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Legora builds an agentic operating system for legal work on OpenAI, cutting NDA review load from 20% to under 1%

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Hi everyone, it's Shii-chan! Today I'm sharing a story about Legora, a company using AI deeply in legal work!

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What was announced?

In OpenAI News, OpenAI profiled how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to speed up legal workflows. Legora is a Stockholm-based company founded in 2023. Its CEO Max Junestrand calls it an agentic operating system for legal work, and OpenAI is one of its key model providers.

Why it matters

Legal work involves reading mountains of contracts, so AI impact is easy to measure. The post gives concrete results both inside Legora and at a customer.

What changes

Inside Legora:

  • NDA review used to take about 20% of the legal team's capacity; after an automated first-pass playbook it fell to under 1%
  • Over a year, the company grew from three offices to 18, with three financing rounds and five acquisitions
  • Engineers use coding agents to explore many solutions in parallel; one bug went from report to working fix in about five minutes

At one Fortune 100 customer:

  • 90% reduction in contract turnaround time
  • More than $20 million saved on external litigation and diligence
  • 9.5 hours returned per lawyer each week

Dive Deep

Legora's Tabular Review workflow can analyze thousands of contracts across multiple questions in minutes. The leadership lessons in the post:

  • When more than 75% of leaders actively use the product, median usage across the organization is 3x higher
  • Start with the user's problem, then find where AI fits
  • Build internal champions
  • Expect to rebuild products as models improve (the CTO reviews the roadmap biweekly)
  • Build in evaluation, testing, and transparency from the start

Looking ahead, they expect longer, more autonomous tasks, such as overnight due diligence across millions of pages.

Wrap-up

  • Legora speeds up legal work with OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex
  • NDA review load dropped from about 20% to under 1%
  • A customer saw 90% faster contract turnaround and 9.5 hours per lawyer per week returned

This is for anyone driving AI adoption inside an organization!

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