Lucio, Lightbringer, Harvey, Jus Mundi, SpotDraft, LI UK + NY – Artificial Lawyer

Lucio, an ‘AI-native legal workspace’ has raised $5m in Seed funding – which is in effect India’s answer to Harvey and Legora. It’s offering a broad range of skills, covering everything from contract drafting and review, to helping with litigation work e.g. showing timelines.  

They got started back in 2022, but it’s clear that after a gradual development arc they’ve really started to grow now. They note they have over 200 customers across nine jurisdictions, (see the list of leading Indian, and other, law firms and inhouse teams they have as customers).  

Some of the cash will be used for ’deepening its personalization capabilities to provide lawyers across jurisdictions with a highly tailored, friction-free AI experience’.

Vasu Aggarwal, co-founder of Lucio, commented: ‘We are building Lucio to disappear into legal workflows, to meet lawyers where they already are, elevate the quality of their output, and make them fall in love with the law again.’

Is this a big deal? AL has been writing about legal tech startups in India since this site started, but there definitely feels that there is both a greater momentum now for home-grown companies and also more money going into them.

India itself is a vast legal market, albeit that a relatively small number of leading commercial law firms at the very top of the market tend to dominate the major deals. Either way, it will be interesting to see where this goes and how internationally they can grow.  

More about the company here.

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Meet Lightbringer, a new UK-Swedish AI company focused on patent work, led by CEO Dominic Davies, which is now aiming at global expansion. AL wanted to find out some more.

What is your genAI approach?  

Lightbringer’s platform is the first to combine the speed and precision of AI with the expertise of seasoned attorneys, including:

AI Competitor Patent Monitoring: This is comparable to a strategic watchdog for tech companies. Lightbringer’s AI proactively scans the global patent landscape to identify competitor moves, uncover new patent opportunities and flag potential infringement risks. Every week customers receive a concise, actionable report, turning complex patent data into a clear competitive advantage.   

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Lightbringer Insights v2.0: Lightbringer have significantly upgraded their conversational AI to give founders and CTOs instant answers to critical patent strategy questions. Users can now ask, ‘Should we patent this or keep it a trade secret?’ or ‘Generate an IP summary for my investor meeting’. Users then receive immediate, data-driven guidance. This empowers companies to make smarter, faster IP decisions without the initial delay of consulting lawyers. 

How is it different to the several similar AI patent companies in the market?

Lightbringer stands out in the market as it brings the patent application services directly to inventors, start-ups and SMEs, rather than being a software tool being bought by legal firms. Lightbringer also has a team of inhouse patent lawyers within their company to guide their clients through the application process. They keep a human within the loop rather than creating a purely AI-only software service. 

What prices are you offering now?

The subscription model cuts costs by up to 50% and reduces typical time to file from two months to just one week. 

So, there you go. The IP world continues to see new genAI startups making an impact.

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Germany’s leading law firm, Hengeler Mueller (think Slaughter and May or Davis Polk, but with more BMWs parked outside the office), has chosen to go all-in on Harvey after a limited deployment.

They said that ‘all Hengeler Mueller employees will receive access to Harvey, reinforcing the firm’s commitment to innovation and its investment in equipping lawyers at every level with the most advanced tools to serve clients’.

Is this a big deal? Yes. Why? Because there has been a trend in some European countries to opt for European productivity platforms. Moreover, Germany has several well-developed legal AI companies of its own. And, given that law firms tend to look to one another for signals as to what to do next, Hengeler – which is at the top of the tree in Europe’s largest economy – has chosen Harvey.

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Airia, an enterprise AI orchestration and security platform, has launched Smart Scan, enabling organizations to automatically analyze, extract, and categorize information from thousands of documents simultaneously. It can:

Tag documents to classify documents by category

Extract precise information from each file

Generate summaries of each document for rapid review

Export results to spreadsheet format for further analysis and sharing

Dan Quintas, Head of AI Solutions at Airia, commented: ‘Whether you’re a legal team facing 50,000 discovery documents or a procurement team analyzing supplier contracts, Smart Scan transforms hours or weeks of manual review into automated analysis. This is document automation that works at enterprise scale.’

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This week’s AL TV Product Walk Through is with Jus Mundi and looks in detail at its new Jus AI 2 capabilities, which have a strong agentic element, all focused on arbitration.

Monica Crespo, Head of Product, takes us through the video, which includes an overview of their journey in developing legal intelligence for arbitration specialists.

To watch the video please press Play, or you can go to the AL TV Channel here.

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And of course….Legal Innovators Conferences in London and New York – November ’25

If you’d like to stay ahead of the legal AI curve then come along to Legal Innovators New York, Nov 19 + 20 and also, Legal Innovators UK – Nov 4 + 5 + 6, where the brightest minds will be sharing their insights on where we are now and where we are heading. 

Legal Innovators UK arrives first, with: Law Firm Day on Nov 4th, then Inhouse Day, on the 5th, and then our new Litigation Day on the 6th. 

Both events, as always, are organised by the Cosmonauts team! 

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SpotDraft Webinar: Setting Up A CLM – ‘From Pilot to Production in 90 Days‘

28 October, Tuesday – 4:30 – 5:30 PM GMT – Free to attend, but please RSVP here.

Implementing a Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system is often seen as a long, complex process – but it doesn’t have to be. With the right approach, legal teams can go from pilot to production in just 90 days.

In this session, we will cover:

How to scope, pilot, and roll out a CLM with speed and confidence.

Common pitfalls that derail implementation—and how to avoid them.

Change management tactics to drive adoption across legal and business teams.

Practical benchmarks to measure success in the first 90 days. 

‍Whether you’re evaluating a CLM or already planning implementation, this conversation will give you insights to accelerate results and prove ROI effectively.

The panel will include:

Eduardo Rastelli, Legal Transformation Programme Manager, Standard Chartered

Sabrina Pervez, Regional Director, EMEA SpotDraft

Richard Tromans, Founder, Artificial Lawyer (chair)

Free to attend, but please RSVP here.

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And in this week’s Law Punx blast, Scott Stevenson of Spellbook discusses the limitations of fine-tuning AI models for legal use cases, arguing that it has become an overrated technique. He emphasizes the importance of using LLMs as layers of human reasoning rather than relying on their long-term memory. The discussion also covers the advantages of real-time information retrieval over fine-tuning. There is a full transcript below.

Press Play to watch / listen here, or go to the AL TV Channel.

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P.S. Artificial Lawyer will be in Sweden for most of next week, as I’ll be giving a keynote at Nordic Legal Tech Day in Stockholm, and then getting some hygge into my system, so AL won’t be publishing much apart from on Monday.

Have a great weekend folks!

I’ll leave you with a pic of the lovely Stockholm, taken on a previous trip to Scandinavia.