Alesis, an AI assistant grounded solely in the laws of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and which checks its answers “exhaustively” against primary sources, has gone live, we can reveal.

Alesis’ selling point is that all information run through Alesis is held in the UK, processed in the UK and the EU, kept apart from every other firm, and never used as training data for other organisations. It can access UK case law, Companies House and ombudsman data, among other UK source data. It is already being used in SME law firms and by in-house departments, including a major pension provider.

Alesis is the brainchild of L25 Group, which specialises in AI for regulated sectors. In the coming months it will form a critical part of an AI-native case management system L25 is developing.

The co-founders of L25 are Luke Roberts and Alex Clayton, who both spent several years working in the public sector – including at the Ministry of Justice – before moving into consultancy in the private sector, advising in-house legal teams and law firms on case management and moving away from incumbent systems.

Roberts was a consultant to the Solicitors Regulation Authority during its digital transformation programme. L25’s investors include the owners of New South Law, a specialist disputes law firm with offices in Birmingham, Bristol and Sussex.…

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