Young developers from Luxembourg challenge traditional legal search engines

In February 2025, Luxembourg launched Alizé, a new artificial intelligence for the legal field that promises to rethink the very logic of legal search. Two students are behind the project, Téo Verchère, who is studying law in Paris, and Luis Pérez Sánchez, a Computer Science student in Dublin. The two met at the European Kirchberg School and decided to combine their knowledge in a start-up that is now beginning to receive support from the legal professional community.

Samira Bellahmer, a lawyer at the Luxembourg Bar, was one of the first to publicly praise the new product. On her LinkedIn page, she said she was "immediately won over by the efficiency and productivity of Alizé", emphasising the accuracy of the answers based on verified legal sources.

The creators believe that existing legal search engines are "archaic" because they work only with keywords and do not take into account the nuances of legal reasoning. Alizé, in contrast, analyses context and highlights truly relevant court decisions from a database of more than 150,000 documents, including some 90,000 court decisions.

Louis gives the word "defamation" as an example. A standard search can produce hundreds of results where the term is merely mentioned but is irrelevant. Alizé, on the other hand, is able to distinguish where the nature of defamation has actually been addressed, saving hours of analysis.

French competitors estimate that using Alizé can reduce the time spent on analysing legal sources by up to eight hours per week per specialist. This is particularly relevant for lawyers, corporate lawyers, notaries and compliance officers.

The startup is already preparing for the next stage of development - the creators plan to raise €150,000 in investment to scale the product and reach a wider audience.