Belgian legaltech startup Alice has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to accelerate the development of its AI-driven platform for lawyers and legal teams. The financing round was led by NewSchool and Seeder Fund, with participation from a group of Belgian angel investors. The capital will support the company’s mission to build a verifiable, end-to-end legal casework solution that enhances professional workflows while ensuring accuracy, traceability, and human oversight.
Addressing AI’s Growing Role and Risks in Legal Practice
As artificial intelligence becomes more widely adopted in legal practice, law firms and courts are increasingly grappling with challenges related to the accuracy and reliability of AI-generated legal content. In multiple jurisdictions, legal submissions based on unverified AI outputs have included incorrect or fabricated references, prompting judges to intervene, reopen proceedings, and impose procedural safeguards. These developments have highlighted the need for AI tools specifically tailored to the legal context — tools that emphasise trustworthiness over raw automation.
Alice was created to fill precisely this gap. The founders recognised that general-purpose AI systems are often ill-equipped to handle the rigours of legal reasoning and professional accountability. By contrast, Alice aims to embed AI directly into legal workflows in ways that preserve both accuracy and human control, ensuring lawyers can harness AI’s efficiency without compromising the quality or integrity of their work.
Built by Lawyers for Lawyers
Alice was launched in June 2025 by practising lawyers Jeroen Villé and Armin Wintein, together with CTO Joren Coulier, combining legal expertise with technical leadership. The platform is designed from the ground up around the realities of legal casework rather than isolated tasks such as contract review or administrative automation.
At its core, Alice supports continuous legal workflows in a unified environment — from initial document analysis and legal research to argument development, drafting, and preparation of client communications and court-ready materials. This one-stop approach mirrors how legal professionals think and work, allowing each stage of the case to inform the next and enabling lawyers to maintain oversight at every step.
By structuring the AI interaction around actual case progressions, Alice helps users avoid common pitfalls associated with generic content generation while streamlining repetitive tasks. The platform’s built-in verification and traceability features are intended to produce outputs that lawyers can trust, review, and defend in professional settings.
Early Adoption Signals Market Demand
Despite being a young company, Alice has already attracted active use from multiple law firms in Belgium, reflecting early demand for specialised AI tools that align with legal standards and regulatory requirements. This initial traction has validated the founders’ premise that the legal market seeks AI solutions designed with usability, accountability, and professional rigour in mind.
According to CEO Jeroen Villé, the startup’s vision is rooted in the belief that AI can play a long-term role in legal practice only if lawyers are confident in its outputs and maintain full control over their cases. The platform’s design emphasises that lawyers, not machines, remain ultimately responsible for legal advice, with AI serving as a supportive partner rather than a replacement.
Plans for Growth and Expansion
With fresh funding in hand, Alice plans to accelerate development of its core legal workflow platform, expand its engineering and support teams, and enhance customer operations to better serve law firms as they scale their use of the tool. The company also intends to pursue geographic expansion, starting with neighbouring legal markets such as the Netherlands and France, where similar needs for professional-grade AI tools have emerged.
Key priorities include refining the system’s verification logic, improving integration with existing law firm tools, and building features that support cross-jurisdictional legal work. By deepening its focus on professional accountability and traceability, Alice hopes to set a new standard for how AI can be safely and effectively integrated into legal practice.
Vision for AI in Law
Alice’s founders believe the legal industry is at a pivotal moment, where technology can dramatically improve efficiency but only if it respects the unique demands of legal reasoning and professional responsibility. By offering a platform that balances innovation with accuracy and human control, Alice aims to empower legal teams to work faster, more consistently, and with greater confidence in their AI-augmented workflows.
As law firms increasingly explore AI adoption, Alice positions itself as a trusted partner for modern legal practice, promising a future where technology enhances rather than complicates the pursuit of justice.
