On a market still dominated by American solutions to uncertain compliance, Ordeal Founded in 2023 by Léa Fleury and Baudouin Arbaretier, made the bet to design a Legal Operating Sovereign Systembuilt on an agentic artificial intelligence designed for corporate lawyers. The French startup has just raised 1.8 million euros To accelerate the development of its platform and its European deployment.
Rather than automating the right to blind, Ordalie defends an approach anchored in the understanding of legal issues. “” The law must not be automated blind. Our technology must be based on a fine understanding of legal issues to strengthen, and not simplify to excess “Says Léa Fleuryco -founder and CEO. The ambition is to transform the legal department into Operational performance actorby integrating his tools at the heart of decision -making processes.
The developed infrastructure is based on models ofIA ownerscapable of automating the processing of contracts, generating contextualized legal content, making internal documentation, while respecting European standards of Security, traceability and sovereignty. The solution is already deployed at Over 170 customersof which Total,, Radioffrance And Ifoprepresenting more than 41,000 users.
This differentiating positioning occurs in a context of Strong market demand. The development of regulatory obligations (GDPR, CSRD, ACT), the shortage of qualified legal talents, and the growing maturity of generative AI accelerates the digitalization of law. According to Gartner, more than 50 % of global legal departments should adopt an AI solution by 2026.
Ordalie is attacking a market largely dominated by American players such as Harvey.ai (leaning against Openai and which completes a new round of $ 250 million table for a valuation of $ 5 billion), Ironclad Or Spellbookwhose models are not very suitable for continental law and European compliance requirements. In France, solutions like Seraphin.a,, Hyperx Or Draft & Goal occupy niches, but none claims to date a complete sovereign AI dedicated to the company.
It is this ambition that Ordalie intends to embody, supported by a financing tour bringing together influential profiles from law, tech and finance. Sgpa leads the tour, alongside Marguerite Longue-Dassault,, Adrien Dassault,, Light Ai,, Seeder Funds,, Stovexus And Side Angels. “INvestir in Ordalie is to bet on a sovereign AI that combines transparency, control of data and legal precision. It is also to bet on a new way of integrating law into the company: no longer as an isolated brake or obligation, but as a daily decision -making, clarity and speed tool “Says Marguerite Longue-DassaultLawyer and member of the board.
To support this rise in power, Ordalie has recruited two strategic profiles, an engineer passed by Applein charge of technical architecture, and the old Head of Compliance de Natixiswhich will co-pilot the produced development on a European scale.
