Governance Engine

The governance layer that makes legal AI trustworthy

We built a proprietary governance engine from scratch — multi-agent verification against BAILII and legislation.gov.uk, a policy-as-code compliance engine encoding SRA rules and EU AI Act obligations, and an immutable audit trail system. Every component is our IP, designed specifically for legal. Not adapted. Not bolted on. Engineered from the ground up.

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Step 1: Work

AI agent performs the legal task

Step 2: Verify

Independent citation checking

Step 3: Comply

Regulatory rule evaluation

Save Audit Evidence

Proof of verification included

The governance gap in numbers

0%Of UK Firms Now Use AI
0%Have Formal AI Policies
0T+Global Legal Services Market ($)
0Purpose-Built Governance Tools for Legal
Our Proprietary IP

Four stages. Three agents. One engine we built from scratch.

This is not a wrapper around someone else's API. We engineered a proprietary three-stage governance engine specifically for legal — independently verifying every citation against BAILII and legislation.gov.uk, evaluating regulatory compliance against SRA rules encoded as executable policy logic, and generating immutable audit evidence that regulators and insurers can trust. Every component is our intellectual property, built from core.

3

Independent AI agents

Verification, compliance, and audit — each agent operates independently, never trusting another's output

100%

Built in-house

Every line of the governance engine is our IP — verification logic, policy-as-code engine, audit system

Real-time

Proprietary database

A curated database we are building continuously for faster multi-step verification of authentic legal data

Purpose-built AI agents do the legal work

The work agent performs the legal task — research, contract review, due diligence, drafting, or compliance monitoring. The same AI capability you'd get from any tool, but built for governance from the start.

  • Legal research with multi-source retrieval
  • Contract analysis with clause extraction
  • Due diligence document review
  • Drafting with jurisdiction-specific templates
  • Compliance monitoring across regulatory frameworks
Research Agent

Query

What are the landlord's obligations under a commercial lease when the tenant requests consent to assign?

Statutory Framework

3 sources

Landlord and Tenant Act 1927, s.19(1)(a) implies that consent shall not be unreasonably withheld...

Case Law Analysis

4 authorities

International Drilling Fluids Ltd v Louisville Investments (Uxbridge) Ltd [1986] established that...

Generating draft analysis...

Proprietary Verification Engine

We built a verification engine that independently retrieves and validates every citation against authoritative legal databases. The verification agent never trusts the work agent — it checks independently, cross-references across sources, and flags anything that does not match. Hallucinated cases, repealed statutes, and jurisdictional errors are caught before a lawyer ever sees them.

  • Every case citation checked against BAILII — court name, neutral citation, parties, date, and current status independently confirmed
  • Statutory references verified on legislation.gov.uk — amendment history, commencement, repeal status, and territorial extent tracked
  • Our proprietary database enables multi-step cross-referencing that public databases alone cannot provide
  • Fabricated authorities, overruled decisions, and jurisdictional mismatches are flagged with specific failure reasons
  • Every verification result — pass or fail — feeds into the compliance certificate with full source trails
Verification Report

Verification Summary

4 citations checked

3

Verified

1

Flagged

75%

Pass Rate

Practice Statement [2025] UKSC 1

Current — confirmed via BAILII

Solicitors Act 1974, s.37A

In force — amendments checked

R (Miller) v Secretary of State [2017] UKSC 5

Verified — not overruled

Smith v Jones [2024] EWHC 1847

Case reference not found in database

Compliance Engine

# Compliance evaluation — Matter: Commercial Lease Review

# Jurisdiction: UK (SRA) | Framework: SRA Standards v2024

RULE:SRA 8.6 — Confidentiality
STATUS:✓ PASS
EVIDENCE:No client-identifying information detected in output
RULE:SRA 3.3 — Service & Competence
STATUS:✓ PASS
EVIDENCE:Analysis addresses all 5 relevant issues for matter type
RULE:SRA 2.4 — Client Best Interests
STATUS:⚠ REVIEW
EVIDENCE:Potential conflict of interest flag — manual review recommended
RULE:SRA 7.1 — Proper Governance
STATUS:✓ PASS
EVIDENCE:Supervision chain complete — senior associate assigned
RULE:SRA 8.11 — Equality & Diversity
STATUS:✓ PASS
EVIDENCE:No bias patterns detected in language analysis
JURISDICTION:UK (SRA)
OVERALL:4/5 rules passed | 1 requires review
SCORE:94%compliant

\u2588 Compliance certificate generated

Proprietary Compliance Engine

We encoded regulatory rules as executable policy logic — not a checklist that someone ticks off, but a compliance engine that evaluates every output contextually. SRA rules, EU AI Act obligations, and your firm's own policies are all evaluated automatically, with different rules applied depending on the jurisdiction, practice area, and client.

