# Jacob Lauritzen

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Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Jacob Lauritzen (CTO, Legora) talking, from an interview on Latent Space published Nov 2, 2026.

- Role: CTO, Legora
- About: Leads engineering at Legora, building legal AI agents for research, contract review and drafting.
- Company: [Legora](https://realalpha.app/companies/#legora)
- On X: https://x.com/jacsebl

## What Jacob Lauritzen said

- [Legora tests agents in simulated legal workspaces](https://realalpha.app/s/legora-tests-agents-in-simulated-legal-workspaces/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min
  > “It went from like 70% to like 99%. It's just like we did nothing and like, great.” — Jacob Lauritzen · [11:36](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=696)
- [Client confidentiality forces Legora to infer product failures](https://realalpha.app/s/client-confidentiality-forces-legora-to-infer-product/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min
  > “we can't look at any traces basically. We can't look at any data because it's all super confidential.” — Jacob Lauritzen · [27:00](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=1620)
- [Tabular Review lets lawyers test a workflow on ten rows first](https://realalpha.app/s/tabular-review-lets-lawyers-test-a-workflow-on-ten-rows/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 4 min
  > “You can also just ask the agent to do this. Like if you just drop 10,000 files into the agent and say like do a due diligence on this” — Jacob Lauritzen · [35:11](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=2111)
- [Law firms need incentives to turn expertise into durable assets](https://realalpha.app/s/law-firms-need-incentives-to-turn-expertise-into-durable/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min
  > “partnerships essentially is a structure where you make the human capital the owners of the company so that they stay.” — Jacob Lauritzen · [15:01](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=901)
- [Legal engineers configure workflows while FDEs write code](https://realalpha.app/s/legal-engineers-configure-workflows-while-fdes-write-code/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 4 min
  > “Legal engineers configure the product as a power user would. They don't write code.” — Jacob Lauritzen · [44:38](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=2678)
- [Legora delayed APIs to avoid locking in a fast-changing product](https://realalpha.app/s/legora-delayed-apis-to-avoid-locking-in-a-fast-changing/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min
  > “we move so quickly in the product that I don't want to be like slowed down by having to maintain old API versions” — Jacob Lauritzen · [48:13](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=2893)
- [Legora grew beyond its plan to stay at 20 engineers](https://realalpha.app/s/legora-grew-beyond-its-plan-to-stay-at-20-engineers/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min
  > “we're just going to be 20 engineers for the rest of the company's history and like we're going to beat everyone who's much bigger” — Jacob Lauritzen · [50:47](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=3047)
- [Long contracts can lose meaning when split into chunks](https://realalpha.app/s/long-contracts-can-lose-meaning-when-split-into-chunks/)
  Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026 · 2 min
  > “and then each individual chunk is not necessarily relevant to the search term or what they're trying to figure out but together it's extremely relevant” — Jacob Lauritzen · [59:59](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/?t=3599)

## The episode

- [Building Legal Agents When You Can't See the Data — Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora](https://realalpha.app/v/bJBEFzlKPoQ/) · Latent Space · Nov 2, 2026