We are incredibly excited to announce our partnership with Xayn and the integration of their sovereign Legal AI "Noxtua" into the ClauseBase platform.
ClauseBase counts dozens of compliance-sensitive organisations among its customers, such as banks, supranational governmental organisations, and international law firms. A primary concern for these parties is leveraging the powerful advances in AI technology in a compliant manner, taking into account European legislation on data protection, cybersecurity, ESG, and more.
In Noxtua, we have found a legal AI solution that is capable of meeting these compliance demands, while also providing the kind of powerful drafting, reviewing, and negotiating enhancement our clients have come to expect.
Read the full press release below!
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Antwerp (Belgium) and Berlin (Germany), 26 November 2024 — Xayn, developer of Europe’s first sovereign Legal AI Noxtua, and ClauseBase, an innovative legal document drafting platform, enter a strategic collaboration integrating Xayn's Legal AI Noxtua into ClauseBase's drafting platform. This partnership aims to enhance the security and accuracy of legal document creation for professionals across Europe.
Noxtua, developed by Xayn with special insights and legal expertise from a consortium of law firms including international law firm CMS, is a specialized AI solution designed to assist legal professionals in legal research as well as analyzing, reviewing, summarizing, translating, and drafting legal documents. Noxtua distinguishes itself in the Generative AI landscape because it is trained exclusively on legal data selected and labeled by legal experts. It is also one of the only solutions on the market made completely in Europe, with particular attention being paid to its unique privacy and security requirements.
By embedding Noxtua into ClauseBase's platform, users will benefit from AI-driven insights and automation, streamlining the drafting process and reducing the potential for errors.
Focus on European digital sovereignty
Dr. Leif-Nissen Lundbæk, CEO and Co-Founder of Xayn, explained: "European digital sovereignty has never been more important than right now. As an AI company with a strong focus on European values, we’re excited to partner with ClauseBase. We really like how ClauseBase has built its AI integrations on the ideal dividing line between what is best handled by the human and what is best handled by the machine. We're happy to be able to power that perfect fit and we will join forces to further foster specialized Legal AI solutions Made In Europe
Maarten Truyens, CEO and Co-Founder of ClauseBase, added, "ClauseBase was founded by former IT lawyers, so compliance has always been in our DNA. We strongly believe in the value of European sovereignty that Xayn stands for. That makes our collaboration with Xayn a perfect fit. We knew that Xayn goes the extra mile on these topics, but we were also impressed by the quality of Noxtua’s outputs. Truly a best of both worlds scenario!”
Symbiosis of two specialized players
The integration is already available for ClauseBase clients with access to its MS Word add-in ClauseBuddy. As ClauseBase’s solutions are LLM-agnostic, ClauseBase clients will now be given the option to choose between their preferred models for specific tasks. In light of the compliance advantages, ClauseBase expects that many of its European customers will however give preference to Xayn.
One such European customer is CMS, the largest German business law firm, which expressed its enthusiasm for the cooperation.
“The legal world still lacks AI tools for too many of its needs. Now there is a practically important symbiosis between two important and specialised players. The "Swiss army knife" for typical legal linguistic work in Word/Outlook is fully integrated with the environmentally friendly language model optimised for such work on legal texts. And all this without any cumbersome US background.
We are proud to have played our part: Noxtua was co-initiated by CMS, led by our partner Dr Markus Kaulartz, one of Germany's leading AI lawyers. ClauseBuddy replaced our own in-house development 'Klauseltool', which was quite ahead of its time – and led to an ongoing creative relationship with ClauseBase. We believe that the connection we have helped to build will help not only us, but many others, to make deeper use of key AI technologies in times of growing demand for legal services and demographic change," says Dr Frederik Leenen (Partner and Head of Legal Tech at CMS Germany).
Founded out of a research project at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London, Xayn has been characterized by in-depth expertise in the development of highly efficient GDPR-compliant AI solutions since 2017. Germany's largest business law firm CMS brings the legal expertise and additional development experience. The international firm is specialized, among other things, in IT and AI law and develops its own legal tech applications as a pioneer in the legal market to support internal and external processes.
About ClauseBase
ClauseBase was launched in 2018 with the release of Clause9 – its advanced document automation tool. In 2022, ClauseBase launched ClauseBuddy, a MS Word plugin designed to complement Clause9 and unburden lawyers in various parts of the legal drafting process outside of the creation a first draft.
ClauseBase currently serves hundreds of customers spread across every continent (except Antarctica), including governments, international law firms such as Fieldfisher, CMS, and Deloitte Legal, as well as in-house legal teams in companies like Belfius, Merck, and the AES Corporation.
About Xayn
The AI startup Xayn develops Noxtua, Europe’s first sovereign Legal AI. Noxtua helps lawyers analyze and draft legal documents and research legal questions while being legally competent and compliant. Hosted in the EU, Noxtua meets high standards of confidentiality in handling client data, professional secrecy (e.g. Section 203 German Criminal Code, Section 43e German Federal Code for Lawyers), and European data protection. Noxtua is powered by specialized proprietary AI models. The models are trained with high-quality legal data provided by the Legal AI Alliance which the tech startup Xayn initiated with the international business law firm CMS. This makes Noxtua the secure, independent, and specialized European Legal AI.
The Berlin-based AI company Xayn was born out of research at Oxford University and Imperial College London by Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk and Professor Michael Huth. Founded in 2017, Xayn’s academic vision remains, with a workforce comprised of approx. 30% PhDs. The startup has received investment funding of 19.5 million EURO from Global Brain Corporation, KDDI Open Innovation Fund, Earlybird, and Dominik Schiener.
