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Case study

From document complexity to legal clarity

How Szerzi transformed legal document creation and lawyer–client collaboration with intelligent templates, guided by AI, and instant expert access.

Problem

Legal documents are intimidating for non-experts

Most individuals and businesses struggle to draft legally valid documents. Traditional templates require expertise, assume prior knowledge, and often lead to misunderstandings or costly mistakes. Non-lawyers face uncertainty and frustration when navigating complex structures, definitions, and cross-references. This is reflected in the fact that 90% of contracting professionals say contracts are difficult or impossible to understand, highlighting how widespread the barrier truly is.

High error rates and long turnaround times

Document creation typically involves lengthy reviews, multiple revisions, and significant back-and-forth with lawyers. Missing information or inconsistencies introduce delays, increase legal risk, and drive up costs. These inefficiencies compound quickly — a manual contract review alone takes an average of 92 minutes, making it easy for legal teams to lose entire workdays to repetitive, error-prone tasks.

Limited access to lawyers when needed

Users often get stuck mid-draft but have no seamless way to consult a qualified professional. Searching manually for a lawyer is slow, inconvenient, and unreliable—resulting in stalled workflows and lower completion rates. Meanwhile, lawyers themselves are time-constrained: industry research shows that only 30–40% of a lawyer’s working hours are billable, meaning both clients and lawyers waste valuable time on avoidable administrative friction.

Solution

We built a high-performance legal automation platform powered by Scala and Akka, enabling fast, fault-tolerant, and highly concurrent Q&A-driven document creation. A Spark-based validation layer performs large-scale semantic checks to ensure document accuracy and consistency. Istio provides secure, zero-trust communication and reliable traffic management across services. AI guidance is managed through a controlled MLOps pipeline, improving explanations and classifications without affecting final legal outputs.

Together, these technologies deliver a streamlined, reliable system where users create compliant documents through simple conversations, and lawyers receive structured, review-ready inputs that significantly cut time and cost.

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Industry

Industry

Legal

14 months

Timeline

14 months for the Minimum Viable Product

Location

Germany, Hungary

Engagement model

ONBOARDED IN 1 WEEK
FIXED PRICE MODEL
TIME AND MATERIAL MODEL

Project management model

AGILE
EXTREME

Implementation

Due to confidentiality agreements with our enterprise partners, the detailed technical implementation for this case study cannot be publicly disclosed. The project involved proprietary architectures, internal legal processes, and protected operational models that we are contractually obligated to keep private.

However, if you’d like to explore the depth of our engineering practices, system design approach, and delivery methodology, you can review several of our other case studies where full implementation details are available.

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Business impact

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Market Competitors Surpassed

Forced 6 key competitors to shut down within one year of launch by outperforming the market on quality, speed, and reliability.

97.6%
User satisfaction rate

Achieved a 97.6 user satisfaction score, setting a new standard for trust and usability in legal automation.

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Countries Supported

Enabled rapid multinational adoption, supporting complex cross-border use cases with minimal localization effort.

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Markets Expanded

Expanded into 3 new markets within 3 years, accelerating global growth through scalable architecture and jurisdiction-aware templates.

82%
Lower Maintenance Costs

Delivered 80% lower maintenance costs than competitors, with only 2 non-critical bugs per year thanks to 95% code coverage and parallel testing pipelines, ensuring unmatched stability and long-term ROI.

See what our customers say about us

A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Szerzi turned something intimidating into something I could do in minutes.”

Client
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“I completed a contract without needing endless back-and-forth e-mails.”

Client
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Why hasn’t anyone built something this good before?”

Client
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“End-to-end automation eliminated my daily administrative workload. It’s brought my admin burden down to zero.”

Lawyer
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Communication is finally effortless and transparent.”

Lawyer
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Incredibly user-friendly.”

Lawyer
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Szerzi turned something intimidating into something I could do in minutes.”

Client
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“I completed a contract without needing endless back-and-forth e-mails.”

Client
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Why hasn’t anyone built something this good before?”

Client
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“End-to-end automation eliminated my daily administrative workload. It’s brought my admin burden down to zero.”

Lawyer
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Communication is finally effortless and transparent.”

Lawyer
A complete legal platform for lawyers

“Incredibly user-friendly.”

Lawyer

Compliance standards implemented

  • GDPR
  • ISO 27001
  • ISO 9001
  • DORA

Our solutions comply with GDPR and ISO 27001, trusted by clients across regulated industries.

Intro

Key technological challenges

Challange 1

Delivering real-time legal intelligence at scale

Creating an adaptive Q&A-driven legal platform required far more than a traditional backend. Real-time semantic checks, consistency validation, and dynamic question branching demanded a highly concurrent, fault-tolerant architecture. We achieved this by building a distributed core in Scala with Akka, complemented by Apache Spark for large-scale document analysis.

This stack enabled us to handle thousands of simultaneous sessions while delivering meaningful improvements in days rather than months.

Challange 2

Ensuring reliability and compliance across a complex microservice ecosystem

Supporting regulated legal workflows across multiple jurisdictions required enterprise-grade stability, security, and predictable deployments. With dozens of microservices interacting across environments, keeping operational overhead low was a significant challenge. We addressed this by implementing an Istio service mesh with zero-trust communication and adopting a GitOps-driven release pipeline.

Combined with a disciplined MLOps approach for AI components, this enabled consistent reliability, rapid rollbacks, and compliance-ready auditability at scale.

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Let's build your next success story

Take the first step to transform your data into intelligence that drives impact:

  • Create legally reliable documents 5× faster through guided Q&A automation
  • Achieve an exceptional 97.6 user satisfaction score from day one
  • Expand across borders with instant multinational deployment
  • Cut maintenance overhead by 80% with our robust, high-coverage architecture
  • Grow confidently with zero vendor-lock and a future-proof legal platform