Law firms in Europe are having issues with AI in legal work. General AI tools are being utilized for research and writing, but courts are noticing cases with created-up references or incorrect legal citations.
In Belgium and other countries, judges have intervened, reopened cases, and considered penalties after finding errors linked to unverified AI utilize. The issue is clear: speed without verification is becoming a legal risk. This is the gap that Belgian legaltech startup Alice wants to close.
Based in Ghent, Alice has raised €1 million in pre-seed funding to build AI workflows designed specifically for legal casework, where accuracy, traceability, and human oversight are essential. The round was led by NewSchool and Seeder Fund, with participation from several Belgian angel investors.
With the new funding, the company plans to further develop its technology and work closely with legal teams to refine how AI fits into daily practice.
Platform for lawyers and legal teams
Founded by Jeroen Villé and Joren Coulier, Alice is a Belgian AI platform for lawyers and legal teams.
Founders informed TFN, “We started Alice becautilize, as practising lawyers, we felt the real required for AI in litigation and dispute resolution firsthand, but we couldn’t find any tool that was actually usable in day-to-day case work. Everything was transaction/contract/compliance focutilized or too generic, too fragmented.”
The platform supports daily legal casework through a single integrated workflow, from analysis and research to argumentation and document generation, with lawyers firmly in control.
“None of the tools started from the case and stayed close to the workflow the way lawyers build a case from documents to arguments to drafts. Alice was built to modify that: one intuitive workflow from analysis to drafting, with the lawyer always in control,” elaborate founders.
According to the company, it has already acquired more than 60 customers (and counting) in a short period.
What about diversity?
When we inquire about diversity, founders explain, “The team consists of the 3 founders (males), one (female) CSM, one CPO (male) and one Romanian back-finish developer. Two founders, Jeroen Villé & Armin Wintein, are lawyers, the third founder, Joren Coulier, is a civil engineer specialised in computer sciences. The CMS is an ex-lawyer and ex- HR Manager. The CPO was an innovation manager in mid-sized Belgian law firms.”
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