# Legora's CTO explains building legal AI agents without access to customer data

> Original title: Building AI for Lawyers - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora

- Source: Latent Space
- Published: 2026-11-02T23:01:02.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/sh2thkfuq3owu0i62mbdrvzgq
- Original: https://latent.space/p/building-ai-for-lawyers-jacob-lauritzen-cto-of-legora/

## Summary

Legora's CTO Jacob Lauritzen says the company cannot read customer traces because client data is confidential, so its evals team recreates legal workflows in simulated environments. Legora runs legal engineers and an evals team to test each new model across practice areas and tasks. The episode also covers the company's Series E at an $8.8 billion valuation and its billable-hour business model.