LEGALFLY opens legal AI access to wider business teams

LEGALFLY has launched Collaborator Access, expanding access to its legal AI platform beyond in-house legal teams.

The product is aimed at employees in procurement, sales, human resources, and operations who handle legal work but are not lawyers. These users can ask legal questions and conduct reviews within controls set by the legal team.

The launch reflects a broader push by software suppliers to bring specialist AI tools to a wider group of business users while keeping oversight with subject experts. LEGALFLY aims to reduce the volume of routine work reaching legal departments and limit the use of general-purpose AI tools for legal matters.

Ruben Miessen, Chief Executive Officer at LEGALFLY, said: "Everybody knows that legal AI makes legal teams faster, but we want to make entire businesses faster. In our experience, a large enterprise will employ ten times as many managers, department heads, and VPs as lawyers. All of these managerial positions generate high volumes of legal work: engaging with contracts, compliance questions, procurement decisions, and employment matters. Our new Collaborator Access enables all of these critical stakeholders to do better, quicker, safer legal work."

He added that the aim is to change the legal department's role inside a company.

"This solves a huge problem for in-house legal teams and will connect legal teams to every employee who touches legal work, with the right guardrails in a safe and secure environment. In this way, the legal team stops being a bottleneck and becomes a safe, easy-to-use infrastructure layer for legal work across the enterprise," Miessen said.

How it works

Collaborator Access is offered at a lower monthly price than standard licences for legal teams. It gives non-legal staff access to LEGALFLY through Word and Outlook add-ins and lets them start legal workflows through email, Slack, or Teams.

That means staff can work in tools they already use rather than move to a separate legal system. Requests and documents are then routed to the relevant people, while AI-generated reviews can be sent to legal teams for approval at predefined points.

Another feature lets employees query company legal policies through a chat interface. Legal teams need to embed those policies once, after which other users can ask questions within the system.

The platform also anonymises sensitive data by default. The measure is intended to address concerns about staff entering sensitive legal information into general consumer AI services without approval or oversight.

Miessen said that risk was a central factor behind the product update.

"AI is very powerful, but can be misused. We want to ensure that employees outside the legal team are using the right AI tools. There is risk attached to using generalist generative AI: if employees ask legal questions to a generalist AI chatbot, they may circumvent the legal team using potentially bad information and create hidden risks for the business," Miessen said.

Customer use

LEGALFLY said the product has already been introduced with several customers, including DAS Rechtsbijstand and Wealins, part of Foyer Group. At Wealins, legal work on the platform is not limited to the legal department, with claims, compliance, and operations teams also using the system.

Luc Rasschaert, Chief Executive Officer at Wealins, said: "Our compliance team, who do the AML and KYC checks, have started using LEGALFLY because of its document anonymisation capabilities. The Operations team also uses it for the same KYC reasons. More recently, to my surprise, our Finance team has begun using it following the addition of Excel file support."

The launch adds to a growing area of legal technology focused on in-house departments rather than law firms alone. Many of these products began with tools for contract review, drafting, research, and intake, but suppliers are increasingly trying to connect legal work with the wider business functions that create or depend on it.

LEGALFLY was founded in Belgium in 2023 and says it serves more than 120 customers across 23 countries. The company has raised more than EUR 17 million from investors including Notion Capital, Redalpine, and Fortino Capital.