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Litigation: your exhibits found, your deadlines met

A litigation file is also won on command of its exhibits and observance of its time limits. Your agent questions the whole file, finds the exhibit cited with its number and its passage, and tracks the procedural deadlines ahead. Hosted in France: your defence strategies and your sensitive exhibits stay with you. The legal department keeps full command of the strategy.

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Litigation documents · hosted in France
Where is the clause the other side is relying on, in our exhibits?
Two exhibits in the file contain that clause: the exhibit number, the page and the exact passage are stated.
An earlier version of the contract is also in the file, with the same clause worded differently.
Both wordings are set out side by side, with their dates.
🔗 Sourced · exhibits in the file, numbers stated
What deadlines are coming up on this file?
The deadlines found in the file are set out with the step that starts them running and the exhibit they come from.
Judging a procedural time limit and settling the strategy rest with the legal department and its advisers.
✎ Support · deadlines sourced, legal judgement
Local inference · no data outside the EU
Files hosted in France
Sovereign by designLocal inference or hosting in France
GDPR & AI Act: governed deploymentTraceability & human oversight
TurnkeyDesigned, installed and operated for you
The legal department decidesThe agent prepares, never rules
✦ In brief

A Blue Lemon Agent litigation document agent questions a whole file, finds the exhibit cited with its number and its passage, sets out the successive wordings of the same clause and picks up the deadlines with the step that starts them running. Judging time limits and setting the strategy stay legal matters. It runs on local inference or is hosted in France: your sensitive exhibits stay with you, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.

100%
hosted in France in the target architecture
0
transfer outside the EU in the target architecture
6
litigation uses ready to deploy
0
decision taken without human approval

These figures describe our offer, not results measured at a client. How large the gain is on your number of files and volume of exhibits is confirmed by a pilot.

The context

What does an AI agent bring to your litigation files?

Finding the exact exhibit and its number within seconds changes how a hearing is prepared.

! The issue

A bulky litigation file calls for finding the right exhibit and citing its exact number. That search takes up a large share of the preparation. The agent takes it on: number, page and passage for every answer, and the successive wordings set out whenever a clause has changed.

Our answer

The legal department prepares its submissions with exhibits that can be located immediately and a view of the deadlines found in the file. Judging a procedural time limit and settling the strategy rest with it and its advisers: the agent documents, it does not advise. Local inference or an isolated resource hosted in France: your defence strategies are entrusted to no third party.

The decisive point

Your defence strategies and your sensitive exhibits: sovereignty & compliance

A litigation file contains what a company most needs to protect. Here is how the architecture of our agents goes about it.

Local inference

The agent can run on a machine belonging to your organisation: no exhibit and no element of strategy leaves the network.

Hosting in France

Otherwise, a dedicated and isolated resource hosted in France, under French law — your litigation files and your case exhibits: processing and access within the European Union targeted by the architecture.

Reduced extraterritorial exposure

For your defence strategies and your sensitive exhibits, the architecture aims to reduce exposure to the Cloud Act and FISA 702; being located in France or in the European Union does not, on its own, guarantee immunity.

Isolated resource

No pooling: an environment strictly dedicated to your legal department and its files.

Number, page and passage every time

Every answer states the number, the page and the passage of the exhibit cited; encryption, role-based access and logging of consultations, file by file.

AI Act: governed deployment

The agent is strictly in support; no time limit is judged and no strategic direction is expressed as advice; traceability and human oversight from end to end.

What depends on the architecture chosen These points are not general guarantees: they are settled deployment by deployment, in the quotation.

  • The applicable location is that of the architecture set out in the quotation and verified before commissioning.
  • Local execution is announced only for the configuration explicitly described and accepted in the quotation.
  • The applicable isolation depends on the deployment mode set out in the quotation; no dedicated isolation is presumed.
  • Roles and permissions are configured and accepted for the identities and systems actually connected.
  • The events logged, their content, their retention period and who may access them are defined for the deployment chosen.
For every litigation file, as a matter of principle, SecNumCloud and reinforced hosting are options depending on your requirements. A single architecture is designed to answer both the GDPR and extraterritorial exposure. Designed for deployment in line with the GDPR and the AI Act, after the processing, roles and context-specific risks have been assessed.
Demonstration

See the agent at work

5 real situations, taken from those that come up most often. Pick one: the exchange unfolds as it would in your organisation.

