Legal work lives on words. A single wrong clause in a contract can end up in court years later; a missing clause costs more than the hours saved while drafting. Anyone who creates documents every day knows both sides of this work: some texts have to be exact, the same every time, traceable down to the letter. Others simply have to be produced fast, because the matter won’t wait.
Most tools force a choice between the two. You get rigid templates that are reliable but inflexible — or an AI text box that drafts quickly and makes up whatever suits it along the way. We’re convinced this choice is framed the wrong way. Legal teams don’t need one or the other. They need both, under one roof.
That is exactly what Lawlift is: one platform, two products. Document Automation generates documents based on rules: the legal expertise sits in the template, so the result is predictable and equally available to everyone on the team — without anyone having to master the rules behind it. Lawlift Intelligence steps in where flexibility matters — drafting from scratch, rewriting existing text, translating, anonymizing, and reviewing. And it does so right inside Word, where the work happens anyway.
What connects the two products is a single conviction: the pace belongs to the software, but the judgment stays with people. Every change the AI proposes appears as a tracked change you accept or reject. Nothing leaves your desk that you haven’t seen and approved yourself. The AI delivers speed; responsibility stays where it belongs.
Our co-founder Konstantin Bertram summed up the core in one sentence that has stuck with us ever since:
“AI is one part of what we do. The foundation, though, is structure, reliability, and a deep understanding of how legal teams really work.”
The benefit doesn’t show up in a single metric, but in everyday work: when colleagues without legal training can create standard contracts themselves, the legal department gains time for the genuinely hard questions. When two to three hours of drafting become five minutes, what experts focus on shifts.
Where we’re headed follows naturally from this foundation. We bring agentic AI to where legal work actually happens — into the document, into Word, into the existing workflow — instead of placing yet another system alongside it that people first have to learn. People should say what they want to achieve; the software should propose the right approach and make every step transparent before it takes effect. Our goal is to lighten the load: the software takes on what no one should be doing by hand anyway, making room for the work that legal thinking really demands.
From daily practice, our co-founder Steffen Bunnenberg puts it this way:
“No team works at just one point. Some need the full flexibility of AI and check every word themselves. Others want the best of both worlds: AI that drafts within their own guidelines. And others still need one-hundred-percent reliability, which only rule-based automation provides. Lawlift doesn’t force any of these choices — for every document, you pick the right balance between flexibility and precision.”
One thread runs through everything we do: we want to make software easier to use. We started back in 2018 with the ambition that automation itself should be as simple as possible — not the exception for a few specialists, but a tool for everyone. AI makes that ambition even more attainable today: it lowers the barrier further, without compromising on reliability or control.
Warm regards,
Dr. Konstantin Bertram & Dr. Steffen Bunnenberg Founders, Lawlift · Berlin