No, this isn’t
just ChatGPT in a wrapper.
Lexa is a purpose-built legal intelligence layer for New Zealand — grounded in NZ law, wired into the regulators, and supervised by NZ-qualified lawyers by category. Here’s the actual stack.
Purpose-built legal intelligence
A reasoning layer built for legal work — not a general chatbot. The AI plans multi-step matters, calls tools, runs checks, and explains itself in plain English. We use Anthropic’s frontier models as the core reasoner, but the legal capability is ours.
Grounded in NZ law
Trained and grounded on NZ statutes, regulations, case law, and our own corpus of lawyer-reviewed precedents. Every output is anchored to sources you can click into. No hallucinated case names. No US clauses dressed up as NZ.
Live regulator integrations
Read/write integrations with the Companies Office, NZBN, IRD, PPSR, and IPONZ. The AI can look up your live entity record, check filing status, and submit forms — not just read about them in a stale knowledge base.
Persistent memory
The AI remembers your entities, contracts, counterparties, deadlines, and your standard positions across every conversation. It picks up where it left off. It knows what you signed, what you push back on, and what’s coming up.
Lawyer-in-the-loop, by category
Every category of output (employment, IP, leases, term sheets, restructures…) is reviewed and signed off by NZ-qualified counsel. New templates and clauses go through a lawyer-review queue before they ship to your conversation.
Auditable reasoning
Every output exposes its citations, the precedent clauses it pulled from, and the confidence band. You can see why the AI said what it said — and disagree, with one click to hand it to a human lawyer.
Five layers between
your question and the answer.
Bold AI.
Bigger guardrails.
- PI-insured AI outputs
- Money-back if a lawyer finds material errors
- NZ Privacy Act 2020 + ISO 27001 aligned
- Data hosted in NZ/AU regions, never used to train third-party models