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Sovereign legal AI
Legibus
An AI assistant for legal professionals: sourced, verifiable answers, with no dependency on a US model provider.
The problem
In law, a wrong answer is not an approximation: it is malpractice. Consumer AI assistants answer with confidence, cite nothing, and ship their users’ data to third parties. Unusable for a professional bound by confidentiality.
What I designed
Legibus starts from the opposite principle: the AI may only answer what it can prove.
- A RAG pipeline where ingestion, indexing and generation are strictly separated
- LLMs orchestrated in a controlled chain, no black box
- Versioned embeddings and data, so an answer can be explained after the fact
- A Django platform with its control APIs
- Isolated, sovereign infrastructure
My role
I act as technical architect, AI integrator and infrastructure owner, working alongside a PhD in AI and an R&D team. I own the architecture decisions, the backend and operations.
What it proves
- You can build serious AI without OpenAI: the model is only a small part of the project
- Document quality and evaluation matter more than the choice of LLM
- Explainable AI is designed into the architecture, not bolted on afterwards
AI should not replace. It should shed light.
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