Leya AI

What is Leya AI?

Leya AI is the former name of Legora, a legal AI platform that reviews documents, researches law and drafts contracts for law firms and in-house teams. The company renamed itself Legora in February 2025, so any older Leya listing, login or review points to the same product, team and customers.

The platform now describes itself as an agentic operating system for legal work. Lawyers upload or connect matter documents, then ask questions, run bulk reviews, draft in Microsoft Word or hand multi-step tasks to an agent that plans the work, carries it out, checks the result and delivers a draft for approval. Every answer is meant to cite the passage or source it relies on, because a lawyer still has to sign off the work.

Legora started in Stockholm in 2023, joined Y Combinator and is led by co-founder and chief executive Max Junestrand. In March 2026 it announced a $550 million Series D and cited more than 800 customers in over 50 markets. It sells only through demos and annual contracts, and its output is a drafting and research aid rather than legal advice.

Key Features

Tabular review and the agent carry most of the value, since together they turn a data room or a long instruction into cited, checkable work product.

• Tabular review: It turns thousands of documents into a spreadsheet-like grid, with one file per row and one prompt per column. Each cell expands to show the reasoning and the source passage, and reviewers can mark cells as reviewed or lock them.
• Agent: The agent plans a task, picks tools such as search, drafting or redlining, runs the steps and then reviews its own output. It can deliver finished material as Word, Excel or PowerPoint files inside a project workspace.
• Legal research: Research answers draw on licensed and official sources, with every finding linked to the primary authority behind it. Coverage includes US federal and state law plus jurisdictions such as the UK, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Australia and Singapore.
• Word add-in: The Word add-in drafts clauses, proofreads, flags risks and redlines without leaving the document. Built-in actions also fill templates from term sheets, anonymise names and dates, and translate files through DeepL while keeping formatting.
• Playbooks and workflows: Playbooks store a team’s starting positions, non-negotiables and fallbacks for documents such as NDAs. Workflows and saved templates then repeat the same multi-step process across matters, so juniors follow the firm’s standards by default.
• Portal and Monitors: Portal is a white-labelled workspace where clients query shared files and co-author drafts without guest licences. Monitors scan regulation continuously and send alerts when a change is likely to affect a client or practice area.

Pros

Breadth inside one secure platform is the strongest case for Legora: review, research, drafting and client sharing sit together under ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and SOC 2 Type 2.

• Built around legal work: Templates and solutions target M&A, litigation, banking, tax, insurance and private equity. A deal team therefore starts with relevant prompts and review formats instead of adapting a general chatbot.
• Answers you can check: Tabular cells, research results and redlines all point back to source text. This shortens the checking step for associates, who can open the cited passage instead of searching the document again.
• Strong security posture: Legora lists AES-256 encryption at rest, TLS 1.2 or higher in transit and an optional bring-your-own-key setup. It also states that customer data is never used to train or fine-tune models.
• Works where lawyers already work: Word and Outlook add-ins, a mobile app and document system connectors keep drafting inside familiar tools. Firms avoid asking fee earners to move their daily work into a separate browser tab.
• Proven at large firms: Named users include Linklaters and White & Case, and the company reports more than 800 customers. Buyers can ask peer firms for references before committing to a firm-wide contract.

Cons

Hidden pricing is the main obstacle, because Legora quotes every licence after a demo and smaller practices cannot judge cost before speaking to sales.

• No public price list: Legora publishes no plans or seat prices on its website. Third-party blogs quote $300 to $800 per seat a month with a ten-seat minimum, but those figures are unofficial.
• Heavy for solo lawyers: Buying involves a demo, a pilot and an annual contract aimed at teams. A sole practitioner who wants a quick monthly subscription will find tools such as Spellbook easier to start with.
• No self-serve trial: Individuals cannot create an account and test the product on their own. Evaluation happens through a sales-led pilot, which delays a first impression by days or weeks.
• Output still needs review: Cited answers reduce errors but do not remove them, and the vendor itself keeps judgement calls with the user. Every summary, redline and research note still needs checking by a qualified lawyer.
• Agent usage may cost extra: Several reports describe agent tasks billed as usage-based credits on top of seats. Heavy agent use could therefore raise the annual bill, so ask for credit terms in writing.

Who is Using Leya AI?

Large law firms and corporate legal departments form the core user base, with Linklaters and White & Case among the names Legora cites publicly.

• Global law firms: Transaction and disputes teams run due diligence and contract review across large data rooms. Tabular review lets them compare change-of-control or assignment clauses across hundreds of agreements.
• In-house legal teams: Company lawyers answer business questions faster and review supplier contracts against playbooks. Outlook integration helps them respond to internal requests without switching tools.
• Mid-sized firms: Practices without large innovation budgets use Legora to give every fee earner the same AI toolkit. Shared templates spread partner know-how across the whole firm.
• Private equity and public sector: Investment and government legal teams use it for deal review and regulatory tracking. Monitors help them follow rule changes across several jurisdictions at once.

Pricing

Legora sells only quoted enterprise licences and lists no prices on its website (official site, checked October 2026).

One blog reports $300 to $800 per seat monthly with a ten-seat minimum, which Legora has not confirmed.

Disclaimer: Seat figures from third parties are estimates only, so base any budget on a written quote from Legora.

What Makes Leya AI Unique?

A spreadsheet view of an entire data room is the concrete differentiator. Rows hold documents, columns hold questions, and every cell opens to the clause it came from, which matches how due diligence teams already build review trackers by hand.

The client-facing Portal adds a second difference. Firms can publish branded workspaces where clients query documents and run reviews on the firm’s own templates, while the underlying prompts and know-how stay hidden from the client.

Compatibilities and Integrations

Microsoft Office sits at the centre of Legora’s integrations, with Word and Outlook add-ins backed by document system connectors and licensed legal content.

• Platforms: Web app, mobile app, Word add-in and Outlook add-in. Lawyers can review on a phone and finish the draft in Word.
• Document management: iManage and SharePoint connectors, with NetDocuments listed in beta. Files can also come from virtual data rooms.
• Legal content: Research partners include Wolters Kluwer, EDGAR, EUR-Lex, Lovdata and the Singapore Academy of Law. Translation inside Word runs through DeepL.
• Security and access: Single sign-on, role-based permissions, custom retention periods and optional customer-held keys. EU or US hosting is available.

Leya AI Tutorials

Most firms start with a scoped pilot on one live matter before rolling Legora out more widely.

1. Book a demo through legora.com and agree a pilot group and matter.
2. Connect single sign-on and your document system, such as iManage or SharePoint.
3. Create a tabular review from a data room and add a column for each diligence question.
4. Open the cited cells, mark checked rows as reviewed and export the findings.
5. Install the Word add-in and load your NDA or supply-contract playbook.
6. Save repeat tasks as workflows so other teams can reuse them.

How We Rated It

Leya AI scores 4.1 out of 5 because top-tier security and breadth of legal features are pulled down by private, enterprise-level pricing.

Summary

Leya AI, now Legora, suits law firms and in-house teams that review large document sets and want research, drafting and client sharing in one secure system. Its cited answers and Word add-in make lawyers faster, but they do not replace a lawyer’s own judgement. The main limitation is access, since pricing is private and there is no self-serve trial. Small practices may find the sales process too heavy for their needs. Before signing, run the pilot on a real data room and compare its tabular output against your existing review tracker.