Background
Nemetschek Group is a global software provider for the architecture, engineering, construction and operations (AEC/O) and media industries, headquartered in Munich. Its legal and compliance team supports a group of brands operating across multiple markets.
The team's daily work involves complex contractual relationships, often with several parties and more than one legislation in play. As with many in-house legal teams, legal was at risk of being seen as the brake on generative AI rather than the driver of it.
Opportunity
Dagmar Staiger, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, saw a chance to flip that perception. If legal could show it was using AI safely and well, it could set the standard for the rest of the business.
The timing was right. The whole Nemetschek Group was eager to increase its use of AI, and at a recent leadership gathering every department was asked to present an internal AI use case. Legal chose LEGALFLY.
Solution
Data protection was the deciding factor. With LEGALFLY, all personally identifiable and business-sensitive information is redacted and anonymised on a local server in the EU before any AI processing takes place. For a General Counsel who is also Chief Compliance Officer, that was non-negotiable.
Some of the team were initially sceptical. Their work rarely involves a simple, single-jurisdiction contract, and they doubted an AI tool could keep up. The results changed their minds.
LEGALFLY now works as an extra member of the team: a first port of call for questions, a sounding board for doubts, and a second pair of eyes before a colleague is pulled in.
Results
Every member of Nemetschek's legal team uses LEGALFLY regularly, and the majority use it daily. Legal is no longer the department waiting to be convinced about AI. It is the one showing the business how it's done.
2–3 hours saved per user, per week
A conservative minimum, reinvested in strategic legal work and advice.
Team-wide, daily adoption
Every team member uses LEGALFLY regularly; most use it every day.
More confidence in negotiations
Lawyers go into contract negotiations with greater certainty, even on multi-party, multi-jurisdiction deals.
Privacy by design
Personal and business-sensitive data is anonymised on an EU server before it reaches the AI.
