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Two young Luxembourgish students have developed Alizé, an artificial intelligence platform designed to help lawyers and judges work faster by providing reliable access to verified legal sources.
A new generation of Luxembourgish entrepreneurs wants to have a say in modernising the national justice system. Twenty-year-old law student Téo Verchère and twenty-one-year-old computer science student Luis Pérez Sánchez have developed Alizé together, an Artificial Intelligence designed to make the work of legal professionals, lawyers, and judges more efficient.
The idea came to Téo during an internship at a law firm. He explains that classic search engines often returned dozens of results after only two or three keywords, sometimes containing 100 to 150 pages of reading material. When he tried using the AI chatbot ChatGPT, he quickly discovered that many sources either did not exist or were incorrect or invented. This raised the question of whether artificial intelligence could be made reliable at all.
From this, Alizé emerged. The platform relies solely on public legal sources, including laws, rulings, and legal doctrine. More than 150,000 documents, among them 90,000 rulings, form the basis of the system. The tool works like an intelligent search engine that recognises keywords while also aiming to understand the context of a legal question.
"Trust is the most important thing", says Sean Portelada from the Alizé team. Lawyers always receive the source with a direct link, enabling full verification and saving significant time, sometimes up to ten hours per week, he says.
The tool's practical value is demonstrated by its use across numerous institutions. After seven months on the market, the platform counts 400 subscribers. At Philippe & Partners, a Luxembourg law firm, Alizé is already in active use. Lawyer Lara Akdime highlights the reliability of the sources, noting that legal texts and rulings can be checked immediately, which is a "major advantage in daily work".
Despite this, she stresses that artificial intelligence does not replace humans. Human oversight remains necessary, and AI serves as a help rather than a substitute.
Founder Téo shares this view, stating that they do not seek professional competition between humans and machines. Alizé is not meant to replace the lawyer, but to support them.
For the founders, it is clear that the system will continue to be expanded over the coming months with new functions and precise statistics.
