Legora reports major gains from OpenAI-powered legal AI
Legora, the Stockholm-founded legal technology company established in 2023, says its AI platform helped a Fortune 100 client reduce contract turnaround time by 90%, save more than $20 million in external spending on litigation and due diligence, and free 9.5 hours per lawyer each week. The company describes its product as an agentic operating system for legal work and uses OpenAI models, APIs, Codex and ChatGPT across its platform and internal operations.
OpenAI is a core model provider for Legora. The company says it adopts new model capabilities as they become available, applying them to workflows ranging from AI agents to large-scale document review. Legora also offers a ChatGPT plugin that lets legal teams access its capabilities in ChatGPT conversations.
From document review to broader legal analysis
Legora’s global head of legal engineering, Alex Fortescue-Webb, said legal teams have traditionally had to focus detailed review on the highest-value contracts because of time and budget constraints. Legora’s spreadsheet analysis capability can assess thousands of contracts against several questions in minutes, allowing lawyers to examine a larger share of the document set.
The intended result is not solely faster review. Risks in contracts that may previously have fallen outside a manual sample can be identified and passed to a lawyer for assessment. Legora says lawyers remain responsible for checking and interpreting the findings generated by agents.
The company’s rapid expansion provides context for this operational push: its legal lead, Emma Kadri Bergström, said Legora grew from three offices to 18 in the past year, completed three funding rounds and made five acquisitions. That trajectory follows Legora’s $550 million funding and $8.8 billion valuation and illustrates the volume of legal work that can accompany a fast-growing technology business.
Internal use shapes the product
Legora applies the same tools inside its own legal team. For non-disclosure agreements, the team reviewed previously signed documents and built rules for an initial review process that flags terms outside acceptable limits. Bergström said routine document review had consumed roughly 20% of the team’s time before the process; it now accounts for less than 1%, a reduction of more than 95%.
In software development, Legora says coding agents enable teams to prototype multiple approaches rather than pursue one uncertain option. Chief technology officer Jacob Lauritzen said teams can explore 20 solutions in parallel over several days. For some product issues, agents can inspect millions of log lines and test hypotheses simultaneously, at times taking the path from an error report to a working fix to about five minutes.
Adoption requires workflow and trust
Legora’s leadership advises organisations to start with the task to be improved, rather than with the technology. It also highlights executive use, internal advocates, quality evaluation, testing and transparency as elements of sustained adoption. The practical implication for legal and business teams is to target a specific, high-volume workflow, establish review controls, and use the time released for judgement, strategy and decisions that still require human participation.