Simon Quirk

There is no best model. There's a lot of noise about models right now. Who is training them, who owns them, where legal intelligence should live. One question actually matters: what produces the best outcome for the legal task in front of you? That's how we decide things at @WeareLegora. We optimize for the end-to-end outcome on a legal task. The model is one layer of that system, not the system. Models are uneven and the frontier changes almost weekly. One model plans a long job well, another runs deep analysis across thousands of documents. Some have to be told exactly what to do, and some are fine with a vague brief. They all break in different ways. So our lawyers write evals and we test them with the Legora BAR, our benchmark for agentic reasoning. Every model takes every test, and the model that wins gets the work. We post-train when we know it buys our customers better performance on a specialized task. Training is a tool we reach for when it helps, nothing more than that. The intelligence that compounds sits in the orchestration layer. Precedents, review standards, client requirements. That knowledge has to stay editable, auditable and portable. In our system, a changed review standard is an edit that takes effect the same day, with no new model training required. No lawyer should have to worry about which model did the work, any more than they think about which chip is in their laptop. They should only care about the quality of the work. That's what we are focused on. If you want the engineering version of this argument rather than the CEO version, our CPO, Bryan Tsao, and CTO, @jacsebl, take it apart in the video below.

Legora just acquired Graceview to power regulatory horizon scanning for the world's best legal and compliance teams. Graceview monitors tens of thousands of official regulatory sources across 100+ jurisdictions in real time. That's the kind of coverage that was simply impossible to build manually. Regulation is getting more complex and more global. The tools haven't kept pace. Go ask any compliance partner at a firm operating across multiple jurisdictions how they currently track regulatory change. It's a mess. What Graceview does is replace that noise with structured, high-signal intelligence, mapped to the specific jurisdictions and practice areas that actually matter to each organization. And for legal, compliance, and risk teams using Legora, it means one thing practically: the moment a regulatory change lands, you can act on it, without leaving your workflow. Excited to welcome the Graceview team to @WeAreLegora. legora.com/newsroom/legora-a…

I first came to San Francisco when I was 15, with my dad. He is a programmer. To a teenager from a small island outside of Stockholm, this was the place where the future was being built. We walked into Salesforce East and stood there watching the enormous digital display of moving water. Outside, Salesforce Tower was starting to rise. I remember looking up and thinking it would be pretty sweet to have a tower someday. We are not there yet. What I could not have known is that I would be back years later, having dinner with @Benioff and welcoming @salesforce as a @WeAreLegora customer. Salesforce's Legal and Corporate Affairs organization will now use Legora across North America, EMEA and APAC. Their lawyers keep the judgment calls. We take care of the work around them. We have run on Slack since day one and became Salesforce customers when our sales team outgrew its first CRM, so it is good to have it run in the other direction too. Welcome to Legora, Salesforce. Dad, this one feels special.