Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work

Building for a profession where time—and trust—are scarce

Founded in Stockholm in 2023, Legora⁠(opens in a new window) is building what CEO and co-founder Max Junestrand calls “the agentic operating system for legal work”: bringing AI into the workflows lawyers rely on every day.

The company started with the insight that legal teams are unusually time crunched, meaning some valuable work doesn’t get done. Think of the junior lawyer told to review an impossible number of contracts overnight and only able to focus on a fraction.

Legora can provide those services “on tap”, which is why Junestrand’s ambition is that every piece of legal work in the world should run on his platform. OpenAI has been part of that journey from the beginning: the release of GPT‑3.5 was the moment many of the legal use cases the founding team had been experimenting with became possible. Today, OpenAI is a key model provider for Legora, powering core workflows across its legal AI platform, from agentic legal work to large-scale document review. Legora builds on new OpenAI model capabilities as they become available, translating advances in intelligence into what lawyers can accomplish with its product.

An AI-native company building an AI-native product

Legora’s use of AI goes beyond the product it sells, and has expanded its use of ChatGPT Work, Codex and dots across its own teams. OpenAI’s technology is becoming part of both the product Legora builds for its customers as well as shaping how the company itself operates. “It’s incredibly important to me that we stay as AI-native as possible,” confirms Junestrand.

For Jacob Lauritzen, CTO at Legora, coding agents have changed how quickly the engineering team can develop new ideas. Instead of researching one possible solution and committing engineering time before knowing whether it’s the right path, teams can prototype many approaches at once. “We can explore 20 solutions at the same time and, within days, pick the one we know will be the best.”