  • SRA Code of Conduct rules 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 4.2, 4.3, and 6.3–6.5 encoded as executable policy-as-code
  • Confidentiality rules actively enforced — client-identifying information flagged before it leaves the system
  • Contextual evaluation: the same output is assessed differently for a litigation matter vs. a corporate transaction
  • EU AI Act high-risk AI obligations evaluated for firms with EU-exposed clients
  • Firm-specific policies layered on top — information barriers, client instructions, sector-specific rules

Our IP: policy-as-code engine built for SRA, EU AI Act, and custom firm rules

Immutable Evidence

Every action logged. Every decision provable.

Cryptographically verified audit trails that answer regulators' core governance questions automatically — what AI was used, what data was processed, who reviewed, and what governance was in place.

Research query submitted

Work Agent

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09:14:22

4 citations verified

Verification Engine

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09:14:47

5 SRA rules evaluated

Compliance Engine

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09:15:03

Compliance certificate issued

Governance Layer

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Audit Log
IDTimeEventMatterUserStatus
EVT-124709:15:08Compliance certificate issuedCommercial Lease ReviewJ. HarrisonComplete
EVT-124609:15:03Compliance evaluation — 94% scoreCommercial Lease ReviewSystemComplete
EVT-124509:14:47Verification complete — 3/4 verified, 1 flaggedCommercial Lease ReviewSystemFlagged
EVT-124409:14:22Research query initiatedCommercial Lease ReviewJ. HarrisonComplete
Compliance Dashboard

Real-time visibility across your entire firm

Every AI-assisted work item, verification status, compliance score, and flagged item — in one dashboard. Audit-ready reports generated automatically, not scrambled together before an inspection.

Compliance Dashboard \u2014 legalaispace.com

Harrison & Partners LLP

Compliance overview \u2014 Last 30 days

Apr 2026

Items Processed

1,247

+23% this week

Verification Rate

98.2%

↑ from 96.8%

Compliance Score

94%

Firm average

Flagged for Review

12

3 high priority

Compliance Score Trend

Jan
Feb
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MatterAgentVerifiedScoreTime
Commercial Lease ReviewResearchPassed94%2 min ago
IP Due Diligence — Acme CorpDue DiligencePassed97%18 min ago
Employment Contract DraftDraftingFlagged88%34 min ago
Regulatory Filing ReviewCompliancePassed99%1 hr ago

Works with your existing systems

LegalAI Space integrates with your existing document management and case management systems. No rip-and-replace — the governance layer wraps around your current infrastructure.

iManage
NetDocuments
Case Management
Custom API

MCP protocol support for agent-to-agent communication and custom workflow integration.

LegalAI Space

DMS
CMS
API
Legal DB
Regulatory Landscape

Built for SRA. Expanding globally.

Launch

UK SRA compliance rule sets

Full SRA Standards and Regulations encoded as policy-as-code. Deep integration with UK legal databases. Launch jurisdiction with pilot firms.

H2 2026

EU AI Act conformity assessment

Conformity assessment module for firms serving EU clients. Penalties up to €15M or 3% of global turnover for high-risk AI non-compliance.

2027

Multi-jurisdiction support

Expanding to Australia, Singapore, and other common-law jurisdictions with similar regulatory structures.

Ongoing

Custom rule engine configurations

Bespoke policy-as-code configurations for individual firm policies, insurance requirements, and sector-specific regulations.

0

Governance tools purpose-built for legal

Until now.

“Can you prove this AI output was governed?”

The question every regulator is now asking

3%

Of global turnover

EU AI Act high-risk AI penalty

Early Access

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Important notices
  • LegalAI Space is a technology platform. We are not a law firm and do not provide legal advice. Our governance layer assists with compliance monitoring but does not replace qualified legal counsel.
  • Statistics cited: '96% of UK firms use AI' — Clio UK Legal Trends Survey 2024; '10% have formal AI policies' — Thomson Reuters, Generative AI in Professional Services 2024; 'only one COLP could describe all obligations' — SRA Compliance Officers Thematic Review, December 2025 (25 firms, 36 individuals interviewed; general regulatory obligations, not AI-specific); '$1T+ global legal services market' — Grand View Research, Legal Services Market Report 2024. See our UK and EU pages for full regional citations.
  • References to the SRA Standards and Regulations and the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) are for informational purposes. EU AI Act penalties are tiered: up to €15M or 3% of turnover for high-risk AI non-compliance (Art. 99(4)); up to €35M or 7% for prohibited practices (Art. 99(3)).
  • Product features described on this page — including verification databases, compliance rule engines, audit trails, and integrations — represent planned or in-development capabilities. Final functionality may vary.
  • References to third-party systems (iManage, NetDocuments) are for illustrative purposes. LegalAI Space is not affiliated with these providers. Integration availability may vary.