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LEGALFLY Expands Legal AI to Non-Legal Staff with New Collaborator Access
LEGALFLY is taking legal AI out of the courtroom and into the boardroom.
Belgian legal‑tech startup LEGALFLY has unveiled a new product, Collaborator Access, that broadens its AI‑powered platform beyond in‑house legal teams to employees in procurement, sales, human resources and operations.
The goal is to trim the volume of routine legal work that funnels into a company’s legal department and to curb the use of general‑purpose generative‑AI tools for legal matters. According to LEGALFLY, the new service lets non‑lawyers pose legal questions and run reviews within safeguards set by the legal team.
"Everybody knows that legal AI makes legal teams faster, but we want to make entire businesses faster," said LEGALFLY CEO Ruben Miessen. He added that a large enterprise typically employs ten times as many managers, department heads and VPs as lawyers, and that these roles generate high volumes of legal work. The platform is intended to give them the same speed and safety that legal teams enjoy.
Collaborator Access is priced lower than standard licences for legal teams. It is delivered through Word and Outlook add‑ins and lets users start legal workflows via email, Slack or Teams. Staff can work in the tools they already use, and requests and documents are routed to the relevant people. AI‑generated reviews are sent to the legal team for approval at predefined checkpoints.
A chat interface lets employees query company legal policies. Legal teams embed those policies once, after which other users can ask questions within the system. The platform also anonymises sensitive data by default, a feature that the company says addresses concerns about staff entering confidential information into consumer AI services.
Risk management is a central focus of the update. Miessen said that while AI is powerful, it can be misused. "We want to ensure that employees outside the legal team are using the right AI tools," he said. "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."
LEGALFLY has already introduced Collaborator Access to several customers, including DAS Rechtsbijstand and Wealins, part of the Foyer Group. At Wealins, the platform is used by the compliance team for AML and KYC checks, the operations team for the same reasons, and, more recently, the finance team following the addition of Excel file support.
The launch reflects a broader trend in legal technology that is moving beyond tools for contract review, drafting and research to solutions that connect legal work with the wider business functions that create or depend on it. Many suppliers are now offering specialist AI tools that can be accessed by non‑legal staff while still maintaining oversight by subject experts.
LEGALFLY was founded in Belgium in 2023. The company reports serving more than 120 customers across 23 countries and has raised over EUR 17 million from investors such as Notion Capital, Redalpine and Fortino Capital.
The new product is positioned as a way for enterprises to streamline legal workflows, reduce bottlenecks and keep sensitive information secure while still leveraging AI’s efficiency.
The company has not announced any further product releases or regulatory developments related to Collaborator Access. It remains to be seen how widely the feature will be adopted across other sectors and whether additional safeguards will be introduced as the platform expands.
Belgian legal‑tech startup LEGALFLY has unveiled a new product, Collaborator Access, that broadens its AI‑powered platform beyond in‑house legal teams to employees in procurement, sales, human resources and operations.
The goal is to trim the volume of routine legal work that funnels into a company’s legal department and to curb the use of general‑purpose generative‑AI tools for legal matters. According to LEGALFLY, the new service lets non‑lawyers pose legal questions and run reviews within safeguards set by the legal team.
"Everybody knows that legal AI makes legal teams faster, but we want to make entire businesses faster," said LEGALFLY CEO Ruben Miessen. He added that a large enterprise typically employs ten times as many managers, department heads and VPs as lawyers, and that these roles generate high volumes of legal work. The platform is intended to give them the same speed and safety that legal teams enjoy.
Collaborator Access is priced lower than standard licences for legal teams. It is delivered through Word and Outlook add‑ins and lets users start legal workflows via email, Slack or Teams. Staff can work in the tools they already use, and requests and documents are routed to the relevant people. AI‑generated reviews are sent to the legal team for approval at predefined checkpoints.
A chat interface lets employees query company legal policies. Legal teams embed those policies once, after which other users can ask questions within the system. The platform also anonymises sensitive data by default, a feature that the company says addresses concerns about staff entering confidential information into consumer AI services.
Risk management is a central focus of the update. Miessen said that while AI is powerful, it can be misused. "We want to ensure that employees outside the legal team are using the right AI tools," he said. "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."
LEGALFLY has already introduced Collaborator Access to several customers, including DAS Rechtsbijstand and Wealins, part of the Foyer Group. At Wealins, the platform is used by the compliance team for AML and KYC checks, the operations team for the same reasons, and, more recently, the finance team following the addition of Excel file support.
The launch reflects a broader trend in legal technology that is moving beyond tools for contract review, drafting and research to solutions that connect legal work with the wider business functions that create or depend on it. Many suppliers are now offering specialist AI tools that can be accessed by non‑legal staff while still maintaining oversight by subject experts.
LEGALFLY was founded in Belgium in 2023. The company reports serving more than 120 customers across 23 countries and has raised over EUR 17 million from investors such as Notion Capital, Redalpine and Fortino Capital.
The new product is positioned as a way for enterprises to streamline legal workflows, reduce bottlenecks and keep sensitive information secure while still leveraging AI’s efficiency.
The company has not announced any further product releases or regulatory developments related to Collaborator Access. It remains to be seen how widely the feature will be adopted across other sectors and whether additional safeguards will be introduced as the platform expands.
