By Sagar Shankaran, Founder of CallSphere
Legora is the European legal AI platform scaling fast across DACH and Nordics in 2026. Here's the product, the per-seat pricing, the multi-language coverage.
Key takeaways
If you're a legal buyer evaluating AI agent platforms in Q2 2026, the announcements between April 5 and May 5 fundamentally moved the field. Legora shipped capabilities that change what you can demand from RFPs, what you should pay per conversation or per outcome, and what the deployment timeline should look like from contract signature to first production conversation.
This is the briefing for that buying conversation — what's real, what's marketing-deck theater, and what specifically to insist on in the contract terms before signing.
Public confirmation in the last 30 days, by category:
The pattern is consistent: pilots get fast results, expansion happens within two quarters, and the displaced incumbent is usually a legacy platform with bolt-on AI rather than a true agent-first stack. The deciding factor in head-to-head bake-offs is rarely the model — it's the integration depth, the audit posture, and the willingness of the vendor to expose the underlying prompts and tool definitions to the customer.
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Three failure modes we've seen repeatedly in legal AI agent contracts in 2026:
Procurement teams who haven't seen agent contracts before consistently miss these. Bring an experienced reviewer into the cycle early — ideally one who has redlined at least three agent platform contracts.
Berlin-based legal teams report a consistent rollout approach in 2026 that has become the regional norm:
The compressed timeline is the result of mature vendor onboarding playbooks plus reduced internal review cycles as more peer teams have deployed and built institutional confidence in the technology.
The vendors most often appearing in the same RFPs in this segment in 2026:
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In-house builds are gaining share at companies with strong AI engineering teams — Stripe, Notion, Ramp, Linear all have meaningful internal agent platforms in 2026 that they've chosen not to outsource. The build path requires roughly 5-10 dedicated engineers and 12-18 months to reach production parity with leading vendors, but the long-term unit economics are compelling at high volumes.
What changed in legal AI agents in April 2026? Pricing models shifted from per-seat to per-conversation and per-outcome at the leading vendors. Model quality moved up enough that resolution rates above 70% are now expected at the top tier. New entrants began winning enterprise accounts that had been incumbent strongholds.
Which vendor is the safest enterprise default? There isn't one yet. Sierra has the highest reasoning quality. Salesforce Agentforce has the best CRM integration. Decagon has the cleanest pricing model. The right answer depends on your existing stack and your strategic priorities.
What's the biggest mistake buyers make? Starting with the model and working backward to the use case. Start with the intent map, the escalation rules, and the success criteria, then pick the vendor. The model itself is the easy part.
How do we handle compliance for legal AI agents? BAAs, DPAs, SOC 2 Type II reports, model output logging, audit trails, and explicit consent flows. Every serious vendor in this segment supports these — but you have to ask for them in the contract and verify the artifacts before signing.
Written by
Sagar Shankaran· Founder, CallSphere
Sagar Shankaran is the founder of CallSphere, where he builds production AI voice and chat agents deployed across healthcare, hospitality, real estate, and home services. He writes about agentic AI, LLM engineering, and shipping voice agents that handle real calls in production.
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