A scripted demonstration. These exchanges show how the agent behaves — its sources, its refusals, what it leaves to your teams. Nothing is sent from this page, no model is queried here, and the matters named are fictional. That is precisely what we promise your data.
The behaviours shown here — monitoring, automation rules, routing and reminders — are configured with you during deployment, from your tools, your rules and your thresholds.
The architecture points named in these exchanges — location, local execution, isolation, encryption, role-based access, logging — are not a guarantee attached to the demonstration: they are those of the architecture set out in your quotation, and verified before commissioning.

The company in this demonstration

Fictional company

Nordane Industries — manufacturer of conveyors and bottling lines

Sector
Design, manufacture and maintenance of bottling lines, in France and across Europe
Headcount
340 staff, including 4 in the legal department: 1 head of legal, 2 lawyers, 1 assistant
Customers served
Food groups and brewers, multi-year contracts carrying late-delivery penalties
Caseload
23 live disputes, 4 law firms instructed; the main file holds 14,200 exhibits over 6 years
Tools in place
11-year document store, email, a deadline spreadsheet kept by hand — the agent plugs into them, nothing is replaced
Who decides
The head of legal sets strategy with the file's counsel; the lawyers prepare the material; counsel writes, signs and files
Room for improvement
Finding an exhibit and its number takes 60 % of the time spent preparing a pleading; the deadline spreadsheet is retyped by hand every week

Nordane Industries is defending a file of 14,200 exhibits opened six years ago, and twenty-two more alongside it. The material is all there, but it lives in nine binders and eleven years of document store. The agent runs on local inference on a machine at the company and reads the document store, the file mailboxes and the deadline spreadsheet: it locates, dates, compares and quantifies; the head of legal sets strategy and counsel keeps the pen. The exchanges below cover six months, from indexing the file to the review across all 23 disputes.

This company, its figures and the exchanges that follow were invented for the demonstration. They illustrate a common situation; they describe no real client.

Litigation documents · hosted in France
I indexed the 14,200 exhibits of the Vaubert file last night, and the penalty clause the other side relies on appears in two places — plus a third, earlier draft that nobody had set beside the other two.
The exhibit number is the reference under which a document is filed: it is what lets a pleading cite it.
Where the clause relied on sits:
· Exhibit 41, framework contract of 12/03/2020, page 9, clause « Delays and penalties », second paragraph. That is the draft the other side builds on.
· Exhibit 96, amendment of 04/11/2021, page 3: the same clause, with a penalty cap that the first draft did not carry.
· Exhibit 12, draft contract of 27/01/2020 sent by the customer itself, page 8: a third draft, with no prior formal notice period.
What indexing also turned up, and it matters just as much: 118 exhibits are cited in the other side's pleadingsthe written submissions in which each party sets out its claims and argumentsand 6 of them appear in no exhibit schedule that was ever served. They are listed with the page of the pleadings where they are relied on.
The time this moves: finding an exhibit and its number used to take 60 % of the time spent preparing a pleading; it now takes 7 %. On this file, the search is measured in seconds, and every answer arrives with its exhibit number, page and passage.
What I propose: I show you the three drafts side by side, word by word, with the chain of dates that establishes which was signed last. clause-located_number-page-passage.pdf3 drafts located, 6 exhibits cited off-schedule
⛓ Sourced · Vaubert document store (14,200 exhibits, 6 years), opposing pleadings, exhibit schedules served
What are you relying on to say which one was signed last? That is the whole argument.
On five dated elements, all present in the file, and I give them in the order they follow each other.
The dating chain of the clause, draft by draft:
· 27/01/2020 — draft sent by the customer, exhibit 12, attached to its own message, whose delivery receipt is in the file (exhibit 13, page 1).
· 12/03/2020 — framework contract signed, exhibit 41, initialled on all 14 pages, signatures identified on page 16.
· 04/11/2021 — amendment signed, exhibit 96, sent by the customer's counsel per the message filed as exhibit 97, and returned signed on 09/11/2021 (exhibit 98).
· Two later acts of performance: the penalty invoices issued in 03/2022 and 07/2022 apply the cap introduced by the amendment, not the original draft — exhibits 214 and 231, line 4 of each.
· A written confirmation from the customer, exhibit 258, page 2, referring to the amendment by its date.
What the word-by-word comparison shows: between the March 2020 and November 2021 drafts, 27 words change, and three of those changes carry an effect: the cap is added, the count moves from calendar days to working days, and a prior formal notice is introduced. The other 24 are pure form, and I flag them as such so nobody loses an hour on them.
Comparing successive drafts moves from 35 % to 6 % of the time. You and counsel hold the whole material; the characterisation and the strategy remain with the two of you, and you settle them on dates rather than on recollections. successive-drafts_penalty-clause.pdf3 drafts, 27 words changed, 3 that carry an effect
⛓ Sourced · exhibits 12, 13, 41, 96 to 98, 214, 231, 258 — numbers, pages and passages given
We know exhibits are missing. We do not know which ones.
You are looking for six, and you are holding twenty-three that nobody has served. Both lists are ready, each with what it changes in the file.
The 6 exhibits the other side cites without having served them: three site-meeting minutes, two letters from its own operator and one intervention report. For each one I give you the page of the pleadings where it is relied on and the assertion it is meant to support. The request for disclosure is written, exhibit by exhibit, with the exact citation that grounds it — counsel reviews it and files it.
The 23 exhibits that are with you and served nowhere: I found them in the document store and in the file mailboxes, outside the nine binders. Four bear directly on the cause of the delay:
· Two site minutes signed by both parties, which date the wait for approval of the layout drawing.
· A site instructionthe written instruction issued during workschanging the layout three weeks after start on site.
· A message from the customer's technical manager announcing a slip himself.
What that is worth, quantified: those four exhibits directly contradict 11 of the assertions of fact in the opposing pleadings. They had been inside your walls all along.
What I propose: you and counsel decide which ones to serve — that is a strategy decision —, and I have prepared a one-page sheet for each: what it establishes, the opposing assertions it contradicts, and the passages to redact before service. Redaction is the masking of a passage before an exhibit is served. exhibits-to-request-and-to-serve.pdf6 to request, 23 recovered, 11 assertions contradicted
⛓ Sourced · document store (11 years), file mailboxes, opposing pleadings, exhibit schedules served
Local inference · no data outside the EU

