TLDR : The Bordeaux Bar partners with local startup Haiku to integrate a contextualized legal AI, supporting over 2,200 lawyers and fostering regional innovation.
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As AI solutions for legal professions become increasingly prevalent, the Bordeaux Bar is making a strategic choice: combining technological innovation with regional roots. After announcing a partnership with the Parisian legaltech Doctrine on July 10, they are engaging in a second agreement with Haiku, a Bordeaux-based startup founded in 2023, aiming to simplify lawyers' daily tasks with a contextualized legal AI.
Founded in 2023 and supported by the Village by CA Aquitaine, Haiku, with a team of 18 people, is developing an intelligent legal assistant capable of indexing and leveraging all internal documents of a law firm. The goal? To offer a natural language interface that allows lawyers to efficiently retrieve, synthesize, and reuse the accumulated knowledge in their cases.
The tool is not limited to internal memory: it also aggregates external legal sources, cross-references data, and offers drafting suggestions or contextualized legal acts. All of this in a subscription-based SaaS format, already used by more than 40 firms and 1,000 independent lawyers.
A Structuring Partnership for the Bordeaux Ecosystem
The partnership signed with the Bordeaux Bar marks a key step. Not only will it facilitate, from September 1, the access of Bordeaux lawyers to the solution at a preferential rate, but it also symbolizes a commitment to support local innovation. The Bar covers part of the cost of the solution, making this tool accessible to a greater number of professionals.
Haiku thus benefits from a full-scale testing ground within a Bar of over 2,200 lawyers. A strategic opportunity, especially since the company is preparing a second fundraising round to begin its international expansion by 2026, after a successful first round of 1.3 million euros at the end of 2024.
An Enhanced Vision of Legal Practice
The Haiku case illustrates an emerging trend: that of "job-centered" generative AI, designed to support human reasoning rather than replace it. Far from standardized tools, it offers a tailored approach, adapted to the specifics of each firm.