We’re on a mission to empower legal teams with artificial intelligence.
Mark Doble and Sam Bhasin founded Alexi out of a drive to make the law more knowable. During law school at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada, Mark became obsessed with AI and natural language processing. It became clear to him that the rate of improvement in foundational technologies made it such that AI would have a profound and positive impact on the legal profession and the system as a whole. Nevertheless, he still saw big technical challenges that few people were working on.
After working for less than a year in a law firm, Mark decided to start Alexi. Shortly thereafter, he met Sam, a brilliant engineer who at the time was working on future aerospace technologies at Bombardier. It didn’t take long for Mark and Sam to find a shared commitment to the problems and the process for solving them. Sam left his job at Bombardier to build out the engineering team at Alexi that would begin to solve some of the hardest technical problems at the intersection of AI and the law.
Now, Alexi (an anthropomorphised combination of AI + Law), is the clear leader in developing the next generation of AI technologies to power the legal industry. Trusted by tens of thousands of lawyers right across North America, from solo practitioners to some of the largest law firms in the World, Alexi is set to redefine what’s possible for legal technology.
AI has the potential to be profoundly positive for the legal industry. It also has the potential to cause significant harm. We build technology first and foremost, but only insofar as it provides significant value for humans.
It should be easy for society to know the law and for legal professionals to provide high-quality and affordable services.
Subjective legal services should be delivered by humans, not AI. This is how we best ensure AI alignment within the profession and the legal industry as a whole. However, all objective tasks should be done by AI.
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