# Legora CTO explains how to build legal agents without seeing client data

> Original title: Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora

- Source: Latent Space
- Published: 2026-11-02T22:54:03.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/xg3r0dm3l75wnix7rkrvi95jc
- Original: https://latent.space/p/building_legal_agents_when_you_can_t_see_the_data_-_jacob_lauritzen_cto_of_legora/

## Summary

Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, discusses how the legal tech company builds and tests its agent when it cannot read the traces of client work. He describes test environments modeled on customers' work and a citation problem that improved from 70% to 99% after one release. The conversation covers Azure deployment, Tabular Review, forward-deployed engineering, and the future of law firm partnerships and junior lawyer roles.