AiLA.

The AI legal department.

AiLA runs the legal work that exceeds your organisation's capacity. AI handles the routine: portfolios, statutory requests, deadlines, correspondence. Your lawyer signs off on everything that matters. And if a matter becomes contentious, AiLA's own lawyers take it, working AI-assisted at a fraction of law-firm cost.

We solve pain points. Choose yours, and we'll show you how we handle it.

The model

Routine work done, your decisions prepared, contentious matters resolved

AI does the volume.

It monitors the registries, tracks every deadline, handles the correspondence, and prepares the first drafts, continuously and without being asked, so none of it lands back on your desk.

You sign off.

Everything consequential comes to your lawyer with the evidence already attached, ready to approve or decline. Nothing is sent or filed without you.

Our lawyers take the rest.

When a matter turns contentious, a trademark opposition, a contested subject access request, a difficult regulator, it escalates to AiLA's lawyers, who pick it up AI-assisted with the full history already in the system. With no briefing calls or catch-up fees.

The platform

See it working

The AiLA dashboard: requests classified, matters tracked, work prepared for your approval.

Why AiLA

Built for organisations whose obligations exceed capacity

IT, payroll, and facilities were contracted out decades ago. Routine work of the legal function is next.

Legal work, for most organisations, is a cost carried for risk and compliance. It's necessary, process driven and chronically understaffed. The firms who could take it off your hands don't want the business, because they build their engagements for the multinationals they consult for, and their minimums exclude everyone else. There are software tools, but they only organise the work: you still have to do it.

So if you are a legal team of one or two inside a mid-market company, or an information governance team inside a public body, you have spent years choosing between doing it yourself and overpaying for it. AI changes the economics of serving you properly, and that is where AiLA excels.

The solutions

What we do

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BrandVault
Trademarks

Your trademark portfolio, managed. BrandVault tracks the deadlines, watches for threats, and assesses each renewal against commercial evidence before asking for your decision. Bree, its AI trademark paralegal, works in your Slack from day one, and disputes escalate to lawyers who already know the portfolio.

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DutyDesk
Data protection & FOI

Subject access requests, FOI requests, and ICO correspondence handled from receipt to response: screened, gathered, redacted, and packaged for your approval, with the statutory clock tracked from the moment each request lands. When a matter is contested, it escalates.

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Employment Planned

The documents and processes every employer carries: contracts, handbooks, policies, and the meetings, letters, and consultations that HR issues must follow, prepared and tracked on the same model, with contentious matters escalated.

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InnoVault Private beta
Patents

Annuities, deadlines, and office actions across jurisdictions, kept current without anyone having to chase them. In private beta with early portfolios now.

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Contracts Planned

Everyday agreements drafted, reviewed, and tracked through to signature and renewal, on the same model.

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Corporate & entity management Planned

Filings, registers, and corporate deadlines kept current across the group.

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Escalation

We resolve contentious matters in a way software never will

Every AiLA solution carries the same promise. When a matter exceeds the routine, an opposition, a contested access request, a difficult regulator, AiLA's own lawyers take it on, working AI-assisted on a matter whose full history is already in the system. Escalation starts with context, not with a briefing call and a discovery invoice.

What escalation covers: contentious matters before the registries and regulators, in each solution's domain. Where a matter heads to court, we prepare the file and work alongside your chosen litigators.
How we work

Not just a chat window

Each AiLA solution pairs a leading AI model with a harness built for its domain. Official records sit underneath, so answers are grounded and traceable. Deadlines and arithmetic come from deterministic rules, because those are not things a model should ever guess at. Hard limits govern what the AI may do without your approval. The value is in the domain knowledge embedded in that agentic layer, and in the official records beneath it.

Security

Your data stays yours

Legal work runs on confidential information, so the guarantees here are short and unconditional. Security-reviewed by Baker McKenzie and DLA Piper; part of Barclays Eagle Labs and Lawtech UK.

UK data residency

Client data processed and stored in the UK.

Encrypted throughout

All traffic and documents encrypted in transit and at rest.

Audited actions

Every action taken on your behalf is logged with a reason and available for review.

No AI training on your data

Your matters are never used to train models.

Approval gates

Nothing consequential is sent, filed, or disclosed without your sign-off.

Who's behind it

Built by people who've done this work

Mark Kingsley-Williams
Founder

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 Guerrero
Lead Developer

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.

FAQ

Questions you may have

Is AiLA a law firm?

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 litigators.

Who actually does the work?

The AI does the volume: the monitoring, the drafting, the deadline tracking, the correspondence. Your own lawyer approves everything consequential before it goes anywhere. And when a matter escalates, AiLA's lawyers take it, working with the AI rather than instead of it.

What does it cost?

Each solution is priced as a monthly retainer based on scope and volume, the way an accountant charges rather than the way software does. Escalated matters are quoted individually before any work begins, and there are no per-seat charges.

We're a public body. Does this work for us?

Yes, and in the case of FOI it can only work for you, since FOI applies solely to public authorities. DutyDesk is built for the request volumes and statutory deadlines that information governance teams carry. Procurement routes are being established; ask us where we are with your framework.

Can we take one solution without the others?

Yes. Each solution stands alone, with its own site, onboarding, and pricing, and the escalation promise comes with every one of them.

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Put the routine under management

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