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Use cases

What does the agent actually do?

One agent, several moments in the procedure. All these uses work in support, subject to your approval.

Included in your agent The 3 capabilities essential to this promise are included, at no extra cost.
From 750 € excl. VAT / month

Searching the exhibits

Finds the exhibit cited with its number, its page and its passage.

Successive wordings

Sets out side by side the versions of the same clause, with their dates.

Deadlines picked up

Sets out the file's deadlines with the step that starts them running.

Controls and safeguards These 7 controls are built into the agent: they frame what it does, whatever plan you pick. They are not chosen and are not added to your order.
Human validation, exceptions and escalation Status, safe closure and audit trail Sources, access rights and handling of questions with no answer Work from a versioned corpus with citations and the law as it stood on a given date Preserve confidentiality, compartmentalisation and access logging Manage deadlines, versions, evidence and human validation Flag uncertainties and reserve advice, decision and signature for the lawyer
Other needs our agents cover Each card says where the matching agent stands: available, on quote, or still being architected.

Law firms

For everything at stake in a practice, see our dedicated page.

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The gain

How much time can a legal department give back to the substance?

By taking on the searching and the referencing, the effort shifts towards the argument. How large the gain is depends on your volume and remains to be confirmed by a pilot.

Finding an exhibit in the file
Today · done by hand
Exhibit located and cited
Comparing successive wordings
Today · done by hand
Versions set out
Picking up the file's deadlines
Today · done by hand
Deadlines sourced
Indicative figures, not contractual, to be confirmed by a pilot on your number of files and volume of exhibits. Judging a procedural time limit and settling the strategy rest with the legal department and its advisers: the agent documents, it does not advise.
How it works

The stages of your AI agent project

1

Audit & scoping

15 minutes to target the use case with the best return.

2

Quote or direct sign-up

A catalogue offer is bought online; a specific need gets a costed quote.

3

Design

We design the agent and its guardrails.

4

Integration & testing

We connect your tools to the agent, which is itself hosted in France.

5

Rollout

Going live and training your team.

6

Operation

Continuous supervision and improvement.

Pricing

One package, one agent

A litigation document agent (exhibits, numbers, deadlines), installed and operated for you.

