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So, yes, it's a mix. We have engineers, and then we have lawyers, and there's one team. So there's, like, three engineers and, like, three lawyers right now, and then we have a pool of what we call legal engineers, which is people that have worked in big law for like three or four years. Typically, maybe they have a CS degree and like they're very tech forward

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 9:00.

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Jacob Lauritzen, CTO. Runs engineering at the company whose product he describes.

Legora sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.

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I think it's a power distribution. So, like, there's probably, like, 60% of the work … We can do really well right now, and you know, from now on, it's like a cost and latency thing. But then there's the rest of the the thing where, especially for, like, very complex analysis, we we still need more intelligence.

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 7:30.

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we had one problem where, like, it wouldn't cite properly, and so it would be difficult to follow, and it was like, next model release solved, it went from, 70% to, like, 99. It's just like, we did nothing and, like, great.

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 10:30.

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So we have different, basically, like, worlds, like RL environments, essentially, which is like, here's a… Because because lawyers work in projects always, more or less, so it's like, here's 10,000 file data room, you're doing your due diligence

Jacob LauritzenCTO · Executive, Legora

Podcast: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, Latent Space, November 2, 2026, at transcript, around 9:00.

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