsSubject access requests, FOI and the ICO handled from receipt to response. Each is screened, gathered, redacted and packaged for your approval, with the statutory clock counted from the moment the request lands.
Assess your readinessRegisters, filings, resolutions and minutes kept current across the group, drafted from the record and reconciled with Companies House before anything is filed.
See it on your groupYour portfolio managed, with deadlines tracked, threats watched and each renewal weighed against commercial evidence before you decide. Bree, its AI paralegal, works in your Slack from day one.
Show me my portfolioContracts, handbooks and policies kept current, and the letters, meetings and consultations that HR issues must follow, prepared and tracked on the same model. Name to follow.
Tell us if this is where it hurtsAnnuities, deadlines and office actions across jurisdictions, plus the register of what you know that nobody else does, your trade secrets identified, documented and protected. In private beta with early portfolios.
Register interestFor the company with no lawyer yet, AiLA arrives with the documents, terms and precedents proven across many companies and adjusted to yours, running from the first week rather than after the year a first hire would spend assembling them. For the company with a GC, it starts from what's already public and asks for nothing you have to send.
Illustrative. On the real thing, this pulls your entity from Companies House and your marks from the registries.
AiLA joins the company the way a new hire does, with its own email address, a seat in Slack or Teams, and access to the shared drive and the calendar. Correspondence reaches it directly, the work is filed where your documents already live, and decisions come to you in the channel you're already in. There is no dashboard you have to remember to check. The workspace is there when you want depth, and you never have to log in to stay abreast.
Registry letters, subject access requests, the counterparty's paper and the regulator's correspondence go to AiLA's address, or are forwarded to it. It reads, classifies and matches each one to the right matter, and drafts the reply for your sign-off.
legal@yourcompany.comAsk in plain English and get the answer in the thread, with the evidence attached. Approve or decline there too. In BrandVault that colleague is Bree, its AI trademark paralegal, and every Vault answers in the same channel.
#legalIt reads your precedents from Google Drive or SharePoint and files what it produces back where you keep things, versioned, so nothing lives in a system only AiLA can see. The calendar carries the deadlines it is counting.
Drive · SharePoint · CalendarWhen a matter exceeds the routine, an opposition, a contested access request, a difficult regulator, AiLA's own lawyers take it on, working AI-assisted with the full history already in the system. Escalation starts with context, not with a briefing call and a discovery invoice.
Handing legal work to AI takes trust, so the limits are built in and every one of them can be checked.
Nothing consequential leaves without your sign-off, or an authority you've set in writing.
Deadlines and arithmetic come from deterministic rules built per jurisdiction. The model reads and drafts. It never calculates.
Answers are grounded in the official record and traceable to it. Where a rule isn't verified, the deadline is flagged, not guessed.
Every action taken on your behalf is recorded with a reason and available for review.
Your data is never used to train models. All data is processed and stored in compliance with UK and EU GDPR.
When it turns contentious, our lawyers take it, on a portfolio they already know.
Security-reviewed by Baker McKenzie and DLA Piper, and part of Barclays Eagle Labs and Lawtech UK. AiLA also convenes Legaltech Field Notes, a bi-monthly London gathering of lawyers and builders.
Mark is an IP lawyer with a background in economics and tech startups. He built the first high-volume online trademark service in 2008, and within two years it was filing more UK and EU trademarks than any other firm, while he represented clients in disputes before the UKIPO and appeals before the Appointed Person. He went on to found LawPanel, an IP management software firm used by trademark practitioners in the UK and US that passed technical evaluations with several top-five global law firms. AiLA is the third act, the AI legal department, combining AI models harnessed to legal work with lawyers who stand behind it.
Sebastian is a solution architect and full-stack engineer with twenty-five years of shipping production software, most recently as a Solution Architect at Chevron, designing cloud, data and AI systems on Azure. Before that he spent nearly seven years as lead developer at LawPanel, where he built the cloud IP management platform used by trademark practitioners in the UK and US. At AiLA he leads engineering, harnessing AI models to the deterministic rules, official data and approval gates that legal work depends on.
No, and for the work it covers it doesn't need to be. The routine and contentious registry and regulatory work AiLA handles is not reserved legal activity in the UK. Where a matter does head to court, AiLA prepares the file and works alongside your chosen representatives.
The AI does the volume, the monitoring, the drafting, the deadline tracking and the correspondence. You approve everything consequential before it goes anywhere, or delegate it within limits you set. When a matter escalates, AiLA's lawyers take it, working with the AI rather than instead of it.
No. A team of five hit by a diligence request, a restructuring and a product launch in the same quarter has the same problem as a GC of one, more obligations than can be handled. AiLA takes the routine layer permanently and absorbs the surges on top, on the same retainer, so the team stops staffing for the peak. Most legal departments already buy overflow this way. This is overflow that knows your business.
No. AiLA works in the tools you already use, its own inbox for correspondence, a seat in Slack or Teams for questions and approvals, your shared drive for the documents. Decisions reach you where you are. The workspace exists for when you want the full picture, not as a place you're required to visit.
You set the limits in writing, which document types, which thresholds, which counterparties. Within them, AiLA acts and logs every action with its reasons. Outside them, everything comes to you. You can narrow or widen the authority at any time.
Each solution is priced as a monthly retainer based on scope and volume, the way an accountant charges. Nothing is charged by seat or by the hour. Escalated matters are quoted individually before any work begins.
Yes, and in the case of FOI it can only work for you, since FOI applies solely to public authorities. PrivacyVault is built for the request volumes and statutory deadlines that information governance teams carry.
Yes. Each solution stands alone, with its own onboarding and pricing, and the escalation promise comes with every one of them.
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