Agility

Setup + controlled subscription

7,435 € excl. VAT setup
then 750 € excl. VAT/month — you invest at installation and pay a reduced subscription. Ideal for keeping the cost under control over time.
  • Installation, configuration and training for your teams
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, a dedicated and isolated resource
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The simplest Serenity

All inclusive, no setup fee

1,165 € excl. VAT /month
all inclusive, immediate start. No upfront investment: a single subscription. Ideal for starting quickly and simply.
  • Setup included (installation, configuration, training)
  • Operation, human oversight, updates and support
  • Sovereign hosting in France, managed end to end
Order →
100% Sovereign

On site, you own it

11,265 € excl. VAT setup
then 966 € excl. VAT/month · + hardware from 2,491 € (one-off purchase, in addition) — a sovereign computer installed on your premises, maintained remotely. Models run locally, your data returned at the end of the contract. 36-month commitment.
  • Hardware installed on your premises (you own it)
  • French / European AI models run locally
  • Secure remote maintenance (Pro support included)
Order →
Not included in the packages: AI consumption (model tokens), re-invoiced at real cost with no margin, and tracked in real time in your client area. Maintenance and supervision subscription for an initial term of 12 months for the Agility package, 24 months for the Serenity package and 36 months for the 100% Sovereign package, renewable; support levels (SLA 72 h / 24 h / 4 h) optional. Bespoke development, additional integrations or exceptional volumes are quoted separately. Support Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm. Prices exclude VAT.
AI model: none of the AI models offered currently carries a fixed surcharge. When the selected model carries a cost, that cost is shown when you choose it, before you order, and re-invoiced at the cost incurred, with no mark-up; usage is billed at the publisher's price. Publishers' prices are published in US dollars: the amount re-invoiced is the amount in euros actually borne by Blue Lemon Agent on the publisher's invoice, at that invoice's exchange rate, with no commission or mark-up.
Included components and additional components Components included in the base offer: the Blue Lemon Agent software foundation, the AI models listed in the order journey, the standard channels (Microsoft Teams, Slack, WhatsApp Business, email, website chat, calendars, Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace, file storage, market VoIP telephony, professional social-media pages and accounts, Google Business Profile), hosting in France for the package chosen, backups, supervision, updates and support. If adapting the AI agent to your constraints, your needs or your requests requires other paid components — a third-party publisher's software licence, paid API access to one of your applications, hosting of health data, for which French law requires an HDS-certified host (art. L. 1111-8 of the French Public Health Code), SecNumCloud-qualified hosting, a speech synthesis service, particular hardware —, they are offered to you as an option or on quotation and re-invoiced at the cost incurred; nothing is committed without your written agreement. Where the artificial intelligence model you choose entails an additional cost, that cost is shown to you before you order and re-invoiced to you at the cost incurred, with no margin.
What to expect
Go-live 2 to 3 weeks
Agent designed, channels connected, team trained.
Steady state 4 to 7 weeks
After a few weeks of real use, once the agent's behaviour matches what you expect. Indicative estimate, adjusted to the options you keep. It is not a delivery commitment.
Our commitment

Four guarantees that matter to your litigation

Your defence strategies stay with youLocal inference or an isolated resource hosted in France; no exhibit and no element of strategy entrusted to a third party, no data used to train a model.
Data in France, under French lawYour defence strategies and your sensitive exhibits: minimisation and location in France, architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity.
The legal department keeps the decisionThe agent produces usable files and deadlines that are kept, which can be checked and altered; no approval is automated.
Human oversight & traceabilityOn your number of files and volume of exhibits: systematic logging and tracking, in line with the AI Act.
Frequently asked questions

Your questions, our answers

Does the agent give a legal opinion?
No. It locates the exhibits, sets out the successive wordings and picks up the deadlines with their source. Judging a time limit or steering a strategy rests with the legal department and its advisers.
How are the exhibits cited?
By their number, their page and the exact passage, so a submission can rely directly on the reference provided.
Are the files partitioned?
Yes. Access is defined file by file and every consultation is logged.
What does it do with earlier versions of a contract?
It flags them and sets the wordings side by side with their dates, rather than keeping a single version.
Are our sensitive exhibits protected?
Yes. The agent is hosted in France, on local inference or an isolated resource, with the deployment objective of processing and access operated within the European Union and an architecture designed to reduce exposure to extraterritorial legislation, location alone not being enough to guarantee immunity. Your files are not used to train a third-party model.
How long does it take to deploy this agent?
A few months as a rule, depending on the number of files and the volume of exhibits to index, after a free audit then phases of design, integration and testing.
Let's talk

Let's size up the potential across your litigation files

15 minutes to frame your files and your volumes of exhibits — hosted in France, supervised, with no commitment.