Where your automation stops carrying weight, we start.
You are already automating parts of your legal flow — contract review, first-draft generation, clause matching. We map the scaffolding, locate the seam where automation stops carrying weight, and re-inject intentionality, legal principles, discerned opinion and judgment. As a protocol you can rerun.
The phrase has a legal sense now: from 2 August 2026, Article 14 of the EU AI Act requires effective human oversight of high-risk systems — authority, competence, time, and a record. We wrote the definition: the human in the loop is a legal role.
Map my legal flowAutomation is fast, cheap, and increasingly plausible.
It reads the clause, it drafts the reply, it retrieves the precedent. Under a well-designed harness it does most of this well. But there is a moment before a signed position leaves your premises where the machine’s output has to be read as if it were carrying your name.
That moment is the seam. It is not a bug, and it is not a handoff to legal. It is a design surface. A protocol built for that surface makes the automation stronger, because the human load-bearing is calibrated to exactly the friction the workflow actually produces — not to a generic review gate that everything has to pass through.
What we ship together is that protocol. Ours to run once with your team. Yours to rerun forever.
Four load-bearing moves.
Intentionality
Why this clause, this position, this cap. The generator does not know; the drafter has to.
Legal principles
The doctrine the flow is meant to instantiate. Named, cited, made loadbearing.
Discerned opinion
A lawyer's read of the seam moment. Not token completion; an opinion someone signs.
Judgment
The negotiated protocol — your deontology and ours, calibrated to your workflow's real friction.
Five steps. Ship once. Rerun forever.
Map the flow you run today
Locate the needing node
Elicit your deontology
Sequence our combined judgment layer
Ship as a protocol you can rerun
Capacities, engagement, price.
Capacities. Avocat in the Bucharest Bar (substantive Romanian & EU work) and Solicitor of England & Wales (non-practising, comparative analysis only).
Engagement. We scope over a call, run one full protocol cycle with your team, then hand the protocol back so you can rerun it yourselves. If you want us in the loop indefinitely, that’s a retainer, not this offering.
Price. Scoped as Specialist Review or Counsel On-Call depending on your workflow footprint. Fixed before the first session.
The method, in more depth.
The human in the loop is a legal role.
Article 14 of the AI Act, the liability-sponge problem, and the four conditions of effective oversight.
MethodGround it · judge it · gate it · sign it.
The four moves in order. How we use AI without letting AI use us.
InsightStandards as code — the governance kernel.
Three gates, deny-by-default, every decision logged — the runtime that carries the seal.